The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Is is stated that there are at present ie"er
shippers contracts outstanding than at any
time since last March. and no more contracts
are being made ahLad.
c.. II. Talcott, superintendent of the Columbia
and Greenville division of the Richmond 81
Danville road, has accepted a similar position on
the Mobile a. Ohioroad.
The report that spoilers are working the L.,
N. A & c.. road is without the least foundation.
TIE management believe that a road profits by
the employment of spoilers.
d. NJ. Kendrick, general passenger agent of
tho New York Central. returned from Europe on
Tuesday last. His health is said to have i'm
proved as a result of his trip.
The New York Central g. Pennsylvania rail
way representatives continue to take grain on
the basis Of u cents per 100 pounds from Chicago
10 New York, which it is believed Just about
pays the actual expense of hauling It,
The Vandalia people now have in service a
number of so. 600 pounds-capacity coal-cars.
They differ from the ordinary coalear somewhat.
resting OF three pairs of four wheeled trucks, and
being two feet longer. with a higher body.
Fl. r. Whitcomb has been appointed manager
of the Milwaukee. Lake Shore & Western rail
way, 4. II. Rummele has been made chief en-
gipeer, and F. w. RhineIander, jr., is appointed
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Ii has been arranged that a meeting OF. the
SruHk line presidents will be held on Tuesday
next. at which President Roberts will preside.
This is for the conference bille1 to come off on
the l4th, but which did not for want of 8 quo
rum.
Several of the Indiana roads are increasing the
mum Der OF their section men preparing their
road beds for the freezes and thaws OF the win
ter months. But few roads in this State enter
winter in as good condition this year as last. to
ouch extremes has the economy hobby been
carried the past few months.
For several months past the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company have been lighting nine OF
their cars with incandescent electric lamps. The
electricity is produced by brush storage batter
les, which are charged once a week. The storage
batteries are carried underneath the cars, in
boxes built to receive them. The light is said
to tA very satisfactory and not expensive.
The contest for position on the new board Of
directors of the Northern Pacific railroad con-
finues, but the parties most deeply interested
are working very quietly, it is said. Rumors
SOW are that r. r. Cable, president of the Chi
eago g. Rock Island road, is to be elected presi-
<ent of the Northern Pacific. Should he be, it
Us said Robert Harris will be retained to operate
fine road.
The ticket-scalpers are in clover. Within the
last day or two, several hundred eXcursionlSts
from points in Kansas and Iowa have come in
here, and quite a per cent. of these people will
AiOh kS0uIH. duu tuCS ~ M bAOi ~
tickets, which are good for thirty days. to the
~scalpers for what they can get. In any case
they are not out a nickel, as they purchased the
tickets for the round trip at one fare.
1t is stated that while the limited train was
run over the Vandalia and c., ST. L. g. P roads,
Indianapolis patronized the train much more
than did St. Louis. Even Terre Haute did
nearly as we'll as st. Louis. The shortening up,
however. of the running time of the fast mail
trains which haul the through New York coaches,
seems to please the travelling public as well, as
there is no extra charge, as there was on the
limited trains.
An official of the indianapolis Rolling-mill
Company states that it is now quite probable
that the new s~teel-rail mill will be converted
into a heavy iron structural mill. and put in
operation in the near future. William Z. De-
PAW, one of the largest stockholders, takes
strong grounds in the matter, rs do others of
the stockholders, they feeling that their valu-
aole works have stood idle as long as they should
Re allowed to.
A trunk line passenger man yesterday re-
marked: well, we are running some very fast
trains, the public really pressing US SO to do.
Yet | do not believe in this fast time. American
roads have been very fortunate since it was in
augurated, and / suppose they will be run until
there is a train wrecked running fifty or sixty
miles per hour, and every human being on it
killed or MANNED for life. Then people would
be satisfied to ride at a safe speed"
4 AO Va IL N L. pCODlC Il IIll u Cld16
under the collar because the Union Railway Com
pany is retaining al. moneys they receive for
tickets sold at the Union depot as an offset for
the rental the Union Railway Company claims
to be due from the g., III. q D. r.. d.
Marshall, general solicitor of the road. is to be
in the city to-day for a conference with Harris
81 Calkins, resident attorneys of the road, to
make preparations to take some action in the
matter.
L. G.. Cannon. acting commissioner of the
transcontinenta pool, is Spending a couple of
DAYS in the city. Mr.. Cannon says all talk that
the pool is dead, or likely to go to pieces, is
groundless. He never attended a meeting of
railway magnates which was more harmonious
than that held recently at So. Paul. Usually
some official gets riled. and jumps up and says
his road would pull out Of the pool, but at this
meeting no remark tending in that direction
was made. Mr.. Cannon returns to San Fran
cisco on Monday next, taking with him his
family, who for some months past have been
stopping in Charlottesville, Ind.
Although it was intimated some days since in
the Journal that e. b. Thomas. general manager
Of the Decline system, would resign as soon
as he could see his way clear, the announcement
in Yesterdays journal that he really had resigned
was something of a surprise. One reason Of
Mr.. Thomas's rendering his resignation was poor
health, iii said. He now takes the management
of the Richmond & Danville system, which
covers 1,92O miles of railroad. His headquar-
ters will be Richmond, where he thinks the
climate will be more suitable for him than that
of Cleveland. O. There is much speculation as TO
who will succeed Mr.. Thomas on the Bee-line. The
impression prevails that Robert Blee will be his
successor. Mr.. Blee has rownnp on the road,
is an excellent transportation man, and comes as
near having had an all-around experience on
railroads as any man President Devereux could
select.
President Roberts. of the Pennsylvania road.
and officials of the Reading. had a conference in
Philadelphia Thursday. 1t is said that the COM
panies will be more friendly in the future,
whether a favorable traffic arrangement results
from the conference or not. For many years the
companies have been out To some extent
they have been rivals. but the i'll feeling that
has existed was largely made by Mr. Gowen,
who always conceived that the Pennsylvania
railroad had designs on Reading. Towards the
last OF his active career, Mr.. Gowen bitterly
attacked the Pennsylvania road and its officers.
A feeling consequently grew up which amounted
to hatred. A great many Reading people have
seen in every movement the Pennsylvania has