The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-14
AFFAIRS OF TIE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
Frank Palmer. general agent of the Wabash,
headquarters Chicago. was in the city yesterday,
prospecting.
General Manager Talmage. Of the Wabash
system, who has been in New York for several
days, returned on Monday
John L. Miller. superintendent Of the G., St
L. 6 p. accompanied by his wife, returned from
San Antonio, Texas, last evening.
j. j. Collier and James S. Odorne have been
appointed auditor and cashier respectively. of
tho louisville, Evansville g. st. Louis roa,l.
Within the last thirty days ocean rates have
advanced slightly, and, III is stated, are now
frmer than at any time in the last two years.
w. P. Harris, superintendent the Louisville
& Nashville. has been offered position on the
Baltimore & Ohio, and has its acceptance under
consideration.
Critics were not wanting when VIM. 81 Van
derblt disposed of 250.000 shares of New York
Central in 1880 at 100. He can repurchase
Central shares to-day at 81.
Rumor has 1t that e. X. Wade, master of
transportation of the Wabash, is about to resign.
and that Superintendent Stevens is to take his
place, with headquarters at Decatur.
The indiana Bloomington e. Western begins
the year auspiciously, earning in the first week
Of January SAG, SCI SO, an increase over earnings
correspo nding week, 1884 of $o,539.5S
The large number of empty Nickel Plate line
ears coming into this section to be loaded. with
In the last few days, indicates that they inteno
to make sharp drive for business hereabouts.
1t would be well for railroad directors to bear
IN mind that there never has been time when
the regulations of managers so generally
taken for a basis of values of railroad property
as they are to-day.
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bard, general freight agent, and n K. Elliot,
master of transportation of the Vandalia. spent
the greater part of yesterday in the city, looking
after business III connection with Retrospective
departments.
L. d. Richardson commissioner of the Chicago
and Ohio river pool. is taking the preliminary
steps to make Hamilton. Ohio. pool point. 1t
rs intimated that the c., H. 81 ID. people have
been evading the c. & O. r. pool something
after the manner they did the Indianapolis east
bound pool
The purchasers of the Dayton division of the
Toledo, Cincinnati & ST. Louis narrow gauge
road, which extends from Dayton to Delphos,
are reorganizing The road. after the reorgan-
hzation of the company, will be known as the
dayton d Toledo road and will be converted
into standard gauge.
Notices have been posted at all Wabash rail
way round houses that penalty of 81 per hour
will hereafter be enforced against all engineers
who hereafter neglect to extinguish the head
light on their locomotives after daylight. AS
headlights burn two cents worth Of oil per hour,
the order strikes one as rather arbitrary
O. S. Sawyer, general manager of the Cont
mental line was in the city yesterday. He
speaks more encouragingly Of the business
situation than on his former visit. Large ship
pers in the West write him if the country roads
will become frozen and remain solid three or
four weeks. shipments of grain will be immense.
prominent Wall-street man sizes Jay
Gould as follows: IF l held first mortgage
bonds on the best railroad in this country and
Jay Gould should be elected a director of it
would sell my bonds within an hour. for sooner
or later he would devise an carry through
some means for enriching himself by cheaper
ing my securities"
Commencing with Sunday next, train No. s.
over the Bee-line, will leave Cleveland one hour
later, reach INDIANAPOLIS at Ills P. NJ. shorten
ing the running time between Cleveland and In
dianapolis thirty-fve minutes. The train will
reach St Louis at the same time in the morning
that 1T now does the l. Il st, L. shortening their
time twenty-five minutes. This makes it one of
the fastest trains in this part of the country
The light business the Erie lines are cow doing
while other Ii hes are experiencing a large in
crease Ia business, goes to confirm the statement
OF the journal few weeks since to the effect that
President King was dropping the heads of agents
into the basket to such an extent that it would
in the end tell seriously on the business of the
lineS-in answer to which President King is
quoted as saying IF it proved to be a mistake, it
was an easy matter to re establish the agencies.
1t would be wise for officers of roads which are
in pools to confer with each other occasionally
as To what shall be their policy. The general
manager of one of the roads in the Chicago and
Ohio River Pool for months past has been in
sistng that their road is entitled to an increa sed
pre- cent in the pool, yet the general passenger
agent of the same road at the meeting in
Chicago Is quoted as saying that unless their
road was allowed differental rate they could
not earn their awarded per cent in the pas
senger pool.
The Wabash Railroad Company has weather
bureau of its own, through which the degree of
temperature direction of wind, ETC., are tele-
Eraphed daily from different points on the line
TO tho headquarters at st. Louis. and when ex-
tremely cold weather is expected the supern-
tendents of divisions are notified which enables
Them, twelve hours IN advance, to arrange the
cunning of trains with reference to the coming
Gtorm. This arrangement is independent of the
daily signalservice report from Washington,
End is intended for the benefit of the officers of
The company.
There having been complaint that through
H0aehes run between Cincinnati and Chicago over
She C.. III. d. d. aud the L. N. A 81 G. lAir Line)
were detained at Monon awaiting the arrival of
the L., N. A. d G. main line trains on which
the through cars were hauled into and out of
Chicago the management will, Sunday next,
put on solid train to be run between Chicago
and Indianapolis; coming south. leaving Chi
eago ut $50 p NJ, reaching indianapolis at
R33 A. Going north. the answering train will
leave Indianapolis at 1920 p. NJ, reaching Chi
cago at Z. A. The same train runs through
to Cincinnati over the c., III. g. D., and from
Cincinnati north, making close connections both
ways at Indianapolis
Mr.. Nimmo Defends Pooling.
Washington pecial.
Dir. Nimmo, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics,
has been studying the railroad problem for sew
eral years, and his conclusions will be stated in