The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The person who accepts the commissionership
rf4he Central Traffic Association is to receive
xaary of SIS, 900 year.
Nm Shaw has been appointed general agent
sfthe c., II. & |. and the l., D. & S. railways,
ui,k headquarters at indianapolis.
President Adams will examine the branches of
n. Union Pacific in Kansas the present week,
then 90 to Colorado, and return East about
arg l.
". P. Townsend has been appointed assistant
gsneral ticket agent of the Kansas City. Fort
Sntt & Gulf, and the Hannibal 81 ST. Joseph
rad, at st. Joseph, No.
Z Y. Debs, grand secretary of the Brother
iced Of Locomotive Firemen, who for some days
Bss been on bridal trip, is detained at Louis
file by the illness of his wife.
mr. Elliott, agent of the sleeping car compan-
iss, at the Union Depot, last month sold l,26O
herEhs, notwithstanding the fact that travel was
light portion of the month.
z p. Wilson, late with the Queen and Cres-
ceut route. is mentioned as probable successor
20 Mr. }. II. HIand, arbitrator of the Chicago,
ST. Louis and Missouri River Passenger Associa-
sloo.
Il d. Richardson. commissioner of the Chi
caEO and Ohio River pool, is IN the city looking
after some alleged crookedness in rate mat
sefs over Chicago line. He remains until noon
Today.
j. G. Searle has been appointed division freight
agent of the Northern Central railroad at Balti
more, succeeding VIM. II. Joyce, who has
been made coal freight agent of the Pennsylva-
MA railroad
Tae latest rumor is that the West Shore party
d&s secured for the receiVershlp a prominent
railroad man, whose appointment will, it is said,
Be considered significant of an agreement with
chs Vanderbilt party
The Master Mechanics Association declared at
Its recent meeting that locomotive spark arrest
ers are practically failures; that although many
u shem work we'll when the engines are run
slUTiy, they choke up when speed of forty
miles or more an hour is attained
Persons holding Pennsylvania e. New York
fDrk Central securities have been assured that
fEsBy reasonable sacrifice will now be made on
iosh sides to secure return of absolute AMIGA
Ae relations, with heavy money penalties for the
nfFacton of agreements. This is a favorable
tmen to say the least.
a test of the improved Eames vacuum auto
matte brakes is to be made this afternoon OH the
II & s. road, under the supervision Of George
81 Iayille, re presenting Eames Vacuum Brake
Company, 1913 Oliver street, Boston. An l., ID.
81 s. engine and six coaches have been fitted up
with this brake and will be run in making the
test OF it.
That very important negotiations are in pro-
gress can best be inferred from the fact that Mr..
Thomson, vice president of the Pennsy lvania,
aDd Dir Newell, president of the Lake Shore
tboth of whom We're to have sailed last week
pleasure trips to Europel have postponed their
excursions for indefinite term, and have
remained in this country in order to take part in
the discussions which occur almost daily on some
subject connected with the negotiations.
The earnings of the G.. l.. st. L. & G. big
Four road for the year closing June 80, tho last
month estimated, were gross, So 491, 521 90;
rents etc, $93, 500; total income, ST. 800, 49,
operating expenses, $1,607, 507; net earnings
$685. $780, fixed charges, $500, 978, surplus; $291
64i AS President ingalls, intimated they would
a few days since the directors decided to defer
the declaring of a dividend for the present. The
road begins the present year under favorable
auspices; the surplus in the treasury will pay
ali the floating Indebtedness and leave pretty
respectable bank account for the depressed
hines
There is belief prevails in railroad circles
Shat John McNulta was appointed receiver of
the Toledo Cincinnati e st. Louis road at the
suggestion of a person in the employ of the l., B.
Is W. Railroad Company; and in Boston, where
most of the bondholders reside, the same belief
prevails. The Boston Transcript of Tuesday
pornIng says: cat Springfield, H., the United
states Circuit Court has appointed Gen. John
AcNulta, of Bloomington, receiver of the Toledo
finejnnati & st Louis and as he was not Chair
nan Quigley's nominee, it is thought by some
that he may favor the policy of consolidation
sith the Indiana, Bloomington, 81 Western.