The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-18
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

vice James Foley, resigned
Chief Engineer Gibbons of the Vandalia, and
his clerical force are to be removed from Indian
apolis to Terre Haute A building suitable for
&heir Offices is to be erected at Terre Haute with
nut delay.
Representatives of the passenger departments
of Southern roads have begun to come North
TO make arrangements for Southern tourist
travel. Rates are to be much the same as last
fall and winter.
George Darling, manager of the White line,
VINO, with j. II. Steiner, Western superln tend
emit of the line, have been making an extended
Western and Southern business trip. Is to be in
sbs city to day.
Commissioner Richardson, of the Chicago and
Ohio River pool gives notice of special rates.
elective Sept 10. on green-salted sneepsKins,
ear loads, Chicago to Indianapolis 10 cents per
100 pounds; Cincinnati IA cents; Louisville, 10
cents.
G.. O'Hara, for some years chief clerk in Vice
president Hoxie's Office, has returned to st.
louis from pleasure trip among the Northern
Hakse. to find himself appointed to the same posi-
sion on the staff of General Superintendent
Kerrigan
A discharged conductor of the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe road was in the city yester-
day. He states that spoilers have been work
ing that road. and, as a result, passenger con-
dnetors have been dropped at wholesale rate
four in one day, and most of them were old men
ON the road.
One good indication is that freight agents. al
NEST without exception, say they have all the
business they want at present rates. Now, If
the presidents and managers will get to feeling
the same way, there may be a restoration OF
rates. and then the general revival in business
30 we'll begun, will be further stimulated.
Matters are taking such shape that the Wa
hash will
bonds of the Indianapolis Peru 81 Chicago road
or they will lose control of it. The first
mortgage bondholders have instructed their at
torneys to push things and bring about fore
closure sale of the road as early as possible
The meeting of presidents and general mana
gers of the roads comprising the Union Railway
Company has been postponed until Oct. ], when
the presidents have all promised to be present,
as well AS the general managers, and it is ex-
aected that George Roberts. president of the
Pennsylvania system of roads, will DO here.
The management of the Whitewater Valley
road are making some very substantial improve
1nents at Connersville and other points on the
line Parties who own the property are said to
have become tired of attempting to sell the road
in it's present condition and are now putting it
in shape and with this business is steadily i'm
proving on the line.
The passenger traffic of the Decline is SO
heavy in volume to even surprise the officials.
The road seems to be recovering lost ground in
this respect f. B. Thomas. who yesterday re-
turned to Cleveland, says he Is more than graft
ned with the Improvement in this department.
aud wishes he could say as good things of the
freight department.
George Boyd. assistant general passenger
agent, has issued, in neat and attractive FORM
a manual of instructions pertaining TO the issue
and use Of tickets on the New York and Chicago
limited Several important changes took effect
Sept Is, 1885, which the manual fully explains
Tickets which are good on this train plainly
set forth, and the extra charges, etc.
W. B. Jerome, general western passenger
agent, New York Central e. Hudson River rail
road. and O. E. Jenkins. of the same road are
in the city on official business Mr.. Jerome says
the New York Central is not getting its share OF
business from this section, anu he is looking up
the matter, and on investigation finds that the
Pennsylvania people have the big hold in this
territory.
The l. & st. L. limited, with engine IO4, Mike
Redington, engineer, made a fine run on
: Wednesday. Leaving Indianapolis at 1920
twenty minutes late, and being detained in
the yard twelve minutes and at Fontanet eight
minutes, they reached Paris at 2:42 making the
run of ninety one miles in two hours and two
minutes, with six stops included. At Kansas
1O4 miles, they were on time.
C. L. Devore, chief engineer of the Indianapo-
lis 81 Eel River road who has been absent a
month or more in search of health has returned
much better He says he finds his return
Ties interested in the enterprise. So many dates
have been fixed when it was proposed to
begin to throw dirt that it would be unwise- to
state when Mr.. Devore thinks work will be com
menced in earnest
The c.. H. & D. people are not making as
much noise do the arrangements of some
other roads regarding the smoothness and solid
ity of their track the c., Ell. 81 L DIVISION
yet between Indianapolis and Hamilton they
have track which they need not be ashamed to
ask a Pennsylvania railroad man to ride over.
The new steel rails and the, regraveling of the
road in the last eighteen months now show up
to good advantage.
The local passenger-train service on the
Wabash main line is complained Of and it
might be we'll for General Passenger Agent
Chandler to give the matter some attention.
Between many points it is said to be impossible
for a man to go and return the same day at
reasonable hours. The matter has been rem
edied somewhat recently by stepping train 45 at
stations between Danvllle and Decatur. IN
questionably if trains are run to court the local
travel the Wabash has one of the best local
traffics of any road in the State Is is to be
feared that the Wabash management has fallen
Into the serious error Of many other roads, that
Of making through business the most important
and local traffic secondary
The c., T., ST. L. g. c. people claim to have
two passenger locomotives which have made q
running record it would be difficult to excel.
These are engines Nos. 70 and 75 forty fve-ton
engines Schenectady build. They were put in
service in May, 1888, hauling the heavy night
express trains, and for twentv-nine NOR tbs
have regularly hauled these trains without once
going into the shops except for SEINE trivial
Eepairs. These engines, besides being very
serviceable, are the most attractive and best
croportioned locomotives that arrive and depart
mt che Union Depot. President ingalls, has re-
gently sold two of the lighter passenger engines
and will sell two or three more, all of which will
be replaced with engines of the same pattern as
e and rs.
Proposes to Stop the Dishonest Practice.
Virgil Powers, commissioner of the Southern
Railway and Steamship Association, has issued
she following circular:
Considerable complaint is made to me of un-
derbiiiing weights of carload shipments of
freight Attention was called to this matter and
the following resolution unanimously adopted
by the rate committee at its forty second ses-