The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

"a 5000 49, ~
=. ~, to arrange for attending the annual Gen.
vention at st. Louis.
At a meeting Of the board of directors Of the
Pennsylvania railroad, yesterday, they declared a
semi-annuaI dividend of 3 per cent, payable In
cash on and after May 90, as registered on the
books April 80. 1885.
Drew & WATSON yesterday commenced ship
ping ten carloads per day of Brazil block coal to
Omaha. Neb., on n yearly contract innlana
block coal Is now shipped to some thirty North
ern and Northwestern manufacturing points.
The earnings of the Indiana. Bloomington e.
Western Railway Company for the week ending
increase. 81. 46I4 6. From Jan. / TO April %:
1885, 1923, 25Z33; 1884, $500. ass. 60; increase,
$32. 77l.68.
The suit of the c., s. & c. Railroad Company
against the T., B.. & W. Railroad Company for
Supreme Court of Ohio. &. W.. Fairbanks, of
the l., b. g. W., will to-day make his arguement
before tbs court.
The Wabash company this week received from
the Peninsular car works, Michigan, fifty box
cars of a superior build 10 put into their over
land service. These cars are thirty-four feet
long. 40, 00O pounds capacity, substantially built
in every respect, and are equipped with the
Westinghouse automatic air-brake.
There are seven lodges of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Firemen in Chicago, each lodge
having one hundred or more members. These
lodges will, on May IL, hold a union meeting
at Chicago, and have asked several Indiana
lodges to send Representatives. The indianapolis
lodge will probably send four delegates.
Several minor changes took place in the G., HI
II l. freight Offices yesterday. Edward Hugo,
through bill clerk, who has paralytic troubles,
Has been granted several months leave of alb
Eence, and II. Huffman, telegraph operator,
takes his position. Joseph Campbell, of the
Connersville telegraph office, takes the position
vacated by Mr.. HafmaG.
The Wabash, a day or two since, hauled a live
stock train over the road at a high speed. The
train consisted of twenty-one cars of stock,
eighteen of which were from St. Louis and des-
.ined to Jersey City, via the N. Y. G. ~ ST. L.
by. 1t was a trial shipment, in competition
with the /. IL st. L. Ry., and WAS run through
at a speed of twenty-five miles per hour.
The st. Louis roads leading cast have not
been sinking money fast enough on the east
bound rates for some time past, and yesterday
commenced hauling grain to the seaboard at "a
mills per mile. The Indianapolis roads have not
as yet met that rate, and as Commissioner
Doherty has gone to Kankakee for two or three
days fishing, they will hardly take action in the
matter before next week.
Superintendent Sherwood. of the c.. l., St l.
IL G., treats both the American and the Wooley
Electric Locomotive headlight Companies with
the greatest impartiallty. One of the Big -Four
engines is equipped with the American the other
with the Wooiey patent, and both do excellent
service. BY the by, parties owning the Woolcy
electric light say they are passing no ~sleepless
nights over any injunction the American Head
light Company is likely to get out.
The change limited ut in the Journal a few
days ago to take place in the baggage department
of the Union Railway Company, took place yes
terday, George Venn retiring as general bag
gage agent and John Ferguson being appointed to
She position for the time being, w. n. Prouty,
of the c., II. q ID. lines, who was offered the
position, declining to accept it. Mr.. Venn, who
IS much OF Il gentleman and a very competent
book keeper, returns to Dean Brothers to take
charge of their books.
The Andrews Express says: 'The shopmen
Of the Wabash again threaten to resort to vigor-
Gus measures to compel an observance of the
contract made last month between the Wabash
and its employees, regarding hours of work. 1t
Is claimed that the management has broken faith
by sending locomotive off the road for repairs,
Thereby depriving employees Of work. and by
suspending the shop men the last four days Of
the month, after giving them but eight hours
daily employment the remainder of the month.
The agreement was made will Mr.. Talmage per
sonally, and he has been waited upon by a COM
mittee to insist upon it's being fully complied
with.
X II. Wade. superintendent of transportation,
and @. w. Stevens. superintendent of the east
ern division Of the Wabash system. are making
the rounds for the purpose of further cutting
down expenses. In the yards and depots at De-
troit they have this week let out forty-two men,
reduced the number of switching engines from
ten to five. ProportioDate reductions are to be
made at other points. These officials are billed
10 be at indianapolis the early part
of next week, but where they can
further reduce expenses is the problem,
unless they again order the telephone taken out
at the city freight depot. AT the outside ticket
of6ce the boys, for several weeks, have been
without telephone communication with the out
side world.
Asking Boston Capitalists to Aid Them.
General Negley is in Boston negotiating for a
loan of sc, 0o0, 900 to complete the New York,
Pittsburg & Chicago Railroad Company's line.
The route is a familiar one to the readers of the
daily papers, so no extended description of it is
required. General Negleyis plan is to have the
road built Immediately between New Galiiee,
Pa. and New Lisbon, o., a distance of about
twenty miles westward, for a Cincinnati con-
nection. The portion of finished road now in
operation is seventeen miles long. running from
ROdgerville, west oe New Galilee. east
wardly to Chewton. on the Pittsburg e. West.
ern road. From there eastwardiy the Pittsburg
Is Western tracks will be used as far as Harmony.
Butler county, Pennsylvania. From that point
the new road will be continued east to Red Bank.
the west terminus of the Low Grade division of
the Allegheny Valley railroad. This connection
will carry the line over to Driftwood. Pa, where
connection viii be made with Pittsburg e.
Erie. The new road to be built will cover a dis
lance Of sixty miles, the average cost OF con-
s~truction being 500, 900 a mile, and the total cost
viii be 81, 100000.
when the connection is made at New Lisbon
the stockholders are confident that their road
VIII begin to be a profitable investment What
no proposes TO do with the other 81, 800, 600 is a
problem.
Don't Worry the Pennsylvania People.
A new schedule goes into effect on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad next Sunday. The most
important changes will be made on trains coming
into competition with fast runs on the Panhan-
die and TT Wayne roads-Pennsylvania Comp
pany,s lines-between Pittsburg and Cincinnati
and Chicago. The Pennsylvania people are not
worrying much over the moves of the B. 81 o.
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