The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-07
kFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local..

Today 10 TO be holiday at st. Louis, it being
the big day of the fair. Ali the railroad Offices
and freight depots are to be closed, and no local
freights sent out
countaut and freight train agent of the Michigan
Central road. with headquarters at Detroit vice
James Graque resigned.
Word has been received from Perciyal
Lowell, late of tho Burlington road in which he
states that he is now at San Diego CAL, and that
hls health has improved some.
1t is said that Wabash engineers will not be
permitted TO earn more than $3.50 per month,
and when the money earned amounts to that
much they are laid off and their run given to
other engineers
In the month of September the platform men
ut the depots of the Pennsylvania Company at
this point handled 25,012,648 pounds of freight,
against 23937,5H pounds the corresponding
month, 1885.
II. S. Depew having resigned the position
pf joint agent of the st. Louis committee of the
Central Traffic Association, f. W. Braisted.
the chief clerk, has been placed i'll charge of the
ST. Louis Office.
The Belt road company yesterday commenced
the putting in of q spur track to the ground pur-
chased by the WOODBURY. arven Company, west
of the river. The spur will be about one-third
Of mile in length.
A meeting of the auditors Of the lines in the
Central Traffic Association passenger depart
nent, will be held in Chicago, Friday. to agree
upon statistics to assist in the preparation of ar
guments for percentages.
The inspection party of the Pennsylvania lines
will inspect the Indianapolis division of the c.,
St L. & P on the 18th of this month, and stop
over at Indianapolis that night. President Rob
arts and nearly all the higher officials of the
pennsylvania system will be in the party.
The Cairo, Vincennes q Chicago railroad
earned in September. 1886, $57, 511; correspond
ing month 1885. $40, 965; increase, notwthstand-
H. l.
u consequence of fire in the tunnel, $13, SAG.
A. G. Cowan, general travelling passenger agent
pf the Florida Southern road, will be married
this evening to Miss Matte George. of Glen
wood, Ind. The bride was graduate of the
Kappes Female Institute, and very amiable
lady, while Mr.. Cowan is an exemplary young
man.
The indianapolis car-works has this week
been awarded the contract to build 500 coal cars
for the Chicago & Indiana Block Coal road.
President MiRard expects to have 500 men at
work within few days. He is now pushing the
construction Of 300 box cars for the Union Pa
eifc road.
W. S. Ogden, formerly in the Vandalia Office
a. this point, now agent of the company at Green
vile, Ill, has for some twenty years worn the
sarne silk plug hat. The train men, with whom
he is quite popular, this week made up a purse
and purchased one of the finest silk hats made,
and presented him with it.
j. G.. Hartigan. at presen. division superin-
tendent of the international 81 Great Northern
division of the Missouri Pacific has rendered his
resignation to accept the position of assistant
superintendent of the Chicago g. Council Bluffs
division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST Paul
railway. vice L. B. Beardsley, resigned.
Amos Parrish. who for some years has been in
the passenger service of the Vandalia at this
point, and who has done good work, removed
yesterday to Rushville to engage in farming pur-
snits. Although he owns one of the best farms
In Rush county his friends here predict that he
win be back in railroad service within two years.
The Decline is putting in twenty miles of new
steel rail Coming west from Versailles, O.,
ten miles have been laid within the last FIVE days
The track of the Beelne proper will soon be in
as good condition as that of the l. & st. L. d-
vision. which is considered by railroad men to
be as good u ack as there is west of the mount
aims
The Loeansport Pharos makes good point
when it says: sit would be we'll if managers of
railway lines would establish bureaus of in
formation from which trustworthy particulars
of serious accidents could be had by the press.
The first and unofficial reports Of mishaps are
generally exaggerated and the reputation of the
road for careful management too often wrongly
suffers"
The representatives of the Louisville & Nash
vile, the Louisville New Albany & Chicago the
Ohio & Mississippi and the Jeffersonville. Madi-
son 81 Indianapolis roads, who form the Louis
vile committee, met at Commissioner Blanch-
ards Office Tuesday and presented their argu-
nents for new percentages to the new arbitrator
u. T. Ripley, who took the matter under ad-
Visement
F. A. Potts, of the Coal and Iron Exchange
says it is perfectly true that the Pennsylvania
does not belong to the anthracite pool, but it
particularly observes our prices. That is Mr.
Robertsis diplomacy. He is with us, but not of
ns. You see he plays fast and loose with the
trunk line pool in the same way. But he sticks
very carefully to the pool, all the same He
poses as a reformer, and maneuvers for all the
advantages he get.
1t will be noticed that the Union Railway
Company in this issue of the Journal advertise
for bids for the erection of the new depot. Bids
to be received up to noon Nov. l. 1856 It
seems that the improvements now to be pushed
as fast the weather will permit. The oceu-
pants of the thirty more buildings which are
to come down to make room for the new struct-
ure are rapidly vacating. and all will probably
be out by the middle of next week.
The taking of the l.. d. s. S. road out of the
hands of a receiver will not be at as early a date
as expected in midsummer. 1t is quite probable
that some further changes will be made in the
plan of reorganization. The friends Of the
property are getting their eyes opened to the
fact that some plan should be hit upon that will
bring the fixed charges down to figures that the
road will earn, be the crops good bad. The
surplus OF earnings IN the good years can be dis
bursed in paying dividends, as the stockholders
and bondhoders the same persons.
member of the Coal and Iron Exchange
that 1t was contrary to the State Constitution
for the coal roads, which are common carriers,
10 be engaged in the prosecution of mining en-
terprises: That is So 1t is so under the Con-
sttution as it stands now, and the coal compan-
les got charters under the Constitution before II
was amended, and those charters cannot now be
Rbrog@t-d. Mr. Gowen has fought the foreclos-
ure OF Heading 50 Professionally and. so far, so
successfully, because ne thought the charter
which would be sacrificed by foreclosure was of
inestimable value, and so it is"
The Vandalia eomnaay mas adopted the
Waters-Sweeny telegraph switch on their en-
tire sy..en and eSs OF the instruments e beirc
Rlae@aa IL the Office Of General Agent Wetsel
The first instrument of this character which has
been put in at Indianapolis. The following are
some of the advantages claimed for the switch
over the old system, which requires full act of
instruments on each line: Its great econ omy;
no waste of local battery whatever None is