The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


It is said that the Erie Dispatch will soon
eommence operating over the Decline between
Gasion and st. Louis.
The Lafayette car works yesterday COM
rnenced on 4 contract to build five hundred coal
oars for an Eastern road.
The Indian polis station of the l., P. % c.
Nabash-biiled out in January. 1886, LAG more
poadsd cars than in January, 1885.
J. w, Sherwood, superintendent of the O., l.,
81 Ii. & O., VINO was so i'll as to confne him to
5his room last week, was at his post yesterday.
L. L. Fellows, general freight agent of the
champaign g. Western, is In the city. He states
hhat their business the past sixty days has been
aimited only to the cars they could command.
o. B. Skinner, traffic manager of the Decline
system, who is now in California, writes home
Ehat if he is remaining there for the benefit of his
health he is the biggest fraud in that State,
for he was never in better trim physically in his
George II. Burrows, superintendent of the
western division of the Central railroad, form
erly, and for years, general superintendent OF
khe Wabash railway. has purchased a residence
aud will make his future home in Lockport,
n. Y.
The c.. st L. 81 P. and Vandalia people say
Ahat they did not put on through chair-cars free
until their competitors had for months been run
ming free chair-cars, SO should there be a rate
var over the matter they did not originate the
policy.
On0 week AaS demonstrated the TACT LnaG bl0
Inspector OF weights of the Indianapolis associa-
fion will need additional men to make the
undertaking a success. In fact, the association
should have one of their own men at the scales
of each road.
The Vandalia road last year was able to col
,1ect but G. 73 cent per ton per mile on its freight
arafhc, which is nearly as low as the average on
4he Eastern trunk lines 70. 688 cent on the New
York Central last year,, and much lower than on
any Chicago road.
After all the grumbling of light travel in Jan
nary, several of the Indianapolis roads show
larger earnings than for the corresponding
month of 1885. The Vandalia shows an increase
of S., 200. the j., M. & !. of s., $50, and the c., l.,
st. L. & G.. 1850.
It cost only 500. 600 to sell the Toledo. Cincin-
nat q st. Louis narrow guage road. OF this
sum Judge Gresham allowed Mcdonald, Butler
Il Mason $12, 500, Baker, -Hord g. Hendricks
4l2. 500, G. W.. Fairbanks So. ZOO, Commissioner
Fishback and McNulta So, 900 each.
The Union tracks are entirely too frequently
blockaded with long trains of cars laden with
grain shipped from the elevators. If there is no
other way to force this business over the Beltroad,
the wheelage tax should be made so heavy as to
drive it off of the Union tracks onto the Belt
road.
The Expressmen's Mutual Aid Society convenes
At st. Louis to-day. J. j. Henderson and g. B.
Hall will represent the Indianapolis expressmen.
In the through sleeping coaches west last night
q - large HI Vi Qci6SdJ6S INtW
York, Pennsylvania and the New England
States.
The friends of VIM. G. Lynn and J. W. Smith
will be gratified to know that in the new deal of
che Erie fast-freight lines both are to- be re-
tanned. Messrs. Smith and Lynn rank among
the best agents in this section, and it was a wise
zhingfor Manager Ristine to continue themin the
service.
As evidsnce that the grain traffic is drifting
from Chicago we note that Indianapolis lines in
xhe twenty-four hours ending at 6 P. M. yester-
day brought in 139 carloads of grain for In
dianapolis proper. 126 carloads of which were
corn, and four times that number of cars passed
here on through bills.
The inspector of weights of the Indianapolis
association yesterday found a carload of lumber
billed into Indianapolis at %. 600. which. upon
snspection. was shown to- weigh over $4,000
pounds On another road be found q car billed
out as laden with wheels. but in one end was sew
eral thousand pounds of iron castings.
The Danyiile, Olney Sc Ohio River road will be
sold under the foreclosure decree without any ifs
brands to morrow. The syndicate of bondholders,
of which Austin Corbin is the head will doubt
less bid it In at about the receivers debts, which
were contracted before G. E. Henderson accept
ed the receivership. Since then the road has
more than paid it's operating expenses.
The Pennsylvania railroad officials made a
great run on their trip from Pittsburg to At
foona on Saturday last. The limited express,
with a clear track and everything in its favor,
IL scheduled to do it in three hours and twenty
minutes. The train carrying the officers, run
ming as a wildcat, with no preparations, and not
having the right-of-way, made the run IN three
hours and ten seconds.
The st. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute road
IS leased for 30 per cent. of its gross earnings by
the Terre Haute s. Indianapolis company, and
last year, for the first time. were the net earn
ings enough to pay the rental. Sometimes the
rental was not enough to meet the fixed charges,
and then the lessee has advanced them, charging
the lessor therefor and collecting when the rent
nj exceeded the fixed charges, as it has done
avery year since 1878.
ID. G. Brady, Southern passenger agent of the
Baltimore q Ohio, is spending a day or two in
the city. He reports the new B. & 0. sleeping
coach between indianapolis, Washington and
Baltimore. over the G., l., ST. L. & G. and the
b. q o., as catching on finely with the travelling
public. The b. d O. passenger department has
just got ont a nobhy auartersheet which folds
in the form of an invitation card, which is quite
deliberately illustrated, and bears Inscriptions,
such as N chestnuts on the b. d o., no extra
Sxactions of any description whatever. no reck-
less running, few stops; track and equipments
highest standard"
l.. ID. Richardson, commissioner of the Chicago
u Ohio River pool, on arriving at louisville ON
Friday last. found himself obliged to attend to
m entirely different matter than he had expect
ed. Sourthern furnaces had sold a large lot of
pig iron at the old low rates of freight and found
themselves confronted with the advanced tariff.
Hhey therefore asked the railroads to assist
Shen. The matter was discussed carefully, and
Anally submitted to tie Southern roads. with an,
fhority to act as they saw proper. Mr.. Geiger,
Of the Jefersouvilie, Madison s. Indianapolis
gosd, was instructed to call another meeting,
which will probably be held soon at Louisville.
Bradstreet says: wall street is in a state of
transition. The death of Mr.. Vanderbilt and
the alleged retirement of Mr.. Gould have taken
the two largest individual forces away from the
market, and the death or embarrassment of q
number OF leading operators has to a great ex-
sent changed the personnel of the street New
Nen, who were comparatively unknown a short
Sme ago, have come to the front, together with
sperators who have heretofore occupied a Sec
sndary position as powers in the street. The
enanges and deaths among the former leaders of
speculation have. however. tended to magnify
1he Importance of those who remain, while the
Infusion OF new blood naturally creates changes
- the temper, il not in the methods. of specula-