The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

RepOt win be reemployed at the c.. st. L. g. p
freight depots.
Tha freight men report that the lumber traffic,
Ehieh has been unusually dull with roads
reaching the pineries is improving somewhat.
Passenger travel begins to improve, and agents
Df the outs ide offices now have under considera
hoa, after June l, the keeping open of their
offices until P. N.
After Sunday next all local business of the j.,
n & I. will be done at the northern depot of the
c. St L. & r, the through business at the C.,
st La q T. southern depot.
IL King rate-sheet compiler of the Western
Association Of General Ticket and Passenger
Agents, is in the city for day or two, on bust
ness connected with his official duties.
Marshall Manning, of the Union Depot, who
few days since went to West Baden Springs for
the benefit of his health, is so much worse that
yesterday members of his family were sent for.
The Peoria, Decatur e. Evansville road earned
ths second week in May $l3,070 decrease OF
e3.N8 as compared with corresponding week,
T8SA The decrease for the year has been
k3l.428.
The earnings of the Evansville & Terre Haute
road the second week in May were $l4, to5. an
increase of $3S over earnings corresponding week,
1854 The increase in earnings thus far this
year was 1926.
The Northern Pacific railroad announces one of
Its grand excursions to the Yellowstone Park,
60 start about Aug. TO- This party will be in
charge of Dr. E. s. Elder, ex-secretary OF the
State Board of Health.
The c., l., St l.. & c. will haul in the
train run between the city and Crown Hill
On Decoration Day fifteen passenger coaches, so
that all who attend the ceremonies at the GENE
terry will have comfortable accommodations TO
and from the grounds.
Cars of the Pennsylvania lines of GO, 600 pounds
fraOn
their yards at this point. The New York Cen
tral has a few cars running between Buffalo and
New York of 70 0o0 pounds capacity. They rest
On three pairs of trucks, and said to be doing
good service
AS soon as the new yard Of the c., st. L. &
r. east of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum is COM
pieted, all freight trains of the j., NJ. 81 /. and
the C., st. L. & p, Chicago division, will be
made up and distributed from that yard. This
viii further relieve the Union tracks and Vir-
ginia avenue crossing,
Col Joseph Hill, superintendent of the Wanda
Tia system, and one of the most humane officials
In the service, has notified agents at all stations
that MAJ 30, Decoration Day, will be observed
rs holiday No freights will be received or de
hyered and no freight trains run, except to carry
i've stock and perishable freights.
TheToledo, Cincinnati & ST. Louis road, it is
stated good authority is not under the re-
ccaver, paying operating expenses. One OF the
leading attorneys in the case expresses the opin-
sale in the early fall. as two divisions one from
KokOino east, the others from Kokomo west.
With the transfer of the freight business of
the j., III. & l. road and of the Chicago division
OF the c., st. L. & p. via Kokomo, to the city
freight depots of the Chicago, st. Louis & Pitts
burg road, Indianapolis freight station, it is
stated. will be one of the most important under
one agent at any point in the West On Colonel
Perry's payroll win be 135, or more, employees.
Anumber of Cincinnatians came UP yesterday
% attend the marriage ceremony, last evening
Of Minnie daughter Of B. Tinney. district
passenger agent of the G. w. & B. and the B. 81
o. reads. The bride was the recipient of a num-
Der Of elegant presents from friends of MIR. Tin
ney Ia railroad circles. Edward S. White, the
groom is son of eX-President White, of the
Purdue University
The Travellers Protective Association of the
United States, an organization of commercial
men, met at the Palmer House, Chicago, yester-
day. The membership is said to be 5000 The
object of the association is to secure the
repeal of State tax laws as applied to commercial
travellers a reduction Of passenger rates. fair
allowance of baggage and hotel accommodations
commensurate with the prices paid.
Engines l04 and ia, which haul the Bee line
limited express trains between Indianapolis and
Mattoon, practically new engines. They
were built at tho Mattoon shops, and have all
modern improvements which adapt them to fast
running. Doubtless there are engines which viii
attain as high speed on other roads, but they
driving wheel and egheeen by twenty four inch
cylinder.
Mention was made some weeks since shat the
j., M. "a l. people were DESTROYS of vacating
their city depot and tearing the old building
down. and that they were prevented form so doing
by clause in the deed by which Nicholas
McCarty conveyed the ground to the Madison
IL Indianapolis Railroad Company, the clause in
effect residing that in case the ground was aban-
doned FOR depot purposes it would revert back to
haip nf ohn1ac M, IL
quit claim deed of the property the Pennsyl-
wanna Company has just paid said heirs S. 000
A new steamship for Lake Erie has just
been put in service which is named after j. H.
Devereux. of the Bee-line system. The boat
cost $140 900. 1t is reported to be a noble and
handsome looking vessel She is built of iron,
with the exception Of her cabin. Instead of
house over her boiler and engine there is huge
cylInder-shaped covering which slopes toward
either side OF the deck. Her machinery is of the
latest and most approved pattern, condensing
engines Of large power, and steel boiler Her
capacity for wheat is estimated at go coo bushels.
n. Knight general freight agent of the Wabash
road, has sent out the fo.lowingnotice to agents:
'tOn and after this Gate, until otherwise ad-
vised, the JeffersoLville. Madison & Eudianapo-
lis Railroad Company will require minimum
charge of five cents per 100 pounds all grain,
except as specified below from Indianapolis,
Ind, to Madison, Ind. either proper or destined
TO points beyond. Exceptions: Grair consigned
to John Clements, r. johnson 81 Son. w. Trow
& Co. Snyder Distilling Company, Madison,
Ind. or Milton, Ky, will be subject to the fol-
lowing minimums: Indianapolis, Ind, to Madi-
son, Ind, viz: When from Chicago or points
beyond, B. &c per 100 pounds; when from Peoria
al, or points beyond, 3. 4c; when from East St
Louis. H., or points beyond, 3 lie; when from
Lafayette, Ind. or points beyond, 3.6c; when
from Terre Haute, Ind, or points beyond, SEC;
1rom all other points, &C.
Earnings of Pennsylvania Lines.
The statement Of the business of all lines of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company east of
Pittsburg and Erie for April, 1885. as compared
with the same month in 1854, shows
A decrease in gross earnings of. $451.4i9
"A decrease IN expenses of.--.--.---. 29,911