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

Personal ana LOcti.
The Belt Road and indianapolis Stockyard
Company TO morrow hold their annual meeting,
when directors and officers for the ensuing year
viii be elected
The management Of the Decline system mas
issued an order forbidding train men and en-
ployes of the company from loafing In waiting
rooms and Offices of the company.
The Bee-line last week forwarded east from
ihis point $50 loaded cars the c., st. l.. & p,
5Tg the l.. B. & W.. 3O4; the c., Fl. & L. 2SS
Total forwarded by the four lines, 2, 155 cars.
Commodore Mitchell for some time past
ticket agent of the L.. N. A. & c. at Lafayette
to-day takes the ticket agency Of the same road
at Chicago. w. B. Ritley succeeds Mr.. Mitchell
at Lafayette.
The Ave Western roads last week brought into
this station 3 461 loaded cars. as follows: l., B.
& W.. st. Louis division, 129; Peoria division,
194 Vandalia. 943; g., l., ST. l.. 81 e., ,09o l.
IL St L. 1.142.
Tracks are well cleared Of snow in ali direc-
lions and the movement of freight trains yes
terday was almost unparalleled. Passenger en-
gines and passengertrain crews on several OF the
r6ads were pressed into service
In the month of January there were received
and forwarded at Indianapolis. over the ntteen
Indianapolis lines 81, 19S loaded cars and 2332o
ears 1t will be noticed that nearly 30 per cent
Of she cars handled were empty. which is an IN
usually large per cent.
The St Louis Railway Register says 1T IS
about time for the railway companies to jump
50 10 speak. on the scalpers with both feet.
We're this attempted in Indianapolis most of the
loeal passenger agents would need close their
Offices. as there is as much scalping done in such
Offices as there is by the professional scalpers
Tle Dayton division of the Toledo, Cincinnati
& ST. Louis road is earning about So, 500 gross
per week, or just about enough to pay operating
expenses. Boston papers state parties desire the
company to lay standard gauge track from
Dayton to Ludlow Falls, twenty-five miles,
where connection is made with the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western road. The latter now
enters Dayton over the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
Dayton, but would take the new route If the
gauge is widened If the l. B. & w. will guar
anfee the Dayton road fixed amount of bust
ness, the gauge will probably be widened.
The largest check ever drawn up, probably, in
this country, has been framed and hung up in
the treasurers Office of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company. The sum is SID 949 052 and the
Institution cashing it was the National Bank of
Commerce, New York city. 1t is drawn in favor
of Kidder, Peabody & Co., and is in full settle
mont of the large block Of shares which that firm
procured for the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
psny in order that it might obtain controlling
interest in the Philadelphia. Wilmington 81
Baltimore Railroad Company. The date is June
A. 1901. lne cnech Was ptilu one WICK dAedu Vi
the time it was due.
A. j. Smith, general passenger agent of the
Bee-line system, seems to be no respecter of per-
SONS. The Cleveland Herald says: He is SO
courteous that some ministers who went to him
~ arrange for transportation to a convention
rFere somewhat amused when he proceeded to fix
matters so that they could not scalp their tick
cts You don't suppose that we would be so I'M
grateful as to do anything detrimental to the in
terests of your roadg said on clergyman. sup
pose nothing. replied Mr.. Smith. but / know
from past experience that many good people who
wOald scorn to take advantage of person think
It perfectly right to get ahead of railroad when
ever they can, and wish, as far as possible. to
do any share toward bringing about an answer to
the duplication, Lead us not into template
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