The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

K Borpus, general yardmaster of the Lake
Shore road at Erie. Pa, is in the city for day
or swo the guest of Joseph Sanger.
The latest dodge local agents have resorted to
6ndirectly cut rates, is doing the switching free
for the shipper who will give the road their bust
'nezs
= B. Southland, late traffic manager on the
l.. y. A. q @. road has been offered position
on western line and has gone to st. Louis for
"a esaference regarding its acceptance.
Ex-Mayor Beatty, of Toronto, is in New York,
letting contracts for the branch railroads to the
Canadian Pacific in Canada. His company has
= grant of 3, 200, 600 acres.
Daring the days that the low rates were offered
BY the roads to persons who attended the funer-
Iai 0beequies of the late Vice president the c.,
H.. s. L. q G. sold at the reduced rates s, 526
tickets.
IL the L., N. A. & c. people did not look upon
g e. r. Bent as a man of large ability the Ohio
Is Mississippi management think well enough OF
him 20 create a position on the road-that of
general Observation-Disclosures appoint Mr.. Bent to
tbs position.
The Cleveland Leader says a genius of that
Scliy has devised railroad ticket which cannot
St up with general passenger agent who will
mo- elandestinely give commission, he should
be handsomely rewarded
The freight earnings of theL. D. g. S. road
ahs first seven days of this month were So. $40.
against So GAP corresponding week of 1884 The
passenger earnings, 81 OIL against So 009 the cor
responding week of 1884 Increase in freight
earnings this year $5,907, in passenger earnings
ss32
The general passenger agents of the Eastern
lines held meeting at Chicago yesterday, and
EDasas an effort to advance the rate from Chicago
ever demanded a Gifferential, in the event of
rates being advanced, which was effectual in de-
1easiDg the object for present, at least.
freight man who is on the inside of rate
matters states that he has evidence that Indian
4poIs roads. Carrying east bound business in
1ssa, paid in rebates to shippers in this immedi-
aic vicinity, $ll0. 900 in round numbers. OF this
amount, he says fully 100000 was disbursed
4hrDugh one Office
The L., n. A. & G. will likely have Bue-line
Gar and it's contents which were burnt on Sunday
IN The Evans oil mill fire to pay for. The COM
pnny was notified that the car was ready to be
hsaled from Evanss side-track on Saturday, and
"A bill Of lading was issued that date on the
freight. The car was loaded with oil-cake.
Vim. r. McKeen, President of the Vandalia,
~As IN the city yesterday AS pointer,
it is said he is quietly looking for a location
Tor their city freight depot, as the ground on
which the present depot stands is wanted by the
Union Railway Company. Plans for the
Receiver Charles p Clark, of the New York
& New England road. who has held his position
for nearly two years, and is evidently about to
SEE his work end III taking the company out of
1hs hands of the courts gave dinner to his as
.soclates in the management of the New York &
New England road, at Young's Hotel Wednes-
day night.
While freight men are in excellent spirits
IS she heavy volume Of their business, pas
lsenger men are feeling blue. The earnings
froln the latter branch OF services have been
light for several months, and December thus far
Is act, comparatively speaking, showing up as
well as the preceding months of this year, as
In former years.
New cars 80, 900 pounds capacity, built at the
Lafayette car works, for the Columbus & Gin
cinnati Midland road passing through here
At the rate OF six a day. j. II. Stewart general
manager of the road. contracted with the La
1Ryette car works TO build 200 box-cars. He will
ro-day go to Lafayette, and, probably, contract
saF another 100
Track laying on the Chicago & Great Southern
T0ad was commenced in earnest on Monday last.
between Yeddo and Brazil and is being pushed
vigorously. The grading is completed several
miles beyond Sugar Creek, and six weeks steady
work will complete it to Brazil Langdon, Wins
ton & Co.. of st. Paul, have the contract for the
entire work, and they say that trains will be
running by Feb. l.
In reference to the engineers who were dis
charged last week from the service of the L., N
"A &a G. railroad an official Of the company says
that they were not discharged in order to make
room for somebody else but for cause. Two of
1he engineers. he says were discharged for
drunkenness, the third for deafness, and fourth
for shortsightedness. The deaf man could not
hear the whistle of his own engine and the near
sighted man could not tell from the conductor
or brakeman lantern signals whether to 60 for
ward or backward, or 20 to bed.
December Il the c., III. & D. people put on a
new train between Indianapolis and Cincinnati
The train will be fast one, and will haul a
chair car, which comes through over the L., N.
"A. & c. Airline from Chicago The train will
leave indianapolis at 3:45 NJ; stop only at
Nashville, Connersville, Liberty and College
Corner. On the same date, the train now leav-
ing at 653 P. NJ. will be accommoda-
aion. and run only to Connersville, answering
ssH accommodation train to be run out of Con
nersyie to indianapolis at 6:30 A. M as form
eriy-
The Kankakee & Seneca route is again worry
ing Chicago roads. The Tribune of Wednesday
says: News was received here yesterday Of
corn selling at point on the Rock Island rail-
road. in Iowa, for direct shipment to Baltimore
sat 4sc per bu above the price at which it could
he bought to ship to Chicago without loss. The
purchase could not be made as indicated without
a eat from the discriminative rates which nom
inally govern and are claimed to be lived up TO
vigorously. If the roads are beginning the
Sosllhon thus early in the season what may we
expect before winter is overl'
The Indiana. Bloomington & Western ope-
rates 545 miles, of which it owns 34l. It's lines
aTe from Sandusky and Columbus, O., to Peoria,
.5S miles; Peoria to Indianapolis, 212; Indianap-
oils 10 Springfield, O.. 142; Sandusky to Spring
field, o.. 100 miles. The income bonds of this
road, which have advanced in the past month
sbout points, to 36 are total of 81, 800 00O or
at the rate of $l3 900 per mile of 342 miles of the
sfne The other mortgages ahead OF the income
bonds aggregate about $4,000 per mile. The
stock is rot likely to pay dividends for many
years, yet it has advanced IL points in the last
few weeks.
Judge Burke has returned from New York,
where he has been for some time attending to
various railroad interests. Concerning the
puted pooling agreement between the Bee-line,
l.. b. & W.. Lake Erie & Western, and the Big
-Four. which the New York financial papers dis
sorted into close consolidation. Judge Burke