The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-14
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Experts yesterday commenced testing the en-
ployes on the j., NJ. & l. road on color blindness.
Employees on the l., D. G. s. road will receive
their pay for June service on the 10th On the L,
3. & W. system the company commences paying
off day.
Paymaster Snee, of the Pennsylvania lines,
paid yesterday on the c., St L. & P, Indianapo-
lis division, for June service, and will pay on
the |. & V. road to-day.
meeting of the general passenger and ticket
agents OF the Vanderbilt lines viii be held at
Niagara Falls, to day, for the consideration of
rates and through passenger arrangements A
=. Smith will be present to look out for the inter
ests of the Decline.
Master Mechanic McKennais working seventy
i've men III the l., ID. Il ). shops, and he saws by
September the entire equipment will be IN
good shape BY August he proposes that the
l.. ID. & s. will be running the handsomest trains
which arrive and depart at the Union Depot.
Since the painting and whitewashing of the in :
terror Of the Union Depot has been IN progress
property in the vicinity of the Union Depot Is
said to have fallen fully so per cent in its value
even in the eyes of the owners of It, sharp
man could now pick up some good bargains.
Cleveland Ohio, is now receiving fruit from
southern Illinois in eighteen hours from time of
shipment The fruit is shipped in refrigerator
nois Central and Bee line. Rates are too high,
however, to allow the shipment of watermelons
On such trains.
Chair cars over the l., D. & s. and Wabash
road 60 on Sunday next between Indianapolis
and Quincy. The Wabash people show dis
position to work in harmony with the l., ID. q 3,
and good results may be looked for One OF the
mistakes Of the Wabash management has been
that it turned the cold shoulder to such connec-
ton as the l., ID. d .
Commissioner Fink, of the trunk line pool, is
sending to freight agents a diagram when Is
very UNIQUE and instructive This diagram
shows the rates per 100 pounds from Chicago to
New York since 1864, when they were $l6O per
100 pounds and the variations IN rates from that
year Twelve cents per 100 pounds being the
lowest rate at which property has been carried.
II is stated that the Pennsylvania Company is
negotiating TO secure control of the old L., L. q
G. road between Indianapolis and Peru In
their Chicago route they now use sixty miles OF
the T., =. & G.. track, and should they secure
full control, it gives them a through line of
their own from Louisville to Chicago. 1t is to
be hoped that the future will confirm the report
The Wabash receivers state that they have
not IN any way favored the acknowledgment
policy Of that system The divisions which have
been turned over to divisional creditors. under
orders Of the court subject to the equities of
the Wabash system in them as agents OF the
court At the same time the receivers say they
are using every effort to aid the reorganization
committee III successfully IcCOHSlIutlnS Lhe
system.
The Bee line and the l.. B. & w. people, being
unable to decide which road should pay the
damages incurred by the collision few weeks
ago on the Belt road, in which the damage
reached some $l3, 900, the matter is to be re
ferred to arbitrators. The l., B. & w. has
selected j. W. Sherwood, superintendent of the
C.. l., St. Il. & c., the Bee line J. j. Turner,
superintendent of the l. e. v. and they are to
select the third person
If any attention is paid TO the resolutions
passed by the committee of eighteen at their
meeting in Niagara Falls, rate cutting will not
be INDUCED in so readily as heretofore. The
pith of one resolution, and that one of the most
important, was that any company which is a
member of this association having information
of a departure from tariff rates by any other
company carrying competitive traffic may call
fer meeting of the respective companies con
cerned to inquire into and report upon the allie
cations made, and the representatives now pres
eut pledge themselves that such departures from
tariff shall not be met until the changes alleged
shall have been inquired into and reports thereon
submitted to the executive committee of the
traffic association.