The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-15
kFF ..,o OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal asld Local.

eTnployes at Pittsburg, with library, reading
soom, assembly hall and bathrooms this week.
Frank j. Reed late business manager of the
Lafayette Journal has accepted postionin the
passenger department of the L., n. A. & c.
railroad
The Pennsylvania people have what is known
a. a locomotive grave yard where a row of dis
mantled engines stand gloomily awaiting the
railway charon to consign them to oblivion.
The first train of thu fast service established
by the Erie railway, arrived at Chicago at
o'clock, last night, having arrived on schedule
time, or twenty-seyen hours from New York
On the line of the Indianapolis & Vincennes
road harvesting wheat is going on IN earnest
Superintendent Turn er says the berries are
plump and the fields are yielding more than was
expected.
The ten miles of steel rails recently dstrib-
utea on the c.. f. & l. division OF the e.. H. q
ID. lines will be in the track by Saturday nlent
The management expect to get IN another ten
miles this season.
Paymaster Sullivan. of the c., l., St. L. & c.,
pays tomorrow on the eastern division for June
serriee and Friday the western division.
President ingalls, expects to accompany the pay
master on this trip.
The Wall streeters who are bearing stocks be-
cause railroad freight earnings are going to fall
OF, and bearing grain because the crop prospects
were never better, are having serious time
reconciiine their theories
Vice president Waite, of the G., FL. & D. lines,
and has associate officials, Starke superinten-
dens; Stevenson, general passenger agent Nc
Iced, general freight agent and Ramsey, chief
engineer today inspect the g., II. 81 |. division,
and will probably remain over tonight in In
dsanspolis.
Indianapolis has more outside ticket Offices
than any city in the Union, Chicago not except
ed. Several cities have larger number of pro
feSSIouaI tinkat .cca1paYs hut
prosperous than wide awake scalper at Indian
ayolis usually is. The regular ticket agents. as
well, with their combined salary and commits
sions, manage to get $500 to 500 per month.
Master Mechanic Prescott, of the Vandalia, says
a thoroughly built locomotive should run 10000
miles before it needs complete Overhauling.
There have been exceptions, where a locomotive
has 1000 miles without the need of a single
rerfalr beyond the kind that the engineer himself
can attend to; on the other hand. some have
been returned to the shops with record Of only
40 600 miles
By an ingenious arrangement refrigerator cars
running over the Bee-line laden with dressed
meats and other pershable articles are iced here
in five minutes with ease. Cars loaded at Indian
apolis for Eastern markets require /. 500 pounds;
cars laden with dressed meats from Kansas City
and ST. Louis which are received at this point,
TOO to 500 pounds. This class of traffic is now
reaching six to ten carloads per day this
road
Complaint is made that the proprietor of the
Climb house at Turkey lake treats parties who
hold round-trip tickets over the Cincinnati, Wa
bash & Michigan road ungentlemanly. The
railroad company requires that all round trip
tickets should be stamped at the club house
ssfhce before they are good to- return, and unless
snch parties patrons of the club house they
are, it is alleged, treated uncivilly. 1t would
be well for Manager Beckey to look into this
matter, Turkey lake is fast becoming popu-
lar summer resort
It evidently pays to construct bridges in the
most substantial manner. An ugly disaster on
the Vandalia road was averted on Sunday last
by the substantial character of the long railroad
bridge over the wabash river. AS freight train
No. % was crossing the structure a fiange broke
on one of the forward trucks in the train, and six
cars were deraied and dragged for nearly the
entire length of the bridge. the at one time
Ecraping the iron side frame work. The ties in
the bridge in some places nearly cut through,
and show the fearful strain to which they were
subjected
An official of the c.. H. & I. road takes excep-
ton to the item that the c.. III. & ID. people are
shoulder. He says if it does appear so it is not
intentional. The trains which haul the Chicago
and Cincinnati through coaches of the L., n. A.
Il c. over the c., II. & |. at a very high
speed and the official says number of times
the boxes under their through coaches have
become so hot that it was necessary to transfer
the passengers and set the coaches on the side
track, and this led to some growing But the
this character IS about over
The Railway World, in commenting upon an
article which recently appeared in the Journal
on the frauds perpetrated by Western shippers
n iroads, says 1T is scarcely probable that
thu forms of systematic mercantile sWindline
which have been exposed in the West are con
4Tan1 TO that section. Some of the Eastern ship
pers. and notably those who delight in 6enounc-
ing alleged railway abuses, have probably been
quite as ingenious and INSCRIPTIONS as their
Western cOmpperS. When artifica clamOr SIMS
Ger influences and ruinous competition fail to
reduce railway rates below just level and even
at times when public rates are unreasonably low,
downright fraud in weights descriptions of
goods too often swells the list of influences that
are depicting railway revenues"
Is is matter of congratulations saws the
Tcrre Haute Express. that in spite of the hard
times, the L. II. q l. company still maintains it's
reputation as dividend-paying concern, the
only noticeable effect of the depression being
Ghat sAe semi annual dividend now declared is
per cent less than the usual dividends hereto
fore declared While this is true the Express
fails to mention the best phase of the situation
wiki this road, and, in fact, on the entire Van
Galia system. During these depressed times
Shere has been distress among the employees
on the road. reductions IN salaries have been
light, but few men, comparatively speaking,
have been dropped, and far as practicable,
only single men, and on the whole length of the
road the employees are satisfied with their lot.
Engine 658 on the Pennsylvania road which
has historical record, came out of the shops at
dorsey City last week, rebuilt. This engine es-
tatshed its record in July, 1881, on the day Dr.
Frank II. Hamilton summoned to Garfelds
bedside At half an hours notice it whirled the
special train from Jersey City to Philadelphia in
one hour and thirty eight minutes, including one
stop and several slow-downs. And again in the
following September when Garfield was taken
TO Elberon. G58 was detailed to haul the special
train; and two weeks later COS began the mourn
FIJI ride which, starting at Elberon, ended at
Cleveland, 0. Last year 659 was put in charge
of Engineer MacLean, on the Long Branch i'm
tied express, and 124 miles every day for
twelve weeks in Il few minutes over three hours
intending eight stops. In September she went
to the shops for thorough overhaung, and has
beer. there ever since. Next week COS will re-