The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-08
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

j. 4. McOoei has been appointed travelling
freight agent of the L.. N A. g. c., vice Hunter,
retired,
The Pennsylvania railroad on yesterday began
running its congressional limited express be-
tween New York and Washington.
John c. Gault, traffic manager of the Cincin-
natl Southern road, has gone to New York on
important business connected with the road.
Geo. Fl. Valiant, traffic manager of the Erie
and Geo. G. Cochrane, general freight agent of
the N. Y, p. 81 o., are to be in the city to-day.
Ocean rates for grain are fairly active and
higher. The Liverpool rate was up to Sd yester-
day, owing, 1t is said to the demand for room for
corn.
V. K. Morris has arranged with the roads for a
grand excursion to the City of Mexico, to leave
Jan. FL The fare for the round trip is '$l18,
good to return for six months.
Now it is said that it is contemplated to restore
ms Toledo, Peoria & Western to the Wabash
system If satisfactory arrangements can be made
with the reorganized Wabash road.
Ransom a. Mobiles for thirty three years con-
nected with the New York Central. has resigned
the Office of general agent of the passenger de-
partment, to take effect the LIST of next month.
J. w. Jones, ex vice president of the Philadel-
phia e. Reading Railroad Company. is preparing
y nlbtOTy Oh budL corporation. n uiSbOfy
inl in character of this property will make inter
esting reading.
o. B. Skinner traffic manager Of the Bee-line
system. is on his way to California to spend the
winter The tenor of his remarks of late ind-
Gates that he does not expect to again enter serv
Ice on the Beeline
The directors of the Pennsylvania railroad held
special meeting last Saturday to discuss an in
surance scheme for the benefit of employees, but
no final action was taken; however this indicates
ahat the scheme has not been abandoned.
The Baltimore & Ohio Express Company and
district passenger agents Vanderbilt, of the
Northern Pacific; Perry, of the Chicago g. Alton,
and Rynes, Of the Kansas Southern, yesterday
removed their Offices to No. as South Illinois
street.
The trunk lines are beginning to send empty
cars West for loading, and partial relief from
the car famine will be afforded thereby. Sixty
days ago just the reverse was the case-empty
ears were sent East by hundreds to bring de-
layed freights West
Owing to the prevalence Of high winds and
the suddenness with which cold weather has
come, most of the roads have put on their night
track walkers. Last winter accidents which
would likely have been of a serious character
were prevented through taking this precauton.
c. w. Smith, the new vice president of the
lAtchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe, is on a visit to
Topeka to confer with the officials there, bnt he
rs not ready to take charge until the Chesapeake
% ONO can ma an acceptable general manager
to relieve him from his present duties
1t is high time that the agents of the Western
lines out of Indianapolis get together and brace
tup rates. 1t is not unusual, was the yes
herday, for lower rate to be given from Indian
Apolls to st. Louis than the proportion the same
1oad would receive on through east-bound rate.
Were the l., B. & W. people less lenient in al
lowing consignees to use their cars as store
houses there would not be such a
scarcity of cars on the road. party receiving
frelghts should be educated up to the rule that
after forty weight hours demurrage of $40 per day
would be charged on all cars not unloaded.
c. W. Fairbanks one of the heavy holders of
turned from New York yesterday. and to the
question, has the c., H. & D., as rurnored Sc
cured control of the Dayton 81 Ironton road, ne
SsaId not that he knew Of. 70 the question
DO You think they willy he said they had not
yet, Notwithstanding the fact that Boston papers
had announced that they had.
The presidents and general managers of the
roads composing the Union Railway Company
meet to day at 10 A. NJ. at the Bates. House So
meeting that, possibly, they purpose to surprise
4he public generally by taking some definite
tion in regard to the location and raising the
funds to erect the new Union Depot-an enter
prise which has now hung fire for five years
New Albany Ledger: Superintendent Miner,
of the L., e. 81 St L. Airline, holds conduct
-ors, engineers, 6remen and brakemen on both
passenger and freight trains to the strictest &C
Icountability for accidents, and when accidents
occur through the fault of train officials their
heads go Immediately into the discharge basket.
I'm this way the service of the road has been
brought up to the highest degree of safety and
efficiency.
Negotiations are in progress looking to the
formation of pool among the fivelines of trans
portation from Norfolk, Va, to Philadelphia,
baltimore, New York and Boston There is but
kOnA of these q rail and this ic tha
York, Philadelphia 81 Norfolk railroad, running
ITO Cape Charles City, where connection is made
with Norfolk by boat The total shipments from
Norfolk by these lines amount to g. 000 900 tons,
and it is proposed by the new pool to award the
railroad company one-ffth of this, which would
amount to 400, 600 tons.
A party of ST. Louis shippers last week, in
the hope of demoralizing rates, shipped one
hundred carloads of grain east over the Louis
Vile q Nashville, the Louisville. Evansville 6
st Louis the Ohio & Mississippi. the c., H. &
ID. and the Erie That freight should be shipped
by such route created, until the scheme was ex-
posed. good deal Of stir in st. Louis The
Erie people early learned the game being played
on the roads, and in few brief but pertinent
kilograms checked what tended to lead to a gen.
Aeral decentralization of rates east from st. Louis
The retirement of Robert H. Sayre from the
board OF managers of the Reading is probable
and it is said that he has already sent his resiz
nation to President Keim. Mr. Sayre will re-
s"O A0A o&AC puEpoeo vi dccepIinR tne VICE preSl-
dency OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company.
He was the superintendent and engineer Of this
company until TWO years ago. when he resigned
10 accept the presidency of the South Pennsyl.
vania, and last January he entered the Reading
board. Mr.. Sayre is director of the Lehigh
Valley. and one Of the executors of the estate of
che late Judge Asa Packer.
1t is stated that the Mann Boudor-car Com.
pany is to be reorganzed on the first of
the year. and that Colonel Mann will retire
from the management, although remain
Eng as a director. 1t is also pretty we'll set
tled that the contract with the Wabash will
be terminated before the first of the year By
York the Wabash has lost traffic, and this fact
has caused Mr.. Talmage to listen kindly to the
proposition to use the Wagner car exclusively.
BY the change the Wagners will be put on the
Niagara Falls short-line in place of the Mann
bOudolrS that are now used On that rnuto