The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
c. c. Gale, ex superintendent of the Decline
passed through the city yesterday en- route for
Cleveland, o.
The Bee5ine people are fitting up three Buffet
Ears which, when completed. will be on their
limited trains between St Louis and Cleveland
Several New England roads have ordered Pal
merton wrecking frogs. The Wrecking Frog
Company yesterday shipped several to the Bos-
ton e. Albany road.
The New York Central people have notified
Western connections that the Hudson river
day boats, run in connection with their trains.
gill commence running June 4.
If the indianapolis East-bound Freight Asso-
citation would place telephone in Commissioner
Dohertys Office it would be great convenience
Tor agents, shippers, and others.
The passenger equipments of the Indianapolis,
Decatur & Springfield road are to be painted
Tuscan red, Pennsylvania standard, as soon as
hey can be put through the shops.
j. W. Duncan, bill clerk at the L., n A. & G.
Airline office, has resigned to take clerkship
at the Brunswick Hotel ID. r. Peck of the
Wabash Office, succeeds Mr.. Duncan on the Air
ine
The Lake Shore road will haul the New York
& Chicago and the New York & St Louis linn
tied express at a speed worth noting In run
ming from Buffalo to Cleveland, 1873 miles, but
one stop is made that at Erie.
Samuel Moffett, who for many years was
ticket agent at the Union railway ticket office,
but who for four years past has been living In
Florida for the benefit of his health, has re-
turned TO Indianapolis for permanent residence
Messrs. George M. Bogue, ID. S. Gray, and e.
A. Ford, the arbitrators TO fix percentages for
the transcontinental pool, have agreed upon per-
rentages. The award, however, will probably
not be announced until the general meeting of
the ASSOCIATION, June g.
Matters with the railroad committee of the
Board of Trade are becoming very monotonous.
1t IS now some eighteen months since an Indian
apolis business man has brought any grievances
On the question of rates determinations
against Indianapolis before them for adjustment
A, J. Knapp has been appointed general
freight and passenger agent of the Louisville,
New Orleans 81 Texas. All communications
relative to the business of these departments of
that and the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
Company will be addressed to him at Memphis,
Tenn.
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railroad
viii not be extended south from Anderson this
summer. Mr. j. Fl. Wade principal owner and
president OF the line, has determined to 60 to
Europe in June, to recuperate and it is ques-
tIcnable whether any more track will be laid I'M
I'll the road changes hands
1t is stated that running the Bee line limited
express via Dayton is but temporary arrange
Enent as the distance is twenty-six miles greater
than via Bellefontaine Between Gallon and
Union extensive repairs are being made to the
rDadbed, and the fewer trains run between these
points the more can the work be fastened
few days ago the WABASH company caused
Il to be announced that arrangements had been
perfected for through sleeplng-car service from
St Louis via its Detroit branch, thence over the
Grand Trunk and West Shore but it seems to
have counted its chic kens before they were
Matched The Grand Trunk refuses to haul the
sleeperS unless certain sum is guaranteed.
Hon. John M. Butler has been in Toledo tho
most of the week, endeayoring TO straighten out
the snarls which the recent action of the stock
holders of the Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis
road has brought the bondholders into. 1t is
believed that the Corbn syndicate is urging the
stockholders on in their movement hoping to
defeat the schemes of the Quigley syndicate.
There is but little question that the Local Pas
BBnger Agents Association is holding the scalp
sers with tight grip. 1t is very seldom scaiper
now has ticket for Louisville st. Louis, Chi
cago or Cincinnati, unless by some round about
route. This is not as much of a surprise, how
ever, as the fact that the passenger agents for
two months have acted together SO harmonious
~ and done so little rate cutting.
The pew management of the Anderson. Leba-
non & st. Louis road are dissatisfied with the
amount claimed by the Bee line For use of their
equipments for years past, and are endeavor!ng
10 induce the Bee-line people TO cut down the
AMOUNT Dy threatening 30 Dulld 70 a cOunocuOn
Nth the G.. st. L. q P. road, and turn their
business over to them instead of the Decline.
The latter don't scare worth cent.
The Wabash people are taking hold in earnest
in repairing the roadbed and equipments of the
main line Already a number of new bridges
have been put I'M and considerable new steel rail
laid, and within thirty days some 200 new ears
have been added to their freight equipment. and
several hundred more are under contract Their
motive power Is said, as we'll, to be in %
I~&An -t~nw~r Iexx~
ago.
Capt William M. Clements late general SUI
perintendept of the Baltimore e Ohio road, and
formerly master of transportation of that COM
pany for number of years, is said to be the
most successful candidate for superintendent of
The government railway mail service. Since his
retirement from the Baltimore 81 Ohio Captain
Clements has been living IN retirement ON his
farm in Jefferson county, w. Va He is one OF
the most accomplished railroad managers in the
country, and in all the essentials for the position
aamed he is better equipped than any man thus
iar named for it.
The emitting of passenger fares on the Eastern
Erunk lines has assumed more decided proper
lions than is generally supposed possible. Al
instance may be cited in the fact that the pas
Iengar rate from New York to St Paul Mimi,
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company is $Sl--
30, with So additional on the limited express.
while the fare between the same points by all
other lines, including the Baltimore & Ohio road,
has been cut TO $l85e The fare between Phiin-
6elphia and St Paul, Mimi. by the Pennsyl-
Tania railroad is also $3l. 3d. but here the Balti-
more Ohio raises its rate to $1,000, thus max
ing its diseriminative rates rule higher as it
reaches It's headquarters at Baltimore.
An Expensive Controversy.
The railroad controversy growing out Of the
Baltimore & Ohio Company securing an entrance
into Philadelphia is attracting q good deal of
attention in railroad circles. 1t is stated that
Pennsylvania rather than have the Baltimore
& Ohio come into the city at grade, and with
such privileges as would accrue would agree
10 elevate their own tracks, abandoning