The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

IT. Van DeuSen has been appointed agent OF the
vandaIi at Cincinnati. as well as agent of the
Pennsylvania company.
The commissions of one South Illinois street
passenger agent it is said, on Monday last. were
SIS, providing he did not divide with the pur-
chasers of the tickets.
S.V. Derrah contracting freight agent of the
Atkinson, Topeka g. Santa Fe road, is in the
city for few days, educating shippers into ship
ping their goods to the Southwest and Pacific
coast over the Southern routes.
Fred o. Robinson. chief clerk of Master
mechanic Quackenbush and Car builder Ander-
son, at Peru, goes the first of the coming month
into Superintendent Stevens's Office. Robinson's
successor has not yet been appointed.
In one train south over the indianapolis &
Vineennes road was twelve carloads of wheat
for Vincennes and six carloads of hogs for
Spencer Ind, where an old packing house has
resumed business. This is very like carrying
Goals to New Castle.
Counsel for the trustee of the general mort
gage of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company, filed bill in equity in the United
States Circuit Court, at Philadelphia yesterday,
for the foreclosure of the property, under that
mortgage. from I'll rights in the premises.
The Indiana, Bloom ngton & Western road is
acknowledged by the Chicago, Burlington 81
Quincy people to be their most valuable passen-
ger connection. 1t is not unusual for the l.. B.
as their portion of receipts coupon tickets sold.
There we're received at the Indianapolis stock
yards yesterday LAB car loads of hogs, and it
field day for Eastern buyers, as Kingan g. Co.
made nc purchases, and other packers only
thirty carloads. The others were shipped east
last night, cleaning the pens without break in
prices.
There is no doubt that the Baltimore & Ohio
is playing its hand for all it is worth in the
trunk line deal, nor is there any denial that the
Pennsylvania is ready to make concessions
which it would not have made two years ago;
but it is quite as certain that the Baltimore &
Ohio will come into New York.
Mayor Ellis, of Washington, Ind, has received
q proposition from w. w. Peabody, president of
the Ohio &c Mississippi Railway Company, in re-
gard to the proposed removal of the companys
machine shops from Vincennes and Seymour to
that place. A meeting of citizens has been
called for this evening to consider the matter
The Baltimore & Ohio Express Company and
the agents Of the Chicago & Alton, the Northern
Pacific and Southern Kansas, will next week
remove their Offices four doors south of their
present room South Illinois. One of the
great needs of Indianapolis is q commodious
building on South Illinois street for railroad
Offices
WIN. r. McKeen. president Colonel Joseph
hill, superintendent, and N. K. Elliott super
1ntendent of transportation, of the Vandalia sys-
TEN, were in the city yesterday official bust
ness. Mr.. Elliott says traffic on their road is
now reaching such a point that its volume is
only limited by the number of cars that can be
commanded.
The stockholders of the indianapolis, Peru &
Chicago Railroad Company, at their annual
meeting Yesterday, elected as directors: Scion
Humphreys. A. l.. Hopkins, Y. II. Maott, A.
w. Hendricks G. B. Stuart. AS officers: Scion
Humphreys president; V. T. Malott, vice presi-
dent; W. T. Cannon, secretary. OF the 90 900
shares APO were voted.
Several neatinps have haen hold ranar+lv INV
representatives OF the Pennsylvania, Nickel
plate, G., C.. c. q l., Indiana. Bloomington 81
Western, Ohio Southern, Lake Erie Is Western
Peoria, Decatur e. Evansville, and Columbus e
Hooking Valley railroads, for the purpose of
forming pool to restore rates to profitable fig-
nres and maintain them thereat, and indications
now are that some good will be accomplished as
result of these meetings.
There is marked improvement in the earn
jDgs of the railroads. and it is the more import
ant because the movement of grain has been
disappointing. The turn came in September
when the leading roads did better than they had
csne In other years, and the reports for October
SO far show that the increase may be depended
upon 1t is the more remarkable on account of
the Slight increase in the through tonnage and
is especially interesting as showing that there
has been decided improvement in local bust
ness.
The heads of passenger conductors on the
Louisville New Albany 81 Chicago road are
tumbling into the ba sket quite lively one report
Is that the superintendent of the road has deter
mined to make a clean sweep from one end of
the road to the other spoilers" having been to
work, and caused the trouble Another is that
Superintendent Woodland is making room for
men off of the Hannibal & st. Joe road Regard
less of rumors, Superintendent Woodland is not
man who will make any changes except it be
Tor the interest OF the road.
The live stock movement, General Stock
Agent Stewart Says, was never heavier than
now over the Bee line. All reasonable methods
are resorted to that they may meet the demand
For ears. To illustrate the indianapolis car
works are building one hundred stock cars for
the st. Joseph & Grand Island. The Decline
people suggested, as the way for the st. j. & @.
l. road TO get their stock West at a small
cost was to- load them with live stock at Indian
apOlis for Buffalo, N. Y, and then reload them
Tor St Joseph at Buffalo with anthracite coal
and this programme is being carried out.
The Union Pacific Railway Company has is
sued Thanksgiving proclamation to the general
passenger agents. The document. which is
lengthy one, begins as follows: Union Pacific
people have always abundant cause to be thank
fnl to the great travelling public. whose intelli-
gence and years of experience lead them to Sc
lect its routes to and from the West Their lib
eral patronage increases from year to year as
this grand country grows in wealth and popula-
ton. 1t is fitting and proper that a road thus
favored above its fellows should reduce its indl-
vldual rates, even at sacrifice to its aggregate
passenger earnings and it is this that we have
done from year to year, until it now costs so
little to travel that even tramps refuse to steal
r0es on the dusty and uncomfortable trucks,
and train men make no extras KNOCKING
down fares
Grand Chief Macarthur, of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, receives as salary So, 900
per year. The ability with which he fills the DO
sitiOn makes him valuable to the rail-
roads and the country. Through his efforts
within the last ten months strikes, which would
have paralyzed temporarily the business inter
esss OF certain portions of the country, have
been prevented. Grand Chief Macarthur when
ne hears that the engineers have grievances.
gives them careful, investigation. and if there
Is ground for such grievances he lays them be
iore the officials of the road 2ud asks what can
be done. If he does not induce the officials to
meet Trademarks of the engineers he secures
the best terms be can. which ara nsN, ally fair.