The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS
Personal and Local.

The L., n. A. & c. people are building two
elegant r~eclining-chair cars which win be put on
Nightly to run between Indianapolis and Chicago.
SCENTS will take pride and boast of the high
rates rather than low rates which they secure
from passengers to Western points,
One thing is already settled. that is Western
roads which earned dividends last year are sure
10 earn them this year, and add to their surplus.
providing fair paying rates are maintained.
O.. w. Mink, assistant treasurer of the Union
Pacific, is in i'll health from too close conine-
znent, and tomorrow he will sail for Europe,
with the intention of returning early In August
j. G. Everest. the genial travelling passenger
agent OF the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 st. Paul
road, Coi. VIM. Shaw, of the L., b. 81 W., and
VIVA Caldwell, of the West Shore, are in the
city.
The following changes in agencies have re-
GENTLY taken place on the Decline system: At
Bunker Hill, H.. a. Y. Brown vice George
Stephenson; Butler, Ill, S.. H. Grimes vice A
n Brown; Irwin, 7. J. Roll vice John Flavin.
George L. Bradbury, general manager Of the
p. D. & Z. road, is in the city. He states that
their through train over the p, D. & E., the l.,
ID % 5. and the c.. ST. L. & p. is already a pay
ang institution, and its business improving daily.
The elegant Woodruff sleeping-coach, ''Cresson
aNaLys which TOOK J0e nrSE premium at the new
Orleans exposition, was standing on a spur
track west of the Union depot yesterday, and
YVES visited and admired by a number of persons
who are competent to judge of its merits.
The Brush Electric-light Company are erect
hng a powerful electric light at the crossing of
Virginia avenue and the Union tracks. The gas
company recently put up a ten-light post there
by order of the City Council, and the former
company now propose to outshine them with one
OF their lights, resting on a post fifty feet high.
General Passenger Agent Bronson, of the l. B.
= WI Egan, Of the G., l., St, L; &C., Der
ang, of the j., NJ. 81 l., and Traffic Manager
Lazarus, of the l., ID. g. S., left for Chicago last
night to attend the meeting to be held there to-
day. A stormy time is looked for, as rates are
badly denoralized everywhere except at Indian
Apolis.
That the Decline people have got their road
bed and equipments in fine condition no one will
question. Now let the management tackle the
Rating-house question. Some on the line are
miserable affairs. A shriveled, tough. fried beef
steak a week old, yellow s~aleratus biscuit and
feur are not what frst-class travel, such as this
road is now catching on to relish.
Sir Henry Tyler is quoted in a Chicago paper
AS saying that a pooling arrangement with the
American lines would be difficult, owing to the
number of competing lines and many conflicting
interests, including the trouble between the New
York Central and West Shore, the troubles in
the West and the general hes tility between the
Pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt party, because
Of the latteris action in building the South Penn
Eyiyania railroad.
A plan according to which the Pennsylvania
Railway Company is to secure control of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 DAYTON, unite with the
Cincinnati Southern, and take in the East Ten
nessee, Georgia q Virginia-the whole to be vir-
Sualiy q gigantic consolidation. controlled by the
first named company--has been evolved by the
speculative imagination of one of the leading
Southern papers. A day or two will put an end
to all speculation of this character. In fact, to-
day the c., FL. g. d. election will settle a good
many questions over which there has been much
speculation.
nthe c., I. st. L. & c. system there are $50
frogs, and from rs to 100 require renewal an
Dually. The company, for three years past, have
been manufacturing their own frogs, bat after
investigation they find that they can purchase
them from a mandatory at a saving of 20 per
cent, and really get a better frog. They are
now testing two of the best patterns of frogs,
the Ajax, manufactured at Chicago, and the
Emley frog, manufactured at indianapolis, on
the main line, with a view of replacing all their
frogs with a uniform pattern as fast as a change
.Eaffogs IS necessary.
After telegraphing all over the country for a
couple of weeks, and charging each other with
cutting rates, the passenger agents have
stumbled onto the scheme by which the scalpers
have been enabled to cut the rates $3 to persons
going to Denver and other Western points. The
Bc8Ipers have been using to advantage
the return part of the limited Dunkards,
better known as the Brown ticket, be-
tween Indianapolis and Kansas City.
This game will end, however, with June 2, when
the limit on this class of tickets expires. Here
after, doubtless, the passenger men will be more
cautious in their distribution of this character of
tickets.
An Indianapolis railroad official, who has some
twenty clerks in his Office, has been more or less
ANNOYED for a few weeks past by some of
the clerks reaching their desks late on Monday
gnoFning. Yesterday morning two of the num-
ber, who arrived late, were SURPASSED to find on
their desks a placard, written with a bold hand,
reading: "A Good Clerk Wanted for this Desk"
Both are said to have looked greatly surprised,
and, without much delay, rushed into the Office
TO explain to the official the cause of their tardi-
ness. Excellent promises were made as to the
future, and the official, who is a y whole souled
fellow, told them to return to their desks, and
hereafter he expected them to be more pune
4ual
A leading official of the Pennsylvania road on
Saturday last remarked to a reporter of the Phil
adelphia Press that representations which have
been repeatedly made that they intended to with
draw or had given notice of a withdrawal from
the trunk line pool are utterly without founda-
ton. They are in the pool to remain until there
Is no possible chance to keep it together. They
are In hopes that after the 1st of July, until
(which time the pool has been extended, some
final agreement will be reached. The Grand
Trunk and the West Shore, according to the
statements of the Pennsylvania officials, are the
only companies that have ever given notice of a
withdrawal from the pool.
The fact that the New York Central and
Pennsylvania are doing a very large freight
busiIsss is constantly referred to as a season
why an immediate cessation of the trunk-line
war should be brought about The truth is that
shs large traffic of these two roads is evidence
that the war is deep-seated rather than other
wise. Their position and facilities for carrying
freight and passengers naturally give them adj
Tantages over the other lines, and they are simp-
" using these advantages. The whole cues
zion, as the Philadelphia Inquire says, of a
trunk1me settlement is to equalize the physical
INEQUALITIES of the different roads justly.
Naturally two roads get all the business, but
this is no sign of prosperity.
No Scheming In Their Programme.