The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-03
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal ard Local.


To-day ". " s. Fox succeeds L. Parsloe as
agent of the g. \ & w. at Modoc Ind
Paymaster Shepherd. OF the Wabash road,
for February service.
William A. Zei has been appointed agent of
the Red Line Transit Company at New York,
vics George Hal, deceased, to take effect from
April l.
H. P. Blodgett yesterday succeeded c. Fl.
Moss as agent of the c.. l., st. L. & G. road at
Seneca, which has become AN important station
on the Big Four system.
A meeting of the directors Of the Wabash rail-
way was held yesterday, at which Mr. Goulds
resignation as a member of the board was re-
ceived and accepted, and Mr. E. c. Clarke was
elected to ill the vacancy.
The employees on the'L., N. A. & c. Indian
apolis division, yesterday received their pay for
February service. The financial affairs of the
ompany getting into rnuch better shape
that hereafter the employees are to be paid more
promptly
The Nickelplate receivership was the
eighteenth upon the railroad list since JAN l.
OF the number two were Indiana roads, and two
other Indiana roads will share the same fate be-
fore the year 1885 closes unless the financial
condition of the companies is falsely rep
resented
Local fret ght agents almost without exception,
state that the freight receipts for March, of their
respective lines at the Indianapolis station, ran
ahead of the corresponding period, 1884. quite
handsomely. The Vandaiia is over Sic, 900
,ahead of March, 1884, the c., l., ST. L. & c.,
some 81, 600
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis road
is now doing the heaviest business in the his
tory Of the road. Several engines and train crews
have been transferred from the main line to this
division A large per cent of the traffic is sea-
board business and transferred by the G., FL. 81
ID to the Erie
The MISUNDERSTANDING Building Loan
Association which is composed largely of rail-
kroad men, last evening effected a permanent
Organization, and elected Henry Wetsel, general
agent of the Nandialia, president. 1t is said
some three hundred railroad men are now mem
beers of this class of money saving institutions
and the number is daily increasing.
A couple of carloads of California oranges
came in yesterday over the Vandalia. The
fruit and vegetable traffic from the Pacific
coast is taxing the resources of the Pacific roads,
and fruit and refrigerator cars in sufficient num-
Dbers cannot be supplied The fruit traffic at
present is made up largely of oranges. An
impetus has been given by the recent reduction
lin rates.
The G., St T. & p. people have their guard
Iand round house lighted by electric lights, and
Ahsy have the operation of them so well in hand
tthat it costs them less than it would to do the
Fighting by gas. The great objection to electric
lights has been the expense. The c.. ST. L. 81
tP. people have fully overcome this objection,
iand the electric lights do much better lighting
ASeryica than would gas
Thomas B. Atkins, secretary and treasurer of
the Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway
COMPANY. sent notice to the Stock Exchange on
Tuesday last. that default would be made in
Hhe payment OF the interest due on the first
HaortgSge bonds of the company. A circular
will be issued, however. proposing to pay one
half of the interest in cash and the other half
BAN Central Trust Company's certificates Of the
coupons.
Colonel Talmage, general manager Wabash;
Vicepresident Spencer B. & O., and General
manager Clark of the Union Pacific have been
Pin San Francisco several days. j. II. Woodard
hhe Pacific coast agent, headquarters San Fran
cisco, writes that General Pope and party of
Reading citizens invited Talmage to be their guest
on the military steamer, to 60 around the harbor
fand bay, aud Mr. Talmage was the recipient of
the most distinguished attentions while in that