The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-18
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
There is growing belief that there is soon to
be general bracing up of east and west bound
rates
The Pennsylvania is nearly monopolizing the
immigrant traffic this season. 1900 having
passed over the road in the last three weeks.
The live stock movement is increasing hand
somely the last few days Last week 800 car
loads of through stock ere handled on the Belt
road.
President McKeen has purchased twenty
miles more of steel rails, which will be laid this
season on the T. Fl. & L. division of the Van
dalia
Jacob John, superintendent of motive power
and machinery of the Wabash railroad, having
resigned, j. B. Barnes has been appointed to fill
the vacancy.
Last week 1878 cars were transferred over
the Belt road. The transfers for few days
past have been unusually light, but on Friday
and Saturday improved somewhat
The Indianapolis. Decatur & Springfield road
is getting down to business. Yesterday thirty
four carloads of hogs, shipped from Kansas
City, were delivered to Kingan & Co. by this
road
Treasurer Hardesty of the Chosen Friends,
Indianapolis Lodge, will to-day pay to the widow
of ]. c. Croker, the Co. l., St L. & G. conductor,
killed few weeks since, $4,000. He was a
member of the insurance association.
The fact that proposition should have come
rates. whether accepted or not by Vanderbilt, is
regarded as very important, because the cutting
was first begun by the West Shore read.
The five Western roads last week brought in
1910 loaded cars as follows: Vandalia, l,04O;
G, l., St. L. & G., 79s; I. & St L., $50; l.. B. &
N o. - IL l.S,~~
April 9 the same roads brought in 2,947 loaded
cars.
The seven Eastern roads forwarded from In
dianapolls last week 1897 loaded cars, as fol-
lows: C., l., st. L. & G., 1,016; Decline, s02;
G., S L. & p, COG; l., B; & W., 35l; G., 81. & l.,
In the week ending May the same roads for
warded 1909 loaded cars
N S. Pennington, traffic manager of the Cairo
& Vincennes road, was in the city Saturday
Mr.. Pennington is arranging to put on fast
trains from Cairo and points on the G. & V. to
Northern markets, which will land fruit in In
dianapolis, seventeen hours, and in Cincinnati
nineteen hours from time Of shipment from
Cairo.
Assistant General Freight Agent Kendall tells
a reporter of the Terre Haute Express that the
freight traffic over the L. H. & L. division of
the Vandalia was 60 per cent heavier for the
month of April than for the corresponding
period last year. Thus far this month the in
crease has not been so great, yet it makes
good showing.
The limited trains the Bee-line people put on
between Cleveland and St Louis, May "a, in
connection with the Lake Shore and New York
Central limited trains, both east and west, will
arrive at indianapolis, going west, at l130 A. M,
depart for St Louis at 11:45 A. NJ; eastward the
train will arrive from ST. Louis at $3.50 P. NJ, and
depart for Cleveland at 3:55 P. NJ.
The Chattaroi Railway Company is under
heavy clOud financially ia tr0uhaS have
reached such point that a receiver is talked of,
and an Indianapolis man, well up in railroad
matters, has been asked If he would accept the
position of receiver. The road extends from
Ashland, KY, to Richardson, fifty miles. Much
of the stock is held in Cincinnati
The prospects for large crowd of pleasure
seekers at Maxinkuckee lake this summer are
quite fattering. The Vandalia will also be pre-
pared to offer better accommodations in the way
of transportation. Better accommodations will
OF pleasure boats being built, and also cottages.
The lake will undoubtedly grow in popularity,
and will become one of the most famous summer
resorts.
G. E. Henderson, receiver Of the Danville,
Olnev q Ohio River road, states that in the
fourteen months the property has been under
his supervisors, but one month has the road
failed to pay operating expenses and leave
small surplus. That month was February, the
severest month of this year for railroading. All
surplus money has been devoted to improving
the road-bed, which is now in fair shape for a
bankrupt and poverty stricken concern, as this
was when he accepted the recevership.
A call has been issued for reunion and en-
campment Of representative organizations of the
soldiers of the United States, to take place at
Paramount Park, Philadelphia, from June % to
July g. 1t is proposed that citizen soldiers from
the several States and United States regulars,
to the aggregate maximum limit OF 20, 600 men
of all arms, shall go into camp. The Pennsyl-
vQniu Caypn hoUo naHo oil
rates for soldiers in uniform and under COM
mand which extend to points as far west as In
dianapolis, St Louis, Chicago, Louisville and
Cincinnati, and has, Also in conjunction with the
Reading railroad agreed to liberal reductions
for transpoi tation OF troops from Eastern and
Northern points, and, in fact will give every
facility in reason to aid the enterprise.
W. d. Wilson. agent Lackawanna line at this
point. gives notice that for points in interior
New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, full
present tariff would be on basis of 20 cents, Chi
cago to New York For Boston and New
England, no freight will be taken on a basis of
less than 20 cents per one hundred pounds
Chicago to Boston, and any export business via
Boston, must pay this free of any voucher
charges for elevation. lighterage, wharfage, etc.
No voucher allowance of any nature whatsoever,
excepting for overweights, clerical errors or
proved losses, will be allowed on shipments to
such interior points. The rates to Providence,
r. l., and Providence & Worcester railroad
points will b e on Boston basis, plus the four
cents arbitrary, instead of abs orbing the same.
Old "Hannah" Still in Service.
Running on the little branch road from the
Pennsylvania, at Edgewood Station, up to the
mines of the Hampton Coal Compay, above Will
kinsburg is probably the oldest engine in
use in the country. Up to within three or four
years Odd Hannah" as she is called, was in
active on the main line of the road. For
over q duarter Of a century the old engine nasSed