The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Indianapolis at 4:30 p. NJ to-day, and remain over
night
The local sleepers run between Indianapolis
and Cleveland will, after Sunday next be hauled
on the evening train out of Indianapolis at 7l5
o'clock, over the Decline.
The Illinois Central road. in connection with
Che Vandalia is making extensive mprovements
on its St Louis line, which has assumed prom
Lnent figure in Southwestern passenger business.
The /. B. & W. people are building at their
own shops forty-fve ton passenger engine
which Master Mechanic King expects Will be
one of the fastest locomotives on the l., b. @ W.
system when completed.
There were loaded and unloaded at the c., l.,
St L. & C. city freight depot, last month, 800
ears-the largest number handled in any month
in the history of the road, 803 being the high
est number heretofore reached.
Andy OfHara, train dispatcher on the l.. B. &
w has accepted good position on the ST.
Louis e San Francisco road Mr. OHara was
educated on the Decline, and is very capable as
train dispatcher, and now takes more impor-
tant position.
Next Saturday General Freight and Passenger
Agent James, of the Cleveland, Akron q Column
BUS will leave for California for his health.
During his absence the Office at Akron will re-
main in charge of Fl. B. Durham, who has been
his chief clerk
The Philadelphia Record of Tuesday says:
fPresident Corbin is expected to return to this
city to-day and assume the active management
Of the Reading Economy will reign. and clerks
will lunch off pretzels and beer. Oh for the res
1aurant that is past and gone"
The Pennsylvania railroad proper is handling
fully $50, 900 tons of coal per week. About 60
Der cent of this tonnage originates on the main
Zine and the remainder or the branches The
total tonnage handled thus far this year has
been II, 938 tons and 1850, 40 tons of coke
K H Wade of the Wabash tells the officials
an the Indianapolis, Peru e. Chicago to borrow
no trouble about any other than the wabash
people getting full control of the property, he
fntImating that they still have the under hold
on the portion of the road lying between lndi-
annapolis and Peru
To compensate San Francisco for the loss of
trade that followed the construction of the
Northern Pacific railroad line is to be built
through California into eastern Oregon; thence
it is to cross Idaho, then Montana and Dakota
and finally reach Lake Superior, making new
route across the continent.
James E. Macdoueall has been appointed gen
eral passenger agent of the Northern Pacific
road at Montreal. Mr.. Macdougall will have
charge of all that territory in Canada east of
Lake Huron and along the line or the Grand
Trunk railway through Vermont. New Hamp-
shire and Maine into Portland.
The Cleveland Leader of yesterday says: III.
G. Townsend general passenger agent of the
Missouri Pacific, is visiting in Cleveland. Mr..
Townsend is an old Cleveland boy. He obtained
fis first railroad experience with the Bee-line.
In 1864 he was clerk in the auditors office
of the Bellefontaine railroad, now consolidated
with the Bee-line."
A. W. Quackenbush. until recently division
master mechanic of the Detroit branch Of the
Wabash, with headquarters at Butler, has been
promoted to the position of master mechanic at
Moberly, No., for the same company. Caleb
Kennel, formerly passenger engineer on the
main line, will probably be named as Mr. Quack
Snbushs successor at Butler.
Altar SUNDAY pavt tharo vii he cevan fraine
daily each way between Indianapolis and Ander-
son, the c. W. q NJ. trains will be hauled sepa-
Fately from the Beene trains proper. 1t strikes
an outsider that the traffic agreement between
the Bee-line and the c., w. &c NJ. is rather an
expensive one to the Decline, or. in other words
she c., w. s. III. is something of an elephant on
2heir hands
j. N. Faithorn, secretary of the Associa-
tiou Of General Freight Agents of the West, has
ISSUED the following notice: "A meeting of the
above named association will be held in Chicago
On Wednesday evening. Nov. IL, at place and
hour to De announced hereafter. AS nearly five
months have elapsed since a meeting, 1t is earn
estly hoped that there will be full attendance
of the members on the date named"
The double track of the c., l., st. L. g. c., be-
tween Cincinnati and Trautmans. vester
day opened for traffic. The Big Four is now
double track eight miles out from Cincinnati
The three and half miles recently constructed
Is laid with steel rails weighing sixty seven
pounds to the yard. The c., l. St. i. & G. now
has eighty miles OF track laid with steel rails
weighing sixty-seven pounds to the yard.
1t is to- feared that the Western roads are
1un with less care for the passengers than are
New England roads. We notice that 2, 1876 528
passengers were handled on the Michigan Cen
trail last year, of whom seven injured and
-Four killed Last year the Boston 81 Providence
road carried over $1,000 900 passengers, and but
two were injured and none killed, and the show
ing on the part of all New England roads was
equally favorable.
There is good authority for stating that Presi-
dent Barnard of the Ohio e. Mississippi road
has gone East to confer with the Erie people re-
Rarding atrafnc agreement, the purpose of the
present directory being to give the Bal
timore 81 Ohio the cold shoulder. It 10 we'll
known that the Erie management Is anxious to
enter into some arrangement with the o. 81 M
TO handle their St Louis business. 1t is also
animated that in due time, the Erie Express
Company will succeed the Baltimore 81 Ohio
express on the o. & NJ.
Commissioner Daniels, of the passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic Association says
that, should the roads in the association live up
TO their agreements and maintain rates the tick
ct scalpers may as we'll hunt up something else
to do, as their occupation will be gone. The
roads propose to give the passengers the money
that goes to middle men in the way of scalped
yates and commissions. and the fact that in most
i5t the Western States the passenger rates have
been reduced to three cents per mile and reason
Abe rates are given to persons who attend con-
Ventons or important meetings is cited as being
evidence that that the roads are disposed to do
what is rightin rate matters.
1t is gratifying to note that the relations be-
tween the giant railroad corporations, the Penn
Rylvania and the Philadelphia e. Reading roads
are becoming more harmonious. 1t is even said
shat the acquisition of the tonnage of some
eollieres by the Pennsylvania at Shenandoah
was notopposed by the Reading The Penrsyl-
Yania Schuykill Valley line will be opened to
New Boston next week, and there is no doubt
that redistribution of the anthracite tonnage
in the upper Schuylkil between that road. the
Reading and the Lehgh Valley will follow. It
win naturally be months, or even a year before
any definite arrangements will be made, but
from this time the Pennsylvania is a competitor
\ eor trade in the SchuylkiA region.
Takes Rosy View of the Situation.
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