The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-18
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


The vandalia yards and shops at Terre Haute.
care now lighted with electric lights similar in
bcharacter to those in use at the c., ST. L. & P.
yards and shops at Indianapolis
! The Offices, stations and locomotives on the
bChicago & Illinois road have been appropriately
pdraped in respect to the memory of Colonel
Robert Forsythe. late traffic manager.
District passenger agents Dave Edwards, of
she Chesapeake s. Ohio and j. K. Hogan, of the
eDenver & Rio Grande road, were in the city
yesterday, ooi.ing after the interests of their
irrespective roads.
d. F. Whitcomb, superintendent of the
FUnion tracks and the Belt road, and Marshal
Manning, of tho Union Depot are both confined
Kat home, tusseling with low-grade fevers.
The Pennsylvania Company prosposes. this
season, to make extensive improvements to the
bv<State-line division in the way of Strengthening
curves and reducing grades In fact, the work
p has already been commenced
r. A. Lewis general manager of the Erie
Ffast freight lines, returned from Chicago last
yeyening. He reports nothing especially new re-
kgarding the troubles between the Erie and the
eChicago g. Atlantic managements.
Agents of the Lackawanna line at Western
points have received instructions not to contract
dor freight for Boston, either for export or 9th
.erwiSe, or New England, on basis less than
twenty cents per 100 pounds Chicago to Boston.
c. K Lord, general passenger agent of the
Baltimore e. Ohio road, has telegraphed the
general passenger agents of the more prominent
Western roads that he would use his best en-
Ideayors to withdraw all Baltimore q Ohio tickets
NOW In the hands of scalpers and outsiders.
The engineers who handle the engines which
haul the limited trains west are patiently walt
iog for the train to reach Indianapolis one hour
sor one and a half hour late. They say they
want chance to show how quick fast train
can be hauled from Indianapolis to St Louis
sDyer the Vandalia line
1t is understood that the position of traffic
emanager on the Chicago & Illinois road is TO be
abolished, that Frank Davis, who has been with
4he road for several years, will be appointed
general freight agent, and that Superintendent
LyfQrd viii assume a portion of the duties
9Ooked after by Colonel Robert Forsythe, de-
.ceased.
If President Joy and General Manager Tai
mage can not now operate the Wabash system
without running it in debt they may rs well
step down and out as the court has arranged
Hnatters so that ali they need do is to pay operat-
ing expenses. They are neither obliged to pay
Interest on bonds, even maintain the equip
ments and road bed
For two or three nights past when the limited
express left Indianapolis for the East every berth
IN the sleeping coaches has been occupied, and
the fact that in the sleeping coach and hotel
car hauled on the fast line. which departs an
hour earlier. the berths are nearly all taken
shows that the limited passengers are not car
Tied at the expense of this train
Chief Engineer Morris, of the c., l., St L. e.
c., has contracted for three new iron and steel
bridges, one to be placed over Crooked creek, on
the Western divisions: one Sand creek;
other Laughey creek, on the Eastern division.
When these bridges are in it will be some five
years before further expense, other than
ordinary repairs, need be incurred in this direo-
ton
General Passenger Agent w. B. Shattuc has
'Culars to the agents of the Ohio & Mississippi
road, instructing them to maintain full tariff
rates in all directions if they expect to remain in
the employ of the company. foot note in
6tructs agents to report any cut in rates made
by their competitors, but in no case to meet
them.
Vice-presdent fish and several of the directors
OF the Illinois Central road came west over the
Pennsylvania lines and left here over the Van
<sAlia, yesterday. The party spoke in very
pIimentary terms of the condition of the C., St
l. & p. track, which they came over, and the
Vandalia gave them nice run to bingham, the
crossing point of the Illinois Central road The
sparty will this week inspect the Illinois Central
road
III. B. Hammond, receiver Of the l., d. & S.,
rreturned from New York Yesterday in excellent
spirits. He states that fully so per cent of the
first mortgage bondholders have accepted the
proposition to receive onehalf the interest on
their bonded debt which fell due April /, and
which falls due October l. 1885, in cash, and
find the remaining portion. This is certainly
gratifying, as il is but fifteen days since the
proposition was made.
The Toledo Blade says that the Wabash peo-
pie are to lay off $50 men at Toledo, employed in
1he shops The duliness of the railroad business
is the reason given for the wholesale reduction
OF the working force. 1t would seem much bet
lter were the road to increase its shop and
mot road in this country the locomotive power
of which needs more general repairs than does
that of the Wabash system.
III the general passenger agents of the roads
which employ these eross-road agents. who use
the ticket-order books with so much freedom
would instruct said agents as to the proportion
OF the amount the initial road gets in some of
the rates they name, there would certainly be
less deep rate cutting. Some Of these agents
nave conceived the idea that the initial road
gets the entire amount paid for the ticket, and
fhe Western connections haul the passengers for
the fun of the thing
Dr. Webb. president of the New York Gen.
trail formerly the Wagner Sleeping-car Compa-
ny, is making q trip over the lines which their
cars run. He states that the company has
dertaken to make the standard Of the New York
Central sleeping cars second to none in the coun-
Try. There are now being constructed for his
company, in the Pullman shops in Chicago,
fwenty-six elegant new sleepers. His company
3aAs also in the course of construction new smok-
ers. with buffet and library, with easy chairs.
lounges ETC.. that will be superior to any cars of
the kind In the country, and which will be
placed on all the through trains of the lines over
which New York Central cars are running be-
tween Chicago and New York, and St Louis and
New York via Indianapolis. DIR. Webb is ac-
conpanied by his wife, who is a daughter of Mr.
w. III. Vanderbilt.
A Powerful Agency for Good.
Grand Chief Arthur. of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, in his address at Terre
Haute on Sunday last began by narrating the
history of the organization from the time it was
formed until the present time. He said its
growth has been steady and most satisfactory.
The brotherhood is now of the strongest and