The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-13
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


sily.
c S. Tappan, general manager of the Nickel
plate fastfreight line, Is in the city official
business.
ID. j. Whitcomb superintendent OF the Union
tracks and Belt road, is so i'll as to confne him
TO his bed
The Michigan Senate has passed bill COM
pellng railroads in that State to use automatic
coupiers on freight-cars.
Paymaster Snee. of the Pennsylvania lines.
reached here last evening, on his monthly
rounds. paying for April service.
Theodore Gray. an old-tIme Panhandle pass
enger conductor, is now superintendent of alarge
brewing establishment in Chicago.
FF Hagadorn, superintendent of bridges and
bsilding of the Lake Erie &c Western, died Mon
day, at Lafayette, of consumption.
The Traders Dispatch is good line; the ship
pers all say so. because il will take frst~eaSs
traffic from New York to Western points it
resehes at fourth-class rates.
The L.. N A. e. c. Airline and the C. 81 w.
M roads are giving the Wabash some sharp com
petition in hauling ice from La Porte and other
ice-packing points north
The new trains between Columbus, O., and
Peru, ILL.,. over the G., St Il. 81 r., the L., d. q
&, and the p, D. & +. roads are said to be catch
ing on well with the travelling public.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is dick
ering with the Cambria Iron Company for large
lot of steel rails, portion of which will be laid
on the j., NJ. & l. and the l. e. v. divisions.
Notice is given by the Northern Pacific road
that an agency has been opened at Toppenish,
w T. on the Yakima division, !, 1853 miles west
of St Paul, and L. L. Peat appointed agent
The lower rates are increasing east bound
traffic somewhat, but most of the agents care to
get only business enough to load cars which Will
ba needed at the seaboard TO ship west-bound
frUights in.
A S. Burgess district passenger agent of the
Union Pacific, who has been great sufferer for
some three months, is thought TO be some better,
but is still unable to raise his head from the pill
low or lift hand without aid
Mason B. Starring, for some years past
general baggage agent of the Burlington road,
has severed his connection with that line and
been succeeded by Edward A. Sad one of the
Oldest passenger conductors on this road, having
been with the company for twenty years.
The through car over the c., L., st. L. g. c..
and Wabash. which for years past has been
hauled between Cincinnati and Burlington, now
goes no further east than Indianapolis, the
traffic agreement betweensthe c., l., st. l.. 81 G.
and l.. B. & W. making such change necessary.
The Office of the assistant general freight
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio road. heretofore
aS Columbus, has been removed to Pittsburg,
where in the future the incumbent, G. S. Wight,
viii be located A division agency has been ere
ated at Columbus and L. Aff1eck appointed to the
position.
The running time of the limited train between
New York and st. Louis, over the Pennsylvania
lines and the Vandalia, will be shortened
another hour west-bound, on Tuesday, May Ii,
reaching St Louis at P. NJ. instead of P. NJ.
as now. A passenger can then leave New York
Mt 10 A. NJ, and take dinner the next day in ST.
Louis.
Commissioner Albert Fink has arranged to sail
In June for Europe on vacation. He proposes
TO be absent for two or three months. By the
by. Mr.. Beard, of the the indianapolis pool Of
fee, says the statement in Sundays Journal that
Dir. Fink is a German was not correct as he was
born at Amsterdam and is, therefore, a Hol
lander.
T. ri. Goodman, general passenger agent of
the Southern Pacific road announces that his
line has prepared tickets reading from San Fran
cisco to Boston and return for the benefit OF par
ties attending the g. A II. encampment at
Portland Me- These tickets are limited east
ward to June o. and westward to Sept. Is, Civ
ing the usual ninety days for return trip.
A joint stock company has been organized
with capital of $4, 900, for the purpose of build
ing first-class restaurant, skating rink and
sleeping rooms at Maxnkuckee near the Van
dalia Station Half the stock was subscribed the
filst day, and it is thought there will be nc
trouble in raising the necessary funds to com
piete the structure within the next six weeks.
Commissioner Fink says he thinks it will take
the business of the country ten years to grow up
If the rival lines could not keep from cutting
rates and quarreling over their respective shares
while working on last years crops, which were
the largest have had, it is scarcely likely they
will keep the peace with short wheat crop III
prospect for this year.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Indiana, Bloomington e Western road was held
yesterday, and the following gentlemen were
eleeted directors for the ensuing year: Austin
Corbin Alfred Suly j. Rogers Maxwell Charles
Hanford. John L. Farwel Henry W.. Maxwell,
Robert K Dow, George e. Leighton, Ferd w.
Peck, Fred w. Dnnton, James X. O. Sherwood
James B. Edmunds, Joseph Dorr.
The Railway Magazine. devoted to travel and
transportation, published at Buffalo, N. Y,
George +. Allen & Co., publishers, is the lates;
railroad journal in the field. Mechanically it is
very neat and attractive, and the reading mat
Ter is bright, newsy and entertaining. The
editor says the Railway Magazine purposes to
establish itself in the biggest corner in the whole
railway edifce and keep pace, if possible, with
tho marvellous growth of the structure Its
special field will be travel and transportation.
There was considerable of a stir among freigh,
men yesterday at this point over a report that
agents of the Bee-line had been instructed t.
take the business regardless of tariff and classi
6eatien. Albert s. White, general agent, il
authority for saying that there is truth in the
report. AT l:3O p NJ. yesterday he received q
telegram from Edgar Hills, assistant genera
freight agent, instructing him to adhere strictly
to rates based on Is cents per 100 pounds Chi
eago to New York. and he says no lower rate
has been named BY the Decline. to his knowl
edge
Did Not Furnish Such Information.
Billy Shattuc, general passenger agent of the
Ohio q Mississippi road, has on in his war paint
The Railway Magazine requested Mr. Shat
tue to furnish an article on ticket commissions
Hs answers Il observe that you attach clip
ping from the alleged Railway Register pub
lished in st. Louis, Mo-, wherein Macarthur, OF
that paper, says: We are informed by w. b.
Shattuc, general passenger agent of the Ohio &
Mississippi railway that his company does not
pay out moro than $106, 900 per annum on ac-
count of ticket commissions Ihave time how
ever, to say that Mr. Shattuc' has never fur
nished any such information, and that this man