The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

personal and Local.
Low-rate excursion tickets to New Orleans
GONE off sale May 20
the stockholders of the ST Louis, Alton &
Eerre Haute road hold their annual meeting
Iune l.
Hereafter trains by the Wabash for New
Work will run from Detroit via the West Shore,
anstead of the New York Central
c. Z. Poiudexter was yesterday appointed
hgcnt of the j., M. & l. at Jacksonville, vice
w. p. Foster deceased.
General Manager Brown, of the Pullman Car
Company. headquarters at Chicago, was in the
eity yesterday on official business.
In the year 1884 the way billing of the c., l.,
St L. G. c.. shows that /. 40 carloads of manu-
featured wheels were shipped from indianapolis
over their lines
VI. II. vandergrift, superintendent of the
western division of the t. G. IL ST. L. narrow
gauge road, has been in the city for day or two,
visiting old-time friends.
The stockholders of the Indianapolis. Eel River
& Western road meet here Friday next to talk
aver matters. The disposition of capitalists, I'M
fortunately for this company, is to let new enter
prises alone
Official notice has been given of the appoint
ment of &. w. Spencer 10 the position OF assist
ant general superintendent of the eastern Ontario
division of the Canadian Pacific, with headquar-
tiers at Montreal.
Ii is expected that President Tyler, of the
Grand Trunk road, will rearh this country the
latter part of the week ais chief effort, it is
aaid, will be directed to smoothing the wrinkles
eut of trunkline affairs.
Isaac Minnie has resigned his position road
master Of the western division of the New York
Central & Hudson River road. Mr.. Minnie had
held this position for some twenty years.
Edward W. Jordan, lately superintendent.o
the Buffalo division of the Rochester 81 Pitts
burg road will leave Buffalo shortly to accept
position on the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul
The limited was hauled from Knightstown to
the Indianapolis Belt road by a c., St. L. & P.
engine yesterday in thirty seven minutes, one
stop at railroad crossing to be deducted. The
distance is thirty three miles.
Orders were received yesterday from Colonel
ralmadge, general manager of the Wabash rail
road to take all Wagner sleepers off the road as
rapidly as possible and substitute therefor Pull
man and Mann boudoir cars. The change began
last night.
1t is understood that R. C..vilas, who on May l
was retired as general manager of the Erie 81
North Shore line. will be taken care of by the
Postmaster general, who is near relative of the
former Mr. Villas is very capable railroad
man, such as the roads can hardly afford to lose.
Lumber rates followed yesterday in the trail
Of grain rates, and went off five cents per 100
pounds, Chicago to the seaboard, which makes
the rate on lumber from Indianapolis to Phila-
delphia twenty cents, to New York twenty
three cents, to Boston twenty eight cents per
100 pounds
w. A. Carr, representative of the Post,
Martin q Co., railroad equipment company, of
New York, is in the city. Mr.. Carr states that
the equipment companies experiencing
good deal of trouble through the delinquency of
the roads in paying for equipments, but few
companies living up to their agreements.
l.
shorten up the running time between Cleveland
and St Louis until May "a. A new time SEIZED
ule had been made out to take effect May II,
cut by delaying the matter they hope to get an
sven better connection out of the New York
Central road than the change proposed for the
18th contemplated.
M. E. ingalls,. president of the c., l., ST. L.
6 c., is still III New York. but is said to be a
good deal discouraged over the prospects that
his pet Central Traffic Association will be
organized. The trunk line presidents, it is
said, not strongly in favor of the scheme.
Doubtless they fear that the Western lines will
act more independently were such an associa-
yion formed.
Engineer Bennington. the c., l.. ST. L. &
C., who runs the engine which is equipped with
electric headlight, got too near the electric
current from the battery, and it so magnet
lied the spring and other steel fixtures
of his watch to render it useless. Some idea
of the power of the electric current may be
found from the fact that if steel hammer
is laid upon the locomotive boiler the hammer
will be held firmly. 1t takes quite jerk to pull
it away.
A. A. Talmage, general manager of the Wa
bash system, accompanied by Superintendent
Stevens, of the eastern DIVISION made flying trip
over the L., p. g. c. division of the Wabash yester-
day They stopped at indianapolis FIVE minutes,
and then, with their engine and Mr. Talmage's
coach left for the West over the l., B. & w.
via Danville. In this connection it is limited
that the matter Of establishing 81 new through
line between Columbus, o., and st. Louis over
.he l., B. & w. and the Wabash, running
through coaches is under consideration.
James Nee. Creighton, formerly connected
with the Pennsylvania railroad has been offered
the position of vice president of the East-side
Philadelphia road. and general manager of what
will be the Philadelphia division of the Balti-
more d Ohio, between Baltimore and Philadel-
phia. James Nee. Creighton served two years
rs general freight agent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, being appointed March a.
1880, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
s. b. Kingston. Before that he had been nearly
all his life engaged in the transportation bust
ness, and he has thorough knowledge of the
complicated freight movements of the country
and would, should he accept, prove a valuable
man for the b. g. 0. people.
Not Buying OFF Rivals.