The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


paid yesterday on the G., III. & l. division for
December services
At meeting of the Wagner company. held
in New York on Tuesday. DR.. Webb. son-in
law Of w. II. Vanderbilt. was elected to the
presidency, succeeding James Tillinghast, re-
signed.
Paymastsr snee of the c., st. L. 6 P, COM
mences this month to pay on the j., NJ. d l.
road Under this change the employees on the
latter receive their pay five days later than when
Walter Irwin was paymaster and cashier of the
J.s 81. &
The strike of engineers, conductors, and fire.
men on the Chicago g. Western Indiana road
has terminated, and all of the old employees were
reinstated. The company acceded TO the demand
for increased wages, and the men made some
concessions regarding other demands made by
6hem.
w. III. McDoel, general freight agent Of the L..
n. A 81 c., was in the city yesterday on official
business. lie stated that the earnings OF the
road for December 1884, were over Sc, 600 ahead of
I8Ss and thus far this year an increase over
earnings corresponding period 1884 has been
shown.
George Cobb. secretary of the Railroad Mems
Christian Association, yesterday vacated the
gloomy, unattractive room they have oc-
Vandalia freight depot formerly occupied by
Major Robert Emmett. which is more inviting
than the former headquarters of the association
Southern railway managers are overreaching
their Northern brethren in the style of their an
mail passes for 1885 Those received thus far from
So0thern lines are in f1ashy colors, unique and
picturesque, most of them having a Autograph
of some attractive scenery Oh their respective
lines In fact those of some roads arereally ell
0gant
The establishment of an east-bound pool at
Terre Haute is again talked of. 1t is alleged
that a large tonnage is going north over the
Terre Haute d Logansport division of the Van
dnIia and over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
then east owe. the Chicago & Atlantic or the
Nickel plate, which tonnage is not caughtb by any
east bound pool.
Strange as it may seem the c., l., ST. L. s. 8.
is valuable feeder to the c., Fl. & l. road.
All the Great Western Dispatch business that
comes off of the western division of the c., l.,
St l.. 81 c., and which some days reaches thirty
TO forty cars, is at indianapolis turned over to
the e., ii. d l., to be forwarded east via Hamll-
ton and Salamanca
The White line is having some ugly competi-
fiOn in districts tributary to its line west of
here from the West Shore line, which works
ever the Wabash, tho Write line working over
Tho |. & ST. L. and the Peoria Decatur g Evans
vale roads. On one hundred car loads of freight
It 80 stated that the White line dropped the rate
Eve cents per hundred pounds the West
Shore six cents, and the latter secured the bust
neSS4
J. D. Larnerd, who for eight years past has
been freight agent of the G.. II. 81 l. at Con-
nersville, yesterday retired from the road. He
wtli devote his time to the secretaryship of the
COnnersviile Buggy Company. FRED Youse will
perform the duties Of ticket agent and freight
agent hereafter. Mr.. Youse is we'll known in
indianapolis, and his many friends viii be glad
to learn of his promotion. His ability no one
acquainted with him will question
The indianapolis wholesale dry goods men are
In trouble. In 1883 they were enabled to get
their goods through from New York on 30cent-
per hundred pounds rate. In 1884 it averaged to
cost them forty cents per 100 pounds. This year
they find All lines living strictly up to west
bound rates, which, on their class of goods, is
Eeventy-one cents per 100 pounds. They say the
Erie lines, even, which in times past have been
counted upon to help them show no disposition
ID cut the rate, and this paying thirty one cents
pr 10 pounds more for freight this year than
last is serious matter, and good deal upsets
ts.eir calculations
In the year 1884 there were handled on the
CINCINNATI, Indianapolis, ST. Louis g. Chicago
road the cars of 100 foreign roads, and thirty two
fast freight lines and private companies. We
notice in the list cars of the jacksonville, Tampa
g. Key West road, of the Florida Railway g.
Navigation major B. S. Henning's system), of
the New Orleans 81 Northeastern, the Northern
i. and the Southern Pacific, the Oregon Short
lice Grand Trunk Flint River 81 Marquette.
the Eastern, the Boston & Albany, Norfolk q
Western--in fact, from ali sections of the coun-
try. 1t is said that there is road in the coun-
Hry which directly and indirectly has many
connections which really of class Of feed
ers as has the Big Four.
There is large amount of grain shipped from
points on the Illinois Midland road which op
crates Independently. To Indianapolis these ship
ynents are quite equally divided between the
Vandalia and the /. & St Il. When it reaches
Aere there is a sharp fight between the roads
trimming east to secure this traffic, and the
competitors of the c., III. & l. have shown a dis
position to crowd the latter out of the ring for
such business and this has so riled representa-
tives of the c. III. q d.. lines that unless fair
play is shown hereafter there is to be racket.
1t is alleged that parties high official positions
assert that the c., III. & ]. has no right to send
its representatives onto the Illinois Midland
to work for such business. Indianapolis being
as western terminus.