The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-07
AFFAIRS OF THE


2Go WaoaSn management Is HgurlnR SO RlNo
hctser passenge service between Fort Wayne and
Indianapolis.
The Lafayette car works, last week, delivered
re ahe L., N. A & c. road the last installment on
Va contract to build 200 cars.
The l., D. G. S. road last month brought into
Indianapolis 3S7 car loads of live stock, shipped
iron local points on their line.
The earnings of the Indianapolis, Decatur &
Springfield for November show an increase of
O.. $50 over the corresponding month of 1884
The Wabash will be asked to concede some
thing OF its percentage in the t~ripartite pool,
As she company has lost a number of it's bra nch
HIRss.
The new corn Is now in condition to admit of
exporting it, and inquiries for cars to load with
5hIs cereal began to come IN the latter part of
asss week.
Traffic Manager Lazarus has notified consignees
Df grain that their cars can no longer be used for
Btcsaee. or held on track awaiting sale. AT the
end of forty-eigbt hours all such property will
go INTO elevators.
The Baltimore & Ohio Relief Association,
which is likely to record every hurt, because it
provides the surgeons for employees without
charge, reports IA Sc injuries Of all kinds to every
accidental death.
In the month a. of November this year there were
rOeeived at the indianapolis Stockyards7 56 more
carloads of hogs, 1873 more carloads of cattle,
and ITO more carloads Of sheep than in the cor
responding month, 1884.
Local freight traffic over the Indianapolis,
Decatur & Springfield road last week was the
beAviest in its history. Five hundred and sixty
one cars were handled, 428 of which were loaded
az stations on their line for indianapolis or some
point east of here.
II. r.. Duval, receiver and general manager of
the Florida Railway and Navigation Company,
writes that T. A. Phillips, we'll known in this
section, on Dec. l assumed the duties of super
Insendent of the property, and the outlook for
the ROAD is very encouraging. This is Major
Henning's system of roads.
The Decline last week forwarded East from
this point ,057 loaded cars, against ,248 in
abe week ending Nov. %; the c., st. L. & P.
against 69l; the c., H. IL, 255, against 252 the
preceding week. With all, inability to furnish
cars is the cause of the unfavorable exhibit.
The Middle and Western Freight Association
Will hold a meeting at the Hotel Anderson,
I1stsburg, Pa, on Thursday, the 10th inst, and
Will probably be in session the balance of the
week. A new schedule of rates will be sub
united to the executive committee, and, it is
thought, will provoke considerable difference of
opinion.
An average of 459 persons are killed annually
M this country upon switching cars, against 100
HNElObC hAAAI0 IA 4ASIoI0 II III IOtOI "
OF the hauls are short there, and the cars are
smaller, which tends to make more coupling in
proportion TO mileage, but on the other hand the
average train is probably considerably smaller
4han here.
80 soon as Superintendent Stevens, Of the
eastern division of the Wabash. knows what di-
VISIONS are retained in the system he proposes to
introduce the plan of paying premiums to the
foremen and section men who have the best track,
AS decided on the annual inspection. Doubtless
shls does much to encourage section men to do
good work.
The five Western roads, last week, brought
3nto this station 4, 1862 loaded cars, as follows: l.,
- Il d, AIS; the O., l., ST. L. q c.. 668; the l.,
B q w, 748; the I. & St. L., 1,188; the Van
natia, / ,230. The same roads in the week end
Ing Nov. %, broughtin n A, $50 loaded cars; the
corresponding week 1884, 4, 252 loaded cars. So
pressed are the l., D. & S. people for cars that
Some idea of the demand there is for good
Eailroad positions may be formed from the fact
that within forty-eight hours after the papers
announced the death, by suicide, of IT,. G. Den
Hey, late district passenger agent of the Nilsson
II Pacific. headquarters at indianapolis, General
Passenger Agent Townsend, of the M. p, re-
SERVED ninety-seven letters making application
for the position of the deceased.
Under the new srunk-liue rulings on ship
tInents to Boston, where the freight was mani
Tested to Boston, to a Boston consignee, or to
abe care of a foreign freight agent, where the
fhrourh rate and foreign destination were not
given, and where a through foreign bill of lading
was not issued, the freight should be charged at
the full Boston rate; the difference between that
rate and the New York rate to be refunded by
voucher in case the freight was afterwards ex-
parted; proper evidence of this fact, however, to
be first produced.