The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

city He making trip over the Western lines
in the interes. of the company.
The c., II. 6 ID. people have under considera-
ton the shortening of the running time of ex-
press trains 81 and 81. between Indianapolis and
Cineinnati, twenty-five minutes.
The earnings of the Evansville 81 Terre Haute
road for the last twelve months were $75l, 457,
an increase over earnings of the corresponding
period of 1884 and 1885 OF $32. 634
Freight business with the j., M. & L road is
now as heavy as at any time since the close of
the war. The movement out and into Indian
apolis is reaching some two hundred cars daily.
The Lake Erie & Western people begin
ming to brace up little and improve their equip
ments Last week the management ordered
from the Pullman car works two parlor cars of
the same pattern as those run on the ", II. q
u. road, which are as fine as are Quilt.
No r. the accommodation train run from st.
uIouis to Indianapolis over the Vandalia, is one
OF the fastest trains run in this country when
time taken for stops is deducted 1t is an every
day occurrence for this train to run between sta
tions quite distance at a speed of mile per
minute.
Receiver Hammond speaks in very compl-
mentary terms of the manner George Bender
the superintendent of the road is handling mat.
ters connected with his department The prompt
mess with which trains arrive and depart and the
exemption from accidents is favorably comment
ed upon by outsiders we'll as by the receiver of
the road.
In the three months ending Aug 81 one of In
dianapoliss best Western roads earned but 1900
cent per mile per passenger carried, SO low did the
company have to place rates to get any business
at all Yet there general passenger agents
who are Boosting loudly of the volume of their
travel and the revenue derived from this branch
tof service.
John Fl. Ohr, the former agent of the Adams Elk
Epress Company, is an applicant for the agency of
a EPla w han n
agency at this point, which will probably be
within the next thirty days. The company
could not we'll make better selection. He un
derstands toe express business in every feature,
and is an honest, reliable man.
There is hitch already as to Austin Corbn
taking the presidency of the PHILADELPHIA &
Reading road. The question is raised whether
MR. Corbin can legally qualify as president of
this company. The charter given by the State
of Pennsylvania provides that the president of
the Philadelphia q Reading Railroad Company
shall be a resident of Pennsylvania Mr.. Corbin
lis citizen of New York.
The freight agents of the Western roads out of
there deserve favorable mention, so we'll are they
maintaining rates. 1t is stated that the revenue
the roads have received the last four months
from west-bound tonnage has been fully 40 per
cent better than for the corresponding period of
1888, and go per cent. larger than in the year
1884, when every road worked for tonnage and
glory regardless of revenue
l.,
St L. & G. purchased from the Schenectady
locomotive works are doing big work, aud are
economical engines for the company. They
haul thirty five loaded the road with
about the same quantity of fuel as the ordinary
eight wheel engines do which haul but twenty
six cars. and two train crews do the same amount
of work that three crews accomplish with the
Nghtor engines
Announcement was made yesterday that E.
p Wilson, formerly general passenger agent of
Ahe Cincinnati Southern railway, and for the
past fifteen months arbitrator and commissioner
of the Southwestern AID other passenger asso-
stations, will receive the appointment of general
passenger agent of the Chicago & North western
vice Il. S. Hair, who resigned The appointment
will date from Oct. l, the date upon which Mr.
Wilson's term as commissioner expires
The effort which has been making, Of late, to
place all outside agents at this point on salaries,
Instead OF paying them commissions. has proved
abortive AS six of the nine outside agents
draw no salaries from the company they repre-
sent, but depend entirely on the commissions
they receive from connections of their respective
lies for remuneration for their labors-and to
some of the agents this privilege is worth from
B200 to $3.50 per month-and they naturally fight
vigorously against letting go this pap.
The Louisville, Evansville g. ST Louis road is
badly in need OF a general passenger and ticket
agent The duties of the position now devove
upon the chief clerk and matters are said to be
running losey If the management could secure
the services Of such man as Charles 0. Scull,
formerly with the Pennsylvania lines, now hold
Ing good Office in one of the leading pools, they
would not go amiss. A good passenger man, as
well posted as Mr.. Scull, and with his drive
Rheadativeness, would swell the earnings of
the road to handsome figures.
The l.. d. & S. elevator has for the last three
months been of as much value to the company
as would 1.000 cars have been. The official re-
port shows THAI of the large receipts at that ele-
Vator 90 per cent of the receipts were delivered
In l., D. & S. cars In the busy time it is not
unusual to bring car in, unload IL and send it
out, and in twenty-four hours it is back loaded
with grain. In fact the handsome earnings of
the road are largely due to this convenience. The
most serious difficulty roads have to encounter
is this using cars for storehouse purposes In
busy times car is worth ut least $40 day to
road.
Superintendent Woodland, of the L., NJ, A. &
c., is another official who believes that the
proper thing to do when man is discharged is
TO tell him the reason therefor Invariably he
does this when a passenger conductor is dis
missed from the service of the company. If it
is for dishonesty the sufferer is told so. Mr..
Woodland argues that unless this plan IS followed
outsiders are so ungenerous as to believe that
conductor is removed for knocking down, as it is
termed, when it may be that he is an unsafe
man to run train. or is defective in sight, or
has some other blemish which units him for
such position.
Charles Francis Adams spent the Sabbath in
Chicago. He tells Chicago reporter that the
volume of business the Union Pacific is doing is
quito satisfactory. The transcontinental traffic.
although in excess of that of last year
from that territory, was most unsatisfac-
tory in regard to the rates thereon, which
were ruling at about half the regular
tariff He had no idea as to whether a
compromise would be reached or a pool renewed,
the matter having dropped out of sight. Mr..
Adams was pleased with the prospect of peace
given by the recent organization of the Western
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West for six weeks or more aud thoroughly in
spact the Union Pacific and all of its branches,
including the Oregon Short-line
There is one class of men in railroad service
who are undervalued. We refer to the travelling
passenger agents, who sometimes are slurringly
spoken of as the tack hammer brigade These
men 60 from town 10 town, see that the company
they represent is well advertised both hv most