The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Isaac Banta has been appointed agent OF the
g., NJ. e. l. road at Amity, vice ID. Il. Riggs, re-
signed
f e. Long has been appointed agent of the P
& st. L. road at Pendleton Shops, a new station
near Cincinnati.
O. a. Berry. trainmaster of the Illinois Cen
trail railway, accompanied by his wife, is visiting
friends in this city.
Eugene Field will. on August l, take the
agency of the Lackawanna / a ct ST. Louis.
Mr. Waldron, of Lafayette, declining to accept
the position.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company has
made good hit in the appointment of MIR
Joseph Gordon, of New Albany. as its passenger
agent for Louisville. Mr.. Gordon is first-clasS
railroad passenger man.
The Pennsylvania Company gives notice to the
1EoDgworth estate that it will no longer pay the
rental Of q block in Cincinnati for which the
Little Miami road. leased by the Panhande,els
liable. A suit will probably follow.
f. FALalk. recently with Commissioner j. L.
Ripley p the office Of tho Burlington Wabash
pool, has been appointed travelling agent of the
National Dispatch Fast Freight and Refrigerator
1ine, vice Percy Il. Todd, resigned.
II is said the trunk-line managers are looking
for she right kind Of a to take the place of
Albert Fink commissioner of a reconstructed
Joo. They say he must be a man of brains,
o.
Snd faculty to successfully solve them.
The earnings of the Peoria, Decatur & Evans
vile railroad for the second week of July were
1896, $11 595: 1884 81 058; increase $537. From
July !; 1885, $50, 495; 1884, 500, 1921; increase,
$l68 The p, d. & E. il is stated, is profting
Through its new connectIon-the l., d, u 3 road
Most of the Chicago Burlington 81 Quincy
working officials, including General Manager
Stone, General Passenger Agent Lowell and
General Freight Agent Ripley, are making what
is called IAN interviewing tour" over the lines
for the purpose Of hearing complaints and re-
quests from patrons Of the road
Harry Miller, son of John F. Miller superin-
tendent of the St. L. 81 P, who has been
offered the superlntendency of the Cincinnati
Northern road, will accept. Harry's many
friends viii be pleased to learn of his promotion
and all seem confident that he will fill it salts
fnctory to all parties interested.
The Bee-line people will, this season, purchase
500 tons of steel rails and propose to have it
all in the track by October J. On the [. & ST. l..
division, 300 tons will be laid, which will take
nut all iron track between Indianapolis and st.
LIouis, and the other g. 200 tons will be laid on
Indianapolis division of the Bee line proper.
The Bee line management have rather sur
prised the officials OF the L., b. q w. and the
l., D. & S. roads, by the favorable terms upon
which they propose that the last named road
shall have the of l, 600 feet of track and the
bridge over White river, over which the l., D. &
S. and the l., b. 81 W. form a connection with
the Union tracks.
j. c. Paul, general manager, and c. W. Hall,
superintendent, of the Woodruff Sleeping car
Company, are in the city. They state that there
is no truth in the rumor that the Woodruff is to
be consolidated with the New York Sleeping car
Company The selingout business they say,
ended with the Decline, which Is a Vanderbilt
road The denial is very proper, but the trouble
is that stockholders often sell ont to other par
ties without consulting men in their employ In
an official capacity.
The L., n A. & c. officials who were in the
rity yesterday, desired to take the short cut to
reach their main track. and asked permission Of
CoL Joseph HUI, superintendent of the Wanda
liza. to run over the T., H. e |. track from Indi-
annapolis TO Greencastle. Permission was given,
and the engineer who hauling their special
car, finding he had good track to run over
thought he would test the speed of L.. N A. e
g. engine No. 10, and the train run from the
Belt road to Greencastle Junction, 39a miles. in
as minutes, making one stop
Officials of the L., N. A. & c. road are in
clined to treat themselves better than thew do
their shippers. When they want to make quick
time between Indianapolis and their main line
they 60 over the Vandalia. When slipper on
the L., n. A. & c. main line, south of Green
castle junction, wishes to ship goods in a hurry
10 indianapolis, instead of sending them over
the Vandalia from Greencastle Junction the
goods are shipped around via Monon, and are
from two days to a week in reaching their des
tination, instead of a half day, which they would
be If shipped by direct route.
The Wabash people PROPOSE should they con-
tinue in control of the J., p. & G. between Indi-
annapolis and Peru, to make it, in connection with
the Detroit division main line. and to this end
the accounts and operating expenses are to be
kent separate from those of the Wabash main
line, St Louis to Toledo The mile posts and
signs at every station now being relettered
showing the number of miles from indianapolis
to Detroit instead of reading ST. Louis to De-
troit. Several new water tanks have recently
been constructed. Depots are being cleaned up
and painted, and more of an air of prosperity is
apparent, as one passes over the road