The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local
Paymaster Sheldon, of the Decline system. is
on his monthly rounds paying for June service.
James McCrea; manager of the Pennsylvania
lines, who has been East couple of weeks on q
pleasure trip. will return on Thursday.
Tho Wabash has issued hanger. advertising
its new Northern fast line to St Paul, which is
ore of the finest issued by any road this season.
East.bound passenger rates are shaky at this
point meetingL, b. e. w. differential rates,
and the step the Bee line has taken. tending to
demoralize rates more or less
Geo. Tyre passenger conductor on the c., L..
St L. & C. road, was taken SO i'll on his train
yesterday forenoon that he was obliged to turn
his train over to another man and return nome
Last evening he seriously III.
Adelbert c. Dawes the general passenger and
ticket agent of the Hannibal St Joseph rail-
way. and the Kansas City, ST. Joseph % Councll
Bluffs railway will be married on Aug b, at the
PRESBYTERIAN Church, in Nevada, Mo-, to Miss
Theodore Cresap
Commissioner Pierson insists that the L, b.
& " must pending investigation, pay 500 fine
into the passenger pool. General Passenger
Agent Bronson says so unfair IS his demand
sfbas he viii not pay the money over, and, If
further pressed the l., B. 81 w. will withdraw
1rons the association.
Freight agents report that some of the ship
pers at this point were yesterday making sharp
drive to break east-bound rates. using to the
best advantage possible tho unfavorable rumors
received during the day regarding rates at St.
1IOaiS, Commissioner Doherty expresses the
opinion, however. that indianapolis roads made
no concessions.
Il is stated shat the Bee-line people will have
no more to do with the trunkl passenger
pool from which they withdraw August 20 so
long as S. T. Pisrson is the commissioners. 1t is
alleged that the relations between the two par
ties are so unpleasant that Mr.. Person does not
do she Bee line justice when questions arise
which directly affect their business
C. E. Henderson, receiver of the Danville,
Oiney & Ohio River road, has returned from an
inspection of the property, which has risen con-
Euiera bly, in his estimation. He finds i'm
Tnense oat crop, and farmers now say the corn
crop promises &c be the largest in the last
thirty years. There seems to be probability of
making something out of the road yet.
The stock of the American Express Company
IL nov quoted at the hi CHEST figure in the history
of IT'S organization. The company in the last
few months has largely increased its territory,
more especially in the New England States. The
time the company Is now making from Boston
and New York to indianapolis, st. Louis, Louis
VILE and Chicago is highly creditable to the
management
The Wabash gives notice that all percentage
divisions issued by it prior to July 10, 1888, APP
plying via its functions with the Baltimore d
Ohio railroad to or from points reached via
that road, have been cancelled If it is thought
advisable to establish any prorating arrange
ments made void by this notice. connecting
lines are requested to advise M. Knight,
general freight agent.
A railroad official of large experience, and
very close observer, remarked yesterday that
sbers was not another we'll managed road in
The State of Indiana as is the c., l., St l.. q c.
According to the mileage Of the road the num-
Der of passengers and tonnage it carried was
a other
The transportation department, he said,
especially handled with ability and economically.
Charles Allen has been appointed trainmaster
OF the Bee line, indianapolis division. Mr..
Allen is very competent man for the position.
He held the same position the |. e. St l..
road under e. B. Mcclure, deceased, who at that
time was superintendent of the l. & St. L..
On C. c. Gale taking the superintendency he
moved Mr. Allen to make room for Thomas
Hume change which it will be remembered
was unfortunate for Mr.. Gale and more so for
the road.
A good many new railroad enterprises are be-
ing reported. Among others are 28O-mile road
projected in Arkansas, 100 mile road in Ten
nessee. new road from Minneapolis TO Chicago,
a road from Amsterdam, n. Y, to Saratoga, a
ia mile road from indianapolis to Vincennes,
Ind, by q. p. Huntington; the extension of the
Anderson, Lebanon & ST. Louis to Lebanon
possibly on to Paris III long line from Sioux
City to Des Moines; a road from Bristol, Tenn,
into Virginia, besides several smaller roads.
It is stated officially that the Pullman coaches
running between Pittsbarg and St Louis over
the Pennsylvania and Vandalla lines have
done DO per cent. better thus far this year
than In any year since put on this route which
fact confirms the statement that handsome
per cent. of the frst-caSS through travel between
the West, Southwest and the East which has
been heretofore going via Chicago, is passing
over the Indianapolis lines, that limited
Grains have been put on and the time of other
HKDfeSS trains shortened
Andy O'Hara train master, and r. B. Star.
buck. late private secretary of John Evan, SUI
perm tendent of the Indianapolis division of the
Bee line. but who is now running conductor on
the limited express. were yesterday notified that
their services would not be needed after August
l. Both are very competent, faithful men
The trouble is said to arise from the unpleasant
relations which it is alleged existed between the
two named and Master Mechanic Ransom, who
as we'll, retires that date. Superintendent
Ewan declines to give any reason for their dis
missal
Some plan should be devised by which the
Vandala 1886 p. NJ train and the c., L. ST. l.. &
q $40 train for Cincinnati should stand side by
side when they come into the Union Depot. The
connection is close, and usually there is num-
Der of passengers to be transferred, and there is
seldom a day that some do not get left over, as
nnner the present arrangement there usually
three or four trains to climb over run around,
Sc large A number of trains is there in the depot
al that hour. One of the mysteries is, how
such enterprtSlng men as Presidents Mckeen,
Ingalls, Devereux and Mccullough will longer
delay the building of more commodious, con
venlent depot-such action seems imperative so
cTAmped for room are the roads now
Squeezing the Bondholders.
The disintegration of the Wabash is continuing
at such rate that there seems to be every
ground for believing it to be the policy of the
management to allow it to continue and so
coeree the bondholders. The trustees of the
mortgage on the Quincy, Missouri &; Pacific road
have applied for the separation of their property