The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



Ruymaster Sullivan, of the c., l., st. l.. 81 c.,
bs Gu his monthly rounds, paying for November
Pm. Delaney, general agent of the Chicago,
burlington g. Quincy railroad, at San Francis
60. has resigned his position.
The roads in the Ohio Lumber Association
haye adjusted their differences, and entered into
n pooling agreement for another year.
H H. Poppleton, general solicitor of the Bee
line is in Portland, Ore looking after litigation
In which Oregon railroad company is inter
esisd
TIE executive committee of the pool roads has
issaed an order peremptorily cutting commits
gions hitherto paid to ticket agents. the cut to
take effect Jan. /.
The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington g.
Western Railway Company for the week ending
Dee were: 1885. $685. 1874 SO; 1884 s47 076.3 &c. in
.ere9ee, $1G 708 80.
The Decline limited, yesterday afternoon,
Tnars the run from Terre Haute to the Union
Depot. Indianapolis, in one hour and forty min
ntsg stopping four times at stations and railroad
crossings
Wm. r. McKeen, president; a. W. Hubbard,
gebsral freight agent. and General Solicitor
Williams, of the Vandalia, spent yesterday IN
1hs city, looking after matters connected with
their respective departments.
II is stated that the Pennsylvania railroad
les In the Shamokin region, the leases of which
revert to their owners in January next This
wiz take from the Pennsylvania about 500, 600
ions annually of anthracite transportation.
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton holders of
guaranteed trust certificates have been notified
40 leave them with the master commissioner to
be exchanged for Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Day
ton Railroad Company's stock, in accordance
with the decree of the Superior Court, of Gin
einnati
1ohn Devereux, son of J. FL. Devereux, has
become insane and has been taken to an asylum
in New York for treatment Johnny, as he is
famiiiarly known, was. until quite recently.
purchasing agent of the Decline proper. and
was a very popular young man with the en-
plnges on the road.
The Pennsylvania railroad If it adheres to its
fixed policy" not to enter any combinations to
restrict the production of any staple article,
wall continue through next year the even tenor
of the way it is now pursuing, viz: That while
ii will not enter any illegal combinations" yet
1t will not be party to either overstocking the
market with coal or breaking prices.
AZ the meeting of local freight agents held yes
ferday steps were taken toward organizing a
weighing association. It is proposed to weigh
Ears forwarded and received. The roads suffer
fully as much in earnings on cars weight under
billed, incoming, outgoing The weighing
association is to be established on the same plan
as the Chicago weighing association.
T. III. Talbot, editor of the Railway Age,
spent yesterday in the city. Mr. Talbot states
shat notwithstanding the depressed times of late
their list of subscribers is steadily increasing
well as their advertising patronage. The Age is
TO be still further improved and nothing is to
be left undone to make it in the future as it has
been in the past the leading railway journal of
this country.
FL r. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines west Of Pitts
burg, is prominently mentioned as the successor
of Harry Fuller, general passenger agent of the
Chesapeake & Ohio road Mr.. Dering is Vir-
ginian by birth, and Vice president Wickham
says he proposes to now run the road with Vir
ginians MIR. Dering would seem to be the man
for his general passenger agent. Certainly
he could not select more competent man than
Dir. Dering to perform the duties of the Office.
One of the surprises is that George H. Daniels,
commissioner of the Colorado pool, on S., 600
salary, should accept the position of commits
lsioner of the Central passenger committee at a
SALARY Of $4,000 1t is well known that the
members of the Colorado pool are quarrelsome
set OF follows and hard to hold in check, yet the
commissioner of the Central passenger commit
Zee is to have easy job. unless the general
passenger agents are more harmonious in their
action in the future than they have been in the
past Mr.. Daniels assumes the duties of the po-
sition Dec. g.
The Pennsylvania people are trying to get
into Scranton, Pa. by an extension of its North
Branch railroad to connection with the Della
ware e. Hudson railroads Union branch at Mill
Greek, distance of about five miles, which will
bring the road within eighteen miles Of Scran-
ton For some years past the Pennsylvania
railroad has been looking forward to an entrance
into Scranton, which is the third city in Penn
sylvania in population and industrial Importance.
FThe proposed extension will, it is expected, give
TO the Pennsylvania railroad additional general
merchandise traffic and additional anthracite
tonnage as we'll
Col Robert Nelson who has accepted the SUI
Perintendency of the c., FL. & D. lines. begun
his railroad life in 1864 as rodman on the Phil
adeiphia & Erie road, and has worked his way
zap step by step. The Enquirer is mistaken in
saying that the c. Ell. & D. has had no superin-
4en1snt for several years. It is but little over
a year since G. j. Hepburn, owing to i'll health
rendered his resignation. So popular had w. F.
Stark. acting superintendent of the c., Fl. 81 D.
since Mr.. Hepburn resigned become, that en-
ployes and business men on the lines are rather
disappointed that Mr.. Stark was not made gen.
serai superintendent
The latter part of last week, at Bloomington
Ind, In the case of a man named McGee, against
fhe L., N. A. 81 G. railway, for $40 900 on &C
eonnf of injuries received in wreck last spring.
thu defendants showed that at the time of the &C
cs6eat the plaintiff was standing up with his back
no the engine giving his friend an imitation of a
great Irish comedian, and was thrown on his
back and hurt, and the Judge decided that the
seats m the car were not only for the conven-
ierce but for the safety of passengers, and if he
1eta his seat for his own amusement and was
hurt thereby, he could not recover damages
The jury then gave a verdict in favor oil the
road
General Superintendent Miller and Division
Superintendent Mansfield, of the l. 81 ", last
evening went to Bushrod, and to-day will open
the Green county coal branch, which has been
sxtsadea to Digger, eight miles from Island City
anatwelve miles from Bushrod. where intersection
rs made with the l. & V. main line This opens up
10 she Indianapolis market the excellent bitumin-
ous coal of Green county, and reaches the mines
which the Indianapolis. Eel River & Western
proposed to build to. The Pennsylvania Com
pzEy, as well, propose to build an eight-m coal
branch from Spencer to the Army coal mines.
Work is to be begun on this branch in the early
spring. The Island City coal mines and the
Digger coal mines. it is expected, will at once
furnish forty to fifty carloads of coal per day,
which viii make the l. a. " quite respectable
eoal road for Indianapolis.