The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


MT. Jonn II. GrlHln mas oeen appointed traveI-
ing passenger agent of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois and Evansville s. Terre Haute, with
headquarters at Atlanta.
The L.. N. A. & G. people are testing the Witty
switch stand and connecting bar with view OF
adopting it on the entire system
| j. w. Frinfrock has returned so the c., St L.
| q P. road and taken passenger conductorship
| of train on the third division
| meeting of the executive committee OF the
Chicago and Ohio River pool will be held at
| Indianapolis Thursday, Oct. 1, to discuss mat
| tiers of general interest to the members.
| Passenger rates will be demoralized until some
| basis of differentials for the weaker lines is
agreed upon and this should be the first work
| general passenger agents turn their attention to.
| The Illinois Midland freight offices at Terre
Haute Receiver Conkling has ordered removed
| to Decatur where are the other general Offices of
the company. The removal will take place at
| once
| r. Walter Midlen has been appointed agent of
the Texas g. Pacific Express Company with
| formerly clerk in the Bank OF North America,
| in Philadelphia.
| 1t is said that the Pennsylvania and Wander
bilt lines, as well as the Wabash, have contracts
to haul freight from st. Louis to the seaboard
which will not pay them over $40 mills per
| ton per mile that the property is carried
| The August statement of the Pennsylvania
| lines, it is said will show the great decrease of
between 100000 and 100000 in gross earnings
| on lines east of Pittsburg and Erie. Of course,
| the decrease of net earnings will be very much
| less.
| The Union railway management are seriously
considering the hauling of the passenger trains
into and out Of the Union Depot with horses, lest
| the oil which drips from the locomotives as they
run through the union soil the new mahogany
plank floor.
| Train No. 5 on the Bee-line on Thursday.
made the from Gallon to Brightwood, 206
| miles, in four hours and ten minutes. The train
consisted of baggage and express car, two day
| coaches and two sleeping coaches; one the Boston
| the other the New York sleeper.
The trunk-line presidents meet again in New
York on Thursday next when it is expected that
| the Lackawanna and West Shore will be repre-
sented. An effort will then be made to do away
| with several OF the stfreight lines and com
| missions and form money pool.
| The Bee-line people, Monday next. will again
| put on sleeping coach for Syracuse on the noon
| train out of Cincinnati Passengers on the Ii
| A. NJ. train out of Indianapolis can at Gallon
| take this sleeping coach at a seasonable hour
| and have pleasant nights rest.
| The general freight agents and line agents of
| the roads centering here yesterday sent out
notices of advance in east bound rates on
| Monday next, but put in a provlso that unless
| st. Louis, Peoria and Chicago roads made their
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| The indications now are that the c., l., St L.
| & c. road will recover some of its lost ground in
| earnings during the next three months. On
| Thursday no loaded cars were handled on the
main line, and Yesterday the number handled
ran to nearly 800 cars. Ninety five per cent.
| of this business, too, was of local character
| O. N. Mink has resigned as assistant treasurer
| of the Union Pacific, and on Oct. l he will be-
| come comptroller and assistant treasurer, the OBJ
| ject OF the promotion being to bring the account
| ing Of the Omaha and Boston Offices under one
| system and supervisor. Mr.. James q. Harris is
promoted from transfer agent to assistant treas
urer and transfer agent.
| A. j. Smith, general passenger agent of the
| Bee-line system. spent part of the day yesterday
| in this city, on his return from ST. Louis. Mr.
| Smith states that at the meeting in st. Louis,
on Thursday, east-bound passenger rates were
restored but to the permanency of the res
toraton there is some doubt, judging, at least,
| from the tenor of his conversation.
The Baltimore & Ohio people are behaving
| very handsomely in the matter of encouraging a
restoration of rates. and it is now reported that
trouble is looked for to getting their trains
| into New York, as the Pennsylvania will offer
such reasonable facilities to the Baltimore &
| Ohio to run over their track to New York that
| the latter road could not afford to object
! The Midland Railroad Company is pushing the
| extension from Noblesyile, Ind, to Lebanon
briskly Track-laying is going on west from
| Westfeld, the crossing of the L., N. A. & C.
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eastward from Lebanon. The Chicago rolling
mills are delivering twenty-four miles of steel
rail to the company, part at Westfield and part
1 at Lebanon.
The c., H. & I. people landed eighteen car
| loads of live stock on the Cincinnati market in
time for yesterdays SALE which were sold on the
| Chicago market the forenoon of the previous
day, and shipped over the L., n A. & G. Air
| line, leaving Chicago at 1:30 P NJ. The average
/ speed of the train between Chicago and Cincin
| ia IF
| miles per hour.
| The Passenger Agents Local Association con-
vened yesterday, at the Bates House, at 10 A. NJ,
| spent two hours sauabb!ing over cheap excur-
| sion to Chicago and adjourned. When passen-
ger agents learn that these excursions atow rates
| are more money in the pockets of ticket-scalpers
| than to the roads, the running of them will
probably be abandoned, and will every time be
voted down. as the proposition was yesterday.
| The advance in west bound rates ordered for
Oct is not regarded as nearly so important as the
| proposed advance in east-bound rates. The pre-
diction is made that nothing of value can be ac-
| complished until the east bound tariff is restored
| and the absence of President Sloan, of the Della
| ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Com
| pany is looked upon in some quarters as de-
| termn alton on the part of that official to oppose
| the other interests by resisting any increase in
| the existing tariff.
| The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. at
| their convention in PHILADELPHIA passed reso-
| luton condemning the practice of certain rail
| roads in black listing men. 1t was claimed that
| when man was discharged by superintendent
that mans name was furnished other superin-
| tendents, who would refuse him work on applica-
| ttn. II this practice became general a dis
| charged employe would find it impossible to
procure work in any place in the country. Some
| forcible speeches were made on the subiecG and
the resolution was unanimously adopted
Colonel Horace Scott has returned from the
| master builders convention, held in Buff
| a
coupler, which was we'll thought of, but was not
| of the twelve recommended by the master car
| builders for trial. Forty-six couplers were
| tested. first on straight track. by slow motion
| fast motion and heavy conclusion, and second
| on 20o curve. The tests lasted three days, and