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

& G.. are expected in the city to-day.
e j. Waldron, who represents the Lackawan-
na fast freight line at Lafayette, Ind. it is
stated will succeed Mr. Clark as agent of this
line at st. Louis
The Wabash road is hauling over 5000 car
loads of crushed stone from points on the Ohio
Il Indiana division to the Decatur 81 East St
LENS division for ballast
Hiram Dixon. who, together with Alvin
Adams, organized the Adams Express Company,
dird at his home at West New Brighton, N. Y,
Oh Thursday last aged seventy-s years
a A. Talmage, Superintendent Stevens and
kha En- slish bondhoders' committee were in the
CITY Yesterday They made short stay and
thea went north over the l., p. q &. road.
July the regular trains the indianapolis
iisision of the line handled a. 703 passengers:
Every train moved right On schedule time and
Bst person received a bruise or a scratch.
Trains on the L., N. A. & C. (Air-line) com
menee running through to-day without transfer
at Delphi, a temporary structure having been
erected over the Wabash river where the bridge
Eens down last week
France Chandler. one of the best passenger
NTH in the West and now general passenger
agent of the Wabash road at ST Louis, is men
tioned as arbitrator for the Chicago, St Louis
and MISSOURI River Passenger Association in
place of Mr.. J. H. Hiland. resigned.
Il sranspires that the New York Sleeping car
tBagner) Company purchased the right to suo-
St.tRte their coaches for-the Woodruff coaches
on ahe Decline system. The contract between
tie Woodruff company and the Decline people
did not expire for some twelve months.
Hrs. j. Edgar Thompson, widow Of the late
president of the Pennsylvania railroad, has filled
hhr cottage at Eiberon with the little children
whose welfare she looks after. The little ones
a OrphapS a @ who
hare been killed in the service of the road
per cent dividend will be disappointing to
Stockholders Of the Belt road and StOckyards,
bus the days of a per cent. semi annual divi
dena have PASSED by. The heavy taxation these
enterprises are subjected to, and the increasing
expense Of maintaining the property make a
large hole in the earnings.
Vim. Hill, son of Col. Joseph Fill, superintend-
eBt Of the Nandalia, has been az pointed super
jnteAdent of the Wichita & Western road. There
arr fifty miles of road now in operation, and it
Is TO be extended from its western terminus to
Saratoga. thirty miles, without delay. Superin-
GeRdent Hills quarters will be Wichita.
Jack Hardesty, who for some years was super
Sntendont Of the Union Railway Company, but
who now holds responsible position on the
southern division of the Louisville 81 Nashville
road, is spending a few days with friends In this
city. He speaks of the l.. e. n. as doing good
business on all divisions of the system.
The bondhoiders of the Toledo, Cincinnati &,
ST Louis road said to be greatly exercised over
the appointment of politician receiver of
the road, and tits expected that the recently APP
pointed receiver will. in day or two. step down
and out, and that an Eastern man, whose name
not at liberty to give, will be appointed in
his stead.
The suit for the foreclosure of the West Shore
mortgage by the bondhoders will be heard at
New York on the 18th and it is fortunate that
1t Is no later II the bondholders had foreclOsed
SIX months ago, they would have saved much of
the property, which has since run TO waste in
the vain efforts to force the New York Central
to terms.
1t is stated that G. c. F Bent. master of trans
portation of the L.. N. A. &c G. system, will soon
retire from that position. The experience of Mr..
Bent since leaving the G., st. l.. d L. road is one
that should be needed by parties on the Pennsyl
vaDia lines COW holding good positions. There
dozens of good railroad men drifting about
who were educated on the Pennsylvania system
and should have remained there.
The Passaic roling-mill and bridge works,
OF Paterson n. j.. are building what will be-
when finished, the longest draw span in the
world 1t is to be 430 feet long, will weigh about
300 tons, and consists of iron and steel in the
proportion of three to two. 1t is for the
bridge which the Minnesota & Northwestern
Railroad Company is constructing across the
Mississippi river at St Paul. The length of the
entire bridge will be l. 1870 feet
1t is related hy railroad men that the late
1FeSluenL huttPF.. OF the New YORK central
railroad, never heard of the death of an EN-
pioye without hunting up the family to see that
distress did not bear too hardly upon them. His
charities We're large but he resented any refer
ence to his kindness Once clerk, evidently
aiming at self-advancement presumed to praise
Dir. Rutter effusively for his generosity. Mr..
Rutter discharged him on the spot.
The quarterly report of George Cobb secre-
tary of the indianapolis Railroad Mems Christian
Association, shows that in the quarter ending
July the rooms were visited by 1907 persons
Sixteen religious services we're held which were
attended by 356 persons. During the quarter he
made siXty-three visits to sick and injured per-
Sons, offices, etc, distributing Alb books and
magazines. He also visited in his official work
Greencastle and Fort Wayne Ind, Chattanooga,
Tenn, aud Atlanta, Ga.
The Boston Journal states that John F Jones'
general superintendent of the Hartford 81 Con-
nectieut Western road has resigned to accept a
position in the New England 81 Southern Con
straction Company. organized under the laws of
Massachusetts. He will be chief engineer and
superintendent or construction, and will enter
upon his duties road of five hundred miles
TO DO constructed from Charleston to the Ohio
river. This is railroad enterprise which has laid
dormant for some years, and one in which DR..
Haywood and other Indianapolis parties were
interested.
The Order of Railway Conductors, which have
membership of 5000, are, at their next annual
meeting, to decide where their headquarters
shalt be permanently located, and wherever
thas as they propose, with a handsome fund
they have, to erect fine building. with Offices
and large hall therein Grand Master Whee-
don strongly favOrs Indianapolis for their head
quarters so well located is it for the members
of the association, who scattered ali over the
United States, 1t might be we'll for the rail
read men and business men here to take some
interest in the enterprise. MIR. Baldwin, ticket
agent of the L., n A. & c. at this point, will
gladly give any information desired regarding
tho matter.
A Sound Property.
Nessrs. George s. Fox 6 Sons. the Third
street brokers. Philadelphia have written a
letter to their English correspondents advising
them not to sell out their Pennsylvania railroad
stnak Mr. Env is not nrnna To orun .Grinn and