The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

been coming forward over the Vandalia daily.
g. Messlier, assistant general passenger agent
of the Wabash lines, is spending a day or two in
The city looking after matters connected with
this department
T. c. Denny, district passenger agent of the
Missouri Pacific, headquarters indianapolis, who
has been at his home Greenville, Ill., some days
quite i'll, is reported to be improving.
A nav aud enlarged map of the Beeline rail
way is being gotten out by the passenger de-
pArtment of that road which will show up the
system and its various connections in an intelli-
gible manner.
The railroad bonded Indebtedness of Terre
Haute viii soon be wiped out The Terre Haute
Express says the city now owes but $1,000 of
such bonds. issued In the aid of the Z. Il T. H
These will be redeemed Nay l.
Traffic Manager Schrsder of the Illinois Mid
land road, in an interview with a reporter of the
Terre Haute Gazette, said he thought business
the Wabash's overgrown system tumbles to
pieces
The J., D. & s. people moved into their new
Offices in Condit's Block Yesterday, after taking
fpoEp the l., b. & w. offices the desks chairs,
ete belonging to the l., d. d s. people. The
Offices looked as bare as If cyclene had swept
through than.
Chief Engineer Morris, Of the c., l.. ST L. &
c., is drafting plan for increasing the yard
capacity of the road at Kankakee 1000 cars,
double the present car capacity. When COM
pleted. there will be six parallel tracks, each
threefourths of mile long.
Division Freight Agent Sweet, of the Wabash
road, is in the city He is watched closely by
lcompetitors of the Wabash. so slyly did he q
few weeks ago drop in on Indianapolis and So
eure q sharp squirt of business at a cut rate be-
fore they were aware what was going on
Qovopas I'm har eaps IF tha r 3- q road
OE superior build, arc coming into this section,
and attract a coed deal of attention. The cars
are Of 10000 pounds capacity, weigh "a 800
pounds are thirty four feet long, have three
iron trusses underneath. and rest on iron trucks
enEire.
Vim. A. Thompson, formerly rate clerk Mis-
souri Pacific railway, ST. Louis son OF S. III.
Thompson. passenger agent at Pittsburg, died at
Bcetne, Tex. Dir. Thompson passed through
indianapolis, last evening with the remains, to
Cleveland, for burial. The deceased was twenty
-four years OF age.
H w. Hibbard general freight agent Of the
Vandalia, is in the city. His wife accompanies
him. Mr.. Hubbard, when pressed to know his
views pools. said he did not want -
thing to do with pools newspaper men. His
hair had grown gray with trouble which thu two
had brought upon him.
President ingalls,, of the c., l., ST. L. & G.,
has given orders to replace the wooden bridges
over Crooked creek, on the western division, with
apiron and steel bridge, and on the eastern di-
vision similar improvement is to be made over
Sand creek, Laughery creek and Lewis creek.
All are enespau bridges.
j. K Lape, formerly master mechanic of the
Bee-ne shops at Brightwoed, has been offered
the position of master mechanic of the Indian
apolG. Decatur IL Springfield shops. Mr.. Lape
is considered q very competent man for that pos
ition, and the l., ID. 4 S. people are quite anx-
ious to secure his services.
The auditors of the Wabash have never kept
IA re xxfh he 1aa oIi iroc
were added, but all earnings have gone into one
pot Some of this property will be very unde-
sirable when it gets back to original owners but
as the receivers have not been paying rant any
way, 1t can't be worse than now.
The gates at the street-crossing on the Union
tracks. which cost the Union Railway Company
several thousand dollars have proved to be a
grand nuisance. Most of the time the past
winter they have been unserviceable, and Union
Railway officials say that men with flags give
much better satisfaction to all parties.
Engine No. Is, on the c., l., St. L. & c..
- Brooks build Tuesday afternoon hauled the Gin
einnati express, consisting of six cars, from In
dianapels city limits to Cincinnati city limits in
two hours and thirty three minutes, making six
stops at stations and railroad crossings. The
distance between the two points named is 107
miles.
On the Indianapolis & ST. Louis road there
are forty nine locomotives. Last year three were
rebuilt entries and two consigned to the
twenty coaches thirteen mail, baggage and ex-
press cara. Freight equipment, LIE cars, 854
of them box-cars, l64 stock cars, 538 coal-cars,
125 fiat cars.
The l., D. g. S. people have already struck a
Bnag IN their attempt to establish through car
service between indianapolis and Kansas City, in
connection with the Wabash road-the Van
daiia ard the / & ST. L. threatening to retaliate
ON the Wabash by turning all their Kansas City
business from st. Louis over to the Chicago &
Alton and the Missouri Pacific.
President ingalls,. in his pleasant way. re-
marked to Commissioner Doherty of the Indian
apolis East-bound Pool, recently that he was
willing to share the expenses of the pool Office
for the statistics it furnished as it enabled him
to learn what his neighbors were doing So far
as his Seneca business was concerned, however,
1t would be kept out of all pools.
On the Beelne proper there are 166 locomo-
tives. Four were built in the companys shops
Last year. and six were consigned to the scrap
heap. The passenger equipments are nine two
coaches, six of them sleeping coaches; twenty
eight baggage and expresscars. The freight
equipment is 5.340 cars, 2663 of which are box
cars, 5S8 stock cars 1879 coal-cars, 629 fatcars.
T. w. McKenna, superintendent of the j., M g.
L road, visited the new c., st. l.. s. P. shops,
where much of the old machinery of the j., M.
Is l. shops has been removed to. One of the drills
Is some fifteen feet high, and Superintend
ent Mckenna was not aware that it had been
removed with the other machinery. but he
readily designated it yesterday by the high
water mark, the effect of the Ohio river foods
still being visible.
William ID. Wilson. agent of the Lackawanna
line at this point, has been notified that st con-
ference between the Delaware 81 Hudson Canal
Company. Delaware Lackawanna q Western
railroad, Lehigh Valley railroad. New York,
Lake Erie 81 Western railroad. and Philadelphia
q Reading railroad it was agreed taking effect
Monday. March %. 1885. not to accept as the
proportion east of Buffalo. East Buffalo, Black
Rock, Suspension Bridge, Niagara Falls, iona.
wanda, Dunkrk and Salamanca. on consign-
Inents TO interior territory upon the roads parties
hereto, less than the full proportion of published
tariff rates.
Only Bear Raid.
Investigation shows that the recent decline on