The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Fzymaster Snee. of the c., St l.. & P. dis
bnssss monthly at Logansport 1000 among
pernsacyes at that point.
Ths earnings of the Peoria Decatur g. Evans
wife for the second week in December were $l2,-
D92A and ncreaaebf $l,547.
Ths l.. B. & W. earned the second week in
DeaDeer $5o,2ll an increase owe r earnings cor
resf@nding week 1884 of $12,9
no coal will be transported over the Lacka-
sxanna railroad on Friday and Saturday 1t is
Esszmated that this will reduce the tonnage on
she road nearly 1000 tons.
The c., l.. St. l.. & G. and the Chicago e. Great
bosashern have established station at the cross
arg OF their roads. some four miles this side of
Fowser, which is to DE known as Swanington.
They jointly will build a neat station house at
fhGs point.
Earnings per ton per mile, Union Division.
DBson Pacific railway 1869 to 1884-1S69. So
znisas per ton per mile; 1870, Al; 1871. Al 1872,
y: 1913, 22i 1874, 49, 1875. 20; 1876, 20; 1877,
- 1878. 10; 1879. III 1880, Is; 1884, Is; 1882,
HI 1888 l6; 1884, a.
G. ri. Briggs former master of transportation
IN she Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan road.
has been appointed soliciting freight and passen-
ger agent of the c., W. & NJ. headquarters, In
ni@xapolls General Passenger and Freight
.AgeBt Rice could not we'll have made better
Besestion.
The first fifteen days of December the l., d.
81 a. earned sufficient to pay operating
ssxpsoses. fixed charges. and leave So 2l0 sur
pisa OF course, SO favorable an exhibit should
NOS be expected the coming year through but 1t
rrosaises now to earn we'll up to these figures
&pr some weeks to come.
New York papers say that there never has
hopn q more decided manifestation of friendship
Hxsnced toward a great corporation than was
shown at the complimentary banquet rendered
President Robert Garrett, of the Baltimore 81
ohio Railroad Company, by Mr. Erastus Wiman
Wednesday night of last week
Christmas is to be we'll observed in railroad
nireles Fast freight-line Offices and the passen-
ger agents offices will be closed for the day.
TAs city freight depots will be closed at 10 A. M.
and no local freight trains will be run. and sew
erAi of the roads offer to pass employees and
Ebeir families free; others at low rates.
q Lake Erie 10 Western passenger conductor
rsports travel light on that road. He tells re-
Esnx4er of the Lafayette Courier that Tuesday he
rode ninety-one miles without seeing new pas
Benger, until finally a got board who
Pxla in SO cents cash. No wonder that the man
nsement recently worked spoilers on that road,
30 surprisingly light were the cash receipts.
RWTorrance, local freight and passenger agent
Cincinnati. Wabash q Michigan railway, has
opened their office, No. 150South Meridian street,
gur business. The room has frontage on Lousi-
Bns.as we'll Meridian street and is conveniently
located for business men. Without question the
management have made wise move in the
establishing of Independent Offices at Indanap-
nSia
Charles FL. Fisher. chief engineer of the New
York Central d Hudson River road, who has
bseu suffering from softening of the brain, as
xecently noted. has been taken to the insane
ngylum at PoughKeepse, N. Y. 1t is said that
he was very much affected on hearing of Mr..
yanderbilt,s death, and afterward became
violent that his family felt that the restraint of
khe asylum was necessary.
Receiver Kimbal. of the Chicago q Great
Southern road, is in the city He reports that
ssss track layers will reach Sugar creek by Sat
nrday. There they will be delayed few days
by abe bridge-builders, who are behind with
thsir work. After getting this stream, Mr.
Kimbal says. track laying can be pushed at the
rate of mile day. There is yet some thirty
one miles of track to lay to reach Brazil.
The Evansville & Terre Haute road earned in
November $64. 764. against $780, 126in 1884 $50 1877
IN 1888. SCI, GAP in 1892 $5l. $50 in 1881. Thus
Its Novembe earnings were larger this year than
ever before and u per cent. more than last year.
The gain of $4658 in November may be COM
pared with its gain of 81, I6l in October 81, 299
n September, and an average monthly loss of
$l.Sil in the eight months previous For the
sieTen months ending with November it has
@arned 81, OBJ more than last year.
T. II Jeffrey, who has just been appointed
general manager of the Illinois Central road,
has been in the service of the company for
fwenty nine years He began as an Office boy,
bnt soon after went into the repair shops as an
apprentice, and gradually worked his way up
through the various grades until he was ap-
pointed assistant superintendent of machinery
Ia 1871. He held the position until 1877, when
he made general superintendent of the road.
from which he is uow promoted to the new office.
Commissioner Doherty hopes to get the Indi
annapolis Railway Weighing Association in oper
alton by JAN l. He will endeavor to get the
local agents together Saturday to further perfect
abe details. TO make the plan more effectual,
abe general manager of each of the roads will be
asked to issue order to the effect to subord
mate officials. and they, in turn, to the respect
Ave yardmasters making it compulsory to weigh
every incoming and outgoing loaded ear. ma
jerity of the general managers and general su-
Perintendents have promised so to do.
Vice president Hays of the Missouri Pacrfc,
and one of the most prominent railroad capital
ssts Of the Southwest, passed through Pittsburg
VBeSday nigh. on his way to New York In
speaking of the BUSINESS interests of the South
west to a reporter of the Dispatch he said: 1.-THE
year has been good one. Corn. cotton and other
products are all more than ordinarily plentiful
and correspondingy cheap, and there is an easy
feeling in all kinds of business. Eighteen hun
Gred and eighty six isn't going to be another 70
BY any means. but it will, | think, be prosper
0ns business year ali over the country. We feel
IL already in railroad circles" Mr.. Hays says
the trouble between the Knights of Labor and
tho Gould system of railroads is at end and
he thinks there will be no further difficulty.
An old railroader, who has built and oper
afed roads, yesterday for the first time came
" "eotoin uNtSioH vi 1uo ", l., o. L. CO ".
road in daylight, and he remarked last
evening that he greatly pleased with
ahe physical condition of the property.
Their equipments, to begin with, he said,
co1ld not be excelled passing
oser the road has his choice to ride in smoking
: car, or neat light day coach, or a roomy,
cheerful. chair-car; or, if he wants something
stiH better. he can ride in enc of Pullnan's best
coaches Then the track is smooth, trains run
along about thirty six miles per hour, making
but few stops, and one could hardly
put in six hours more pleasantly than in riding
Dvrr the road from Chicago to indianapolis.
However, he said what impressed him most was
ahs neat cleanly stations, the lengthy platforms
AID side-tracks, the well built water tanks.
she weli-cleaned up road bed bitches, etc.. and
the new iron and steel bridges, more especially
tbs long one over White river put up in the
last year Il felt as SAFE" said he, riding