The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

In the month OF July there were handled at
the Union Depot 35,0l3 pieces of baggage; of
this number 10, 0O4 pieces were checked out
Employees the Wabash and L., N. A & G.
roads are sending out tracers for the pay-cars,
both roads owing for June service as well as
July.
A A. Jacks, Of Bloomington H., has been
appointed travelling passenger agent the L.,
K. & w. railway. with headquarters at Cleve-
land, o.
Pres ident Robert Garrett of the Baltimore q
Ohio railroad, is taking series of baths in the
south Of France, and his acknowledgements are
tiSapp caring.
ID. F. Jennings formerly assistant general
freight agent of the L., n. A & c., and now
agent of the Great Eastern line at chicago Is
spending day or two In the city.
The latest dodge among the travelling freight
agents is that u non one freight agent nvades the
territory of an agent representing another line,
they travel under assumed names.
Notwithstanding the depressed times with rail
roads the l.. D. & w. people have since the LIST
of January laid twenty seven miles of new steel
rails on the main line, and put in 10000 cross
ties
II. r. Dering, assistant general. passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania line west of Pittsburg,
viii take two weeks rest, and will spend the
Virginia
". A. Carpenter has resigned the position of
assistant general freight agent of the Norfolk &
Western road. The duties of that Office will here
after be performed by c. p. Hatch general
freight agent
The trouble on the Baltimore & Ohio RAILROAD
with regard to double headers brings up the
aisuuieting recollection that those queerly
named articles were the cause of the riot and
ruin Of 1877 in Pittsburg.
Adelbert c. Dawes. the general passenger and
ticket aeaent of the Hannibal 81 ST. Joseph
railway, and the Kansas City, st. Joseph e.
Council Bluffs railway, will be married on to-
morrow, Aug s. at the Presbyterian Church, in
Nevada Mo- to Miss Theodore Cresap
Commissioner Richardson, of the Chicago and
Ohio River pool has called meeting of the pas
seGger men for to morrow, to consider charges
of rate cutting preferred by the c.. st, L. & p.
against the L.. n A. 4 c., and charges of the
L.. N. A. & c. against the c., l.. st. L. & c.
The L. B. & ". people have their elevator at
Sandusky, o., in full operation, and last week
three vessels carrying 5000 bushels of grain,
were loaded The Lake Shore and the Lake
Eric & Western. as well as the l.. b. 81 W., are
$his year forwarding grain through this elevator.
Robert H. Garrett, the popular and efficient
city ticket agent of the Queen and Crescent
route in New Orleans, La, has accepted the
position of city ticket agent of the Louisville u
Nashville in New Orleans and will take charge
of its office. He is considered one of the best
ticket agents in the South.
high up freight official remarked yesterday
that 'if the agents of the fast-freight lines would
abandon the practice of intimating to ship
pers that an early break in rates is probable
whenever efforts are made to restore and main
tain rates, there would be much less trouble in
bringing about good results"
The news comes from Commissioner Fink's
Office that at a meeting of the trunk lines out of
New York efforts will be made to arrange out
standing accounts so that a settlement of exist
ing complications may be reached. 1t is init
mated, however, that owing to the difficulties to
~be surmounted series Of sessions will have to
be held
Extensive frauds are being perpetrated on the
railroads by persons who claim to belong to the
theatrical profession. They apply for tickets
over routes by which they never intend travel
ing, secure transportation at theatrical rates and
then sell the tickets to scalpers. An effort is
being made to ferret out the offenders and black
list them.
A practical observer of railroad operations and
business affairs says that the curse of cut rates
is summed up in the fact that each road is on
the rack of anxiety for fear that the other road
is doing just little better for the merchant and
the shipper, and the latter afraid that some
other merchant or shipper is getting better
terms from the railroads. The consequence is
that, in the loss of stability nobody is satisfied
with the situation.
One thousand carloads of wheat are being
shipped from Indianapolis elevators to ST. Louis
this week. AS soon as this lot is forwarded the
roads will join hands, aud endeavor to get a little
better than cents per 100 pounds rate
although there is as much money to the roads
hauling this ST. Louis business at a Scent
rate as there is TO the roads which prorate on
seaboard business at 1S4 cents per 100 pounds
from indianapolis.
A meeting of roads interested was held at Buff
falO last week to devise means for stopping
abuses that have grown out of allowing shippers
70 use their own printed forms Of shipping bills
which omit the rules printed on the forms pro
vided by the railroads. Rates were evaded by
the shippers by undertaking describing
freight ut less than actual weight through the
aid of their private bills of lading. They will
hereafter be required to use the railroad forms
exclusively.
Outside local ticket offices are freezing out the
the open handed scalpers at other points as we'll
ms at Indianapolis. The Atlanta Constitution
says: THE palmy days of the ticket scalper
passed in Atlanta. Six err eight years ago there
were several scaping offices in Atlanta, all of
Ehem doing thriving business Now there are
only three. Two of these are run by the same
proprietor, and the other is owned by firm.
The business has dwindled away until it is said
that two Offices here cannot make more than
mere living. One office would do well, but two
requires close financiering to pull through"
G. B. Lockwood, of Sandusky. O.. has been
appointed auditor of the Indiana, Bloomington
6 Western road. f. B. Crosley, who has Teen
Rct5ag auditor since G. l.. Dickson stepped out
viii be chief clerk of Mr. Lockwood. The
DSicIais speak of the services Of Mr. Crosley as
acting auditor in complimentary terms, as
ms experience prior to assuming the duties
of she Office was limited. but he has shown him
SELF TO be a young man of marked ability. Mr..
lockwood is an old hand, so to speak at the
business, he filing that position on the Cincin-
nhti, Sandusky & Cleveland for several years
very acceptahly to the former management of
tho C., 5 q c., now part of the l., b. g. W.
Eystem
An Alarming Decrease in Business.
Below is given the number of loaded and empty
cars received and forwarded at this point last
month. and also comparative statement of the