The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



viii probably become president of the Denver g.
tsio Grande railway when reorganized.
The Indianapolis car works are working 400
men on fun time, and have orders on hand and
In prospect which will keep them busy for soIae
months.
Albert S. White, assistant general freight
peent OF the Decline, is having a tussel with
Ehe whooping cough, and has been untitled for
anty day or two by the disease.
+. b. Sergeant, Grand Chief of the Brother
pood or Locomotive Firemens Association, who
has been i'll some weeks in Terre Haute, is so
mucn improved in health as to be about on the
btreets
&. @. Gridley has been appointed general
freight and ticket agent of the Toledo. Columbus
9 southern railway, in place OF Il. F. Wilson.
ur: i. IL McLain has been appointed auditor
ana car accountant
The bottom is apparently out of east-bound
business Even from Indianapolis proper ship
pers are so well satisfied that areduction in rates
Is near at hand that they hold back what little
stuff might go forward.
The express business as well as freight traffic
Is unfavorably affected by the labor troubles,
pnd Is fully so per cent. lighter than last month,
and falling below the business OF the CORE
spending period OF 1885.
The strike troubles in the Southwest and
West are severely affecting one branch of traffic.
The shipments of harvesting and agricultural
hnplaments at this season of the year usually
1ften reach train-loads, but have now dropped to
occasionally a carload.
The demands of the T., B. 6 w. and G. 81. s.
D., in connection with Erie lines, for an east
bound differential passenger rate Is becoming
more and more of a disturbing element in the
new Central Traffic Association, and means
serious trouble in the near future
Mr.. Jay Gould has contributed $3.50, 900 to the
Drexel- Morgan syndicate for the reorganization
0f Reading In private conversation Mr. Gould
stated that he was in thorough accord with the
plan and that it would prove the salvation of the
Company, of whose great value he had the very
highest opinion.
The high waters at Cincinnati are not interior
Ing with the freight business of the c., l., St L.
&C Yardmaster Hicks reports 134 loaded cars
forwarded to Cincinnati yesterday, most of
which were to go forward from Cincinnati over
The c., w. & B., the Chesapeake & Ohio and the
Cincinnati Southern
Committees to refer disputes to are of great
convenience in operating pools. The trunk-line
pool, when it strikes a snag goes around it. AL
Enough the pool has progressed very steadily,
oven to the signing OF the freight-poo contracts,
Tuesday. it has barrelful of undecided ques-
lions which haunt the magnates ever.
w. A. Carpenter has been appointed traffic
manager of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern
road and the Saginaw Valley & st. Louis road,
with Office at Detroit the position of general
freight agent being abolished. He has also
been made traffic manager of the Chicago 81
kegon.
The engineers of the L, D. g. s. railway
learned with sorrow of the death of Mrs H. B.
Hammond, and sympathize with Mr. Hammond
LIN the great less he has sustained in the death of
adevoted wife, and as q token of their respect
and esteem for him have thought proper to drape
the number plates of their engines in mourning
Cor thirty days
Matters with the Chicago 6 Ohio River pool
continue to move along smoothly, while other as
eocations of like character are here to day and
gone tomorrow. This pool is safely piloted be-
tween the breakers, and so fairly are the per
gents adjusted that few hundred dollars pays
the balances between the roads in any month
IN fact 1t is no exaggeration to say that it Is the
''model poop of this country.
George seney sold 100000 in the income
bonds of the Peoria, Decatur 81 Evansville,
which he had sin SOAK" at about 60, to Presi-
dent Mackey, of TIE E. & T. Fl. few months
ago the Metropolitan National, of New York,
was going to let the bonds go at %, but Seney
persuaded the officers of the bank to hold off
and give him a chance to do better. and he
seems to have accomplished his purpose
There is rumor which seems, when traced
back, to have some good authority, to the effect
that nj. E. Ingalls,. when in New York, week be-
fore last. was offered the presidency of the Bee
line system. That he would be the man for the
place will not be questioned, yet he is so wrapped
no in the c., T., ST. L. q c. it is questionable
whether he would accept the position said to
have been offered him.
Railroad officials who have watched the pro-
Geedings of late looking to the throwing of the
Chicago & Atlantic road into the hands of a re-
ceiver. look upon the decision of Judge Gresham
yesterday. signal victory for FL. j. Jewett,
president of the c. e. A. The decision will,
without doubt, be q disappointment to John
King president of the Erie, and his friends,
who are supposed to be urging on the trouble
some litigation.
While the live stock traffic of indianapolis
roads, for some weeks past has been unusually
light, taken a whole, the local movement of
i've stock has been larger than in any CORE
spending period since the yards were opened at
Indianapolis. The receipts of hogs since March
have been fully 40 per cent. heavier than in
any former year, while through i've stock ship
ynents have been lighter than in any correspond
Ing period for many years.
Railroad officials at this ONT are highly graft
led that the arrangements of the Northwestern
roads are returning to their senses, and that the
suicidal war on rates is nearing its close. The
breaking up of the Northwestern Traffic Asso-
citation was one of the most serious events that
has happened in the railroad world since tn 9
West Shore-New York Central imbroglo, which
involved the trunk lines in the severest cutting
Of rates and consequent losses ever before
known.
The railroad companies are just waking up to
the fact that underbilling has been one of the
biggest leaks in their revenue, and not sat
isfed with simply weighing cars laden with
lumber. grain, etc. but at several points have
commenced weighing depot freights more care
fully, forwarded to local stations Cleveland
roads, in the month of March. commenced
weighing local freights. and the Decline alone
incresaed its tonnage 112 tons. For instance
sugar, which weighs 800 pounds per barrel, is
billed ont by all roads at 800 pounds; canned
goods, which weigh 60 pounds in two dozen can
boxes, are carried for 30 pounds, and hundreds
OF articles are proportionately underbilled.
Commissioner Doherty, of the Indianapolis east
bound pool. has gone to Chicago to talk over pool
percentages. The Chicago Inter Ocean says: 1.-THE
percentage committee of the Central Traffic AS
ISOLATION may be reported making progress
although such progress is made very slowly The
committee was again in session yesterday at Com
missioner George r. Blanchard's Office and spent
the whole day discussing percentages, points and
fares One point after another was discussed
and its narcanfages icfted down Then after