The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
! In the week ending April A, IL Ga cars were
kransfsrred over the Belt road.
The vandalia line last week brought into In
Indianapolis 404 carloads of block coal and 269
carloads of live stock.
The c., H. a. I. road last week beat all former
srvcnrds, receiving at and forwarding from lnd-
annapolis l, 497 ears of which number 1, 042 were
aoadesL
The Terre Haute car works have secured a
contract to build several hundred refrigerator
CARS, and, it is stated, will resume operations
AprIt nv full handed and full time
Tus tse Western roads last week brought
annapolis s $40 loaded cars. as follows:
~ Sc. c., l,546; vandalia- 1,464; ]. g..
- !, I6; L, B. d W., ss7; l., d. & S. 126.
For the.first time since the Eastern division
of 80 H., B. & w. was opened for business they
forwarded more loaded ears than the Decline,
and very seldom do they lead the Co.. ST. L. & P.
The interchange of traffic between the Chicago
& Rock Island and the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
81 Louis & Chicago road at Seneca in the week
ending April 5. reached 1894 cars, of which
number t066 were loaded cars
Tke seven Eastern roads forwarded from
Indianapolis last week s. 791 loaded cars, as fol-
I.l80; Bee-line LIP C., St L. & p, ], LOG;
Wabash, PIG; L. n A. & C. Airline, 121.
Indianapolis will after to-day have one less
ticketscalping Office, at least one sess in name
as the Indianapolis, Decatur a. Springfield COM
PaRy has leased room No: 1876 SoIth Illinois
street, ard r. s. Newly, who was on Saturday
appointed their general agent, will occupy it.
The Decatur east-bound pool is E gain in
ming order, John S. Lazarus, general freight
agent on Saturday signing the pooling agree
IL e. Fol6
road He reserves the right to Withdraw from
the pool on thirty days notice. The J., d. & s.
gets IL per cont in this pool.
The Wabash company have use for all of their
czr2 Superintendent Stevens has recently given
orders that all cars not in immediate use the
eaak end should be sent west of Danville for
transporting grain. and a request has been made
20 the p. f. 4 C. road for the loan of cars, to be
headed with grain in Illinois and transferred to
the Fort Wayne road
The Wall Street Daily News says that about
once month the l., Il. NV. people put in circu-
iakien rumor that they have secured enough
boads of the Toledo. Cincinnati & St Louis road
TO control the property. Now If the l., B. q w.
people can controvert the figures, and show by
4ss@ amount of bonds they have that they have
practically secured CONTROL our columns are
open to them.
Luther G. Hager, secretary OF the Terre
Haute car works, died Saturday last. On
tho morning of the 4th of March he was stricken
Gninntes after leaving his home. From that
lmsment until his death he was not able to
speak. He recognized his relatives and friends
and was able To communicate with them and
make his wants known until within forty eight
hours of his death. III his death Terre Haute
loses one of its most enterprising and highly es
.4G6naed citizens.
President Ingalls,, of the c., T., st. l.. & c.,
Esruck the keynote in his address before the
Chicago meeting last week when he said that the
fyraat iuta cfof Of x1o Woef hoa tnn
)extensive to he run by Commissioner FinkSs
office on Broadway, New York city. The fact is
THAT Western roads should dictate the rates at
which the trunk-lines should carry freights,
mot tha reverse. as has been the case for several
years past Mr. Ingalls, pointed remarks at
that meeting are very favorably commented
upon by prominent Western railroad men.
A National Rsilroad Agents Association mas
heen orcaLized at Central City, KY. 1t is in
tended to comprehend the entire department OF
agents In the United States and Canada. and to
tbe fruitful of the highest benefits ever enjoyed
Ma ether organizations OF its kind. Lit Is no
embryo strike. The advantages arising from
this cooperation are to be enjoyed by both the
laeants and their companies Agents are earn
testify invited to give this enterprise their hearty
Esapp0r. Applications for membership should
Ebe sent to John +. Yost secretary, Greenville,
Ky Charter members will be received until
Suly l, 1885. J. G. Downing is president.
Col ID r. whitcomb, superintendent of the
kI5elt road and Union railway tracks, to- morrow
Acommemces his fifth year in the service OF the
company tt Is no exaggeration to. say that he
bias been valuable tor the company.
When he took the SUPPLEMENTARY the Union
railway and the Belt road tracks were in bad
ehape Rails were badly worn, cross-ties rotten,
old style switches and stands were in use, and
the property generally was in bad way. Mr.
Whitconb took hold theoretically and has, from
Ahe beginning exhibited good deal Of pride in
getting the road bed into it's present excellent
condition, more especially has he done good
work ON the Belt road. New iron bridges have
been put in the place OF rickety affairs, the
road has been extended to connection with
Ehe Wabash read; and providing the Union
Railway Company pursue a liberal policy he
has other improvements In contemplation which
wlii greatly enhance the value of the property
sBast Of ali, the improvements made thus far have
been accomplished at small expenses to the
company as to lead Presidents McCrea to speak
On complimentary terms of Colonel Whitcomb's
tBsrvices
Heagy Traffic Over Indianapolis Reads.
The exhibit given below shows the number of
aearS received and forwarded at Indianapolis