The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-13
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

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d. NJ. Kendrick. general passenger agent of
Rhe New York Central road. sailed yesterday
for Europe. He will be absent some six weeks.
GAYLORD Beach. Chief Engineer of the Bee
line system, cabled, yesterday, his safe arrival
ut Queenstown, and that they had a pleasant
"trip
The c., T., st. L. & c. people will this month
seceive some ten miles of steel rails weighing
Esxty7seven pounds to the yard. which will be
faid on the Eastern division.
Paymaster Shepherd, of the Wabash. liz drop
ping so far behind with the pay car that the
employees think it possible that he intends to
Pay for both june and July on this trip.
Within the last few days wheat has been ship
Tea 10 indianapolis over the l., p. IL g.. now the
wabash. from points as far north as Waikerton
something which has seldom occurred before.
&c. Duyy. private secretary of III. 4. Ingalls,;
president OF the C., l., St l.. q O., j. .. slower.
AID D. K. Hawley. passenger conductors, 1917
lase night for the New England beaches on a
two weeks pleasure trip.
Division Superintendent Crane, of the Wood
ruff Sleeping ear Company, is IN the city. inns
company has put on a line OF onnet sleeping
COACHES from Chicago TO Nashville, winch are
aaoiag a big business.
None in railroad circles are more pleased than
kht freight train crews over the handsome i'm
prcrement in business. The boys who are paid
on the mileage basis have experienced hard
times the last few months.
Under the new arrangement passengers leav-
ing indianapolis over the l., b. IL w. at 4:15 A.
n, reach New York at IL A. NJ. the next morn
3ne, and those leaving at 4:05 P. NJ, reach New
York at 10 P. ii. the next evening.
The main shaft in Elevator A is broken. and
4AB elevator will be at a stand-still until Monday
next. to make repairs. This is unfortunate, as
&hnzza ny cnr~n - -lNn6c ryV.aln and
in yards at this point for this elevator, and
moro on the way.
Road master Henry, of the I. & st. L. road,
has been notified that the mills will. the latter
part of this month. mmen the delivery of
twenty two miles of steel rails, which, when in
the track, will make the main line all steel rail
FROM indianapolis to st. Louis.
Passenger men report that travel to pleasure
resorts this season has not been as heavy as last
year The season is not over yet by a good
month and a half, if the weather continues pro-
plflous, hut up to this time the figures do not
compare favorably with those Of last summer.
The Wabash road gives notice that Mr.. E. E.
Fleming has been appointed commercial agent
at Peoria. H., and will have charge Of the
freight traffic of this railway at that point. and
also at Pekir, Ill. All rates issued by him will
bear the initial l. for special rates, and LII for
special orders.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, is said to have re-
ceived the largest fee ever earned by d Georgia
lawyer. 1t was for $3.50, 900, on a railroad case.
Only $50, 900 of it. however, was collected. Judge
Chisholm, of Savannah, was paid $50, 600 at one
time for services to the Atlantic q Gulf Railroad,
and Gen. Henry II. Jackson received an equal
sum-
The fact that several passenger conductors and
engineers who were on the Texas 81 ST. Louis
road when w. Il. Woodland. the present Superin-
tendent Of the L., n. A. & G. road, was the re-
ceiyef and manager of the former. are riding
over the L., n. A IL G. road a good deal and
looking mighty wise, is causing some uneasiness
among the employees on the L., n. A. q c.
The roads which are hauling the ST. Louis
wheat from indianapolis elevators have ad-
vanced the rate to 81 cents per 100 pounds; J
cent is used in paying transfer charges. so it is
practically but 5 cents per 100 pounds. There is
not much money in this. The present low
esst-bound rate-22 cents per 100 pounds from
East st. Louis to New York-pays the Vandalia
and l. & st. L. roads 4 81 100 cents per 100
pounds as their proportion of the rate.
An effort is to be made to re-estabiish the
eastbound pool at Lafayette. A meeting of the
representatives of the roads interested was held
IN Chicago. on Tuesday. 1t was freely admitted
that the Generalization of rates cut Of Chicago,
some time ago, had left a very unsettled state of
affairs for tho roads interested. These lines
Albany & Chicago, and the Lake Erie 4 West
srn- All rates had been cut on traffic going
between points on this line and Louisville, St.
Louis, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati. AS a much
Better feeling now prevails than a short time
ago, it was agreed to restore all rates on the
business in question and maintain them.
One of the yardmasters takes .otions to
The item in yesterdays Journal regarding the
Blockade on the Union tracks. Under date of
Aug II he writes as follows: 1.-THE Journal
this morning saws blockade on Union railroad,
yesterday, caused by seven thouchtless yard
masters sending trains out and thereby delaying
passenger trains etc. Can anyone explain how
the said seven yardmasters were to know what
were the intentions and necessities of each other?
Provided they had known, which one or more
of the seven rascals should have concluded to
delay his company's business in order to allow
the other company's business the preference
How could such an arrangement be systematic
ally and satisfactorily arranged? Isn't it just
possible that there were seven or more thought
less Union railroad employees interested, who
Called to use their usual arbitrary authority2