The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



official business
Tho receivers of the Wabash have thus far
issued only 1920 900 Of the s. 00O 900 of certif-
Gates for which they have authority.
meeting Of the transcontiEental pool is to
be held at Denver to-day to see what can be done
to harmonic differences and reorganize the
pool.
Passenger travel over the vandaIia lines is
very heavy. On Monday last 2,936 passengers
were handled on the system, and on Wednesday
3,2O4
The expenses of the Wabash in December,
january and February exceeded the earnings by
$l52,3Sl. The snow and depression are the
alleged causes
r. l.. Queisser, with M. L. Doherty, pool Office,
has resigned, to accept position with d. FL.
h0ache, general freight agent Ohio Southern
railroad, at Springfield O.
The prospects for the organization of q car
weighing association at Indianapolis are far
from hattering. The l.. B. & w. people refuse
TO become partners in the scheme
II. b. Hammond, receiver of the indianapolis,
Decatur q Springfield road. will probably lease
seven rooms in the Condit Block, under the
Western Union Telegraph Office, for his general
officers
John G.. Byrne, now in the Michigan Central
passenger service will take charge of the passen-
ger and ticket department. of the Oregon Rail-
way and Navigation Company at Portland, Ore,
on April |.
Daily several refrigerator cars pass through
Indianapolis, on route from St Louis to Boston,
over the Vanderbilt lines. laden with dressed
beef. The property is shipped by the St Louis
Beef and Canning Company.
The Pennsylvania railroad is reported to be
making freight contracts at greatly reduced
rates, to take effect April l. The railroad pool
Iin on Dau
Z. +. Kelly assistant general freight agent of
the g., l., St l.. q c., who retires April j. goes
to St Louis, where he is employed by the Board
of Trade as a rate manipulation. He is supposed
to DO able to secure lower rates for shippers than
they themselves could obtain.
w. w. Spiers, q prominent freight man in
she West and withal very competent fellow,
has been called to Buffalo. N. Y. and there is
good authority for saying that he can have the
position of general manager of the West Shore
last freight-line should he see fit to accept it.
Parties are arranging to build hotel at Lake
viii make the pleasure resort more attractive
than ever. The O., l., st. l.. 81 G. and the Van
dalia will, with the commencement OF pleasure
travel put on through coaches between Indian
aDois and Lake MAXIM 5ekee.
On the T. III. & T. aiyision of the Vandala,
last year the earnings per train per mile were
$fO1SJs1o; net earnings, % 3lno ret mile. On
the St Louis Vandaiia q T. H1aEe division
81. ITO ps. mile; net earnings, 26 8-10c per
mile. On the L. ii. 81 L. division, 81 6l0c per
mile net earnings 410 of cent.
The many friends of A. s. Burgess district
passenger agent of the Union Pacific, head
quarters in this city will regret to learn that he
Is seriously ill. For some weeks he has been
confined to the house with infiammatory rheu-
matsm, and his troubles have become more COM
plicated, something Of the nature Of dropsy set
ting in
j. W. Smith, manager of the West Shore G.
Hoosae Tunnel fast-frelght line, has resigned.
The management of the line. until successor is
appointed, will devolve on John Main, assistant
general freight agent of the Grand Trunk,
which IL party to the line compact Mr. Main
denies that Smiths resignation was the first
step toward the abolition of the line.
Evidently there are lively times ahead for the
local passenger men, of the first ar
engagements Traffic Manager Lazarus will enter
into will be the putting on Of line of through
cars in connection with the Wabash between
Indianapolis and Kansas City. Two trains will
be run west, one In the morning and another at
10 p. NJ. which will make close connections with
tie " abash trains.
The hospital system on the Wabash was Dor
rowed from the Missouri Pacific, and was in
augurated on the Wabash when Mr.. Tamage
became general manager. The men complain
that when they are injured, possibly fatally, and
most need the comforts Of home, they are or
dered into ear and carried 100 or more miles
excellent medical care and good nursing afforded
ut the hospital.
One of the American locomotive headlights in
use on engine AGO on the c.. ST L. 81 p. road
was badly demoralized night or two since by a
careless engineer al q freight train. No AGO.
which was hauling the night express, was at a
stand-still when the freight engineer. whose train
was on sidetrack. took his hammer from the
box purposing to magnetic 1t The result was
that his hammer was drawn With such force
eft he GCh hat tora fba iuc,s latn
its moorings, destroyed the dynamo and necessi-
tated the construction of a new plate entire
The Denver Times publishes an interview
with d. III. Moffat. the president of the First Ma
honal Bank of Denver, who has been elected
president of the Denver & Rio Grande railway,
to fill the vacancy occurring by the resignation
OF Frederick Lovejoy Mr. Moffat said that the ,
road was TO be reorganzed, and that meeting
was to be held in New York on April Is for that
purpose: that the stockholders were to subscribe
20 a special fund of about 3d. 000 900, which
would necessitate an assessment of So per share
on the common stock; that the road would be
put In complete order.
An Invention Which Is Not Fully An
preciated.
Within the last few months the locomotives
Of two passenger trains, when running at
full speed have exploded. and in each case the
Westinghouse automatic air-brakes have pre-
vented a great destruction of property, and
doubtless the loss of many lives. Near Pop
lar Grove. on the Missouri Pacific road the
pngiue of passenger train, when running
swenty-fiv miles an hour, exploded, killing the
engineer and mortally wounding the fireman
The position of the locomotive was completely
reversed by the explosion and one piece weigh
ing over 600 pounds was blown 400 yards, cut
ting off tree eight inches in diameter. The pos
tai ear, which was next the tender, was complete
iy wsUcked, but none of the other cars were even
derailed III this case, also. the instant that
the hose of the automatic air brake between the
tender and the first car was parted by the eff
fects of the explosion the whole force
of the compressed air stirred in the auxiliary
reservoirs WAS automatically applied to setting
and holding the brakes. This prevented the