The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local
Passenger men state that the travel of the
last week has been the heaviest of any seven
days this season. Both through and local show
decided improvement.
The published statement of the result Of the
last five months operations of the coal-carrying
companies shows very unfavorably for all that
group of the trunklne roads.
1t is hardly honorable competition for the
Blue line agents to represent that the Canada
Southern line has gone out of this section. r.
G. j. Pendleton is still the Canada Southern line
agent and ready for business
Livestock traffic with the through lines is
running unusually heavy for June Last week
the l. e. st. L. brought in 207 ar-loads, and the
Vandalia 224 carloads, SO per cent of which
business went through to Buffalo or Jersey City.
Receiver Hammond feels much elated over
the business the l., d. d 5. road is doing these
dull times. His official report shows that the
road, in the first fifteen days of June, earned
So, 053 more than it did in the first fifteen days
of May
The washout on the west end which gave the
Vandalia people trouble Saturday, is so far re-
paired that trains commenced running over the
break yesterday morning. All day Saturday, the
Vandalia used portion OF the !. d St Ia. track
to get around the break.
Stocks in trunk-line territory are stiffening
up. The railroad managers must have concluded
to patch up the railroad war, and to turn little
profit for themselves out of the stock markets
as a reward of merit for knowing about 1t q few
days sooner than any one else
The five Western roads last week roads brought
into this station 3 456 loaded cars as follows:
l.. d. & S., 1885, l., B. q W., 39l c., l., St L. &
G.. $40; Vandalia. 1,057; /. e. St L., ], 132 The
same roads brought in the week preceding
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Traffic Manager Lazarus of the l., d. & s.
road, is evidently catching on with shippers. 1T
is many month since the l.. D. e. S. road
brought into Indianapolis in one week 286 loaded
cars, as it did last week. And the best feature
of it is nine per cent of the business was of local
character
The seven. Eastern lines forwarded from In
dianapolis last week 430 loaded cars, as follows:
L., N. A. g. c. Airline 81, Wabash 140 c., III. g.
l. 242, l., b. 81 w. 1922, G., L., st. l.. 81 @. 1852,
c., ST. L. & p 824, Decline 1.0Sl. The same
roads in the week preceding forwarded 1913
loaded cars, increase last week III cars,
George L. Bradbury, vice pres ident and gen
era manager of the Peoria, Decatur 81 Evans
vile road, spent the Sabbath in the city. Mr..
Bradbury, should he chose to accept it, could
have the receivership of the Toledo, Cincinnati
d St Louis road Neither the Quioley, the Cor
bin, any other syndicate could hit upon bet
ter man for a receiver of the property The
question 49, can Dir. Bradbury afford to risk his
excellent record as railroad on the problem of
resurrecting that terribly wrecked railroad prop
erty.
Samuel Stevenson, general ticket agent Of the
c., Ell. & D. lines, gives notice of excursion rates
over all divisions of the c., H. g. d. system for
July a. to apply to and from all stations All
persons presenting fuil-fare local tickets, pur-
chased and dated July 3 or 4, 1885, will be per-
mitted to return on same without extra charge
in manner and for the time following, to-wit:
Conductors will punch the local ticket twice. in
different portions of the same, on presentation,
and leave it in the possession of the passenger,
which ticket, SO punched, will be honored for the
return trip en- any train stopping regularly by
schedule at points whence the ticket was issued
Tickets dated July or a. 1885, will be accepted
for the return passage only on July a, s. or q.
1885.
M. Knight, general freight agent of the
Wabash road, has sent out the following circu-
lar to agents and connections: 1.-The Toledo,
Peoria & Warsaw railway being no longer OPP
Grated by the Wabash st. Louis & Pacific rail
way, the remaining territory heretofore under
freight agent. will be annexed to that portion Of
this railway under the supervision of S. B.
Knight, division freight agent Decatur ILL.,,
whose territory will hereafter consist of the
following lines in Illinois: Danville to Quincy
mot including Danvle) 222 miles, Sidney to
Champaign, II; Aitamont to Chicago mot includ-
ing Chicago), 2l5; Shumway to bingham, 9;
Fairbury to Streator. 80; Decatur to East ST.
LOUIS, llU, EQWafuSV1lle TO EOWarOSVliIe (rOSS-
ing g. Springfield to Havana, AZ; Bates to Graf
ton, II; jackson to Peoria, 3d. Bluffs to Hanni
bal, so; Maysvie to Pittsfeld, 6; Clayton to
keokuk, AZ Total mileage 903 miles"
Fair Tonnage of Freight for June.
The train records for the week ending June
20 show that there were received and forwarded,
at Indianapolis, h. 1876 loaded cars. The fact is
that there is a fair average tonnage moving for
June, and were rates at figure which yielded
any compensation above actual cost of hauling
the property, there would be less room for COM
plant of meagre earnings While there is no
marked improvement stbound in tonnage of
grain going forward. there has been an
increased movement Of lumber, WOOL
tobacco and live stock The
west bound shipments were the lightest last
week Of any week for years. The Decline
brought but GAO loaded cars west the c., St L.
d. 205. 1t is thought, however, that the recent
large auction sales of dry goods, etc., in New
York, will increase west bound traffic somewhat
but no general improvement will set in until the
latter part Of July. Business over north and
south roads, especially north bound, dropped off
last week. The Airline had little squirt of
lumber shipments, which helped them out, but
the shipments of lumber and provisions south
ward are remarkably light for June. Local
traffic is spasmodic in volume Four days of
last week there was a good deal of activity about
the city freight depots; the other days were quiet
ones Below we give the number of cars re-
ceiyed ard forwarded at this point in the two
weeks ending June Ii and June 20.
june 49, June 20.
Loaded Emp. Loaded Emp.
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