The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

T.. N. A. g. c. Airline, is in the city en- route
for Chicago to report for duty.
The resignation OF Assistant General Manager
4 =. OBrien. of the East Tennessee, Virginia &
I3eorgia railroad, takes effect Sept. l.
Mr.. Stuyvesant Fish. Of New York, vice-presi-
asnt of the Illinois Central road. is in the West
upon his periodical tour of inspection.
TO be in fashion the l.. B. & W.. people are
new arranging for a cheap Dakota excursion on
sept 8. which will further tend to demoralize
rateS
TIE sooner the general passenger agents
got together and stralghten up rate matters the
better. There seems 70 be d general demoraliza-
ton 10 all directions.
A scarcity of cars is decreasing the car move
ment somewhat. The recent heavy rains have
nGf checked the movement of the oats crop to the
SxseBt anticipated. however.
Aeoal mine is to be opened at Andrews, on
the Terre Haute 6 Southeastern road. the out
pys of which will be thirty or forty carloads of
zeal per day. This will give the L. II. & S. E. a
La IN its business.
sTse transfers over the Belt are now running
vel upou ! 500 cars per day, and trains are
moved over it more exped,tiously than at any
former period, now that the new rules governing
sae movement of trains are we'll understood.
The l., p. & c. division of the Wabash sys-
LeSE, i NOW DrtLIT well CicdTFQ Ol us UtSb
There are only some twenty arloads per day
eosaing into Indianapolis; but shipments of
lover grade wheat off of this line to Detroit are
nsg heavy.
Thomas Long. who represents the Chicago q
Rock Island road 1T Cincinnati, Is spending O
day or two in the city. Mr.. Long has been I'M
fssed for duty for several months by injuries
which he received on the Ohio d Mississippi
read in a collision at Delhi. He is now much
better, but still uses crutcbes.
y. III. Kingsburt, assistant general freight
agent of the g., st. L. q p. road. was in the city
yesterday stirring up the freight Officials. He
feels that the l., B. & W. and Decline are get.
aicg more than their share of the east bound
traffic. West hound. the Pennsylvania lines are
doing q very heavy business. Seldom is the ton
mage exceeded.
The passenger men who represent the L, D. &
S.. khe C.. Fl. q D., and the Northern Pacific
FDadS apparently are running the business and
fixing the rates over the more important roads of
sheir connections. These parties not only name
Abe rates, bat extend the limit on tickets without
consulting their superior officers, and regardless
1t gl agreements.
T. c. Denney, district passenger agent of the
Missouri Pacific, yesterday removed his head
quarters to the Baker & Randolph Block, in
rooEH No. 2, second floor. He says he doesn't know
where the next full moon will find him. What
Indianapolis needs is a block specially built for
railroad Offices. But few of the numerous rail
road offices at this point are conveniently or
pleasantly located.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Indianapolis
Company has taken up the frog at the Belt road
by which they connect with the c., St. l.. & p.
and n retaliation the c., ST. L.. q 2. people pro.
pose to take up the frog by which the c.. II. &
J. connects with the Union tracks, the O., ii. 81
i. using about one hundred feet of the formers
track over POgues run. and the c., ST. l.. 81 P.
frog to reach the Union tracks.
Superintendent Sherwood and his subordinate
officials are making an inspection trip over the
sntare c.. l., St. L. & G. system. Wednesday
by a number of leading citizens of Columbus.
who presented Mr.. Sherwood with a gold headed
zane, the cane itself being made of wood cut
from a cross tie laid in 1885 on the Madison d
indianapolis road. Mr.. Client made the pre-
sentation speech.
John G. Davis, NJ. D., of Chicago, has been
appointed chief surgeon of the L., n. A. & C.
railway, headquarters Chicago, nd was here
yesterday, and appointed Josey,h Eastman, M.
D.. surgeon at INDIANAPOLIS. Th methods en-
ployed by the L., n. A. & g. to perfect this
branch of their service are commendable. DR..
Davis served with distinction in the South dur
ing the epidemic of 1873, and was presented with
q gold medal by the Howard Association for dis
nnguished services rendered.
A circular announces: The following meetings
OF the Middle and Western States Freight AS
sociation" will be held at Petosaey. Mich,
Thursday, Sept. 10, and Friday, Sept. IL: CLASH
lieatiOn Commute. Sept. TO-. at 9 A. M; executive
committee, Sept. ii, at 8 a. NJ; general meeting
of ali members of the association, Sept. IL, at IL
A. a. AS these meetings are of more than ordi-
parry importance. the secretary, William Orr,
requests a full attendance of all members of the
association, as we'll as the members of the re-
%speGtive committees.
The Chicago Inter Ocean SAYS: 'The Chicago
lines interested in east bound freight traffic are
all satisfied that rates or freight are being we'll
maintained. The Chicago committee on east
bound freight traffic, which met at Joint Agent
MoOre's office. found no charges against any
line. and, in fact, had no more weighty business
an hand than to consider the classification of
hobby horses in car loads. Although ill present
were we'll acquainted with the uses of the article,
IL was deemed best to refer the matter to the
Eastern classification committee"
Calvin Lewis, an engineer on the Indianapolis
Bets railroad, was robbed OF a gold watch and
cham while asleep on the train headed towards
Chicago. Tuesday night, at Lafayette junction.
lie Was partially aroused by the fellow AS he rip
PED the watch out of his pocket, but did not
fully realize what had occurred until the thief
asG reached the ground and was fleeing up the
trAGk- He saw enough, however. to give the
police authorities an idea that the theft was the
work of Lafayette talent. and they are on the
lookout for him. Mr.. Lewis was on his way to
WISCONSIN to spend his vacation.
Several changes in the superintendency of the
Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST. Pauls western divis-
1o1S nave OeSn arranged IOr, ana Will go into
effect Sept. /. f.. ID. Underwood, at present
superintendent of the Southern Minnesota
division, has been appointed superintendent of
the Iowa & Dakota division, vice G. w. Sanborn,
resigned. II. K Williams ia appointed to the
sEperiutendency of the Southern Minnesota
division, r%esigning the position of superintendent
of the Iowa d Minnesota division to accept the
new appointment. Mr.. Williams's position on the
E0sa & Minnesota division IS filled by the ap-
posaSment Of E. H Graves. the present assist
ana superintendent of the Iowa & Dakota
diSss0a. !
= Difference of Opinion.
The suit by Encouragement Cassidy to pre-