The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local
Els Mills station, on the indianapolis G. Vim
eennes road. has been closed.
The Pennsylvania Company has established
station at Ewing Mills, and has appointed E. CT.
Reisher ticket and freight agent.
Harry Wetsell general agent of the yandalia,
10 still quite i'll with dphtheria For two three
days past his physician has not allowed him to
zee visitors.
J. Fables has been appointed agent of the
Lehigh Valley and Wabash Dispatch fast-freight
line at Chicago, with Office at No. 1O9 South
Clark street.
90 ninety cents the dollar. and it is an excel
sent time for parties who bought 1t when at ten
and fifteen to unload.
The new union depot enterprise the last day
or swo has been moving along grandiy There
IA no longer any question as to the Improvement
being well under way within the next thirty
dsys
Walter E. DcoiittIe, son of manager III. E.
Doolittle, of the Western Union telegraph Office
at Lafayette, has been selected to represent the
b & o. Telegraph Company, which has just
opened an Office in Lafayette. Ind.
The Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg is ahead
IN its per cents. in the east-bound pool, and the
Bee line people have asked Commissioner Do
herty TO return to them the 500 tons he ordered
diverted April 1, to even up per centages.
The Michigan Railroad Commissioners have
Just decided upon seven styles OF car-couplers to
DO used by the railroad companies of that State.
The Ames and Corvell are among the number,
and three of the others are the inventions Of
Michigan men.
fourth week in April. So l67 or 30 per cent. more
than in the corresponding week of 1885. For the
month the gain was $l9,676, Or IL per cent, and
for the first four months of the year the increase
Ii $Al, zoo. or st per cent.
1t is cow year since the Central Traffic Asso-
cation the Western complement of the trunk
line pool, sprung into existence. and yet the
question of percentages remains unsettled. On
every hand the exective committee are met with
obstacles in carrying out their schemes.
That the new limited trains over the Chicago,
Milwaukee e. St Paul are catching OF is evil
denced from the fact that they have already
been obliged to increase their facilities. AL ad-
.ditonal sleeper has been attached, and in future
ample sleeping car facilities will be provided for
the patrons of this fast train.
N. X. Elliott, superintendent of transporta-
zion of the Vandalia. in the city yesterday.
looking rather careworn. For five weeks he
has been at East st. Louis working day and
night to keep matters moving. acting as yard
master switchman or brakeman whenever 1t be-
came necessary.
The sleeping coach running between Indianap-
oils and Washington, d. c., over the c., l., st
l. i G. and the 3. & O. is meeting with bet
ter patronage OF late. Possibly, should the
4 coach be kept on few months, it will become
better known and paying institution. The en-
tsrprise should certainly have fair test.
The Wabash. ST. Louis g. Pacific will with
draw from the indianapolis Weighing Associa-
6On, May H. The agent at this point says they
are not treated fairly, and the institution is
farce The association has certainly worried
the Wabash good deal If it be the tame affair
She Wabash people allege that it is.
The owners of the lake craft seem to have
tired of their petty squabbling, and lake freights
were higher yesterday, shippers offering BIC for
wheat and 3tc for corn to Buffalo. Room was
quantity of grain, bought by foreigners for de-
livery this month, Is said to be awaiting ship
ment at the first favorable opportunity.
Every hour or two rumors are set afioat that
the freight handlers at the city freight depots
ARE to strike while at the depots business is run
ming along as usual and apparently the thought
OF a strike has not entered the heads of the plat
form men. Most of the roads last fall advanced
the pay of their freight handlers 10 cents per
day. and they now receive 81 5 per day; for
overtime, one and one-half, and for Sunday
work, double pay.
Among the freighthandlers of the c., l., st.
L. & G. who struck at Cincinnati were men who
had worked for the company twenty years or
more, never losing any time. The more prudent
OF them havc pleasant homes of their own, and
amount of wages they were receiving which they
struck. But" says one of the officials, ''the
mania struck them. and they wonld not listen
for moment to the advice of their best friends. !:
The Charlotte, Columbia g Augusta Railroad
Company, the Columbia IL Greenville Railroad
Company, the Western North Carolina Railroad
Company are now part of the Richmond g.
Danvile SYSTEM of which Z. B. Thomas is gem
eral manager Mr. Thomas has appointed Pey-
ton Randolph assistant general manager; Sol.
Haas, traffic manager; j. Il. Drake, general
freight agent; G. w. Chears. assistant general
passenger agent Of the newly acquired lines.
". K. Elliott reports that over 600 men are
employed on the st. Louis, Kansas City 81 Color
ado road. within thirty-ive miles of St Louis. in
grading and laying track. June it is proposed
TO pat regular trains on to the first twenty-five
miles. The l4th of this month the projectors of
the road meet at Fort Scott and close contracts
TO build large portion of the road. The entire
line is to be built as rapidly
as men and materials can be secured.
70 push it The projectors, many of whom are
well known in this city, have ample financial
backing. not only to build the road frst-class in
every respect, but to equip it with the best class
Of rolling stock.