The Indianapolis journal., 1885-02-25
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


H. c. Diehl, general freight agent of the
I.B& &w.. has gone to Philadelphia to attend
the line meeting.
+. L. Pomeroy has been appointed general
freight agent of the West Shore road vice B. III.
Ball, resigned, the change to take effect March l.
man who was taking corpse from Wabash
to St Louis the othe. day, over the W., St L.
& P. road, bought round-trip ticket for the
corpse.
c. A. Desaussure has been appointed assistant
general passenger agent. with headquarters at
Knoxville, of the East Tennessee, Virginia s.
Georgia.
Colenel Hill. superintendent of the Vandalia.
arranged, yesterday, with one Of their con-
nections to secure. for short time, 100 coal
cars. to help the Vandalia out of the rush.
The Vandalia people are short of coal cars, so
heavy have shipments of coal been over their
system of late A considerable number of their
cars were caught in the northern Indiana snow
blockade.
The stockholders of the Columbus, Hope &
Greenburg road yesterday elected the old board
of directors and they reorganized by eleeting
Colonel Horace Scott president, e. Ewing secre-
tary and w. II. Lucas treasurer.
The Offices of the division freight agents of
the Pennsylvania lines in Chicago, will, on May
/, be removed into the new Board of Trade
Building at Chicago. The company will then
have the finest freight offices in that city.
A. J. Smith, secretary of the National Associa-
ton of General Ticket and Passenger Agents,
gives notice that the annual meeting of the asso-
citation will be held in New Orleans, La, at the
Hotel Royal, Tuesday, March IL. at IL o'clock
A NJ
w. III. Sage, general freight agent of the Rock
Island, was arrested the other day for assaultng
book agent The court discharged him on
proof that the agent was impudent and failed to
get out of the Office as rapidly as. he should
when told.
Seventy four immigrants, bound for Texas,
went west over the Vandalia yesterday. They
among the better class of immigrants,
young, healthy. and pretty well prepared, finan-
ciaiiy, to go into a new country. The agent
said that the party carried about $40, 900 with
them.
Yesterday morning there were standing on
side tracks of the L.. N A. & c. road 640 loaded
cars, to be forwarded either north or south.
The entire motive power of the company which
is fit for service is employed, and now that the
road is clear couple of days will make a de-
cided change in matters.
It is understood that the Western & Atlantic
wiz withdraw the sleeper now running between
Montgomery and New York from Dalton over
the East Tennessee. Virginia & Georgia, and
give the car to the Cincinnati Southern at Chat
tanooga, and from Cincinnati it will be hauled
to New York oyer the Pennsylvania lines.
There was little disturbance in the new local
passenger association yesterday it being alleged
that the local agent of the c., Fl. & l. had broken
the agreement Investigation showed that he
got full rates on the four tickets sold. but gave
forty-day limit to the tickets, when. under the
agreement, it should have been but fifteen days.
The committee appointed by the local agents
to prepare plan for the organization of car
weighing association, held another meeting yes
teraay afternoon and about completed their
work. Nothing further will be done in the mat
ter until one week from Monday next, when the
regular monthly meeting of local agents is to be
held
There are but three persons now prominently
mentioned for the position of commissioner of
the Transcontinental Association, namely John
G. Gault, formerly with the Wabash: E. p Rip
ley. general freight agent of the c., B. & O.,
and L. G. Cannon, now acting commissioner,
and indications are that the last named will be
selected.
Traffic Manager Scnrader, of the Illinois Mid
lapd road, has caught the right idea. He tells
the reporter of the Terre Haute Gazette that
the Midland charges full local rates for freight
4nto Terre Haute and then turns it over to the
other lines to fight about The road is in the
Peoria pool in interior freight but not in sea-
coast business, and the management states that
they decline to handle classes of business which
do not pay.