The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Kirby Smiths name, doubtless, will appear on
Ehe next black list, issued by the general ticket
agents.
A number of men laid off last week at the
shops of the L.. N. A. 81 G. railroad have reen
employed in the shops of the Airline at New
Albany and Evansville.
General Manager Talmage, Of the Wabash.
has issued orders to the effect that no employe
shall be allowed to read any newspaper, period
ical or any kind of literature during working
hours.
The, running time of passenger trains on the
IA, n. A. &c G. railroad, between Chicago and
louisville is soon to be shortened one hour and
forty-fve minutes, as a result of superintendent
Woodward running a train over the road him
self.
The widow of engineer o.. j. Smith, who re-
sides at Lafayette, has received 81, QUO from the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the same
being the sum of the policy held by her husband
DIR. Smith was killed in a railway accident in
Tennessee.
superintendent Woodward, of the L., n. A. &
C., has issued orders to keep the doors of all
baggage, express and mailcars locked, and for
bidding anyone IN the baggage or express-rooms
who is not an employe of the road IN these de-
partments.
The c., T. St L. & c. is in the dull times of
traffic. putting their equipment in the best con-
ditiOn and increasing their side track capacity
nine miles. When they are pressed with ousl-
ness, want of ample side track troubles them In
moving trains promptly.
The fire from which a carload Of whisky was
partially burned on the Vandalia did not origin
ste from a hot-box, as a telegram said. 1t was
the result of spontaneous combustion, as there
was an explosion which broke open the car door,
End enveloped the car In fames.
After all the Boosting of the fast time made
by the Vandalia limited trains, the time scned-
ale on which No. 4 over the C.,I., ST H. &C.
road, between Kankakee and Lafayette and In
dianapolis and Cincinnati runs, deducting time
taken for stops, is two and a half miles per hour
faster than the Vandalia limited.
George Wolfram, railroad and steamship
Ticket agent, New York, issues a circular. in
which he says: My office is worked by ray own
staff. speaking the following languages: En-
glish, German, French, Danish, Italian,
Swedish; Slavonic, Hungarian, Russian, Nor
wegian, Turkish. Arabic, Spanish and Polish"
=. II. Crane, superintendent of the Woodruff
Sleeping Car Company, was In the city yester-
lay. On Monday he made arrangements with
Manager Talmage, of the Wabash system, to
put on lines of Woodruff sleeping cars between
Chicago and Peoria and Chicago and Quincy.
Beginning with Sunday night next the Wabash
train out of Chicago at $50 p. NJ. will haul a
Mann boudoir. two Pullman and two Woodruff
sleeping coaches.
The Pennsylvania Company are organizing on
the several divisions wrecking forces, which are
drilled weekly to acquire speed in action. A test
was made Saturday last at Logansport, on the
Chicago division. A whistle was blown, and at
this signal the men sprang to their places. the
engine was taken out, fire started, run out to the
wreck train and attached to it and everything
get ready for starting in seven minutes, which Is
considered splendid time.
The Terre Haute Express says: "Grand Or
ganizer Stevens, of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Firemen, returned Saturday afternoon from
the South, where he went for the purpose of
founding lodges. A lodge was established at
Algiers, opposite New Orleans, on the Missis-
sippi; at Chat tanooga, Tenn, and at Cincinnati.
There were eighteen or twenty charter members
mt each place. The brotherhood has not q great
amount of strength in the South lbut is rapidly
acquiring it,"
C. NJ, Paine, train dispatcher on the Chicago
& Alton. last week made a very creditable rec
ord. Within eight hours. on a single track on
the Chicago division, 126 miles in length, he
handled 1873 trains, and in snch a manner that
mot one of the trains was off schedule time at any
meeting point. The record was so good a one
for one man to perform that he has drawn a dia-
gram Of the movements of the trains in those
eight hours and will present it at the coming
meeting of the train dispatchers.
n. X. Elliott, superintendent of transporta-
ficn of the Vandalia lines, is in the city arrang-
ing the new time table for the limited and fast
mail trains, which goes into effect Tuesday,
May 26. Under the new schedule the Limited
viii arrive at Indianapolis at z A. M, Depart for
st. Louis at 7:l5 A. NJ. reaching st. Louis at 2
+. NJ The accommodation train will not leave
after that date until 7:35 A. NJ, twenty minutes
later than now. Passengers over the Vandalia
should bear in mind that the limited makes
but one stop between Indianapolis and Terre
Haute. and only at county seats west Of
Terre Haute. Changing the time of the accom-
mediation will lead to taking the wrong train
unless caution is exercised.
The superintendent of all the indianapolis
roads will meet here Friday, the 22d, to har-
menize matters in relation to the traEsfor of
CARS from one road to another. There has been
considerable friction the last few months be-
tween the car inspectors of the different roads.
One inspector will send a car out as being in
good order and the inspector of a connecting
line will assert that it is not in
good order, then the charges are that the break
Ing. if there be one, is charged up to the Belt
road or Union Railway Company. over which
tracks the cars are transferred. They, in turn,
say that they delivered the car just as they re-
ceived it, and there is a constant Earring, which
the superintendent, at this conference, hopes to
put a stop to.
The Judkins Train Signal