The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal md Local.

manager Of the Lake Erie q Western road, is IN
the city.
The c., l., ST L. & G, owns seventy-nine loco
motives. ard yesterday seventy six were IN svrv
Gee on the road
r r. Morris travelling auditor OF the Penn
Evlvania lines west of Pittsburg, is in the city
on official business
William Hicklin, formerly passenger agent of
Che C., l.. st. L. & c., who has been on the sick
list for some ten weeks is about again. and Is
said 10 be arranging for the opening of q ticket
scalping Office
The Pennsylvania railroad is reported to have
made an offensive and defensive alliance with
the Richmond d Danville system, which will
cause rafting of dry homes in the South and
West on passenger, freight and express business.
Under recent changes which have been made
by the c.. st. L. Il p, at Dayton, O., q. w.
Dunn, freight agent, win give his entire atten-
ticn t. the outside business of the road. 4. d.
AchOs, has been appointed cashier, and will have
fnl charge OF the accounts. ETC.
The Missouri Pacific has notified agents OF In
annapolis connections that owing to the action
OF the Texas courts in enforcing the protection
Of bills of lading weights it is requested that
hereafter no weights be inserted in bills of ladinG
Tor shipments to any point in Texas.
"A general passenger agent, when asked If any
thing was tsabe done in the Indiana Legislature
this session to prevent ticket scalping, said: mo.
IL The general passenger agents wish to stop the
scAsping at indianapolis and other points in the
State they have it in theT power SO to do without
ANY legislation"
Chalmers Brown, for some eighteen years a
passenger conductor the C., l., St l.. q G.
road and one of the most genial and popular
railroad men in the country, has been appointed
assistant district passenger agent of the Big
E0ER, vice George Rech, who has resigned to &C
leeFt similar position with the Pennsylvania
lines
Orders for cars are largely on the increase
and Indications are that all east and west lines
arc to be kent busy for some weeks to come
lis 1. d. & W.. the l. Il St L., tho Il q I, Fl:
and the O., l., st. IL. q Z. are all hundreds OF
cars short of supplying the demand, and the
daily movement requires all the power that they
CAD command.
TIE per cents. iixed upon by members Of the
GhSago and Ohio River pool at their meeting in
Chicago on Wednesday last, for the respective
Eunds In she pool, are established until Dec. 81,
N66. Matters will now run smoothly for eleven
.nOonths, and in the meantime the revenue of
ssheA road should foot up more favorably than
GaSs year at least.
Commissioner Richardson. Of the Chicago and
DAIO River pool. says tho Offices will be removed
40 Chicago about Feb / In the fifteen months
9tzt Mr. Richardson has been located at In
dnaapotis he has made many warm friends who
VIE regret that he, as we'll as his private
SECRETARY, Mr.. Hand are to return to Chicago
asw permanent residence.
It is stated that larger number of tickets
have been sold in this section to parties VINO
1nesnd to visit the New Orleans exposition the
bzss i've days of this month than were sold in
4As entire month of January Yesterday a
HsIty OF thirty two. from Shelbyvile, Ind, and
nf sixteen, from Lebanon, Ind, purchased tickets
10 New Orleans.
There was quite furry in local passenger
circles yesterday, over ru1nor which, it is said,
wss susceptible of proof that the local passenger
Agsnt of tie c., Fl. 81 l., had sold Danvie, Ind.
p&Sties roand trip tickets to the New Orleans
exposition at 1878 per head. paying the |. IL St
Il seventy five cents for bringing the people in
here, 1t is further alleged that tine same agent
hzs offered to cut the RATE for theatrical party
vac 60 to New York, So per head.
With the sharp increase in freight traffic, both
senyt and west-bount the old complaint is heard
Tat passenger trains are delayed to take side
sSabks to let long freight trains by. The faetis
that nearly all railway arrangements have been
sfeTt sighted in the matter of side tracks There
SaHv not enough of them, neither are they long
eTOaeh. Wherethere is no double track, on all
imDortant roads, long sidings should be put in
ssvsry few miles, sdngs which would hold two
fesght trains at least and clear the main track.
Missing connections at railroad centers like lndi-
an@poliS and St Louis because freight trains
1nnst be 'tsee- sawed around" is very annoying
AoFassengers.
L. r helloT, aSSlStanb general IrcfgHb agent
a the c., l., St L. & c., headquarters at Chi
ergo, has been offered more important position
@neithef the Pittsburg 81 Western or the At
AAtte 81 Pacific road, Which position he will ac
cgPt he has still under consideration. W. G.
Hebbs, assistant general freight agent head
quarters Indianapolis, will be transferred to
Chicago and his duties will be looked after here
by the local freight agent, and the
geAeral freight agent which will reduce the
expenses of the freight department of the Big
f,a;f ,1,f
clerical force, making a saving to the company
Uf some $3.50 per month.
Some artist has designed a very suggestive
and attractive cut, which represents General
Passenger Agent Wood, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company holding huge knife in his
hands, apparently ready to drop on the heads
ofparties below. who represent the Delaware,
LAekawarha & Western. the Erie, the Baltimore
II Ohio, the West Shore and the New York
Central the latter carrying large placards nam
ing the cut rate at which they are carrying pas
eengers. The knife bears the inscription: I'LL
hoSd up as long as can, but when l come down
what will become of these fellows below?" The
Pennsylvania official represents his ability to
carry on arate war by sitting on a gold stone,
bearing the inscription: 1880, 000, 000."
1--WE are having too many broken wheels
End general superintendent, yesterday, to his
puschasihg agent Il want you, "said he ITO
give the matter attention. ascertain where the
best car-wheel is made and if necessary, pay
hstle mere To secure good wheels We have had
half dozen wrecks" said the official, Tin the
las4 year from imperfect wheels, and the car in
spectors every few days find it necessary to order
ear out on account of broken wheels" He
AIDED: Car wheels can nc tested, and in these
Times, when competition in iron offers peculiar
temptations to the Manufactures to lower the
quality Of the iron used in railroad material the
E@olc Will naturally look the railroad officials
fur tho projection which they pay for; and here
after want you to look closer after this mat
4sx."
Rates Dropped In Disproportion to tho In
crease in Tonnage.
''The railroads paying regular dividends, says
The Stockholdcr," arc now no greater in proper
lion to the whole number than twenty-five years
ago. This demonstrates two facts almost be.