The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local
Henry Frazer, general agent of the c., l., St
1. s. c., is so i'll as to be confined to his room.
G. L. Dickinson, auditor of the l., B. & W..
company, has gone West for ten days health
seeking tour.
r. A. Lewis manager of the Erie fast-freight
Jines last evening went to Cincinnati to meet
President King
The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington 81
Western road the second week in April were
$40, 062 Is, an increase over corresponding week,
1884, of 1862 A.
Parties in position to understand the situa-
Zion state that passenger rates are better MAIN
Iained at the present time than at any pered
within the last eight years.
s T. Brodwell one of the directors of the
C., l.. st. L. IL c., accompanied by his family,
passed. through the city yesterday in President
1ngaIlss new car, en- route for Hot Springs.
Robert Barry. of the Pullman Palace-car
Company, left Chicago yesterday for Phi1adel-
phia, to assume the duties there of superin-
tendent Of the Eastern division of the company.
Freight rates on the Chicago e Eastern Illi-
nois have been reduced on all classes between
Chicago and Terre Haute The reduction is
from,2 to 10 cents per hundred pounds on each
class
The L. N. A. & G. people are pushing in all
directions for business. and if the present OH
GERS do not bring the road out OF the miro no
sci Of officials have the power to accomplish such
IN result
The stockholders of the Ohio Southern road,
on Monday, reelected the old board of directors.
The directors elected Alfred Sully president,
FL Graves vice president and treasurer, and G.
T. Henderson general manager.
The c. T.. st. L. & c. and the Vandalia have
agreed to make the round trip rate from Indian
apOIis to Lake Maxinkuckee during the summer
So There will be no change of cars and the
stopping over one night as last year, IN reaching
this pleasure resort.
The gas company is putting up an immense
gas lamp at the crossing of Virginia avenue and
fhe Union railway tracks. There will be ten
large burners, which it is believed viii light up
the crossing sufficiently for all purposes A flag
man now stands at this crossing from 8 A NJ. to
10 p. M daily.
A change is to be made in the management of
the Utah Central The road is now being op-
Grated as separate concern from the Union Pa
cfe with whole grist of officers, while it is in
fact part Of the Union pacific system. The
change will consist in transferring the manage
ment of the road to a division superintendent.
H. c. Davis, assistant general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific road, headquarters St.
Paul. Mimi, is in the city. Mr.. Davis has
great confidence in the future of the property.
The local traffic of the line is steadily increas-
ing, and ne predicts that in 1883 the Northern
racine Will TSdCu p-c,UVVsUVo CoIuiuSo ahhuohy
At the quarterly meeting of the directors of
rho Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton Railroad
iCompany yesterday, Vice president Waite sub
United statement of the years earnings, March
being estimated, making the gross earnings
O. SS3, 371, expenses 81, $40 800 After deducting
fixed charges and dividends paid in October last,
there remains surplus of $215, 1886
VIM. Miller was yesterday appointed master
mechanic on the Indianapolis, Decatur 81 Spring
field road. Mr.. Miller has for many years been
in the Vandaia shops, and comes highly recon-
mended by President McKeen, Geo. Prescott
superintendent of motive powers of the Van
dalia and ex-Superintendent Peddle. Receiver
Hammond is wisely selecting Western men for
his officers.
The long pending and somewhat famous case
of the Pacific Railroad Company against the
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company and num-
Der Of prominent railway magnates mentioned
In the petition was dismissed in the United
States Court at st. Louis yesterday by consent.
This settles Jay Gouds title to the Missouri Pa
cific railway, and materially affects what is
known as the Marie-Garrison suit
There is good authority for stating that the
Adams Express Company has offered to take all
the bonds the Union Railway Company may
issue to carry out the proposed improvements,
the rate of interest to be per cent. per annum.
About 81 200 900 will be needed to make the i'm
provements. There are members of the Union
Railway Company who express the opinion that
the money can be raised at lower rate of inter
est than the Adams Express Company propose
to accept