The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
The Lake Shore road has issued quarantine
instructions similar to those made public by tho
Western roads.
w N. McDearman has been appointed travel
avg passenger agent of the Niagara Falls Short
lins. at Kansas City, in place of George E. Spen
Ger.
D. r. Stevens, formerly with the G.. l. St L.
& G., now chief train dispatcher on the Chesa
peake & Ohio is spending day or two with
friends In this city.
d. s. Wegg, formerly assistant general So
iieitor of the Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad,
has accepted the position of general solicitor for
the Wisconsin Central.
Whether the c., l., St L. & c. will resume
paying dividends July / is still question. The
light business the last thirty days and low rates
has been severe upon net earnings.
The auditors of the fifteen roads spent yester
day with d. Douough, general ticket agent at
the Union ticket office, checking him up. AS
usual, they found everything correct.
T. m Lewis, associate editor and travelling
business agent of the Railway Age, one Of the
most prosperous journals of this character in the
country is in the city looking after the interests
Of the Age.
lis pleasant circumstance to find conf
dence returning to one man even. One Of Bos-
IONS shrewdest capitalists has bought 1000
shares of Chicago, Burlington 81 Quincy IN the
last few weeks.
Col d. G. Dodge, of Denver, widely known
dency and general managership of she Mexican
National Railway Company and Mexican Ma
tional Construction Company.
J. c. wager has been appointed division super
intendent of the New York Central Sleeping-car
Company, with Office in Chicago, in place OF S.
cd He xvi1t ha in oh n
the Chicago and Northwestern territory.
The dilatory manner in which one of the In
diaaapolis roads meets the claims of connections
even for money advanced indicates financial
trouble ahead, and possibly the appointment OF
q receiver before the new crop begins to move
Some two hundred employees on the Wabash
main lines have been notified that their services
will not be required after July large per
cent of the number are single men, or have
been in the employ of the company but few
months.
There are railroad men, as we'll as newspaper
men, who express the opinion that Billy Shattuc,
general passenger agent of the Ohio g. Mississip-
ID SOad. has made a mistake in bringing a libel
suit for $4,000 against the st. Louis Railway
Register.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis,
june 1. reduced the rates on hogs per 100 pounds,
Indianapolis to Buffalo and Pittsburg, 11ac, to
New York to 18ac, basing such rate on 2Oc
Chicago to Buffalo, and yesterday the Bee-line
ana u, SL IL. % K. LOOK SlmudE dCblOQ Uut
rather under protest.
The Wabash bondholders' committee, in Lon
don have arranged to send MIR. Ball, one of their
number, with Mr.. Sheath, an accountant, to
America to investigate the accounts OF that
company and the prospects OF the line. They
will be assisted in the examination by an expert
to be selected in America.
Mr.. J. Robinson gives notice that he has been
appointed receiver of the Scioto Valley Railway
Company. and he has assumed the charge and
control of the property of the company. All
heads of departments, agents and employees will
continue in their respective positions until 9th
erwise ordered, and Will report to him.
The Lackawanna people. through their agent.
w. ID. WILSON, at this point, give notice that they
viii accept current rates to points on their road
n. j., Bernardsvile. N. j., Gillette N. j.,
Lyons, N j., Millington, N. j., Murray Hill, N.
j., Sterling. N. j.. West Summit, N. j.. which
take five cents above.
Through the consolidation of the work of
the J.. NJ g L with the c., St L. s. p at this
point, so far as handling freights is concerned
the Pennsylvania Company will effect saving
of $40, 900 year. Two switching engines and
train crews are done away with, day and night
yard-master and their assistants, one agent and
many other expenses of less Importance.
The chimney of the new c. st. L. & P. shops,
in the eastern part of the city, is proving to be
fne target for the lightning The stack is con-
structed of steel, eightyeight feet high and five
foundation, and is self supporting On Wednes-
day night electricity danced over it without do
ing the least harm, so extensive is the conduct
ing surface.
railroad manager who looks upon the pres
emit railroad rate war with anxiety, and has
doubts as to the outcome, says he considers the
putting on of these limited trains as an unfor-
tunate circumstance. The limited trains are not
supposed to aggregate any immense sum In
themselves, but it betrays the bitter luminosity
hiatt y;afc tha frrpk lines and ahowS
that the railroad war is to be driven to absolute
exhaustion before it ends
There is good authority for stating that fol-
lowing the announcement in the Journal that
the physicians had given up all hopes of the
recovery of A 5. Burgess, district passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, and before his death,
there were thrty-six applications made for his
position. General Passenger Agent Morse proba-
bly, will not appoint any one of the applicants.
but select one of his worthy agents at some
small paying station who is competent to repre-
sent their interests.
The Lafayette Courier revives the rumor that
the Wabash shops at Andrews will shortly be
removed to Lafayette. The Courier says: 1.-The
change has never been satisfactory one to the
employees. and cost the company some of its best
men. The change in the runs has been very hard
on frainmen, and number have been broken
down in health by the protracted time of labor
necesstated by the change" The rumor can be
taken with a good deal of salt The Wabash
management has all it well handle on
hand without changing the location of any of
their shops.
Auditor Morris has completed the work of
checking over the freghts, etc. of the j., M. q
L, from Nick Boivn to Colonel Perry, agent of
the c. st. l.. & p. Mr.. Morris states that in
his long experience auditor he has never
checked over an agent whose accounts were bet
ter kept, and whose affairs generally were In
better shape Although he has handled $3.50 600
or more of the companys money annually,
everything balances to a cent. which is certainly
complimentary in these days when it is SO COM
mon to find shortages on the part of auditors,
cashiers and agents.
The Philadelphia Record SAYS: SIT ought to
shake the confidence of the stoutest believer in
the efficiency of the railroad management that
whenever business is slack as 1t now is. the
process of rate cutting begins. 1t stands to