The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The outside ticket offices will be closed at IL
A. n to-day.
E. R. Hart, general Southwestern agent of
the Erie fastfreight lines, headquarters at Mem
phis, Tenn, resigned yesterday.
It is understood that vice-president Horace
q. Hayden, of the New York Central will be
made president of the West Shore railway.
The receipts from passenger service most
or the Indiana roads for November thus far
have been disappointing. On many roads the
falling off will be 20 Is per cent, compared
With that of November, 1884.
President Garrett is quoted saying that the
Baltimore g. Ohio cannot have its line into New
York before next summer and, if it could it is
as anxious any other corporation to see re-
turn of trunk-line prosperity.
Superintendent Mansfield of the Indianapolis
incomes, spends Thanksgiving with friends
edmond Walter Nichols, district passenger
| of the Decline. takes dianer with General
yer Beach, in Cleveland, Q.
huge in the running time of some twenty
~-~-~ns will be made Sunday next In a majority
of eases there is n lengthening of running time,
Is usual, during the winter months
Herbert Jameson, son of Alex Jameson. chief
clerk in the auditing department of the Della
ware, Lackawanna e. Western road, is home to
,spend Thanksgiving with his parents.
The next Improvement the Union Railway
Company will make is the doubling of the Belt
road track from the c., St. L. e. P. to the
track of the l.. B. q W., eastern division. The
Belt road will then be double track IS per cent
OF its length.
The Decline people now object to the Cincin-
nat, Wabash 81 Michigan placing their tickets
sale in the c.. L. st. L. q G., instead of the
Bee-llne Office which certainly is more interested
that the c.. w. g. NJ. should do good passenger
business out of here than a foreign road will be.
lid q,
sarned the second week in November SAT, 773. an
Increase over the earnings for the corresponding
week In 1884 Of $40. The road has earned since
Jan J. 1885, g., 064, 004, against 81. 042, 5l4.
increase over the corresponding period in 1884 of
g, 400.
Several of the local freight agents have been
z1Osifed that hereafter they their bondsmen
viii De expected to make up any loss which fol-
lows from crediting consignees any freghts
with the charges One agent is reported to have
81 100 of charges which he is having trouble in
collecting
P. Broughton is still filing the position of
general manager of the Chicago s. Atlantic road,
the directors as yet not having found a person
TO take his place who is acceptable to all parties.
The aim of the directory is said to be 20 place
man in the position with whom the Erie people
are on friendly terms.
Manager Henderson, of the l., B. G. W., saws
their track is rapidly being put into excellent
condition for winter service. On the Peoria
DIVISION twenty Seven miles or the new steel
rail has been laid. Of the 1913 miles between
Peoria and Columbus 316 miles is laid with steel,
and the remaining distance with iron rail, which
is still good The road is now earning operating
expenses and fixed charges. and will for Novem-
her show some surplus
President Ingalls,, of the c., l., St L. e c.,
has spoiled the scheme which originated in New
York of a consolidation of the Big Four, the l.,
B. g. w, the G.. c., c. & l., Lake Erie g. West
erD, and half dozen other roads, by saying that
fhe G., L., st. L. d G. is too valuable a property
10 be consolidated with any weak roads, any
further than to enter into pools of the character
of the Ohio River pool the special object of
which Is the maintenance of rates.
An official in position to understand the stu
Rtion says he does not think the Erie people will
withdraw their freight traffic from the c., H. &
ID. lines abruptly. but it will gradually drift ever
10 the C., ST. L. q p and l.. b. & W. roads. in
connection with which the Erie is now working
very harmoniously There are no grounds, he
says, for the statement that the Bee-ne is to
profit largely by the deal, so far as the Indi-
annapolis and |. q St l.. divisions are concerned.
An observing railroad man yesterday remarked
that the rise in the value of securities in the
last two months has restored hundreds of mill
ions of dollars to the realiZabie wealth of the
men who are carrying the enterprises of business
all over the country. It puts an entirely differ
@Dt complexion upon things. Men who were
slek mysteriously get well; men who were blue
become cheerul: men who were heavily LOADED
np" and could not see their way through and
who viewed the future with anxiety if not with
alarm, have been immensely relieved by the turn
things have taken.