The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
The VanGalia brought into Indianapolis in the
month of August ,342 carloads of block coal.
II. w. Hibbard, general freight agent of the
Vandalia, is in the city, and will remain until
noon to-day.
j. H. Devereux. president and E. B. Thomas,
manager of tho Decline system. are in New
York this week, to confer with the Vanderbilt
people.
There is general boom in local traffic at the
city freight depots. They are increasing the
number of platform men and working overtime
as well.
Charles Atkins formerly general agent for the
Union Pacific at Butte, Mont has been trans
ferred to Council Bluffs. He has been succeeded
at Butte by G. w. Scott.
Albert S. White will tomorrow leave for
Cleveland to assume the duties of his new posi-
ton. He will not remove his family to that city
until next month.
So eager are some of che line agents to secure
business that they are giving l3a cent per 100
pounds rate, cent below the rate the agent at
the pool meeting intended to Offer
Freight men claim to be contracting for bust
ness only one day ahead, but it Is feared, were
rates restored to day, contracts would he out
reaching through this mouth, If not longer.
T. G.. Cannon acting commissioners of the
trancontinental pool, left San Francisco
Monday for the East and is expected in Indian
apolis about Friday. He is on his way to New
York to attend a pool meeting.
September l, 1860 twenty five years ago yes
terday, Robert Geiger, general freight agent of
the j., NJ. & l.. was promoted from a clerkship
on the Bee-line, which he had held three years.
to the position of cashier of the Decline at this
point.
Robert Geiger general freight agent of the J.,
M. & |: road corrects the Journal in the state,
ment that Lueien B. Hills was appointed general
freight agent OF the Bee-llne IN 1868. and states
that he was appointed TO that position Sept. /,
1860, and consequently had held it just twenty
five years the day he retired.
Traffic manager Larzarus of the l.. D. & s.
road. states that their business between stations
is increasing largely The i-feelng of the ship
pers along the line is dying out He predicts
heavy fall business, and is of the opinion that
the earnings of the road from its local traffic in
1886 will equal, if not exceed those of 1880, the
best years business the road ever did,
It is reported that Fl. @. H. Reed. the general
superintendent of the Milwaukee Lake Shore &
Western railway, has resigned his position. to
take effect Oct. i, and that at recent meeting
of the directors of the road his successor Sc
lected. III. f. Whitcomb. who has been in New
York for the past ten days, is spoken of as Mr..
Reeds successor, as is also j. Donahue, divls-
ion superintendent of the road
Billy Richardson Adams Express messenger
on the D., 0. & 0. railroad was probably fatally
hurt near st. John, H., a small station twenty
three miles north of here He standing
with his head out of his car. and while in that
position struck in the back of the head by an
upright post near the track. 1t pulled him out
of the car. His skull is fractured. shoulder
blade broken. and he is otherwise badly hurt.
Fl. r. Dering. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines received an in
dgnant letter from a Chicago man whose wife
and daughter were, at tho Union Depot placed
on Bee-line train to go to Chicago by one of
the well informed" metropolitan policemen do
ing service at the Union Depot The lady states
that the policemen took her tickets examined
them, and then told her to take the Decline
train for Chicago Such mistakes are of every
day occurrence at the Union Depot and must,
unless corrected in time, injure the business of
Indianapolis roads.
General Manager Malott. Y the Union Rail-
way Company, says. "wait until the new depot
is occupied. then will have train directors
in ample numbers. and meH who are well posted
on the railway systems of the country, and who
will be able to give anv information asked" This
may all be true, but under the most favorable
conditions il will be two years before the new
depot Is ready for occupancy; and pending its
through the Union Depot daily must hunt the
trains they wish to take, or annoy the busy
ticket agents with questions. 1t would be a
grand thing for the roads and for the city if the
Union Railway Company would rise above their
present two-cent-small potato methods of doing
business.