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

Personal and Local.
Further important official changes on the
Pennsylvania lines are intimated.
E. A Ford, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, is expected
in the city to-day.
George F. Evans, receiver of the Louisville
Evansville 6 st. Louis (Air-line|, is in the city
On official business
Engine No. 1O4, on the ]. & st. L. road, still
maintains its record for fast running. On Sun
Jay last it hauled four coaches 1913 miles in Id
minutes.
kilograms received by freight men at this
point last evening reported rates east bound
at Chicago down to nine cents per one hundred
pounds. the lowest all-rail rates ever offered.
Edgar Hill general freight agent of the Bee
line systems, is off on ten days pleasure trip
consequently the initial week of Albert S. White
as assistant general freight agent is an exceed
.ngly busy one.
The conductors on the L., N. A. & c. system,
more especially the Air line division, are draw
ing business to the road by their gentlemanly
bearing and anxiety to make passengers COM
Portable and feel at home on their trains.
Manager McCrea's scheme to utilize the old
freight cars by putting one on top OF the other
and having them fixed up in a sort of way and
rented out at So per month for the use of section
men. on the c., ST. l.. & F.. is working admira-
ply.
prominent fast freight line agent yesterday
remarked that he wis he'd there was a law which
made it a pententiary offense to cut a rate below
sariff Could the law be made to date back this
same agent would be one of the first to get into
the penitentiary and have the longest to stay.
On the 18th of this month Maj. Robert EN-
Enett district passenger agent OF the L., N "A q
G. road. headquarters at Indianapolis, retlres
Major Emmett, in the few months he has held
the position, has done good work for the com
pany. His successor has not yet been decided
upon.
T. A. Lewis manager of the Erie fast freight
lines states that they are now taking no grain
for New York proper, their elevator with z
100000 bushels capacity being full This Is
certainly fortunate circumstance, as the less
grain road hauls at S 4 10 cents per bushel
from Indianapolis to New York the better.
The marked prosperity of the Pullman car
company. so far its works at Pullman are con-
cefaed, is due to the fact that they pay better
wages to employees than other car works and
give employment only TO competent men. When
they discover that they have scrub workman
he is promptly dismissed from their service.
1t ;s stated upon the best authority that the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has given
orders to It's operating department Tor further
retrenchment, and that all the force Is to be cur
tailed to the lowest limit AS the road-bed and
equipment are generally in frst-class condition.
they will require unusual repairs or additions
for long time.
cloud still hangs over the Ohio Falls car
works at Jeffersonville. Ind There is said to be
plenty of capital behind the establishment, but
no man comes to the front as leader. 1t is
stated that they are asked to bid on work out are
snid in making bids fearing to make the ven
cure of resuming work at the shops fuifhanded
and on full time.
The one Knight of Labor on the Wabash sys
L L..
was yesterday enjoying himself hugely, believing
that the Knights of Labor. as he puts It, had
come out on top in their efforts to whip Manager
TaInage into the traces Meantime the sixty
other Wabash employees at this point who are
not Knights of Labor, showed no disposition to
cool his ardor over the subject.
In view Of the decreased earnings of the trunk
lines, strong belief prevails that the Pennsyl-
yGnia Railroad Company will not be able to
maintain it's present rate of dividends per cent.
this year. The policy of the company since
president Roberts assumed its management has
been to reserve a certain por Jon of the earnings
Cor betterments. This has been done despite the
protests of English shareholders, who have al
ways claimed that the surplus should be evenly
divided among the shareholders. President
Roberts has recently expressed himself In favor
of fixed dividend at per cent. no matter how
much greater the earnings may be.
The Misuse of One-Thousand- Mile Tickets.
1t is high time that the general passenger
agents take some steps to put stop to the
misuse of low rate onethousand mile tickets.
Never doee there day pass that these tickets
are not offered to scalpers when partially used,
the travelling statesmen seeming to be in cahoots
with tbs scalpers in the matter. This is mat
fer which should, as we'll, receive the attention
of the Commercial Travellers Association. The
many in this association suffer through the
dishonorable practices Of the few, and, as a
general passenger agent remarked day two
since, the commercial travellers cannot
expect further favor from the railroads
so long as they countenance such dishonorable
business. This class of tickets was issued for
che benefit of merchants and large shippers.
with the expectation that they were not to fall
INTO the hands of scalp srs. and some method, tine
general passenger agent said. should be devised
TO put stop to their misuse. He added that so
Gar as indianapolis commercial travelling agents
were concerned, he thought they were acting
more honorable in the matter than those who came
from other trade centers, like St Louis and Chi
cago, or New York. This was an evil however, he
thought, could be greatly lessened were the COM
mercial mems association to undertake earnestly
TO remedy it.
The Decatur Pool.
John Lazarus, traffic manager of the Indian
apoiis, Decatur & Springfield road, left for Chi
sago last night to attend the Decatur pool
meeting, to be held there to-day, when the
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