The Indianapolis journal., 1886-01-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


month of December $500; and in the year
k7885. 81 63l 1888 increase 1884 of $S5 667.
The general passenger agents in New York, at
Tuesdays meeting. resolved to shut off all free
Passes to shippers and employees unless at the re-
quest Of departments heads.
L. E. Perkins has been appointed general
agent Of the Red-line Transit Company and Mid
land line In charge of east-bound business for
Denver and adjoining territory, with Office at
Denver
No opposition is expected to the reelection of
&C. Clinton Gardnel as president of the Buffalo.
New York e Philadelphia railroad at the annual
injecting of the stockholders next Monday. A
tplan Of reorganization viii De presented.
Master Mechanic Barnes of, the Wabash. is
building, at one of their shops, thirty seven
ton freight engine. upon which he is introducing
some features which he thinks will result
in an engine of that weight hauling as many
freight cars as does a forty-fye-ton consol en-
bgine
Superintendents Woodland of the L., N. A. g.
c. Stevens, of the Wabash. and E. L. Scott.
general agent of the bondholders of the l., p. &
C road, meet here to-day to complete the settle
ment of the questions at issue between the two
roads regarding terminal facilities at lndianapo-
Ills.
The r.. P IL c.. Wabash management, finding
that they will be obliged to wait some weeks in
the securing of the billiard room of the Bates
HOUSE for an uptown office, will to-day en-
deavor to close a contract with E. f. Claypool
for the room recently occupied by Tiff Brothers,
shatters.
Superintendent Woodard, of the L., N. A. g.
C., has decided to, at an early day. put on trains
TO leave indianapolis at A. NJ, reach Chicago at
4 p. NJ; returning. leave Chicago at P. NJ. reach
Indianapolis at Ii p NJ. connecting with trains
for the Vest. These will be express trains, and
make but few stops.
Claims on the Toledo, Cincinnati & st. Louis
yroad are piling in upon William p. Fishback.
master in chancery. Pecever McNulta says
they will amount to fully $1,000, ,000 which will
leave but $780, 900 TO divide among the bond
holders, and it is said that it will cost fully
$4,000 per mile to put the road in good working
order and properly eqnipit.
The c., c., G. & l. is to-day more valuable
property than at any time in its history, yet the
stock is lower than in 1888. In that year it was
quoted as high as 84. In 1884 it ranged between
20 and %. in 1885 between 81 and %. and is now
quoted at So which is &c points better than at
the corresponding period in 1885, With this road
the real value of the property seems to cut no
figure.
Andrew Carnegie. who is stopping at the
Windsor Hotel, New York, says his Pennsyl-
Tania mills have orders on hand for 10000 tons
of steel rails. In a letter to the New York
Times, Mr.. Carnegie states that he anticipates
steady demand for replacement and new lines of
road. increased production and fair prices in
which the general business of the country is
bound to share
w. Fl. Witty brother of John Witty, road
master of the Belt road. was buried on Tuesday
mt Brazil, Ind. The deceased was well-known
railroad man, and for twenty years run pas
.Eenger conductor the Louisville g. Nashville
road. Two or three years ago he quit railroad
ing and purchased q good farm in Putnam
coulty. He was highly respected by all who had
formed his acquaintance.
II is mora than rrohahla hot tho Ralti.,,ora 2r
Ohir people will re-establish their district pas
sengtr agencies in the West. A couple of months
since Jan economical streak came over the man
agenlent of the passenger department and the
inum6er of representatives of this department
was reduced to five in the territory west of
Pittsburg ard competitors of the B. q o. in
Buch territory have been in clover Meantime
the b. q .. is beginning to feel the loss of bus
liness.
The Danville, Olney & Ohio River road to be
sold under foreclosure Jan. 27. has an old
debt Of $l75,U00 hanging over it, which amount
the bondholders' committee, Messrs Charles G..
Stevens Austin Corbin. Isaac Fenno, John w.
Carter, Haes w. Suter, Joseph Pool and Albert
N. Parlin, say should he subscribed and paid in
within week. This debt must be met before a
title can be obtained to the property. There is
but little doubt that the Corbin syndicate pro-
pose to gather in this road, which has, without
doubt, seen its darkest days.
On Monday five of the conductors of the PAN
handle railroad went to Pittsburg to take in
structions at the conductors school established
by the company for the purpose of familiarizng
them with the different forms and various kinds
of tickets used by the company. The conductors
were John Mangan. Il S. Nichols, c. Hughes,
George l.. Havenick and j. Hopkins. They are
rather old boys to attend school, but the new
rules of the Pennsylvania Company are, many of
rhem so complicated that common mind, un-
Jess educated in them, fails to grasp their mean
ling
The Baltimore & Ohio railroads. very ingen-
Eous and wise in promoting skill and manhood
among it's employees, and has now established
manual training for five hundred boys employed
in its machine-shops. Professor ScribEer. of the
Stevens Institute of Technology. is employed to
give them instructions in the shops, to change
them about from one class of work to another
and to look after their technical education. In
Struction in drawing is given after school hours
a library of textbooks is furnished, and every
thing is done TO encourage the youth to become
skilled w0rkmen.
the Pittsburg Dispatch starts rumor that
the North Chicago Rolling-mill Company con-
template moving their plant to Mckeesport. Mr.
Christy. of that place, who owns considerable
valuable real estate, has offered to donate the
ground to any manufacturing firm that will To-
cate there 1t any firm whose works cover five
Hcres, accept the proposition, it will be given ten
acres OF ground. The site is as fine as can be
found. having two railroads and navigable
stream of the best water in the country. The
Tumor is likely groundless. 1t will take some
tsnA"E oeoiuo io" aeisS Vi Srouhu " iuuuCe d
mandatory of any article to remove from Chi
cago.
Some one IS booming the stock of the l., B. &c
w. In the New York Post, which says: "All
the Eastern tonnage coming over the Rock
island lines goes to the l., b. & W., and the lat
ter is transferring large amount of freight
West and northwest bound to Rock Island
Gable. of the Rock Island tells his friends that
T., b. & w. ought to sell at 60 this year and pay
dividends.n The amusing point to this is
that the c., l., St L. & c.. via Seneca gets ten
cars of freight from the Chicago g. Rock Island
where the l.. B. & w. gets one via Peoria. The
greatest thorn in the flesh of the Eastern
lines ont of Chicago is the excellent astbound
business the c., l., ST L. & G. is doing through
ats Seneca connection with the G. & r. !.