The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
L. Sullivan, recently appointed superintendent
of agents on the c., l., ST L. & G. road, as well
as paymaster, viii, May l, remove his head
ruarters from Cincinnati to indianapolis.
Captain Haley, who for some twenty-five
years was agent, travelling auditor. ETC.. on the
D., NJ. g. L road, has been appointed storekeeper
1t the c., St L. & P. shops at this point
The Pennsylvania and vandalia people now
threaten to establish a second outside office at
This point, locating it on South Illinois street
The passenger officials say they viii be oohged
70 do it for self protection.
T. b. Thomas. general mInager OF the Bee
line, who has been in California for the beneht
Of his health, some three months, telegraphed
yesterday that he would leave San FRANCISCO Tor
home on Saturday, April ID
After six months trial the c., L, st. L. & c.
company have decided to 60 back to the old
method of paying employes-the running OF a
pay-car over the road. Paying by draft has not
proved satisfactory to either the management or
She employees.
Tive elegant new. Woodruff coaches, built at
ahe Barney & Smith car works, Dayton, O., and
named, respectively, the Grand Rapids and the
Mackinaw, were standing on the spur track
west Of the Union Depot yesterday. 1t is said
they are to be put on the run between Cincin-
matt and northern Michigan.
A meeting of the agents of the roads which
went into what is known as the lndianapolis
passenger agreement, has been called for to-
morrow, and indications are that the association
will go to pieces. 1t certainly win unless steps
are taken to drop what are known rs the cross
road agents, who roam from town to town, carry
ticket order books, and demoralize rates.
Simeon Frazier, agent of the J. NJ & L road
ht Louisville, KY, was in the city yesterday.
Dir. Frazier, May l, closes his twenty-ninth year
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was agent at Greenwood, eight years at Column
bus, two years at Madison, seven years at IN
dianapolis and three years at Louisville, Ny.
His salary now is just four tunes IN amount that
he received when he entered the service OF the
company.
The situation with the roads which handle the
block coal of the Clay county mines is much
more favorable at the present time that at the
corresponding period one year ago. Now the
Vandalia, which handles all these Goals on some
part of its thirty three miles of track in Clay
county leading to the mines. is handling 300 to
$50 car loads of block coal per day. while one
year ago the miners were on a strike, and neither
the Vandaiia. the Louisville, New Albany q
Chicago nor the Chicago & Eastern Illinois were
Aandling a ton of this class of traffic.
The c.. T., St. L. g. c. is credited with running
the most costly trains which arrive and depart
at the Union Depot Trains Nos. 2 and over
the eastern division consist of one postal car, one
baggage and express car, two frst-class day
coaches, three parlor cars. and two Pullman
sleepers, and are hauled by the monster pas
senger engines, built recently by the Schenecs-
mdy, N. Y, locomotive works. The parlor cars,
and the Pullman sleepers and one of the day
coaches on each train are practically new, not
having run but a few months. A road which
shows 80 much enterprise in this direction Is GER
tainly deserving of success.
st the annual election for directors of the
Asong Island road, on Wednesday, the following
directors were elected: Austin Corbin, j. Rogers
MawWoli Harry GrayQS ri w MAXWELL i q
X Duer, William b. Kendall, Edward Tuck,
Alfred Sally, Daniel C. Corbiu. Frederick w.
Peck, John p. Townsend, Demas Barnes and j.
ID. Campbell. This directory bears a striking
resemblance to the directory of the l.. B. & W.
road La fact. it is said that the Corbin syndi
cate controls 182,681 shares out of the 200, 00t
shares Of stock. /. d. Barton, formerly super
intendent of the l., b. e. W., is continued as
superintendent of the Long Island road.
Superintendent Evan, of the Bee-line, and
Wilson, of the T.. b. d W.. will to-day have
the train crews which were in charge of the
trains which collided on the Belt road Wednes-
day morning upon the green carpet, and en-
deavor to learn where the blame rests for the
accident. The estimated damage to the engine
is 5000. to the tank $75. There were ten cars
more or less damaged, and the total damage to
cars is estimated at 81 800. This is another apt
illustration OF a matter heretofore noted, that
railway wrecks are not so expensive to railroad
companies as outsiders place them. One Indi.
annapolis paper placed the damages at $10,0 600.
Wrecks on railways from rear collisions con-
tinue to be entirely too numerous, and show
gross carelessn ess on the part of men in charge
of trains In 1884 there were forty-two rear
collisions reported where serious damage tc
property followed, and a considerable loss fife,
and with buttwo exceptions these collisions were
the result of negligence on the partof the train
men in charge of the forward train, they failing
to give proper signals. In the two exceptions,
one engineer saw the danger signal. but could
not control his train; In the other case the en-
gineer of the GLOWING train was under the in
fuence of liquor and passed the danger signal.
"A Veteran Kailroader Drops from the Ranks.
Railroad circles were startled somewhat yes
tsrday over the announcement that Col. Robert
Forsythe, traffic manager of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois road, died on Wednesday evening at
Savannah, Ga, where he has been stopping
some weeks for the benefit of his health. But
few railroad men have so extensive an acquisi-
fion as did the deceased. He was a man who
made warm friends wherever he formed an ac-
quaintance. Colonel Forsythe was born at
Wheeling, W. Va, Sept /. 1924. entered the
railway service in 1852. and was freight agent
of the Baltimore a. Ohio company until 1856,
then general freight agent of the Illinois Central
road until 1865. In 1866 and 1867 he served In the
same position on the Chicago s. Great Eastern
road, and from 1868 to 1872 as general agent of
of the Toledo, Peoria 81 Warsaw rail.
road. He then managed the Southern
Dispatch line for q period of FIVE years, when he
accepted the position OF traffic manager of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. which he has held
mp to his death. AS the general freight agent
Of the Illinois Central during the war period,
bis executive ability came into full play. AS
that road was q main trunk line into the terri
tory where war prevailed and large armies oper-
ated, its efficient management in promptly con-
veying supplies was most important to the gov
GrnmcDE. MIR. FORSYTH was e0lrai To all pmar-
gencies, and his conduct of the freight depart
ment won general recognition. both from the
government and railroad men. In all OF his DO
nitions he was known as efficient, able, and con-
gcientous, giving satisfaction to the several roads
I'm whose interests he labored. His death re-
suited from acomplication of diseases, the result
of a shattered constitution. He leaves a wife
and four sons. who will have the sympathy of