The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

passenger conductors report handsome IN
crease in travel. both of local and through char
acter, the last week.
John r. Elder president of the Shell Beach
road, leaves for New Orleans this evening, to be
absent a couple of weeks.
The Hospital for Wabash employees. at Peru,
Ind, is opened for patients The institution is
in charge of E. b. Loop, NJ d.
Y. T. Malott vice presidentand general man
ager of the Union Railway Company, is suffer
ing with an ugly carbuncle on his neck.
The passenger locomotives run on the Rich
mont and Aenia division of the O., St L. 81 F.,
three in number, to be equipped with the
American electric headlight.
Rumor has it that Edward Foley general
freight agent of the Erie in New York has ten
dered his resignation. Mr.. Foley has been
with the company twenty years
The Toledo, Peoria & Western road has made
a traffic arrangement with the Cincinnati Indian
apolis, ST Louis d Chicago road, which is already
increasing the volume of business of both roads.
The Wabash employees will be interested in
learning that the pay car which has been in the
shops at Peru undergoing some needed repairs,
has been put in frst-class condition and sent to
st. Louis.
The Erie lines are in the market again for
grain for New York or any other Eastern point,
but base their rates on Is cents per 100 pounds,
Chicago to New York, setting example which
other lines may prontably follow.
Major 0. f. OBren, formerly assistant gen
eral manager of the East Tennessee Virginia &
Georgia railway, has been appointed general
manager and agent by the receiver of the Lack
awanna & Pittsburg railroad, with Office at
Angelica n, 7,
Mr.. Pullman says his contract with the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy for new cars has
been exaggerated and the whole bill would not
exceed $750,OOO. The Journal published the
Sfot m0nf fhatf ho Cd fn
900 on the authority of l.. G. Matthews. the
general agent of the Pullman company
L. A. Lewis, general manager of the Erie fast
| freight lines has Issued special notice to the
/ effect that no freight will be taken for Boston,
Boston export or New England points at less
than basis of Is cents per hundred pounds
Chicago to Boston, to which must be added
arbitraries to the points where required by
tariffs. These rates are minimums, below which
the lines will not CO.
The latest rumor in regard to the South Penn
sylvanla is that IN order to avoid legal complica
tions the Pennsylvania railroad has transferred
the responsibility of guaranteeing the interest on
| the South Pennsylvania bonds to the Pennsylva-
MIA Conpany-which is not competing railroad
nor monopoly often paralleled. 1t seems that
all the sckly roads the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company gathers in are saddled upon the Penn
sylvania Company.
1.-THE remains Of Frank Keefer, passenger con-
ductor the Wabash road, were taken to La
fayette for burial. Superintendent Stevens
placed special car at the disposal of the Order
of Railway Conductors, of which Keefer was a
member. Mr.. Keefer was provident man, and
leaves legacy of perhaps 5000 to his family
which, with $1,000 insurance in the conductors
BROTHERHOOD provides comfortably for those
whom ne held dear.
A veteran locomotive engineer sends the
Journal one of the first copies published of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Jour
nal 1t was printed in Fort Wayne in October
1867. under the immediate supervision of Charles
Wilson. grand chief engineer, and S r. Nudge,
first grand assistant engineer. Several we'll
written articles appear in this number. but it
was hardly up to the excellent standard of the
Journal at the present time.
Mention was made a few days since that nego-
tiations were pending for consolidation of the
New York seepin gear lines and those of the
Pullman company. 1t is now stated that during
Mr.. Pullmans absence in the East he had a con
sultation with Mr.. Vanderbilt on the subject
which did not, however, result in the making of
any terms, and it can now be positively stated
that the arrangement off, and that the interests
will not be merged for some time to come if at
all.
A party composed of IT. H. Porter, Robert
Law Hugh Riddle, and other prominent rail-
readers from Chicago passed over the Chicago &
Great Southern last Tuesday. They trav-
eled in c.. r. l. G. P. drawing-room car, and
were met at Fair Oaks by Receiver Kimball,
who travelled with them to Yeddo and back to
Chicago Tuesday night Since they returned,
speculation has been at high tide among the
citizens of Attica, and absurd runlors are afoat
to the effect that the Chicago e Rock Island
people are to take hold and build the road, and
that evidently it will be extended northward to a
connection with the c. & r. ]. road.
The Chicago Times says: "The pessimistic
views of President Ingalls, regarding the rail
road situation and the future prospects of the
Central Traffic Association have drawn out
various comments and opinions. The most of
them agree in the conclusion that the scheme
was utopian and mpracticable. A New York
criticism is to the effect that the Middle States
roads cannot easily get from under the heels of
Chicago domination, which, however, is con-
stantly threatened by the rate-cutting propen-
sites of the roads out of St. Louis and Peoria
There are so many roads in the Middle States
that a division of percentages will not satisfy
individual demands. l would need about 200
per cent, where there is but 1G0"
It is understood that of the Erie fast
freight lines is again to be put on over the Bee
line and l. q st. l.. road as part of the con-
tract by which the Erie people get into Cincin-
natl over the c., c., c. & l. road In speaking
of this deal the Boston Journal says 1.-THE
persistence with which rumors of deal between
Vanderbilt and the Erie road are repeated gives
color to the surmlse that some kind of dieker
between them Is contemplated. The latest form
which the rumor has assumed is that Wander
bilt and President King have arranged that the
Erie may use the Vanderbilt roads from Buffalo
westward. President King is warm personal
friend of Mr. Vanderbilt, and was elevated to
his position as president of the Erie largely
through the influence of Mr.. Vanderbilt, who
controls large blocks of Erie securities"
E. A Ford general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines and the Vandalia, has
telegraphed the general passenger agents of the
Missouri River lines follows 1--WE have every
reason to believe that can adopt an agree
ment at the meeting of the national convention
at New York, next week, which will result in
advancing seaboard rates from ST. Louis to an
agreed tariff. We would, therefore, respectfully
ask our Western connections not TO use the pres
sent reduced rates from st. Louis as basng rates
for through business until the result of next
weeks meeting can be made known. Evidently
the trouble will not last long, and we earnestly
hope that our connections can comply with this
request without injury to their business"
conx of this telagraIn has bean emf.