The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


Union P,leifc, headquarters at Indianapolis, has
bern confined to the house Cor several days with
infammatory rheumatism
There were some 500 loaded cars, east and
west bound, in the Bee line yards at Brightwood
yesterday morning. Trains move so heavily
that business aceumuiates with sher daily.
3D. H Barney, one eff the oldest railroad men
in the country. and who for twenty years past
has represented the Erie Fastfreight at Cleve-
land, Ohio. died suddenly in that city, yesterday
morning
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton people
will, this spring, arrange with tine water works
company to furnish water for their locomotives
They now use water drawn from well and the
Kinney substance which accumuates in the boil
ers gives them much trouble.
The last few months the Lake Erie & Western
management has made friends by better main
teHaaee Of both freight and passenger rates.
The time was when the L. e. & w. was the rate
dlsturber of the Middle and Western States al
though bat a link IN through route.
The local rate convention has passed a resolu-
tlcn to compel shippers to properly mark their
goods. practice is IN vogue of marking one
piece correctly where there are a number In the
same shipment, and then simply mark the others
with some letter or number. Hereafter the let
ter or number may be used, but the name of the
city or town must be plainly marked
Passengers who were delayed at Kankakee
and also those detained ON the c., l.. ST l. & c.
trains In the snow blockades, speak in very COM
plimentary terms of the manner they were
treated by the Big Four management, and
PASSED resolutions TO be sent to the officers Of
the road. specially mentioning favorably con-
ductors j. A. Andregg and j. G. Smith
AS yet we have not heard of any legislator of
Indiana, Illinois, 1owaor Wisconsin, introducing
bill authorizing railway companies to increase
their charges on account of billiards, freshets,
or snow bloekades, and the principal recon-
pense they now obtain for the additional expendi-
lures, risks and dangers arising from lnclement
weather is that incidentally afforded by partial
cessation of rate-cutting operations.
A S. Burgess. agent of the Union Pacific rail
road at this point yesterday received tele-
gram from New Orleans stating that the
Idaho Day" at the Worlds Exposition would
be March g. The Idaho exhibit, under Colonel
Shoup, is said to be one of the best in the gov
eminent building. This department is the
headquarters of the Idaho visitors to the exposi-
ton as well as of the Union Pacific railroad
There is much which is encouraging IN the
railroad situation if the worst phase is put upon
matters. The total volume of railroad traffic is
increasing, as it was bound to do in consequence
of last years increased crops and there is now
prospect of a fairly satisfactory business dur
ing the spring; while the recent reports of gross
aud net earnings show that operating expenses
ara as rule, lower than they We're year ago.
Travellers over the Northern Indiana and Illi-
nois roads, within the last three weeks, well un-
derstand what dead engine s-Jim Armstrong
gays it means that she has run out of water, so
the fires must be put out and the pumps and
machinery disconnected, SO that she must go
into the shop before running again, and that
you must wait forty four hours for a work train
with half-doz engines to come and pull you
out of the snow drifts
The Indianapolis Weighing Association will
probably be organized this afternoon. The
local agents meet at 2:30 P. NJ. to hear the re-
ports of the committee, which consists of j. A.
Perkins, of the PENNSYLVANIA lines; Harry
Wetze, of the Vandalia; w. G.. Hobbs of the c.,
I. St L. & c.; George Brecount of the L., N. A. e.
c., and II. Bolirin, of theJ., NJ & ]. This commit
tee has secured the plans upon which the car
weighing associations conducted at Chicago,
St Louis and Cincinnati. and from the three
taken the best features as basis of organiZa-
ton of the indianapolis association.
r. C. Villas, general freight traffic manager of
the Erie system Of roads; G. g. Cochrane, gen.
eral freight agent of the N. Y, p. & O.; A II.
Mcleod, general freight agent of the G.. H &
D.; and FL. c. Villas, general manager of the Erie
e North Shore ard Commercial Fast-freght
Line, spent yesterday in tine city, in conference
with L. A Lewis. manager of the Erie Fast
freight Lines The party left for Columbus, O.,
last evening. Traffic manager Villas has made
an extended trip over the West. and expresses
the opinion that for some time to come there will
be plenty of business for all east and west lines,
but the low rates prevailing are the worst feat
of the situation
James E. Gowen, one of the most eminent
members of the Philadelphia bar died at his res
idence in Mt. Airy. Pa Wednesday last, of
nervous prostration, after an illness of several
weeks. He was the chief counsel Of the Reading
road, and the part he has taken in the litgations
of that corporation has been second in prominence
only to that of Franklin B. Gowen. AS corpora
ton lawer Mr.. Gowen's attention was not, how
ever, given only to the Reading company Prior to
1873 he was counsel in several important cases
for the Pennsylvania railroad, and at various
times took leading part in the litigations in
which the Lehigh Valley road was involved. He
was actively concerned in nearly all of the most
important railroad lawsuits that have occurred
for the last fifteen years.
a Timely improvement I'm Sleeping-Cars.
1t is very fortunate for the travelling public
that q new style of parior aud sleepingcar has
been introduced on some of the more important
roads, and is likely to come into general use
AT present physicians differ in opinion as to how
a person shall lie in a sleeping-coach. DIR.
Outten, says that if a person lies with his
feet toward the engine the movement of the car
tends to draw the blood from the brain to the
feet, cerebral anamia is produced, and then
sleep; but if he lies with his head toward the
locomotive las is the custom in Germany
there IS produced cerebral hyperB-
mia incompatible with sweet repose.
DR. Mcbride, of the Milwaukee, Insane Asylum,
urges sleeping with the head toward the engine.
He holds that with the feet toward the engine
the blood tends to the head In the starting of
a train momentum is first given to the car
Bodies in the car resist for moment, and then
acquire the same momentum; but on the least
increase of speed they offer resstance-they are
not disposed to go as fast as the car The
new coach obyiates all troubls ON this score
In the new parlor and sleeping coaches the old
stylesof berths is done away with, and instead
sofas are used in separate and neat little compart
ments. These sofas are not parallel to the sides
of the car, but are placed across the width of
the car and against the partitions which divide
the ear longftudinally. This reduces the sense
of vibration. There are no wbacked hard,
narrow seats, with narrow arm rests or heavy,