The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-18
IRON HIGHWAYS.
The Disappearance Of the Main Line of
the t., C.. and st. L.
Financial Circles of Boston All Torn
Up over the Mst.er-Where Is
the Quigley CommitteeP
Other Items.

1t is said that the c., L, st. L. and @. has
freight blockade at Seneca.
Commencing with tomorrow but one pas
seDger train will be run each way on the L,
d. and S. A train will arrive here at IL q.
m. and depart at D p. m. This line will no
longer make through connections for st.
Louis but passengers for that point will be
ticketed over the Peoria division OF the l.,
B. and w.
The Chicago papers continue to howl
about the diversion of freight freight from
that great commercial center, but their
bowling has not tle desired effect, and until
radical changes are made in the inspection
rules of that city it will catch Dut a small
portion of the freight destined for seaboard
points. The Chicago Board OF Trade, it is
said, are already making efforts to have
these rules changed.
To-day the connection of the Wabash with
the l., B. and W., at Decatur will be discon-
tinued, and these lines will connect for
through business hereafter at Dsnville juno
ton. Tickets residing over the two roads via
Decatur to points east of this city, will be
substituted for them reading via Danville
Junction. Tickets sold prior to this date
will not be rendered void, however, by the
change in the location of the connection.
The change will result in the frightening of
the Wabash to several eastern points.
Several ministers called at the Office Of
General Passenger Agent A. ]. Smith re-
Gently to arrange for transportation, and
were somewhat surprised and amused when
that courteous gentleman fixed matters so
that they could not scalp their tickets. One
of the clergymen wanted to know IL Mr..
Smith was lsboring under the delusion that
they would do anything detrimental to the
interests of the road, wherein pom he replied
in the negative, but thought that he had
better fx things all right, for there were a.
large number of people who, while they
would not be guilty OF mean act or deed,
would think it all right to get ahead of
railroad if they could. He wanted to do
his share to bring about an answer to the
supplication Lead Us not into temptation"
A large number of trains were delayed
and several abandoned yesterday on account
of snow. The Chicago train and the Big
Four. due here at 3 a. ~, got in ten hours
late, and one train on the Air Line was
abandoned, while another was twelve hours
behind time. The Detroit through train on
the Wabash was awav off and morning
trains on the /. and st. L. arrived late yes
terday afternoon. Lines along the Vandslia
D.
w., and one train abandoned on the Chicago
division of the Pan. handle. The Cincinnati
division of the Big Four is making good
time, for the snow is great deal deeper
northwest than 1T is east of this city. Nearly
all of the roads were working snow plows
and last night much better time was being
made. The waiting rooms st the Union
Depot were crowded all day yesterday with
an impatient crowd of passengers who found
nothing on the train registers TO make them
cheerful.
An item has been going the rounds OF the
press for some time past TO the effect that
the late President Peck, OF the Terre Haute
and Indianapolis Road. used twice year to
walk the entire distance between Indianapo-
lis and Terre Hsute. carrying on his arm
basket in which he put any pieces of iron he
saw lying near the track, and when bis
basket became weighty would dump the
contents in pile near the road for the sec
ton men to gather" A Vsndalis official re-
ferring to the paragraph saws that the facts
were greatly overdrawn. This official says
that when walking through the yards at Terre
Haute or Indianapolis Mr.. Peck would pick
up aEy scrap he came ACROSS and put ii where
the yard hands could not overlook it, but
that he never footed it between the two
cities. Said the official in conclusion: 81
suppose no railroad in the country was ever
superintended by o man who watched the
hooks and corners and understood the in
tricacies of the roads affairs any better than
be did: No he was not peculiar in any way
other than his economy, which was indeed
commendable popularity.
The great scandal in the financial circles
of Boeten is the disappearance of the main
line and ST. Louis division of the Toledo,
Cincinnati and st. Louis "yardwide" Rail
road. The last time it was seen, some six
months ago, IL was in the hands OF gay re-
ceiver named Craig. Owingto it feeble condi-
ton the owners OF the road became anxious
about il, and decided last spring. by large
majority, to invoke the aid OF commis-
eioner of lunacy, which subsequently
took the name of "the Quigley COMMITTEES"
This committee had no sooner assumed
the custody of the road, when, strange
to relate, both the committee and the
road promptly disappeared. There seems
to have been a common agreement
among all concerned to keep matters
Quiet while the detectives were
working up the case. This week q para
graph in Western paper has excited some
thing of q futter. 1t told that Judge
Gresham has ordered trains between Toledo
snd Frankfort abandoned. This has given
the detectives clew. 1t was this missing
road which formerly united Toledo with
Frankfort. and the sagacious detectives
fess, that Judge Gresham would hardly have
strained the jucicial functions so far az to
order trains abandoned on q road the exist
ence whereof he felt to be in doubt. This
alleged discovery has given bondholders q
grain Of comfort; but the whereabouts OF the
Quieley Committee Is apparently as much .
Dystery as ever. Boston Exchange.