The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-31
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

PERSONAL and Local.
Commissioner Blanchard. of the Central Traf-
nc Association. spent Sunday in Louisville, Ky.
The new line of Woodruff sleeping coaches be-
Eween Columbus, o.. and St Paul. over the l.,
'B. & W.. goes on to day.
PRESIDENT Mackey has listed on the New York
Exchange $1,O01 900 Of the Evansville & Indian
1apoiis consolidated bonds.
| The Vandalia company is arranging to again
reemploy the men who were dismissed from
their shops when business was SO dull on account
OF strike troubles
Orders have come from headquarters in New
= ork to reduce forces in the offices of the l.. b.
% W. as far as practicable. Six young men have
been dropped in the auditors office. Some de-
apartments are now operated with as few men as
F&hey we'll can be.
+ The conference that was to have been held in
Chicago, on Saturday, between Commissioners
George r. Blanchard of the Central Traffic
Association, and f. Broughton. general manager
of the Chicago s. Atlantic road, was postponed
until Wednesday of this week.
The Erie road is obliged to run its new ex-
press over the Baltimore & Ohio from Mansfield
10 Chicago, the United States express having
got ahead on the Chicago 81 Atlantic. through
contract made for several years and approved by
both Mr.. Jewett and Mr.. Benedict
The five Western roads last week brought into
this station 360l loaded cars against g. 499 in the
week ending May %, and against 3 348 the cor
responding week 1885. From this statement it
VIII be seen that inbound shipments from the
West are fully up to the usual May average.
The Terre Haute Gazette says: w. e. Brown,
OF the American Express Company, who has
been confined to the house for some time past
by serious illness, is now able to be out He
has not yet resumed his duties at the Office. Mr..
Browns numerous friends in this city will be
gratifed over this favorable report
Judge Gresham has evidapf1v cot triad of Tho
di1ly dalying in settling the affairs of the Tole-
do Cincinnati 81 St. Louis narrow gauge road,
and he has made ruling to the effect that the
purchasers OF the property at the recent fore
closure sale shall within the next thirty days file
with the court all claims they dispute and at
once pay all claims they do not intend to contest
Under the new time schedule Of the Bee line
the night express trains between indianapolis
and Cleveland are both dropped. There will be
no E15 P. NJ. train out OF here 1t will be some
slime before the travelling public will become
accustomed to this change, train has been
run out of Indianapolis at that hour for thirty
one years, away back in the Brough administra-
sion.
The Pennsylvania and Baltimore g. Ohio are
both after the Pittsburg 81 Northeastern rail-
1oad, which is projected to run eighty miles from
PittsDurg to Punxsutawney. The Baltimore 81
Ohio wants it for feeder as we'll as for pros
pectiye inlet TO region which it does not cover,
and because it might be extended advantageous
bbe serious drawback to the Allegheny Valley
Eoad, which it parallels in part.
The J., B. 81 w. management wisely hesitate
in moving to place the new Erie Express Com
PAM on their line In place of the United Express
ECompany. Their experiment with the Baltimore
Is Ohio express was an expensive one. Under
the new arrangement they get longer haul Of
the United States express business than when
Ahey took it from the Erie or N. Y, P. e. o., at
Springfield. as they now take the business at
Clyde on the eastern division.
Who accompanied P. P. Wright, general SUI
perintendent of the Lake Shore road over the
Bee-line on Friday and Saturday last, is still a
mystery, but speculation has it that the man
who is to be elected president of the system was
one of the party. There still some railroad
men in high position who take good deal of
stock in the report of some weeks ago to the
effect that the Lake Shore and Bse-llne are to
be consolidated and placed under one manage
ment.
The Pennsylvania people will, in the next day
or two. announce what steps they will take in
connection with the Vandalia to meet the fast
trains that the Decline and Wabash put on to
New York and New England points yesterday.
The tenor of General Manager McCrae's re-
marks on the subject, Saturday last, gives evil
dence that the Pennsylvania and Vandalia will
meet this move with their accustomed
methods of doing business. 1t is not their style
TO be behind competitors.
Thirty hours. indianapolis to Boston. is the
Hime both trains cut of here over the Decline
propose to make The Boston 81 Albany people
have acted very handsomely in the matter, and
have set back their fast trains out of Albany in
the early morning, to connect with the New
York Central, which hauls their through St
Louis and Boston sleeping coaches. This lands
passengers in Boston at A. NJ, which is four
hours and thirty minutes shorter time than has
over been made by the through ast-bound ex-
press trains
Below is given the east-bound movement over
kbe 1--WE leading lines for the week ending May
%, as compared with the preceding week and
with the corresponding week in 1885: