The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-03
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


e e. Henderson. general manager of the L,
B- a W., has gee to New York on official bust
nex
The officials of the Lake Erie & Western road
msa Monday to discuss plans for taking the road
sous Of the hands of the receivers.
sae earnings of the trunk lines should now
fbern to show an increase as their affiliated lines
swsss we'll maintaining rates.
The earnings of the Indiana. Bloomington e.
Wsstern road for the third week in November
wVss $780, 29, an increase of $l3,52o.
Freight receipts at the Indianapolis station Of
4fs yandalia for November show an increase of
SEQ over the corresponding thirty days in 1884.
George Hayden late train master of the c.,
II c D., has been given passenger conductor
BlFe on the Richmond division of the c.. III. & D.
i II. Stattuck having resigned Mr. Jacob B.
Hickman has been appointed superintendent OF
aailsng and parlor cars for the Chicago 81 North
western road.
e. C.. Kimball, receiver and general man
ssgeg of the Chicago & Great Southern road, says
thsa the ultimate destination of the Great South
Ven Is Charleston, S. G.
H. Z. Diehl, general freight agent of the l., B.
III w., and j. A. Perkins, division freight agent
sof she Co. st. l.. & p, have gone to Buffalo,
N T., to attend a line meeting
gEA6fed to learn that the Baltimore & Ohio peo-
pin lave decided to retain him in their service,
tcogsinuing his headquarters at Louisville, Ky.
Officials of the Indianapolis roads speak in
yeIy plmentary terms of the manner Su-
spsrIutendent Whitcomb and his force handled
ssfSsr trains the Union tracks and in the depot
on Tuesday last.
stack yards. There were 204 carloads of hogs
sod and weighed out before IL o'clock, noon,
4ckwing the pens of all arrivals of the preceding
twenty -four hours.
Yae money checks show that Superintendent
Yaggart fed at the Union Depot Restaurant on
Tuesday, 3, 722 persons between the hours OF 6
"A. NJ. and P. NJ. On ordinary days he averages
% Feed about 1000 persons.
The special traia the c., H. & D.. which
On Tuesday brought the Democratic clubs from
Dayton o., to Indiana polls, made fine run
Ire distance is 135 miles, and was covered in
xhsee hours and eleven minutes.
) A. Sheppard who has been connected with
Ebs passenger department of the c., b. 81 O.
xEaa for fourteen years, has resigned to accept
the position of Northwestern passenger agent of
ahe Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific road.
r. p Young. district passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific, headquarters at Knoxville
Team, has resigned, and the territory of Oscar
Vanderbilt, headquarters at Indianapolis, has
bFsn extended to cover Youngs territory.
Becker ard Division Superintendent James
Back, are in the city. The party are this week
snspectiug bridges and trestles on the lines west
nd Columbus yesterday passing over the j. NJ.
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Freight men report an increasing demand for
R&ss 10 ship corn eastward. Heavy shipments
sare being made through here from Kansas
pDants. The outcrop has apparently been mar
&ssed, and now there is greater demand for
&ngu.
The Wabash road has established freight
nGsDey at Fifeld, Ia, on the Des Moines e
Eelay division of this railroad, with John A.
Walker as agent. Freight shipments to this
paint may be received without requiring prepay
Rssnt charges.
The Wabash road announces that it will rec
ogaize no claims for overcharges on shipments
made on and after Jan. l, 1886, based Oh special
Tsses issued prior to that date unless special
arrangements were made for their renewal be-
sere dates of shipment
DIR. HI. G. Villas, late general manager of the
Commercial Express, was yesterday appointed
general Eastern freight agent of the Chicago &
Atlantic and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
railroad systems, with headquarters in New
York to take effect the first of next week.
G M. Bennett on Tuesday went to Columbus,
O., and assumed the position of superintendent
nf maintenance of way on the first division of
$40 Panhandle He is succeeded by L. r. LoRee,
OF Indianapolis, who was formerly Mr.. Benefits
&ssy to Logansport with his family.
One thing is noticeable in the railroad stock
warket The basis for advances is not in all
distances apparent in the figures showing the
earnings of the roads. The re-establshment of
rates has restored confidence, but the net earn
lags are not yet up to the expectations of those
VINO have discounted an improvement.
There were transferred over the Belt road
IN the month of November. AZ. 293 cars, against
IS SGT in 1884, 81 623 in 1888 26, 73O in 1892 and
25.926 in 1881. 1t will be seen that there is a
STEADY, healthy increase, the transfers this year
-oatnumbering those of the corresponding month
IN 1884 1895 cars; exceeding those Of Novem-
bsr, 1881, 16. 367 cars.
Trustees Davis and Scott. Of the l., P. & C.
division of the Wabash system; Superintendent
Stevens, of the eastern division, and Division
Freight Agent Sweet were in the city yesterday
and decided to lease the room In the Bates House
n0g occupied as billiard room. They expect
10 occupy the room Jan with the passenger and
freight office and the West Shore line.
7. j. Potter. first vice president of the Chi
cago, Burlington Quincy, returned to Chicago
Essharday, The story regarding projected lines
iato southern Kansas, he SAYS, are little pre-
mature. We are not he said disposed to build
IN that direction until the country furnishes suf
hcient business to support road. He said work
GA She St Paul branch was progressing we'll.
The Staten Island contract of the Baltimore &
Ohio is to be celebrated on the evening of Dec
10 by public BANQUET by Erastus Wiman and
his associates to Robert Garrett and the other
officials of the Baltimore & Ohio Covers will be
3ssd for one hundred and fifty guests at the
Pavilion Hotel New Brighton Among tt ose in
vited are the Governors of New York and Mary
land and the mayors of New York city and Bal
kimore
ii. M. Hoxie, vice-president of the Missouri
Pacific railroad, passed through the city Tuesday
morning. on his way to New York. The road,
he claims, was never in more prosperous con-
eition than at present, notwithstanding its con-
vsnned troubles with the Knights of Labor
That trouble he thinks, has been entirely ad-
TASTED, and will not again obtrude ITSELF Bust
ness in the southwest is constantly increasing
and especially with the railroads.
President ingalls, and two or three of the d.
reetors of G., l., St l.. & c., spent yesterday
forenoon In looking over their property at this
terminus All expressed the opinion that thew
nseded new shops, and that indianapolis was
the place to locate them Mr.. ingalls, remarked
Shat they would com Inence the hnilA;rer &c 49,