The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

are 10 oe IN the city to-day.
One railroad official, whose headquarters is j Indian
npolis, is said to have realized $50, 900 from deals in
stocks he has made within the last six weeks.
Thomas McGill. general agent of the Central road
OF Georgia, is in the city. His address before the
Board of Trade, of st. Louis, is highly spoken of.
j. III. Steiner left for Memphis. Tenn, Yesterday,
where he will to-day assume the duties of general
Southwestern agent of the Erie fast.freight lines.
A meeting OF the passenger agents of the roads in
the Chicago and Ohio River pool is called for Wednes-
day. to consider charges preferred against certain
roads.
1t is intimated that the Baltimore & Okio people are
playing the Staten Island terminus as a bluff in order
20 get control OF the Jersey Central on favorable
terms.
With the approach of the holidays the express com
panies are already experiencing a marked increase in
business. From this time until after Jan. l it will
continue to grow heavier.
Lest switchmen on the Union tracks or the Belt
road should neglect their duty. Superintendent Whit
comb has issued an order that no loafers shall be al
lowed In or ABOUT switch-houses.
N. Burke, general superintendent of the Louisville,
New Orleans d Texas. gives notice that w. n. Mar
shall has been appointed master OF transportation, to
take effect Dec. 1, 1885, with headquarters at Vicks-
burg.
Judge Taylor says that it will be some days before
ne will render his decision in the Bee-line-Closser &
Co. rebate suit. The work is an arduous one, as he is
asked to make special findings on facts the testimony
brought out.
IAc h4IltfcICt DcbWSSh buC Chl
Company and the employees in the settng-up depart
ment have been adjusted. The difference of 81 in a
contract for car-building was split, and peace now
Teigns supreme.
The sleeping coach run over the Vandalia between
indianapolis and st. Louis is hauled on the first sec
ton. leaving Indianapolis at 10 p. M, arriving at st.
Louis at 5:45 A. NJ, where it stands at the Union De-
pot until 1870 A. M.
Mr.. Howard Z. Laing, formerly special agent, passen-
ger department, Chicago & Alton railroad, has been
appointed CITY passenger and ticket agent of the Chi
800 Milraulnae & 81. Paul railway. Chicago. in place
of III. S. Keller, resigned.
Without doubt, after all the buster, when the com
peting Baltimore & Ohio shall get into Philadelphia
and through to New York, as it will, sooner or later.
it will sit down with the Pennsylvania and other trunk
lines, and harmonic on rates for living profit.
T. A. Lewis, general manager of the Erie fast,
freight lines, gives notice that the Office of the assist
ami to the manager has been abolished, and that G. @.
Chamberlain. who has held that position, has been ap-
pointed general agent of the Erie lines at Kansas
City.
Steven Mills, who represents TIE Northern Pacific
In Ohio, and Oscar Vanderbilt, in this section, re-
turned yesterday from the annual meeting of the pas
senger agents. G. S. Fee, general passenger agent,
gave them a banquet, and the meeting was an unusu.
ally pleasant one.
The Manor branch of the Pennsylvania railroad,
extending from Manor Station, on the main line, to
Claridge, has been completed and will be opened for
business as a branch of the Pittsburg division to-day.
1t will open a fertile gas-coal region, in which there
are already several mines in operation.
Tho Beeline seems to be rapidly emerging from the
depression which has brooded over it for three years,
and there are those who are confident that next year
the c., c., G.. 81 |. will again take it's place as a divi-
dend- paying road. OF course this is contingent ON the
better paying rates and their maintenance.
William Turreff. general master mechanic of the
Decline system, will to day hold a conference in this
city with the several master mechanics of the shops
ron the system. 1t is officially .tated that this does not
mean that a reduction of shop forces is to be made, or
even a reduction in the pay of the shop employees.
The Decline people issue their winter time schedule
IN anew apd more convenient form than heretofore,
the running time on each division being set out by
itself and in a style which enables one at a glance to
ascertain the hour of arrival and departure of a train
at any point, rather than to spend several minutes in
learning the fact.
The one lesson of the recent railway battle that il
Inevitable and likely to be ir1 oconc1lable for some
years, is the assured better harmony between compet-
ing lines. The public learn that the c~ut-throat rivalry
between railroads not only destroys the value of rail
road securities. but unsettles business and trade, and
strikes the p1c4ie quite as seriously as it strikes the
corporations.
Missouri Pacific, has just issued a very attractive and
instructive folder, giving the best routes and rates to
tho South and southwestern winter resorts, the folder
showing that the Missouri Pacific is the best and the
favorite route to Hot Springs, Ark, San Antonio,
Galveston, Austin. Houston, New Orleans, jackson
vile Fla, and other prominent Southern points.
On all Pennsylvania Company lines west of
Pittsburg and Erie, a deficiency in meeting liza
biities for the ten months, ending October 81,
1885. of ST, 1885, 1928 is shown; being an in
creased deficiency as compared with the same period
of 1884. of $676, 297. The loss of net earnings for
the ten months of 1885. as compared with the same
period of 1884, on all lines of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, is So, 1884, ATS.
With the coming of harmony between the
trunk lines the fact has come out that, after all
the tall ssoso ito it is not true that the Erie
have never gone into the practice of paying re-
bates, drawbacks. or come-backs, so to speak. Every
shipper has paid the rate agreed upon, and that was
the end of it; but it has been shown that there was
sharp direct cutting of rates done.
1t is now announced that the Vanderbilt party will
this week take actual possession of the West Shore
at all likely that a large operation which has been
agreed to by the West Shore holders unanimously and
by the New York Central stockholders, except the
owners OF some 400 shares, will finally be interfered
with by the courts. In pursuance of the original plan.
the West Shore road has actually been purchased by
cey M. Depew and Judge Ashbel Green. The two last
named are lawyers who would not take such a respon-
sibiity without looking pretty we'll into the law of the
case, and Mr.. Morgan generally carries through anv
undertaking he engages in.
Tbs ssalps of the officials of the White line, and of
the agents as well, have been pretty thoroughly taken
by the new deal which consolidated the White. the
Red and the Midland lines, and some excellent freight
men were dropped, but two of the entire force of the
White1ine being now in the service of the consolidated
lines. Those are A. g. Nickerson, Terre Haute, and
j. K. Murp. Louisville, KY; and it is understood
viii be looked after by j. /. Ewing, general agent of
the Beeliue, headquarters Louisville. The wholesale
slaughter of line men is attributed, whether Justly or
not. to the enmity that John Newell, of the Lake
Shore, and o. B. Skinner, of the Decline, entertained
toward the general manager of the White line.
The record of train accidents in this country. as
1 published by the Railroad Gazette, shows that in Oc-
tober there were 1913 accidents, in which Sc persons
were killed and 134 injured. There were 60 col
Iisions, SIS derailments and 8 accidents from other
causes. Indiana roads seem to be quite exempt, as
but z of the 1913 accidents occurred in this State, and
but 2 on indianapolis roads. OF the persons killed,
10, and of those wounded, 55 were railroad employees,
that class of persons thus furnishing So per cent. of
the killed. Al per cent. of the injured and 43l2 per
cent. Of the whole number of casualties; an unusually
small proportion. AS compared with October, 1884,
there was an increase of 1S accidents, but a decrease
of 3 in the number killed and of SO in the number of
injured.
Miscellaneous Notes.
Thus far this year the Railroad Gazette renorts ,ba
construction of 1894 miles of railroad. as AGAINST
1859 in 1884, 5000 1888, 9,I71 in 1882 and &C..
649 in 1881.
Official notice of the opening of its new line to San