The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
An early change in the passenger agency OF
one of the local Offices is under consideration.
Judge Lochrane, for some years past general
solicitor of the Pullman Palace-car Company
has resigned his position.
G. w. Bailey to-day takes the agency OF the
Bee-line at DeGraff vice E. Fetterman who re-
signs owing to ill health. W. j. Thompson sue
ceeds Mr.. Bailey at Agosta.
All matters of the old Chicago and Ohio River
pool will be settled at Chicago tomorrow. me
Louisville, New Albany q Chicago road gets
$l8, 0O0; the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton
$40, 900.
George w. Northrop, for twenty-one years
past city passenger agent OF the Jetfersonyllle,
Madison & Indianapolis road at Louisville, was
yesterday appointed chief of police of Louisville.
BY the appointment the Pennsylvania people
Jose one of their best passenger men.
Mr.. Spaulding has been appointed manager of
the Pullman shops at Pullman, in place of Mr..
Barrows, resigned, and Mr. Bradley has been
appointed assistant manager. Both Messrs.
Spaulding and Bradley were manager and assist
ant manager Of the Pullman shops at Detroit
The stockholders of the Terre Hauts e. Lo-
gansport road elected as directors William r.
McKeen, d. w. Minshall, John B. Hager, John
G. Williams and George E. Harrington. The
directors organized by electing William X.
AC PACCAAShO
rotary and treasurer.
The Belt road and Stockyard directors met
yesterday and declared a 3 per cent. semiannual
dividend, and e~omplimented w. p. Ijams, super
intendent, on his efficiency during the past year.
Mr. Ijams, although the annual statement is not
ready, estimates December, and the results show
that 1884 was the most prosperous year since
the yards were established.
The stockholders of the Terre Haute & Indi-
annapolis road at their annual meeting elected as
directors for the ensuing year William X.
McKeen, Delos w. Minshall, Josephus Collett,
George Z. harrington, f. @. Crawford and John
&. Williams, the latter name being in the place
of the late Alex. McGregor. The board of direct
Ors elected William r. McKeen, president;
George Z. Harrington, secretary; j. w. Cruft,
treasurer.
Freight rates seem to be firm in Indianapolis.
Business is improving. Where there was one
car going forward there are now two or three,
and prospects are that there soon will be i've or
eight to one a month ago. Shippers feel better
satisfied with the situation. One remarked yes
terday that when rates were shaky he spent half
his time watching to see that another shipper
did not get a better rate than did he. Now he
can put in all his time watching the markets.
President Mackey, of the Evansville & Terre
Haute, has given the screw another downward
turn. He has cut the pay of freight conductors
from $3.50 to So per day; brakemen from $165
TO 81 so per day; freight engineers from 81 so to
- per day; passenger engineers from $3.5 6 to
So per day. The engineers waited upon Presi-
dent Mackey, it is stated, and presented their
grievances. He simply told them 'they did not
have to run on that road unless they chose to-
So frequently it is asked. what will it cost an
1Edianapolitan to go to New Orleans, visit the
worlds fair and return, that we give the ex-
penses in detail. A round trip ticket costs $23.
If You return within fourteen days, So of that
amount is refunded. This makes round trip rail
way fare $18; ~sleepins-car fare, both ways, $12;
meals en- route, So each way, $4 round trip;
room at New Orleans, seven days, ST.; admission
TO grounds, four times, So; meals, seven days,
Campbell says: 'Of course the figures are made
on a minimum basis, and from a st. John stand
point, no liquid refreshments being included"
Samuel Stevenson, president of the West
tern Association of General Passenger and Ticket
Agents, announces that the change in frst-class
rates from Chicago to st. Louis and Missouri
river points has necessarily made changes in
second-class rates, and rendered necessary many
changes in rates of all classes from points along
the Mississippi river, and from junction points
along various lines between Chicago and St
Louis. Owing to the ron-receipt of these rates
upon which to base the new ones, it is imppossi-
bic to make the rates from points east Of those
lines to Missouri river points. AS an important
meeting is to be held In Chicago tomorrow. to
fix Inauguration" rates, the members of the as
ISOLATION are requested to be present with
figures for the Western Association rate-sheet.
The East tennessee X Georgia In the HanGS
of a Receiver.
Judge Baxter, of the United States Supreme
Court, yesterday appointed Henry Fink receiver
of the East Tennessee & Georgia railroad. This
road is composed of the following lines, which
were consolidated July 20, 1881, under the above
title: The East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia
railroad, the Macon & Brunswick railroad, the
Cincinnati g Georgia railroad, the Knoxville &
Ohio railroad, and the Alabama Central railroad,
making a total of l 1913 miles, made up as fol-
lows: Bristol to Chattanooga, Tennessee,
242 miles; Morristown to Paint Rock, Tennessee,
As miles; Knoxville, Tennessee, to Kentucky
State line. 66 miles; Cleveland, Tennessee, via
Dalton, Rome 81 Selma, to Meridian, Missis-
sippi. $50 miles; Ooltewah to Red Clay, Tennes-
see, II miles; Rome, Georgia, via Atlanta and
Macon, to Brunswick, Georgia, 1878 miles. The
company owns ,123 miles of railroad. 1t also
operates, under a lease for twenty years from
July 1, 1879, the lines of the Memphis g.
Charleston Railroad Company, from Chattanooga
to Memphis, Tennessee, $40 miles, and the Flor
sence and Somerville branches, 20 miles-in all
800 miles, making a total of / 453 miles of owned
and leased lines now in operation. Capital stock
tconmon| 1877, 500, 600; capital stock (preferred),
Sic, 800, 600; income bonds, SIG, SOC, OG0. Bonds
resting upon the roads of other classes reach the
sum of $31, 500, 900. This is the second road this
year to drop into the hands of a receiver. Mr..
Fink has resigned as a director and vicerpresi-
dent of the road. E. w. Cole, formerly presi-
dent of the company, was elected in his place.
A Big Problem to Solve.
The Railroad Commissioner Of Minnesota, who
anay be supposed to be an impartial arbiter be-
sween the farmers and the railroads, talks vigor-
eusly in his annual report about the dispropor-
ton between the value of wheat and the tax inn
posed on it by the transportation companies. A
correspondent of the Railway Age, to Offset this,
says: ''The writer remembers when a load of
Nheat was hauled from a point in Illinois fifty
six miles to Chicago and sold for forty-six cents
a bushel, and the farmer had to take his pay in
trade at retail prices. The round trip occupied
four days. OF course, it was a very unpleasant
time in the life Of a pioneer Western farmer-he
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