The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
G. c. Waite, ice-president of the c., q. &. D.
lines, is to be in the city to day.
M. L. Dohertv, commissioner of tho Indianpc-
lis east-bound pool, has gone to Cincinnati for a
three-days' tarry.
The cars of 2OS foreign roads were handled in
the month of March on the Cincinnati Indian
apolis, St Louis g. Chicago main line.
The best paying sleeping coaches run by the
Pullman Company the year round are those run
between Cincinnati and Detroit, over the c., III.
q ID. road.
T. w. Burrows, superintendent of the I. & st.
L. road. was in the city yesterday on official
business. He reports sharp falling off in east
bound traffic within the last few days
It is stated officially that the earnings of the
Airline division of the L., N. A. & q. road thus
far this year have exceeded those of the CORE
spending period of 1884 some AZ per cent.
Stealing coal from cars which are standing on
the L., N. A. & G. side tracks. in Chicago, has
reached such point that some of the shippers
Of block coal from Clay county have notified the
railroad officials that unless it is stopped they
will be obliged to ship into Chicago over some
other route.
The Vandalia and c.. l., ST. L. & G. people
have under consideration the putting of
through coaches, May /, between indianapolis
and South Bend via Colfax The passenger
travel over this route has exceeded the expecta-
ton of the two arrangements in volume, and is
steadily increasing.
The I. & St l.. company, next week, will be-
gin to receive some twenty-five miles of steel
rails, which will be placed in the track i'm
medlately. When laid the entire line Will be
steel from Indianapolis to st. Louis, some 200
miles being steel rails weighing seventy pounds
to the square yard.
General Manager Henderson reports that the
Dayton & Ironton road is earning at the rate of
L.
when the gauge is widened. They estimate
operating cost at 90 per cent, which would leave
$240, 600 net per annun. The interest on the
new first mortgage bonds is $l02, 900 per annum,
leaving $l38, 900 for other uses.
The L., N. A. & c. (Air-line) people will, with
in the next thirty days, be obliged to seek other
quarters in which to do their freight business at
indianapolis, their lease with the Wabash ex
piring, and the latter badly needing their yard
room and entire city freight depot. 1t is under
stood negotiations are pending between the L.,
N. A. & c. and the c.. H. & l., to use the lat
ter's terminal facilities at Indianapolis.
The movement of freight over the new Chi
cago q Detroit short line of the Wabash begun
on Wednesday About seventy-fve cars of man
ifest freight are delivered daily to the Wabash
at Newton by the Chicago & Atlantic company.
and when the line is well under way this number
will be doubled. Passenger traffic will open up
in about two weeks, and trains will be run
through solid between Chicago and Detroit.
Vice president Waite, of the c., H. & D. lines,
has just purchased twenty-five miles of steel
rails twenty miles of which are to be laid on the
Indianapolis division. During the present year
150, 900 cross-ties are to be placed under the
tracks of the c. FL. & d. lines, 60 600 of which
will be distributed on the c., H. & l. division.
A contract has also been awarded to the Detroit
Bridge Company to construct over Whitewater
valley, at Connersville, an iron bridge, 800 feet
in length. The intention of the management is
to this year put the track of the c., FL. 81 d.
SYSTEM entire in number one condition
A statement of the tonnage of freight received
and forwarded at Indianapolis over the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton q Indianapolis road was com
pleted yesterday. 1t shows that in March there
were $3.50, 900 pounds of freight forwarded
from indianapolis, and 1742OOOO pounds re-
ceived. The corresponding month 1884 there
was forwarded 81 100000 pounds; received To-
480, 900 pounds, or, in other words, in the month
of March, 1885, there was forwarded from this
point over the O., III. & /. 28, 500 900 more pounds
of freight than in March, 1884, and that there
was received this year $40 pounds more freight
than in March, 1884. In fact, last months ton
mage was % per cent heavier than of any month
in the history of the road.
The Independent Middle e Western States
pool suggested by M. E. ingalls,, at the recent
meeting in Chicago, is meeting with much favor
among railroad men in this and adjoining
States. and the plan is so feasible that it will
without doubt be adopted Should it be, there
need be no clashing with the trunk-line proper
pool, as the interests Of the two are mutual. Yet
the time seems to have come when the Western
roads should In some manner assert their indie
pendence, or at least have voice in the fixing
of rates, classification, sea- bound terminal
charges, etc., and were all roads in the Middle
and Western States to combine to such IN end
they would certainly command the respect of
the trunk-line pool management to an extent
which they have not enjoyed in the past.
Thinks the Darkest Day Has Been Passed.
A day or two since to the direct question, SIS
the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road to
pull through its financial troubel' One Of the
officials answered, II think it will our road is in
the same boat with a majority Of the roads of
this country If our business continues as
heavy as at the present time, and rates continue
to be maintained as well as they now are, the L.,
N. A. & c. will come out all right If business
falls off heavily which 1 think there is no prob
ability of it doing, and rates become democrat
lied, we, like neighbors will have
hard shedding. If we fail in the end it
will not be the fault of the officers,
as we are all pulling together" William Dowd,
the recently elected president, is careful and
cautious man, and being a thorough railroad
man, is, of course. we'll fitted for the position ne
holds. There are few better general managers
than J. B. Carson, who is well liked and respect
ed by the employees, from one end of the line to
the other. With such men as these managing
its affairs it cannot help but prosper In fact,
matters are now running along more satisfactory
than at any time since he had known the road,
which was for some years The road had suf-
fered in the past moro from the friction and
unkind feeling existing between the heads of the
departments than from any other cause.
Big Car Mileage.
Car Accountant Sipp of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis g. Chicago road, yesterday
completed his report for March, which shows