The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

rnnis are la the city on official business
The local ticket agents are comforting 'heni-
-.lvas somewhat that they have the chesapeake
& Ohio, which is still paying commissions
" Fl. parmelee. agent of the West SHORE o
a. I4oossc TunneI line at this point has re-
moved his Office from the Union BLOCK 70 nooin
81 West Maryland street
Passenger circles are somewhat disturoea tnat
the Bee-line has put on through free recilnlng-
chair cars between Dayton. w anu %. LOUIS
runnine them on four trains
Thirtv seven railroads report an increase In
oross earnings amounting to about per cent
a. frst week of this month; the indianapolis,
Bloomington s. Western, $4,000.
General Manager Beach. of the Decline, has
issued circular announcing that Union STATION,
an the Indianapolis division, would hereafter be
called Union City, as in olden times.
The Financial Chronicles summary of the
earnings of eghty-nine roads for October shows
s32 432 400, against $50, 669, 065 for the same
period last year, an increase of 81. 472
So far as Indianapolis proper is concerned. if
Hancock 81 Co. or any other Eastern firm is ia
vored in rates by the Pennsylvania, what may
be done outside Of Indianapolis is another mat
ter
The Pennsylvania have heightened the run
ming time OF their limited trains between New
York and Chicago for the winter months one
hour and thirty minutes, which certainly is COM
mendable
W. j. Ryan has been appointed chief train
dispatcher of the East Iowa division of the Rock
Island road with Office at Davenport. vice b.
Bailey transferred to the new lines west of the
Missouri river.
The c.. r. 81 D. people took control of the
DAYTON Il Ironten road yesterday. and are al
ready in the market for supplies to widen the
gauge of the road. which is to be done as expe-
aitiously as possibls.
The impression having gone out that the In
dianapolis, Peru 81 Chicago Railroad Company
will need general passenger agent and gener-
al freight agent, applications for the positions
are becoming numerous.
A A. Talmage and his associate officials have
started on careful inspection trip of all divis-
ions of the Wabash system. Some ten days will
be occupied on the inspection trip, the system
stil having some 5000 miles of road.
Notwithstanding the agreement entered into
last week by the general passenger agents of the
indianapolis roads to main rates in all directions,
unless grossly misre presented, two roads yester-
day shaded rates to parties going both east and
west
General Manager Paul, of the Woodruff Sleep
ing,car Company, in the city yesterday.
He came west with two elegant new Woodruff
sleepiHg-cars, which are to be placed on the
Wabash to run between Chicago and Kansas
City
Levi c. Wade, president of the Mexican
Central Railway has issued the following notice
edward w. jackson, general manager.
will act as traffic manager of this company until
otherwise ordered, in place of Il. G. Barlow
formerly located at Chicago"
The business at the Indianapolis Stockyards
this month has been very large, and the earnings
of the yard promise to be the largest Of any No
vember month since the yards were opened for
business. Some days the receipts reach go car
loads Of hogs, and 80 to 100 carloads of cattle.
John Newell president of the Lake Shore
road, returned from the East Monday. Being
questioned to the truth of the story that he
had resigned to accept position onthe Decline,
he said: That story is simply rots-simply rot
that covers the whole case, to use an express
i've term"
The Denver Tribune says that to S. K Hoop
er, general passenger agent of the Rio Grande,
belongs much credit for bringing about reduc-
ton of the passenger rates in Colorado. The
Union Pacific company will, of course, join with
the Rio Grande, and the reduced rates will go
into effect on the lst of January.
w. S. Jordan late of the firm of Newly e.
Jordan has accepted position in the passenger
department. of the Bee-line. He will give his
special attention to looking after business out
side of the offica In and about the city. Mr.
Jordan is an active, gentemanly man. and will
doubtless catch on we'll in his new position.
The Lake Erie 81 Western reorganization
scheme has gone to pieces. 1t is proposed TO
assess the stock another per cent. in order TO
save the road from being split up into three sep
Srate pieces by foreclosure. butthe uncertainties
Of the situation many It's not at ali likely
that stockholders will pay the extra assessment.
c. S. Sawyer, general manager of the Cont
mental line, died in Richmond, Va. night be-
fore last, where he had gone In hopes to repair
his shattered health. Mr. Sawyer was well
honorable business man, and perfect gentle
man in every respect. and will be missed, both
in business and railroad circles.
The Boston business men have induced the
Boston & Albany and the Vanderbilt lines to put
on a new through fast train from the West.
Now they are clamoring for the same rates on
freight from Western points to Boston proper as
has New York city. The New York and Boston
export rate are the same. Now they want the
local rate SO to speak, made the same to both
commercial centers
Unless the roads now come forward man fashion
and pay the agents of outside Offices handsome
salaries the proba abilities that the agents of
two or three roads will be obliged TO close
their offices. 1t is understood that the l., B. 81
" people have already proposed to pay George
Butler, their general agent at the South Illinois
street Office a salary. Up TO this time that
ONCE has been run commissions.
Railway managers are becoming convinced
mat something must be done to bring about
reform IN the manner of returning cars. deliv-
cred by one road to another and the only way
10 Orlng about decided reform is to change the
methods of charging for the service. and the
method which is now gaining favor is to charge
the road to which the car is tdrned over per
9iem until It is returned instead Of on the miles
II is run while off the road owning the car.
minneapolis paper SAYS: '"The many econo-.
mes that have been introduced into the work
ing OF the Northern Pacific company have ena-
Dieu Vice president Cakes to reduce the operat-
ing expenses to such low percentage of the
receipts that the proportion must startie the
olheials of the old Eastern roads that are run on
me old fsshioned extravaganza notions of 60 per
sent Possibly the auditor of the N. P. has
osher methods OF bookkeeping than have the
auditors of Eastern roads
iAe l., B. & w. people are again treating the
Indianapolis grain merchants white" az the
sAyiag 49, The circular issued few weeks ago
ana published in the Journal fell stubborn. and
Low grain is brought in here by the l., B. 81 w.
aug II Is optional. in large measure, by what
s.ao 1t Is sent Fact from Indianapolis. Of
S - the l., B. d w. is the gamer in the end