The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

RerSOb&t auo AoC1Ats
Of thu tonnage carried over the Wabash road
In the year ending June 80, 1885, 80 per cent.
was -four and grain, and 20 ITO per cent. coal
William f. Arnold, exdeputy postmaster of
Ttrre Haute, succeeds Phil Campbell as private
secretary of William r. McKeen, president of
the yandalia road
Most of the line agents were extremely eau
tieus yesterday as to what promises they made
30 shippers, so sanguine were they that rates
were to be advanced
Col Horace Scoot is in Buffalo attending the
meeting of master earbuilders, and exhibiting
car coupler, signal lantern and other devices. in
which he is personally interested.
Northern lines are endeavcring to offer such in
easements in rates and on time as to turn heavy
tonnage of cotton northward rather than to let
IL 90 part rail and water via Charleston and Sa-
VsBnah.
John F. Miller. superintendent of the Indian
apAjs division Of the c., ST. l.. & p, has been IN
Columbus. o., for couple OF days past In con-
ference with Manager McCrea This mas re-
wired the rumors that Mr.. Miller is to De pro
xnoted.
Receiver Hammond has instructed Traffic
Manager Lazarus, OF the l., D. & s. road to let
through business severely alone until paying
rates can be secured for handling it. Meantime
TAO management is working up their local busi-
ness for all there is IN 1t.
Since Superintendent Woodland made his late
INSPECTION trip gravel train with large force
Of men has been put in service on the airline
division of the L. N A e. c.; the track is to be
surfaced up. bitches cleaned, and the road to be
pus in good shape before the snow flies.
The case of The Anderson, Lebanon & st.
Louis Railroad Company, wherein they seek to
avoid the payment of rental for an engine they
frnr hn iC w on ri
plaintiff claims that the business the Decline
got off of this road in some manner offsets their
ciaim
Frank Watts. the engineer killed night before
last, on the Kentucky Central road, was for
some years on the c., l., st. L. 81 G. road. His
brother A. FL. Watts, is general master mechanic
the Missouri Pacific system. Frank, as he is
best known. was first-class engineer, and stood
high in the estimation Of the fraternity of loco
motive engineers
Road Master Henry Of the Indianapolis & st.
Louis road, is laying steel rails on the west end
at the rate of two miles and one half per day.
BY Saturday night the Decline system from
Cleveland to st. Louis, and from Gallon to Gin
cinnati will be laid entirely with steel rail, much
OF the distance with a rail weighing seventy
pounds to the yard, twenty seven miles having
been laid on the west end in the last ten days.
J. N. Culp. general freight agent of the Louis
vile g. Nashville road; G. G. Cochrane. general
freight agent of the New York. Pennsylvania g.
Ohio; n ). Pennington, traffic manager of the
Cairo q Vincennes road, and Colonel II. II.
Hart, who represents the Erie lines at Mem
phis, Tenn, are in the city, and yesterday were
sn conference at the Office of T. A. Lewis, man
ager of the Erie fast-freight lines, regarding the
heavy movement of cotton now in prospect.
The c., T., ST. L. & G. is no less valuable as a
EoAd because its earnings have been falling off
the last few weeks. Their local freight traffic
and passenger business in August showed better
earnings than in 1884. It's in their through bust
ness the earnings decrease. Resident agents
should steer clear, far practical, of through
business at the present ruinously low rates.
When business is good and rates will pay a road
for handling freights the road bed and equipments
Df the c., L., st. l., e G. will be in fine condition
10 carry it.
Fl. W. Hubbard, general freight agent of the
Vandala, takes Respondent view of the situa-
tion. He tells reporter of the Terre Haute
Gazette that ke thinks the prospects for a
restoration of rates to paying basis are very
slim, and deplores the present condition of
affairs If rates should happen to be restored
10 living figures this winter after the lakes are
closed with ice there will. he says, go up howl
against monopoly among the farmers and the
legislatures of several States. arguing that, if
the roads ever carried at Is cents to seaboard
they can do it still, will legisate to fix rates
there. Railways should hasten to repudiate the
present ruinous rates before it is established as
precedent.
since nara times struck the railways many
valuable devices for railroads have been invented
which will doubtless be adopted with the coming
of better times The electric light, for instance
The arrangements of a half dozen Indianapolis
roads only waiting the time when they can
see their way clear to 90 to the expense of equip
ping their locomotives with the electric light
Then there now two spark arresters in use on
some roads to a limited extent, which perform
admirably, and will doubtless come into more
general use when the roads have money to ex-
pend in such direction. Then there is the
Palmerton wrecking frog, the Witty switch
stand and dozens of other inventions which will
go far toward making railway operations more
safe and economical.
In speaking of his narrow escape from being
run over by cut of cars at Virginia avenue,
Tuesday, Mr.. Mounts says he had not fully rea-
1ized until then, just how absolutely necessary it
was to have the brakeman stand on the forward
car when engines are moving with cars ahead of
them. to warn people of their danger who some
times get negligent, or whose mind is otherwise
occupied. Had the brakeman, who was stand
4ng on the second or third car from the front end
of train, been on the first car, he could have
given warning in time to allow all persons time
to escape danger. 1t is not an unusual thing to
see brakemen standing on the third and fourth
car from the front end. on cuts, from where it
is impossible to see persons at all times who
may get on the track, and result many mar
row escapes from accident and death are the re-
suit
Railroad Earnings.
The last number of the Financial Chronicle
gives the following table of earnings Of railroads
during the month of August since 1879 The