The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

N A & c.. was in the city yesterday official
business.
J. T. Gimperling superintendent of the Day
Ron & Ironton road and well known in this city,
has been seriously i'll for several days.
s. B. Sweet division freight agent Of the
Wabash, is spending this week in the city form
Eng an acquaintance with Indianapolis shippers.
Joseph r. Hixson has been appointed general
Bastern freight agent of the Milwaukee & St
Paul, with headquarters in New York, vice /. A
Smith resigned
C. C. Waite vice-president of the c., Fl. g. D.
Company to-day. goes to New York for con-
ference with President Jewett and others inter
ssted in the property.
n. G. Straight, formerly yard-maste of the j.,
al. & l. at this point is now master of transpor-
eation of the Missouri Pacific road with head
quarters at Sedalia. NO.
Freight men report an increasing inquiry for
grain and stock cars at local points, and indica-
eions are that with milder weather there is to be
ID handsome improvement In business.
c. Mitchell, of Lafayette, has been appointed
&jcket agent of the L., N A. 81 G. road in Cnica-
go the position formerly occupied by Il. y. Nc
Gormick who is now northern passenger agent
The general passenger agents of the roads in
the Chicago & Ohio river pool meet today at
commissioner Richardson's Office to ratify the
agreement prepared by committee to govern
krates, etc., In the pool
The news of the war on immigrant rates will
gbe likely to provoke great exodus from the
MOid World but rates are likely to be restored
before the movement greatly increases the traffic
of railways in the United States and in the end
che fight may have general benefit
The higher officials of the trunk lines meet
fod4y at Commissioner Fink's Office to take
measures if possible. to keep intact west-bound
rates. President Sloan has given Commissioner
Fink assurances that he will cooperate with the
other roads to keep rates from going to pieces.
Commissioner Doherty, of the Indianapolis
east bound pool, last evening received tele-
gram from Chicago to the effect that at a meet
3ng of the representatives of the eastbound lines
yesterday it agreed to maintain twenty
cent rates on grain to New York. Another
meeting is to be held to-day.
The l., B. & W., the l.. E. & W., and the G.
& "a people have agreed to form q local pool on
grain shipped from Bloomington, Ill Per cents.
20 each road have not as yet been agreed upon.
The L. B. 81 w. people are in ten pools of the
character of this one proposed for Bloomington,
and in al matters move along harmoniously
There has not been day this year which the
Wrecking-frog Company has not received an
order from some road for number of their
frogs One road proposes to carry one on every
passenger and freight engine on the road, and
switching engines as we'll The indianapolis Car
Works are now manufacturing one-thousand OF
She frogs They yesterday delivered the first
hundred frogs.
C. w. Smith, general manager of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio road, declines the commissioner
ship of the Transcontinental Association, which
position was offered him in the early part OF this
week. In the meanwhile Mr.. L. G. Cannon will
continue in the position. 1t is also learned that
Gnew difficulty has arisen regarding the settle
ment of percentages up to Jan. l, in accordance
with the award made by Arbitrator j. F. Tucker.
The ticket scalpers are quietly working a
scheme by which they hope, through the present
Legislature to secure the repeal of certain laws
which interfere with their scalping tickets. The
local scalpers are backed by the national asso-
citation. Really it does not seem fair that the
local passenger agents should be unhampered in
ecalping tickets and that man who makes his
Ewing by scalping openly must be annoyed by
legal restrictions
An official of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich
3gan road says that unquestionably, unless they
are disappointed in raising the funds needed,
the road will be extended from Anderson, Ind,
the present southern terminus, to the Indiana,
Bloomington e. Western road The junction OF
the roads will be at point six miles east Of In
dianapolis This will give the Cincinnati, Wa
bash g. Michigan 200 miles Of track, connecting
Lake Michigan with Indianapolis and points
south by rail
The present management of the L. N. A. & c.
road is catching on well, as the term goes with
shippers and the travelling public, and while not
making so much noise as have former manage
ments, under moro unfavorabe circumstances
the net earnings are footing up much more sat
anu U6Sl VI dll, III WluulLS up year
business there will not be an avalanche of re-
bates to be deducted from the reported earnings
In a nut shell it is progressive, prudent and
profitable management to the owners Of the
property.
The Pittsburg Dispatch which was never
known to approve of anything the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company did, says: This move of
the Pennsylvania railroad in the pending railroad
war has been commended in some journals as a
decisive blow at its rivals. No correct view of
the public obligations of the railways can recog
nize its commendable features On one side it
is throwing away the money of the stockholders
simply because It's rivals will not keep rates as
high as the Pennsylvania railroad management
wishes them. On the other hand it is of no pub
lie benefit"