The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-21
aFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

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-,.naard pattern is being put in everywhere on
=. main line of the W., st. L. & P. railway as
-. .s they can be procured. They possess
Nv merits over the old style switch.
zfonseiur D. Banderally, engineer-in-chief of
a. Northern railway of France and Mr.. Lewyt.
a.. assistant, are in Pittsburg for the purpose of
.hsorviug the Westinghouse system of train
loads and switches in use by the Pennsylvania
fOad
As White, formerly contracting agent of
.se Missouri Pacific road in Pittsburg, has been
4-,asferred to indianapolis to act as travelling
x..;cbt agent of the same road His territory
iii include Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and
Tennessee
There is rumor that G. G. Gale, who now
rasjdes near Cleveland o., is to again be ap-
ro;nted to an important official position on the
koeIine system. There is still much specula-
.ion as to who will succeed E. B. Thomas on his
retirement as general manager.
Indications now are that the suit brought by
Che Union Railway Company against the Cincin-
-ati Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company for
hack rental, the amount of which is in dispute,
will not be called up for some weeks. The case
"a in Judge Ayres's court, and he says he cannot
reach it even in October, he fears.
The earnings of the c., l., st. L. & G. road the
eaeond week in September were $48. 507. AZ,
AGAINST $50 9971S the corresponding week in
1884 In passenger earnings there was de-
crease of So. 256 40; in through freight earnings
decrease of l4, 424 81 while in local freight earn
ings there was an increase of $861.42.
The Ave Western roads brought into this sta
tisn last week, 3, 905 loaded cars, follows: l. g.
ST. H. 1894; Vandalia. !, 1876: c.. l., ST. L. & c.,
se5 l., B. & W., 407; l., D. & S, PA. The
brought in 4 004; in 1888 4 052 loaded cars De-
crease, respectively, this year, SO and lat cars
The FIVE direct Eastern roads forwarded last
week 3 444 loaded cars. as follows: Bee-line
1916; c., st. l. & P. 76l: c.. l.. ST L. & c.,
757 l., B. q W., 1885, c., H. & l.. 334. The cor
responding week last year these roads forward
ed respectively, as named above, $780, 642 $40
SIS and $780, total, 1862. Increase this year. l22
cars
The meeting of trunk-line presidents on next
Tuesday will be attended by Mr.. Depew for the
first time since his election as president of the
New York Central AS he prominent fac
Dor in the agreement concerning the West Shore
property, it is presumed that he will present a
satisfactory scheme for a new pooling arrange
pent.
Freight men who anxious that railways
should receive fair remuneration for transport
ing freghts are quite sanguine that general
restoration Of rates will be ordered by Wednes-
day of this week. both east and west-bound
They base these conclusions largely upon the
positive orders they ara receiving from Eastern
managers, TO make no contracts ahead.
Paymaster Sheppard, of the Wabash road. al
lowed but three weeks to pass between his pay
trips. The last trip he paid for July. He now
announces it as his intention to more frequently
repeat these visits until the back pay is all paid
up, and, should the present fairly prosperous
condition of business continue, nothing need pre-
vent his SO doing, his superior officers state.
The Decline excursion to Niagara Falls, to-
morrow promises to be the big one of the sea-
son, so pleasant is the weather for such trip
John Evan, superintendent; d. b. Martin. gen
sral Western passenger agent, and Walter
Nichols, district passenger agent, will accompany
fhe excursion party. Ample parlorcar and
sleeping coach accommodations will be provided
From an official source is learned that J. S.
Cark, general freight agent of the Louisville.
Evansville & st. Louis Airline will retire on
Oct l, and will be succeeded by L. S. Parsons,
general agent of the Louisville. New Albany &
Chicago road. Mr. Clark left the l., d. & S. road
to take his present position and he has proved a
very efficient officer, and retires only on account
of illhealth.
John W. Knapp. one of the train dispatchers
in Train master Glls Office the c., V. g.
c railway l!ately the Cairo division of the
Wabash at Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, is seriously i'll at
the residence of his brother, j. w. Knapp, of the
Misunderstanding force at Peru, Ind. He has
been unable to leave the house for over a month
Mr. Knapp was formerly an operator on the
main line of the Wabash.
OF the fifteen roads running trains into In
danapolis, there is but one-that the c., H. &
(which employs train agents la polite name
for spottersl, to employ which is not only an
nnfayorabie stigma upon the passenger con
ductors. but annoyance to passengers. The
travelling statesmen handle this class of employees
without ceremony. refusing to recognize them,
saying that when the conductor, who is the
proper man to take up their tickets. calls for
chem, they will be delivered without hestancy.
The Indiana Bloomington & Western and the
Wabash people, who for time gave them en-
poyment, found that the receipts were not
swollen thereby. while passengers were loud in
their epithets of abuse of the management of a
road which so insults its conductors as to en-
pioY train agents