The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-25
AFFAIRS OF TIE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

bnat ne is coming back on to the Decline
The permanency of the advance in east bound
freight rates, which went into effect Monday. is
not questioned Lake navigation is practically
closed Vessels are going into winter quarters
on arrival at port now.
For weeks past the c., Fl. & l. has been car
Tying a heavy west-bound tonnage. Yesterday
there We're five full trains west over the road.
thirty EIGHT carloads of which was bonded
freight consigned to st. Louis parties.
G.. p Huntington Of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
and President Ingalls, of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, St Louis & Chicago are arranging
q plan to make the latter the Chicago connection,
and to establish intimate traffic relations between
the two lines
The first section of the Vandalia fast line,
which hauls the mail and express west will
reach ST. Louis at 5:45 A. NJ, instead of $3.50 A.
n This will give ample time for the distrlbu-
ton of the mail matter which goes to points be-
You'd ST. Louis
4 railroad official whose remarks re-echo the
feeling of the Union Railway Company says
whenever the city is ready to construct viaducts
over the Union tracks on any street crossing
them the Union Railway Company will bear its
f1ll share of the expense.
Hon. Jesse r. Straughan, of Fort Wayne, has
ssen appointed chief engineer of the Toledo g.
Columbus railroad, road to be constructed be-
tween the points named. Mr.. Straughan is the
father of Joseph G. Straughan newly appointed
surveyor general of Idaho.
1t is really worthy of note, and complimentary
to the new agent of the Wabash at this point,
that the road is earning more than its allotted
per cent. in the east-b pool, for the first
time since the l.. p. & c. division passed from
under the control of the Malott management
The question between the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore & Ohio, upon which they disa-
greed, was said to have been that the latter de-
sired a contract to run its trains into New York
Ear civ hQ
listen to no proposition for less shan ten years.
The passenger men of the Vapdaia are not
well pleased that District Passenger Agent Mar
tin, of the c., l., st. L. & c., proposes to sell
tickets of the Cincinnati, Wabash s. Michigan
road in their Offices at this point as the T. H e.
Ia division of the Vandalia runs into the same
territory reached by the c., w. & NJ
The statement made in the Chicago dispatch
that Commissioner King resigned from the CEN
trail passenger committee because of trouble
within the association is erroneous Mr. King
has been offered the position of assistant gen
erai passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Wash
ington & Baltimore road, and resigned to &C
cept it.
II. A. Schrader, traffic manager of the Illinois
Midland road, is in the city. He states that the
road is doing considerable business and all sur
plus earnings above operating expenses are eX
pended by Receiver Conklin in improvements to
fhe property, he this year putting in the track
eral miles of steel rail. The impression now pre-
walls that the road will be sold next spring.
Iaymaster Sheldon, of the Bee-line system,
is on his monthly rounds paying for October.
He comes a day or two earlier each month of
late and expects soon to be round by the 18th of
each month The promptness with which all the
indianapolis roads, with two exceptions, have
paid their employees during the depressed times
is worthy Of commentator, and is certainly ap-
preciated by the employees.
As usual, the railroad companies pay more re-
spect to holiday than they do to the Sabbath.
and on Thanksgiving day the city freight depots
Will be closed and no freight trains run, except
to carry live stock and perishable freights By
fbe by, the Decline, for some months past has
observed the Sabbath by running freight
trains, and the scheme works admirably. The
employees are greatly pleased with the arrange
ment
The Wabash route from st. Louis and
Kansas City to St Paul and Minneapolis will
-probably be open by Dec. l. The route here
fofore has been from Mason City, Ia, to st.
Paul over the ST. Paul road, but hereafter the
route will be from st. Louis or Kansas City to
Abba Ia, over the Wabash; from Abba to Lyle,
MINI, over the Central Iowa road and from
Lyle to St Paul over the Minnesota Northwest
ern road.
Only the passenger business of the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan road will be looked after
Mt their Office in the old Sentinel Building. the
company having leased the room on the corner
of Meridian and Louisiana streets for a freight
Office, in which they WILL as well, put telegraph
Office. 1t is stated that w. Collins, agent of the
c., W. g. M. at Marion, will be made agent of
both offices at this point, @. Dickson looking
after the sale of tickets.
The next regular meetings of the Red, White
and Midland lines will be held at Buffalo on
Wednesday, Dec 2. At these meetings the plan
for auditing line accounts forth in the crcu-
lar for Oct 10, signed by Mr.. John Newell, presi-
dent of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
galway, and Mr.. III. j. Hayden. second vice
of fha Nayr Vorl p II
River railroad, will be discussed with a view to
arriving at full understanding in regard to the
matter.
G. w. Wightman, superintendent of the Pitts
burg locomotive works, spent yesterday in the
city. Mr. Wightman states that these works.
and, IN fact, all the locomotive works of the
country, are working about onehalf their full
complement of men, But the belief prevails
that there is to be an early Improvement in bust
ness with locomotive works. number of i'm
portant roads are now short of power, and as
soon as their earnings will justify will purchase
more engines
N. h Elliott superintendent of transporta-
ton of the Vandalia lines, states that freight
sraf1c on their system is heavier than at
any tina within the last five years. On Friday
and Saturday every locomotive the company
owns that was in shape for service was in USE
There is large movement of live stock, coal and
cotton, the live stock and coal traffic being
largely of local character. One favorable feat
uFe 10 thal an unusually large per cent. of the
ears handled are loaded both ways.
The rumors regarding changes on the L.. N
a. d Z. road seem well.foUnded and it is be-
leved that Superintendent Woodland conrem-
plates clean sweep of conductors from one end
OF the road to the other The work or removal
goes steadily forward, and not alone does it APP
pig TO conductors but to locomotive engineers as
well Already several old ones have been dis
missed. and others pull the throttle valve with
fear and trembling There are now, it is stated,
fourteen new engineers on the road
The Wabash people getting walked up in
regard TO their l., 2. & G. division. District
PASSENGER Agent Wade has been asked to make
suggestions as to what is needed to increase
khelr passenger business, in the way of running
rrains or putting equipments and General
Agent Lynn. of the freight department. has
'soeen asked to see what can be done to recover
lost ground in his department, and the manage
Fnent show a determination to do all in their
power to make the road a more valuable one to