The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The ticketscalpers are in high glee, the wars
end rumors of wars in passenger circles, they
say, mean meat for them.
The stock of the l., b. 6 W. road is now sell
fng at 28a, against n the corresponding date,
T885, yet it is not as high as the corresponding
period in 1883, when its old for 35i.
The Evansville & Terre Haute road earned the
tirss week in February $l4. 1SS-an increase OF
d., z8 over the corresponding week of 1885.
me increase this year, up to Feb. Z, was but
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western road
earned the first week in February 500 $780, the the
Ancrease over the corresponding week In 1889
WAS $l2 l0S Increase in earnings since Jan. l,
81, 099
Alfred Suilv the New York capitalist who is
largely interested in the l.. B. 81 W. road. is the
owner OF 5000 900 of the Philadelphia 81 Read
BOG general mortgage bonds, and Is warm ad-
h8rent of Mr.. Gowen.
Engineers certificates, or licenses for !ocomo-
alive engineers. talked of being required in
England Why not here aso9 1t is stated that
= majority of the engineers of the Locomotive
brotherhood will favor this proposition.
The fact that Harry Francisco. late passenger
conductor on the L.. N A. 81 c., has for some
Aays past been riding over the Ohio g. Mississip-
pi road prospecting, has led to the belief that he
IS to be the successor of Division Superintendent
Cole
Per some months past the L., N. A. & G.. has
been handling an average OF seventy cars of Clay
county COAL which Is delivered to them by the
Wandalia and l. q ST. L. at Greencastle. A large
pee cent. of the shipments go north to Chicago
and Michigan points
Doan Blinn, commercial agent of the New
York, Chicago & st. Louis railway, Toledo, o.,
was in the city yesterday. He spent most of his
fms at the Wabash Office In times past. when
Bver Nickelplats agent spent a day IN the city
freight rates would become shaky shortly after.
The Bee-line people were yesterday fully 1900
ears short of supplying the demand at Indianap-
oils, and the ]. 81 st. L. division. It is said
zhs freight earnings for February on the Bee
lime will be the largest of any February since
i8S0 Maintaining rates is what is increasing
ahe revenue.
The Pennsylvania Company have several of
1heir new monster freight engines in SERVICE and
they reported to be performing admirably.
There is one striking feature about these loco.
motives. 1t is fully as easy to fire them and
they burn no more coal than engines of much
less power.
For three years past on the Bee-line proper the
fuel for the locomotives has been half slack
md one-half lump or nut coal, and in this period
the officials have not been able to decide wheth-
er it is profitable to use any slack They find it
Impossible to got the same mileage per ton as
with all lump.
There is good authority for stating that at the
meeting of general passenger agents in Cleve-
land H. NJ. Bronson of the l.. B. & W.. acted
very honorahly, ana showed no disposition to
dsmoralize matters by threatening to withdraw
from the agreement or do anything to prevent
harmonious action.
Some days ago it was announced that the vet
yeran ticketscalpers Mckenzie and De Land, of
CHE. 90 and Kansas City respectively, had pur-
chased the scalping Office of VIM Powell & Son.
Yesterday sign was erected bearing the name
of Simson Sc Co.. and what is puZzling passenger
11sn and competing Scalpers is to ascertain who
the newcomers are.
A ofn
list evening talking over the decentralization of
rates. and seeming rather pleased over the situa-
kiOa, when one of their number remarked:
'tWell can joke of this matter boys, but
lear its to be our funeral There will % . reac-
ition. and the heads of passenger agents will
tumble into the bucket by the dozens"
It is said that in no railroad yards in this
country are trains handled with the promptness
and dispatch as at the Bee-line yards, Bright
wood. Everything works like clock-work. A
freight train coming in over the [. q St L. is
0ften started east over the Bee-line i'll twenty
minutes from the time it arrives. the stand
ing only long enough to be oiled, train crews
and locomotives changed.
President Gowen, of the Reading road, has
been to Pittsburg and returned to PHILADELPHIA
smiling. 1t is said that he will fight syndicate
with syndicate and will raise funds to keep the
coupons of the general mortgages paid, and thus
prevent foreclosure. The Baltimore 81 Ohio
people and New Jersey Central, it is said, will
offered by the Morgan syndicate
One of the fastest runs made in this country
was over the j., M. & /. Yesterday, by special
train carrying the Mary Anderson troupe The
9rain left the Union Depot, Indianapolis at 8:45
A. NJ. and at 1130 A. NJ the train came to
ssandstill in the depot at LOUISVILLE KY The
distance Is Ito miles, and the actual running
xime was 143 minutes. Miss Anderson spoke in
very complimentary terms Of the quick trip,
saying that while in Europe she rode on no
froi md mi pIAa hon
krSck.
n. E. Ingalls,, president Of the c.. L. ST L. &
C., takes exception to the article which appeared
IN the Journal Of yesterday morning under the
bead. Chicago Side tracked" and which was
credited to the Chicago Tribune. Mr. Ingalls,
says the article is sanderous in character and
amanated from some blatherskite who had an
AK to grind. This was but one of a number of
articles which have appeared in Chicago papers,
which are the outgrowth of jealousy that Indian
spolis roads are doing an unusually heavy winter
Business, as they fortunately this year are in
the corn belt while Chicago roads have suffered
In business.
President McKeen of the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis. has decided to build branch from
Brazil to Saline City, twenty miles southeast
from Terre Haute on the Terre Haute & South
eastern, now the Evansville Worthington g.
Terre Haute road. Mr. McKeen will use one of
Aheir switches running south from Brazil to one
OF the block coal Mines and to reach Saline City
wsll need to build but three miles of new road
The construction of this piece of road to con-
nection with the Evansville, Worthington e
Terre Haute road opens direct line to Indian
npolis. which has not in the past had railroad
facilities and promises to be good feeder to
tia 7. ii. & I.
III. r. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg, comes out strongly in favor of running
only chair-cars on frst-cass passenger trains,
mpd gives good reasons for the position he takes
III p a hal
xaekages or a travelling salesman with two or
farce yalises. cannot occupy four seats, as they
do in ordinary passenger coach Packages
waiises etc., will all be piled up on the floor In
many ways ne thinks the roads would profit by
wunning free chair-cars in place of the ordinary
passenger coach on all day trains Mr. Dering
khinks that before two years roll around his idea
In this matfar will be- carried out ON all the bet