The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-31
AFFAIRS OF TIE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The Toronto Globe settles the sex~of rail
road by announcing that 1.-The Canadian Pacific
bas changed her timetable"
Heavy shipments of wheat are being made
from indianapolis and this vicinity to ST. Louis,
go much better are prices there than at the sea-
board
w II. Pettibone, for some time with the
Chicago & Grand Trunk road, has accepted the
position of general superintendent of the Toledo,
Cincinnati d st. Louis road.
Within the last ten days 2l0 carloads of
wheat have been shipped from Noblesville. Ind,
and l6O carloads has come to Indianapolis, and
was from here forwarded to St Louis.
Superintendent McKenna. of the j., u q l.,
has ordered that engine No. 6l0 be equipped
xith q Wooey electric headlight. and that style
OF electric light be given fair trial
The wife of James Hazard, late agent Of the
C H. & D. at this point, died suddenly yester-
day morning. The deceased was highly esteemed
by all who had formed her acquaintance
H B. Hammond receiver of the l., D. & S.
road has deferred his trip West until the latter
part of next month owing to the exceedingly
warm weather which prevails all over the coun-
try
Outside pool points charge Chicago roads with
cutting livestock rates. thus securing business
fhat would fall to those places The Chicago
Times says the insinuatiou is vigorously denied
there.
The funeral services of A. J. Baird late en-
ginesr on the Belt road, will be held at 2 P NJ on
Sunday. The brotherhoods Of Locomotive
Engineers and Firemen viii each attend the
Service in a body.
Over several Of the roads the last day or two
ThBre has been quite brisk movement of old
com and wheat. At some stations on the l., ID.
IL S. and the l., b. & ". roads, five to ten cars
are being loaded daily.
The agreed tariff rate on grain from Indian
apoiis to ST Louis is five cents per 100 pounds
which certainly seems low enough, yet one road
thinks different, and has dropped the rate to
four cents per 100 pounds
The Wabash people are making extensive i'm
proEements in their line between Lafayette and
Toledo Barbed-wire fences have been put up
at various points along the road and new steel
RAILS sixty five pounds to the yard, are going
down wherever needed.
The directors of the Philadelphia Whining
fon s. Baltimore Railroad Company held a
special meeting yesterday afternoon, and con
hrgne0 the purchase of the Delaware, Maryland
e Virginia railroad This line will become
part Of the Pennsylvania system on Aug. l.
Commissioner L. D. Richardson, of the Chi
cago and Ohio river pool has received tele
graphic advices announcing that the roads south
OF the Ohio river had advanced rates on bran
from Ohio river points to Chattanooga to 81
cents per 100 pounds the old rate having been 20
cenSs~
Railroad earnings so far as reported for three
~eeks in July. show substantial gain. Traffic
was increased, and'while the advance is not of
vary large proportions, railroad officials believe
That IL marks turning point from the steady
falling off noticeable in the reports for the first
half OF the year
The earnings of tho Wabash, st. Louis &
Pacific Railway Company for the week ending
June 81, shows a decrease of $8l 970 the mum
Der Of miles operated being 2.776 against 1886
an 1854 The decrease for the current year is
her ri mil a
operated less by PAL
~. K. Elliott, superintendent of transportation
Of tho Vandalia, was in the city yesterday. He
reports the prospects excellent for the Vandalia
this fall; IN fact he says there is already an in
creased movement of grain, and coal traffic
the entire system is heavier than at the CORE
spending period, 1884.
Mrs. J. p Curtis, wife Of John B. Curtis,
former conductor on the Panhandle, was thrown
from buggy, In runaway at Ravenna, o., a
few days ago, and received injuries from which
she died She was a very estmable lady. and
her many friends in Indianapolis, Richmond ard
Columbus o., will be panied to learn of her
death.
From points north of Upton. on the L. P. &
G. road, and on the Eel River division of the
Wabash system, there was a fine crop of wheat
which is now being shipped at lively rate to
Toledo. 1t is said that not for years has there
been such pressing demand for cars at stations
on ahese divisions of the Wabash as at the pres
enS time.
f. Hudson has been appointed master mechan-
&C Of the Decline shops at Cleveland vice VIM.
GarStang, transferred to the shops at Bright
wood The employees at Brightwood and
the engineers on the indianapolis di
vision are highly pleased that Mr.. Garstang has
oeen placed in charge of the shops as he is q
blg hearted fellow, appreciates good work and
treats men humanely
So numerous have soliciting passenger agents
become about the local outside ticket Offices near
the Union Depot that in their eagerness tosecure
business agents are apt to overreach, more es-
peeially astregards the rules of the Union Rail
way Company as to soliciting passengers in and
about the depot, and it is suggested that it might
De well for Superintendent Whitcomb to have
such rules printed in a convenient form and
distributed among the passenger men.
81 Louis has not restored rates as promptly
as gas expected, and at Peoria they are not so
Soiid as to Indicate their maintenance. The /
& ST IL. is said to Oe the tardy road at St Louis
and the Chicago & Rock Island at Peoria Thus
far the Chicago q Rock Island the present month
has taken out y! per of Peoria east bound
business, which any person who understands
their situation at Peoria know they would not
hare done had they maintained tariff rates.
+. St John, general passenger agent of the
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific road has christ
ened Colfax Springs. on their line, the Saratoga
oi the West, and publishes book of some fifty
pages, showing the marvellous health restoring
properties and medicinal virtues of the mineral
water Of the Old Magnetism. Chalybeate and
Cofax springs, its beautiful surroundings and
interior accessories to comfort and luxury the
facilities 1t provides for rest, recreation and
social enjoyment.
Il is stated that the weeks east bound tonnage
from chicago Will show up strictly on the 20 and
- cent basis. While fifty or one hundredcar
shipper of grain is a Hessian fly in
Dakota, still more or less grain is going forward
IL ear load lots. The interior m;llers of New
England and New York steady consumers in
small way. and the aggregate of their con-
Sumption is large. With nothing to stimulate
export movement, very large increase is not
looked for at present.
The Vandata company landed 433 coal miners
with their families at the Parke County Coal
Company mines, in good shape on Wednesday
night They came from West Virginia via the