The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


The monthly meetings of the fastfreight lines
will DO held at the Office of Commissioners Fink,
In New York, Wednesday and Thursday June
ID and Is.
l. F. Leonard, as general agent of trustees
has taken charge of the Toledo, Peoria s. West
ern railroad, the Wabash having formally re-
leased the property.
The earnings of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati 6 indianapolis for the month of April
were: 1885, $235. $50; 1884, $287. 1885, decrease,
$52 035. From Jan l. 1885, ST. 067. 151; 1884 ST.,
19l ,Ol3; decrease, $123 S62
The bondholders' committee of the Louisville,
Evansville 81 St. Louis Airline will come west on
she Goth. Among the important questions they
VIII settle will be tie turning of their leased
cars to the lessons and purchasing new equip
ments in their place.
Eighteen months ago there were no outside
ticket Offices at Indianapolis, and but scalper,
no barely existing; now there are ton outside
ticket offices, and three scalping offices. all In
hcarishng condition, and South Illinois street,
with the coming of summer weather, the curb
stone soliciting passenger agents have put In
appearance.
The extremely low west-bound rates are un-
fayorably affecting the business Of the wholesale
men at the commercial centers Eastern drum
Essrs are dropping in at tho larger towns and
through them the merchants of such towns are
ordering goods direct from Boston, New York,
and Philadelphia, taking advantage of the low
rates and extended credit given.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
built two of their standard and equipped
than with the Wagner car-door and sent them
70 Old Point Comfort, where the master
builders are IN session, for their inspection The
Pennsylvania people and the management of
the Chesapeake & Ohio road have adopted the
Wagn er door fo- their boxcars.
Viii E. Divine, who has been a clerk in the
Chicago and Ohio River pool Office since the
pool was organized, has resigned, and will re-
tnrn to-day from Chicago TO take charge OF the
books of the Evening Minute. Commissioner
Richardson speaks in very complimentary terms
Of the service Mr. Divine rendered, and at first
declined to accept his resignation.
Yhe citizens of Bloomington, Ind, are in ex-
csaient humor over the fact that under the new
time schedule of the L., n. A. 81 c. road they
can leave home after breakfast. reach Indanap-
obs at 10 A. M, remain until P. NJ, and reach
home at good supper hour. Heretofore they
eouid not make the trip to the capital without
taking al day and part of the night
President Peabody, of the Ohio & Mississippi
railroad, has asked the authorities of Washing
ton, Daviess county, for permission to cross
sral OF their streets with belt road he proposes
10 build Mr.. Peabody says he wishes to build
ehs road to draw manufacturing establishments
there, but the business men are of the opinion
that he purposes to locate shops there.
Uncle Billy jackson, although hardly able to
Union Depot to pay off, which he did with the
assistance of w. g. Cannon, secretary for V. T.
Mal0st. Dir. Jackson has paid the Union Rail
way employees monthly without break for
thirty five years, and he could not bear the
thought of failing so to do this month.
AT the annual meeting of the Chicago, Mil
waukee 81 st. Paul Railway Company, yester
day, the old board of directors were reelected.
with the addition of Philip D. Armour, of
Chicago, in place of S. S. Merrill, deceased.
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Wadsworth, Second Vice president j. B. Du-
mont, Secretary Peter Meyers, and Treasurer
H. d. Jennings were reelected
The Pennsylvania Company have awarded the
contract for the new bridge over the Wabash
xiver at Logansport. The firm of Medland 81
Barnes have the contract for all the stone work,
and have already set force of men at work to
make excavations for the ahutments. They will
have 80 build five piers and the abutments, and
the work will be pushed through rapidly. The
site Of the new bridge is above the old one, be-
tween Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. 1t
val be an elegant structure and made as strong
as necessary for an immense railway travel. The
company having the contract for erecting the
bridge proper is the same that put up the can't
lever bridge over the Niagara river The bridge
will be ready for travel by the LIST of December.
The improvement in rolling mills, relating
more particularly to the mechanism for hand
hing. saving and curving rails after they have
been rolled, which the invention of an
indianapolis man and put into service the first
kIne in the steel rail mill. Indianapolis, has so
much merit in it that in the near future the pat
emit viii doubtless be put in use in all first class
mills or the country. BY this device, when
rail comes down from the forming rolls the oper
ator turns lever to drive the carrier rolls and
bring the rail to the point desired. When the
rail is in the proper position the motion of the
carrier roll is stopped and the mechanism
which drives the saws and the rail curvers is
put into operation by depressing a treadle After
the rails are sawed and curved the operation of
this mechanism is stopped and another set of
rail carriers are put into motion by hand-leve
TO carry the rail on to the hot-bed. By revers-
ing this lever the rail carriers are brought back
10 their first position While a rail is showed
over those on the hot-bed it is raised nearly
clear of them and is thus protected from abra.
Bion-
A Matter of Guess Work at Best.