The Indianapolis journal., 1885-11-18
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Union line at Fort Wayne vice P. A. Lynn. who
recently took the agency of the Wabash at In
dianapos.
The vote to admit the Baltimore & Ohio into
fhe passenger pool was unanimous. Such har-
pony seemingly never before prevailed in rail
road affairs.
Yice-president Waite. Superintendent Stark
and other officials of the c., 81. & D. lines. to-
day inspect the c., H. & /. division of the c., 81.
h D. system.
Charles Crosby, passenger brakeman on the
Vandalia, was married, on Monday evening, to
Jennie LeffngwelL They at once went TO keep
Ing house in neat little cottage of their own
AL South Shore line and Great Western De-
spatch cars run on the Erie system are being re-
lettered Erie e. Pacific Despatch, under which
name the lines will eventually all be consoll-
dated.
The fighting southern roads yesterday ceased
their warfare and restored rates A fight is
thus ended which caused E. b. Thomas, general
manager of the Richmond 81 Danville system,
much anxiety.
Notice is given that the National Dispatch and
She Great Eastern lines have divided territory.
The National Dispatch will handle all New Eng
land business, the Great Eastern taking all other
than New England business.
REID Northope, general superintendent of the
is IN the city. He reports their 1000 or more
ears in constant service and that he has just or
dered 100 new refrigerator cars built.
The last rail was laid Monday on the Wheeling
e. Lake Erie extension from Valley Junction to
Bowerstown, making connection with the Pan
handle road. This makes the shortest route
from Toledo, Fremont and Norwalk to Pitts
burg
Other roads beside the c., T., st. L. g. G. are
considering the advisablity Of closing their out
side Offices South Illinois street, the results
not justfying the expenses of running an office
on Washington street and on South Illinois
street also.
Edwin w. Winter has been appointed general
manager of the Chicago St Paul, Minneapolis
e. Omaha road. The heads of the operating and
trafic departments of the company will report to
Che general manager. The Office Of assistant
president is abolished.
c., l., st. L. & G. stock Yesterday moved up to
75 cents on the dollar and is in fair way to cross
the c., H. & d. stock, which seems stationary at
% points Both roads, however are good prop
critics and favorably located for business, and,
wheD there is any, always make large earnings.
Geo. L. Bradbury, general manager, and FL. c.
Parker, traffic manager of the p, d. & E. road
were in the city, arranging with the receiver of
the L. ID. q s. for a closer freight traffic alliance
in passenger business the P, D. e. G. has made
good strike in connection with the l., d. & S.
and the c., st. L. & P.
Present appearances are that the long freight
trains of the j.. M q l. and the Indianapolis 81
Vineennes, which should go over the Belt road,
will continue, through the winter, to be handled
over the Union tracks. The c., II. & L. a leas-
ing line, can hardly be expected to use the Belt
road when two OF the proprietary lines do not
The Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton road is
now doing the heaviest local business on all
divisions in the history of the road It is made
mp Of immense shipments of produce, live stock
coal. grain etc. For some days past an average
of thirty cars of live stock per day have been
shipped from points the c., III. & l. division.
Commissioner Pearson has notified the rate
officials of the several trunk-lines including the
Baltimore 81 Ohio to meet in New York this
week, to make up their rate-sheets under the new
agreement This is taken the best of ey-
dence that the Pennsylvania tracks will be used
by the Baltimore g. Ohio between New York
and Philadelphia for time at least.
1t is thought more than probable that no mat
ter what be the decision of Judge Taylor, now
hearing the Bee-line- Closer e. Co. rebate suit,
4he party which loses the case will carry it to
the Supreme Court, nice legal points are
there; one point being whether under pooling
agreement, a commissioner has legal right to
divert business from one road to another to even
mp tonnage per cents.
1t is suggested that it would be we'll for the
Union Railway Company to shed over the two
tracks north Of the depot which are now used
fully as much for trains tracks inside the
depot If the building new Union Depot is to
go over another year. leasing lines like the
j., ID. d s. do not care to pay $500 to 800 per
month for depot accommodations and have their
trains stand on outside tracks exposed to the
weather.
The T. Fl. & T. switching engines at the block
coal mines are now hauling out an average Of
400 carloads of block coal per day. About 200
carloads of this are shipped oyer the Il. FL. & l.
east and west. the remainder going north
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and L., N. A. &
G.. The demand for block coal seems to be
Steadily increasing Some fourteen railways
6raw their supplies of coal for locomotives from
this source. Six Chicago roads are now using
this coal.
The L., N. A. & G. fAir-line) and c., w. &
M roads are making up the loss in live stock
traffic incurred by the l., p. e. G. passing into
the hands of the Wabash. Prior to the Wabash
leasing the l., p. 81 G. but few roads shipped
more hogs to Indianapolis than did the L. P. &
c. Now seldom a carload comes here from
points north of Noblesville. The Wabash people
should not be surprised that the business men
OF indianapolis are anxious that the road should
soe taken from the control of the Wabash, as it
IS not now, by large per cent, so valuable
road to this city when run as a local road
under what was known as the Maiott manage
1nent
". d. Ewing, secretary of the Evansville &
Indianapolis road, has issued the following cir
cular- Whereas the Terre Haute s. South
eastern Railroad Company, the Evansville
Washington & Brazil Railway Company. and
the Evansville & indianapolis Railway Company
have become consolidated in the name of the
Evansville q indianapolis Railway Company;
therefore, it is resolved and declared that the
names of the Tesre Haute & Southeastern Rail
way Company and the Evansville, Washington
& Brazil are, by said consolidation, changed to
Evansville & Indianapolis Railway Company"
Work on the bridge over White river is being
rapidly pushed forward, and as soon as the
bridge is completed, which it is thought will be
Iot later than the middle of December. trains
Biii commence running through betweens Evans
Vile aud Terre Haute over this route.
The Life of a Locomotive
7. N. Ely. general superintendent of motive
power of the Pennsylvania railroad has fur
nished the Master Car Builder with MANY par
ticulars bearing the mileage made by passen-
ger and freight engines on long and short rms