The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

A. NJ. Breckenridge has been appointed central
passenger agent OF the Wabash, st. Louis 81
Pacific railway, vice Thomas S. Spear, Pitts
burg, Pa.
There is loud call for cars now to load for
the East. One line on Saturday last was 300
cars behind its orders. and as most of the grain
is for August delivery the shippers are uneasy.
President r. r. Cable, of the Chicago & Rock
Island, has reached Colorado Springs on his
journey from the Pacific coast, where he will
remain few days and then return to Chicago
The heavy movement of wheat to St Louis
continues, reaching nearly LOCO carloads last
week. AS St. Louis parties have made large
purchases for September delivery, shipments
will be heavy for some weeks to come.
The FIVE Western lines last week brought into
indianapolis 4.489 loaded cars as follows: l. &
st. L., 1,498; Vandala, l.2O8; l., b. q W., 763;
c.. l., St. L. & c., 702; l., D. & s., 3l8 The
same roads brought in during the week ending
Aug. Is, 3,616 loaded cars-increase last week,
872 cars.
The c., St L. & P, while making bad
showing in east bound business, leads its COM
petitors in west bound traffic, last week recelv-
ing from the East at this point GIL loaded cars
against 1874 brought in by the Bee-line, 1913 by
the c.. l.. ST. L. q c., 423 by the l., b. & W.,
and ZIG by the c., Ii. &5 l.
One IdVOraDle feature OF Ire1gnC business dL
the present time, more especially with ST. Louis
lines, is that cars moved are, to an unusually
large extent, loaded beth ways. For instance,
the Vandalia last week brought into this
station .2O8. and forwarded ,236 loaded cars;
the I. & st. l.. brought in l. 49, forwarded west
LOAF loaded cars.
Superintendent Woodard of the L.. N. A. &
c., spent Saturday in the city looking over mat
tiers and taking steps to have their business at
this terminus handled more expeditiously. The
company will establish station at Nora, and
will this week erect neat station house and put
in side track, and at several other stations
sidetrack facilities are to be improved.
A through and local freight train on the l., d.
q 5. road colded near Raccoop station, Satur-
day. Both locomotives were considerably damaged
but person was injured. A reckless conduct
or is said to have caused the collision, he order
ing the train out contrary to his orders. The
wreck was cleared in about five hours. Fortu-
nately neither train was running at high speed,
consequently little damage was done except to
the locomotives.
AS result of the conference Of agents on the
Bee line system, at Cleveland, last week, with
the officials of the road, the salaries OF general
agents have been increased while those OF agents
at the less important stations were slightly re-
duced Not for years had there been an adjust
ment of the salaries of agents, in which time
some of these stations have grown in Importance
and the salaries of agents did not compensate
them fairly for the work they did.
The l., B. & w. company have equipped one
Of their fifty ton consol engines with the West
nghouse air-brake, that they can use it to
advantage in hauling their heavy excursion
trains. These so called ''hog" engines surprise
the L., b. d W., so high speed can be obtained
with them for a locomotive with so small driving
wheels. 1t is claimed that one of these hog
engines last week hauled sixteen coaches laden
with excursionists at speed of forty five miles
per hour.
Below we give the number of loaded cars for
warded from this point over the five direct east
bound routes in the week ending Aug. % and
the corresponding week for the three proceeding