The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


proper.
Springfield road for September were $37, 042 80.
The increase over corresponding month, 1884.
was 500 81.
Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore e.
Ohio road returned, it is said, FROM Europe not
savorably impressed with the feeling of Euro
peans toward American railways
Squabbling over who shall be the general
manager of the consolidated fast-freight lines
bids fair to defeat the proposed consolidation Of
the Red, the White and the Midland lines.
Shipments of coal from the Clay county block
coal mines we're never heavier than at the pres
@nt time. Yesterday the roads hauling coal
ErDm these mines were 286 cars short OF ming
orders.
Charles Crockett, who was discharged some
weeks ago from the c., st. Il. 81 Z. road, as pas
eenCer conductor on account of color blindness,
has been reinstated. his eyesight seemingly hav-
ing been restored
Passenger men report travel over indianapolis
roads as the heaviest it has been for years.
Monday there were checked at the Union Depot
gl5 pieces of baggage, the largest number
shocked out in any day since Aug. r. 1883.
On the 26th of this month the officers of the
Yardmasters' Mutual Association meet in this
city with a committee appointed at their last
annual convention to revise their bylaws ana
constitution. 1t is proposed by the yard mas
tiers to give them a grand banquet on the even
ing Of the 26th.
l.. F. Loree, engineer of maintenance of way
on the Indianapolis g. Vincennes road, will take
the position on the c.. St L. d 2. road made
vacant by the promotion of NJ Mansfield to the
position of superintendent of the % " road
On the l. e. " road Mr.. Mansfield will fill both
che position of superintendent and engineer Of
maintenance of way.
The Fort Wayne Sentinel says the Wabash
yards at Andrews wear a decidedly lonely aspect.
But switching crew, in service only few
hours each day, is employed, and the tracks are
barren of cars. President Joy seems to have
directed early all through traffic to the Detroit
and Eel river division. The turning OF the traffic
TO Detroit hurts Andrews and every city east.
w. f. Woodland, general superintendent of
the L., N A. 81 G. system, is in the city on
official bueiness But few railroad officials keep
what is going on upon all divisions so well under
his eye and so well in hand as does Mr. Wood
ard, ana as a result, all over the system matters
are becoming systematzed and working more
smoothly than ever before in the history of the
road.
George G.. Cochran, general freight agent of
Che New York Pennsylvania e. Ohio road who
is, without doubt one of the hardest working
freight men in the country will be in the city
to-day. The fact is that every man on the Erie
system Of roads is doing good work for the
company. Not being allowed to cut rates, they
now Se5tu ulSpOScu 10 uONl Ol W tuclr SudTc VI
the business by working for it.
Monday afternoon express train No over
Che j., M. & /. road made the run from In
Aianapolis Union Depot to the Union Depot in
louisville, KY, in two hours and thrty-one
minutes, actual running time, as shown by the
Grain sheets. The distance is ITO miles, and at
both terminals slowing up is required, which
still further shows the high and seldom sur
passed speed made the entire distance.
The Journal has excellent authority for stating
that c. W. Smith who retires AS general man
sger of the Chesapeake & Ohio road on Nov. l.
Will go out of railroad business and engage in
mercantile pursuits at Chicago. For couple of
years past he has been a silent member of the
firm of McDermott g. Co., and now he will take
% more active position in the firm. His circum-
stances now such that he feels he can throw
off the burdens and anxi eties which occupying a
prominent railroad position load upon him, and
therefore he takes such step.
The Wabash handled four and a half million
pounds of Pacific coast freight in September.
This is eight times more Pacific coast freight
than the road ever handled in any previous
month In the same period they had PIP pas
sengerS out of California. By the establishment
of an agency on the coast the road has increased
its business to Pacific coast points about one
hundred thousand dollars this year over that Of
last year General Manager Talmage was so
firm in the belief that work would get this addi-
tional business that he went out to California
last spring and gave his personal attention to
starting the agency.
III r. Duval, vice president and general man
ager of the Florida Railway Navigation company,
the Henning system of roads, announces by circu-
lar that j. III. Thomas has been elected treasurer
of the company, vice e. r. Reynolds, resigned
Mr. Thomas is genial fellow, and was for some
years treasurer Of the Erie fast-freight lines, of
which Mr.. Duva was then manager Major Hen
ming seems to be gathering around him some first
class railroad men, and if success does not fol-
low the fault will he with the location Of the
road, not its management. Vice president Duval
and Treasurer Thomas will both make jackson
vile. Fla, their headquarters.
The Ohio Southern road, of which G. E. Hen
derson is general manager, is developing in a
business way quite satisfactorily. Not only will
thus remark apply to its coal traffic, but other
classes of business as well. 1t is road quite
expensive to operate however, so sharp are the
curvafures. and so numerous and so heavy the
grades. AT one point on the road the track
forms a horse-sho bend, although but 400
feet apart. To make the distance the track winds
around the hills two miles. There are numer-
Gus other curves which show the skill of the
civil engineers who laid out the road. There are
grades on the road that are eighty feet to the
mile, and the heavy consol engines the company
nave 90 good service on these grades
A passenger agent who has recently spent a
few days in San Francisco states that the Pacific
coast passenger agents surpass the famous Kill
kenny cats in their fighting qualities. They
form a new ASSOCIATION every week, binding
themselves to>maintain rates, and deposit for
feits. elect arbitrators. and then rush out and
form combinations to cut everything. The in
centive to this kind of rascaity is in the com
missions which agents of different lines are
allowed to pay. Every ticket to Atlantic sea-
board points is scalped not less than 49, so, in
She name of commissions. and these commissions
arc disided up among the agents. When roads
neal honestly with the public, and allow the
passengers the benefits now given TO agents as
commissions, the rate wars will be ended, because
irresponsible agents will have no incentive to cut
rates ss
representative of the Atlantic g. Pacific
road writes the journal that the A. e. p. rail
way Will open their extension from Daggett to
San Lego, CAL, Oct. 10. Though the A. e p
u controlled jointly by the A.. Il. g. S. f. and
81 Louis d San Francisco, this extension is
owned exclusively by the A, r. g. S. F. On
She 18th OF last month Presidents Strong ora