The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-09
AFFAIRS or THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

M IL. ingalls,, president OF the u. L., OF ~. %
Z. is co be in the city to-day.
Simeon Carney, agent of the j., NJ & /. road
at Carney has been relieved and the station
elpsed
The stock of the L., n A. & c. railway has
advanced eighteen points in the past week The
bulls are manipulating the stock for all there is
in it
g. Prescott. superintendent OF power onTthe
Vanaalia lines, reports 692 men on his pay-rolls
The shops a. the different points are running on
full time
William M. Clements, recently resigned mas
Eer of transportation on the Baltimore 81 OHIO
railroad, has been appointed president OF the
karaftop & Greenbrer railroad.
The Edgar Thomson steel rail mill yesterday
made the first shipment on a contract to furnish
some twenty three miles of steel for the l., II.
k& L division of the Vandalia system.
The Wabash management has put on new
train for the accommodation of travel between
Logansport and Denver. This train, Superin-
sendent Stevens says, will be run on time.
NV Goss has been appointed the representa-
Aive of the freight departments of the Pennsyl-
wanna, Pittsburg, Cincinnati & ST. Louis and
Chicago, St Louis & Cincinnati roads at Peoria.
President Ingalls, of the c., l., ST. L. & c.
road can now sleep pleasantly; the road bed and
equipments are in fine condition, and the bills
payable and floating debt Of the company have
been reduced to s., 300.
Mr. j. H. Porter formerly agent Of the Great
Western railway of Canada. in Chicago, has been
iappointed chief clerk in the general passenger
agents Office of the Lake Shore, in place of Mr..
C B. Foster, resigned.
f. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
Zine system, has changed his programme some
what and at the urgent solicitation OF President
DevereI1 he will remain in California two or
three weeks longer, until the air of Cleveland,
o., Is more congenial to health.
The territory Of F. T. Hendry district pass
lenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka q Santa
Fe road, covers Indianapolis, southern Indiana
and southern Illinois. In March, out OF this
herritory he sold tickets TO 1850 persons who
semisrated to points on the A. L. & s. F. road
The new parlor-cars put on recently between
chicago and Louisville over the G., St H. % L. and
Hhe j.. M. 81 l. are catching ON grandy with
the travelling public. These cars are run by the
Pennsylvania Company, and the rates are lower
than when the Pullman parlor cars were in serv-
dee
Superintendent Whitcomb, of the Union rail
way and Belt road, yesterday received from
ErnIy 81 Co. five railroad crossings, which will
be put in place of the same number on the
BELT road which have become badly worn. They
ARE made of the best of steel, and are of the
most approved pattern.
w. C. Hobbs assistant general freight agent
pof the c. l., ST. L. 6 c., who recently removed
his headquarters to Chicago, is reported to be
catching nicely with the shippers at that
point hay | he viii remove his Offices to the
new Traders Building, on Pacific avenue. oppo-
Asite the Board of Trade.
The fast line No | west over the Vandalia
yesterday in two sections, the first
hauling nine the second eight cars -Four
coaches were laden with Pennsylvanians emil
grating to Kansas. Yesterday the Vandalia
hauled out OF the Union Depot twenty four pas
Benger cars, all heavily laden with west bound
passengers
INDIANAPOLIS has a ticketscalper whose real
and personal property is rated for assessment at
NEARLY 1000. Eight years ago the same man
came to Indianapolis almost penniless; COM
menced clerk III a scalping Office at Sc per
week. The scalper seems to have prospered
much more than have some of the passenger
agents who have fought him.
That it pays to keep locomotives in the best
spossible condition is evidenced from the fact
that during the past severe winter not an en-
lgine on the Vandalia system has been so disabled
has to make it necessary to tow her in to the
shops In fact, of the los engines in service but
1.-TWO have broken down, and in both cases the
pins connecting the parallel rods with the driving
sswheels broke off.
1t will oe remembered that in the year 1873
Ahere was bitter war on passenger rates be-
tween the Baltimore g. Ohio and the Pennsyi-
unlimited tickets from Chicago. Cincinnati and
columbus at $40 per ticket 1t is said officially
that there still l. 100 more of these tickets
out, and the B. & o. has had the of the
money theF sou IOf IWeIf6 years
General Passenger Agent Shattuc of the
Ohio & Mississippi road. threatens to cut the
rate from St Louis to New York ST. for every
,hour the Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines re-
duce their time between the cities named Mr..
Ford, of the Pennsylvania lines, is reported as
saying let him try it; we have as good line be-
tween st. Louis and Cincinnati as the O. & NJ,
and cutting rates is game we can play at.
An encouraging feature in the situation is the
continued favorable reports of earnings from
many sections of the country. 1t does not APP
near that the trunk lines are doing we'll but from
the West and South the returns especially those
lof the larger systems, show improved results
And it should be remembered that the improve
E1nent, as rule is not confined to gross earnings
kalone but extends to net earnings as we'll and in
Ia more marked degree, even.
Negotiations are pending which will doubtless
result in the indianapolis, Decatur e. Springfield
people establishing first-ciass line between
Indianapolis and Kansas City, running over the
Peoria, Decatur & Evansville road between De-
scatur and Delevan, then the Chicago q Alton
road from Delevan to Kansas City. The c. e.
"A offers to put on through coach between Del
'evan and Kansas City, hauling 1t one of their
Fastest trains and the route will be as short as
that of any of its competitors one excepted.
The Barney & Smith car works on Monday
delivered to President Ingalls, of the c., L., St
IT, & c., a new and elegant directors car In its
construction all modern eonveniences have been
lntroduced The coach is fifty-fve feet long
AMI the ordinary width and height. In one end
OF the coach Is an observation room, in the CEN
ter are two bed rooms, anu in the other end
Ediningroom, smoking room and a kitchen.
The coach is numbered 100 painted yellow, sits
upon six wheeled trucks, and, while not a gaudy
or expensive affair." is neat and attractive.
February Accidents.
In the month of February there were ZIG rail-
road accidents in this country, in which forty
-four persons were killed and $50 injured AS