The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Tie regular monthly meeting of the Chicago o.
Ohio river pool will be held in Chicago on
Wednesday next
Fl. II. Bronson, general passenger agent OF
Ahe L, b d w. system, is confined at home
4gsseling with neuralgia.
1t is noticeable that where railroads are not
affected by competition, traffic is increasing and
earnings foot up quite satisfactorily.
Commissioner Doherty, Of the East bound
pool who has been somewhat i'll for couple Of
days was much better last evening.
H. W. Burns, who has been a freight con
ductor on the l., p. g. c. division of the Wabash
system for some sixteen years, is seriously i'll.
Mr. E. c. Harris is appointed chief train dis
patcher of the Greensboro 81 Nashville road. vice
W. q Sutherland resigned. The appointment
ta;es effect to-day
a new station has been established at Bruce
Lake. on the Terre Haute & Logansport d.
vision, five miles north of Kewanna, and B.
Ssamm has been appointed agent.
Some local passengers agent was yesterday
Offering to sell tickets by route known as the
Tuseola route, to New Orleans, at SIT. 80 for the
round trip, good to return within forty days.
j. r. Hixson formerly New England agent Of
The Chicago Milwaukee 81 ST Paul, with head
quarters at Boston, has been appointed eastern
freight agent of the same road, with Office IN
New York.
The roads leading east from Peoria which
dropped two cents per 100 pounds on the east
bound freight rates below the Chicago basis,
have restored the rates out of Peoria to % cents
per 100 pounds.
A questionable rumor is current that FL. J.
Jewett, president of the Chicago 81 Atlantic
Fcai. is TO resign and that the general offices of
this as well as of the n T., z. d o. road are to
be removed to New York city.
TIE friends of George Darling manager Of the
White Line. headquarters Rochester, n Y. will
regret to learn that he day or two since bur
led his amiable and highly respected wife, who
atise recently visited friends in Indianapolis.
West Shore fast-freight line agents. it is
sisted guarantee an 18cent per 100 pounds rate
from indianapolis to the seaboard, with Scent
per 100 pounds rebate, until July. 1850. ship
pefs who are posted do not catch on well with
this bait
Steamship agents in the West are doing
large business in emigration tickets since the
cut in emigrant rates, and great stimulus is
given to prepare for heavy emigration traffic;
tickets good for one yeor from date OF purchase
are feature.
The resignation of Charley Carnahan, the Wa
bash passenger conductor who handled the train
ageat so roughly, was not accepted by Superin-
fsndent Stevens Charley has been on the road
some twenty years, and would not punish man
unless he deserved it.
George G. Gilfillan, formerly general passen-
assistant city ticket agent of the Omaha com
pany at Minneapolis, Saturday last the re-
cipient of handsome silver tea set from his late
associates, the coupon ticket agents of the Cen
4raL
Paymaster Sheldon, of the Bee-line system,
is paying on the l. & st. L. division this
month, experimenting with the new method of
hauling the pay car on local passenger trains,
employees to be at stations when the train ar
niSes Should this method of paying off prove
satisfactory, 1t will be adopted on the whole Bee
line system.
1t 10 stated that Franklin b. Gowen will be re-
Eese0 atEal connection with fha Philadelphia g.
- ~ I'D g soon e. "a has attendedto
- ~ NIT tSfs ! - trusted TO him un
der an agreement with the old board 81 uftNOC
of the company. The controlling infiuenee Of
the new board is not favorable to continuance
rOf his relations with the management.
Paymaster Shepherd of the Wabash system,
commenced to pay the indianapolis divis-
ioa yesterday, but at last accounts the pay-car
train was behind the regular passenger train.
sssasled in a snow drift near Arcadia. Mr. Shep-
herd has adopted new plan, paying at all large
stations, like indianapolis, by checks on the
agent. This greatly lessons the liability that
the pay-car will be robbed or mistakes made.
Commissioner Richardson of the Chicago and
Oasio River pool, came through from Chicago
yesterday over the c., l., st. L. 81 c., arriving
gsaEae five hours late He states that the fall of
EnGch heavier than south of Colfax averaging
fnlly twelve inches on the level, and in many
places it drifted badly. There were large
number of passengers on the train route for
% the south most of whom stopped over at Indian
apolis and will proceed on their journey this
morning
George c. Pyle chief electrician of the Amer
dean Electric Head light Company and inventor
of the locomotive electric lamp, arrived in the
citV yesterday In the afternoon he placed the
latest and most improved lamp on engine AGO,
C. St. L. q p. road The engine leaves to-day
mt l0:45, returning tonight with the New York
express Lights under the Pyle patents will be
pIaeed on several indianapolis roads at once.
Mr Pyle seems confident that the light is now
SO perfect in every respect that it can be relied
upon at all times and is really Just as reliable as
the ordinary locomotive headlight
There are many complaints by the travelling
pRbiie about the system recer thy adopted by the
Wabash, of having both conductor and train
agent on the same train. passengers say that
Under this system they are annoyed SO much as
tn make travelling unpleasant over this road
When told tn at the system is necessary to keep
The conductor honest, he will tell you that other
roads don't have to resort to such precautions
There has been such strong protest against this
outrage on conductors and passengers that it is
possible it will be discontinued, especially as the
rash receipts have shown no increase since the
conductors have had a guardian appointed.
}. D. Campbell, of New York, general solicit
Cor of the l., B. 81 W., is in the city Mr. Camp
bell reports the company passing through the
depressed times unexpectedly smoothly. The
interest their bonded debt has been met
promptly and the operating expenses as well.
Fortunately for the company, wise men fixed the
plan of reorganization, and this has enabled the
company to meet fixed charges and pay operat-
ing expenses without borrowing dollar or the
creating of floating debt. Any person who is
posted as to the condition of the property and
It's future prospects for business, must admit
that the J., b. d w. people will hardly strike
smother year so nnfavorable to their making
large earnings was 1884
The Baltimore e. Ohio road seems to be profit
ing out of the squabbes between the trunk lines
and indirectly it is helping certain connections
Of the b. q O. to large grain traffic, the c.,
L, St L. q c. being one of the number. A Bal
timore paper says: Shippers and receivers in the