The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


rago road has been ordered
w. S Taylor has been appointed agent of the
Great Western Dispatch, Erie & Pacific Dis
patch, and South Shore Line, at Rochester,
Ny
In the mo tn of July the Pennsylvania Com
pany handled at indianapolis 1851 cars; there
were loaded and unloaded at the city freight de-
pots 23O6 cars.
Shipments Of wheat from this section to St
Louis are still immense. and promise to be Tor
some time to come. rs St. Louis is paying oetter
Drlees than the seaboard markets.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Cleveland & Mahoning Valley railroad was helC
yesterday. John Todd. Joseph b. ferKlnS' ana
YIN. B. Sanders all of Cleveland, were elected
directors for three years
Indjananolis is again taking its position as
grain market On Tuesday the receipts of grain
by rail reached 1853, 754 bushels and the receipts
sromise to increase largely as wheat and oats of
che new crop begin 10 move freely
The l.. B. & w. people have commenced the
erection of shops on the West Side, and already
have one building up, sixty feet wide by 100 feet
long and putting in some $751; 900 worth of
neg machinery Other buildings will be erected
as fast as the finances of the company will
allow.
r. a. Murphy has been appointed master me-
ehanic of the roads operated by the st. Louis,
Alton & Terre Haute Railroad Company, vice r.
n Pringle resigned. Mr. Murphy will have
change of the rolling stock, shops and machinery
OF he company, with headquarters at East st.
I,1nis.
Ia the month Of July there arrived and de-
parted at the Union Depot 8 1T passenger trains,
Of which number eight excursion trains
and four special trains. OF the l,582 regular
trans which arrived, thirty two trains were late,
which is unusually large number for sum-
zneT month.
Tho c. l., st. L. & c. and the Chicago g.
Rock Island are arranging for grand excur-
sioa to Colfax Springs, the Saratoga of the
West The fare will be but $40 for the round
trip. There are the best of hotel accommoda-
items there, and everything will be done to make
The trip pleasant one.
Contiguous efforts are being made to dust
important questions connected with the move
meEt Of east bound through traffic from all the
Leading Western trade centers, and it is probable
that this entire business will soon be placed
satisfactory baeis- In fact it is nearer so
than at any time for years
d. M. Lands returned yesterday from the
3ine meeting Mr.. Lands states that hereafter
ali line meetings are to be held at Buffalo, n. Y,
nhless directed to some other point by vote of
line managers Holding line meetings at two
different points, as the present month. proved to
be bad move. The attendance at both meetings
was small and neither could transact much bust
mesa
The four roads in the Peoria east bound pool
held meeting in Peoria on Tuesday, to invest-
gate the alleged cutting of rates. They decided
aha. the charge of cutting by any Peoria mem
Oers OF the pool was false, and that the roads
had all been living up to the agreement 1t was
resolved to all possible influence with the Hi
noss Midland, which does not belong to the pool,
TO prevent it cutting rates in connection with the
White Line fast freight.
Several official changes took effect yesterday
on tho Missouri Pacific road The Office of
assistant superintendent at Kansas City is abol-
isbed Mr.. F. B. Drake is appointed assistant
superintendent of the Missouri Pacific rail way
and of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas railway
tnorth of Denison) with office at Sedailia. Mr.
M. e. Straight is appointed division superintend-
ent of the Western division of the Missouri
Pacific railway. with Office at Kansas City.
A warm personal friend of John B. Carson
says the statement that he had been offered the
position of vice president and general manager
OF Ma or Jennings Florida system of railways
was correct, but he has declined to accept the
position. and within the last week the position
has been offered to II. r. Duval late general
manager of the Erie fast freight lines, and he
has expressed willingness to accept, providing
certain conditions can be carried out relating to
the finances of the company.
The Pennsylvania Company, operating the
Pittsburg Cincinnati & ST. Louis railroad, have
for some time contemplated the removal of their
Steubenville shops to Columbus. On July Is
the first installment of employees, thirty eight in
number, sent to Columbus, where they
begun work in the new shops. This leaves but
sixty six men employed at the Steubenville
shops. The remaining portion of the workmen
will go in about four weeks which will wind ND
the Panhandle car shops, so far as Steubenvine
Is concerned.
Superintendent Woodland of the L., N. A. &
e.. who, by the by, is a firstclass locomotive
engineer was in the city on Saturday afternoon
last, looking after the interests of the road. He
intended to return to Chicago on the II p. NJ
train, but learning that there was a hitch be-
tween the engineers as to hauling the big excur
son train coming up from Cincinnati en- route
Tor Chlcago-the engineers having expressed an
Hnvlllingness to attempt to haul twelve coaches
with one locomotive-Mr. Woodland stepped onto
the footbOard of one of the engines, put on q
blue frock. hitched the engine to twelve coaches
and hauled them through to Chicago on regular
passenger train time
The statement made in Yesterdays Journal
regarding the consolidation of fast freight lines
Oh the Vanderbilt system of roads. was based
uDon remarks made by Vice-president HAYDEN,
OF the New York Central, few days since to a
prominent Western railroad man, who says the
1ournal was little off yesterday in the state
meDt. The Red the Midland and White are to
be consolidated under one management as stated,
bnt the Merchants Despatch is not included in
- Abe consolidation. This being an independent
association has power to make contracts with
tho sanction of the stockholders, and is the only
last freight line now in existence OF such char
aeter. There a large number of Individual
stockholders as we'll as the railroad companies
which have large holdings of the stock, which is
x 800, 600.
At the annual meeting of the delegates Of the
PESsoure Fort Wayne & Chicago Mutual
Benefit Association it was decided to change the
name of the association to The Pennsylvania
Cempanys Mutual Benefit Association" and it
WAS arranged to hold the next meeting at Al
Lance, O., July %, 1886 The matter of changes
IN she constitution and bylaws coming up for
consideration it was agreed that the loss of an
arm. or of a leg, would henceforth be considered
m applicants for membership, as a partial disa-
hiliiy, ard the loss of both arms or both legs
OF both eyes, total disability. All members of
good standing in tho old association will be taken
INTO the new association as charter members,
regardless of their ages, but persons who have
forseited their memberships by not paying up
assessments, if over fifty years old will not be
admitted to the new association.