The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Wa r. McKeen, president of the Vandalia, is
% be in the city to-day
Belt road engines, in the month of May.
handled 1858 carloads of live stock.
John R. Elder. president of the Shell Beach
road. has returned from New Orleans
The arbitrators are working on percentages
Tor the Indianapolis east bound pool The con-
ference is held in Chicago.
The l., P. e. G. employees are anxiously await
kng the arrival of the Wabash pay car. They
don't expect nay for May services but think it
Zine they were paid for April.
The indianapolis car works to day commence
on a contract to build 300 cars for the L. H. q
L. division of the Vandalia system, designed
specially for local service.
The railway conductors excursion has been
postponed to June II There is too much going
On this week to admit of the passenger conduct
0rs on Indianapolis lines being off duty.
J. Jones' formerly T. H. 6 L yardmaster at
ahis point, now general yardmaster of the c.. M.
&c St T. at Council Bluffs, who came east day
Or two ago to bury his wife at Crown Hill, re-
Aprned yesterday.
The interest in the annual election of directors
of the c. H. & d. increases as the day of cleo
4ion draws near The Cincinnati Enquirer is
still comforting the officials of the road with the
Btatement that there will be no official change
The pile of vouchers George Frey, the ticket
Bcalper, sent to general passenger agents yester-
day. it being the first of the month, was good
evidence that large number of. roads are still
working through the scalpers and paying hand
BONE commissions.
No. lO8, the first of the new Pittsburg locemo-
aiyes received by the Vandaiia, went out on the
Logan division Monday, hauling twenty-eight
heavily-loaded cars over the Rockville hill, and
aAirty two over the hill at Waveland. The first
mentioned grade is sixty five feet, the Waveland
grade sixty feet to the mile.
James Hazard, formerly local agent Of the
C., III. g. d. at this point, has accepted position
fu the passenger department. of the Minnesota
& Northwestern road. Jim, as he is famil'ariy
known, will have the best wishes of his numer-
Dus friends here, and doubtless will make an ex
Eellent record in this new field
The PENNSYLVANIA people seem fully aroused
10 the situation. They now announce a through
Ear from indianapolis to ST. Paul, in connection
run to be made in nineteen hours. This is to
pffset the new line opened by the l., b. q w.
and Minnesota 81 Southwestern.
There is trouble among the freight men over
whose lines the refrigerator cars are running.
It is stated that w. S. Budd, large produce
shipper, has been appointed agent of the Amer
lean Refrigerator Company, and through this
relation is given advantages which the east
bound pooling agreements will not allow.
The 5000 900 of per cent. car trust certificates
90 be issued by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
paRy will be used in providing freight-car equip
anent The equipmentto be provided out of the
stock subscriptions will be passenger cars and
locomotives. This is the lowest rate of interest
at which car trust has ever been foated.
The damage from washouts on the c.. st. L.
81 p. have been fully repaired. Like train
wrecks they were not as serious as they appear
after repairs are completed. On the Little
Miami division, however, there is still much
work to do before the roadbed will be in as good
eondition as 1t was in early May, prior to the
floods
Business men are complaining bitterly Of the
new Decline management. which makes II
most impossible for business man or travelling
salesman to get out of Indianapolis before ll:O5
A. NJ The Decline management will be urged
20 run the train which hauls the Cincinnati,
Wabash g. Michigan coach on to Union City as
IN accommodation train.
Like the Philadelphia railroad around Phila
6elphia, the New York, Lake Erie & Western
road has been developing the idea of suburban
residence along its line, and scattered through
eome of the charming parts of New Jersey,
through which it runs are now to be found ele-
CANT and costly summer homes, which, as they
have increased adorn and add to the value of
the locations and increase the attractiveness OF
the road.
tioH shortening up the time of train No. 81,
which leaves Indianapolis at $50 P. III. 1t is
proposed tn make but five stops between Indian
Apolis and Cincinnati, and make the same time
the c., l., St l.. and Q. does. In case this is
done. Superintendent Nelson SAYS the Corners
willie accommodation will be run to Hamilton,
and there connect with the mainline train fol
Cincinnati.
The Railroad Gazette shows that in April
there was a total of 66 railroad accidents; in
which % persons we're killed and 105 hurt. As
compared with April of last year, there was
nf q
killed and 80 injured. The four months of the
current year to the end of April show total OF
$50 accidents. 134 killed and 4S3 hurt; average
Der month of So accidents, 81 killed and 12l in
iured. But one accident occurred on an Indian
Ap0hs road.
There were transferred over the Belt road in
Nay, 81. 662 cars The exhibit would have been
considerably larger had not the c.. l., St L. &
c., owing to defective bridge on the Belt road
over White river, been obliged to send their
trains over the Union tracks. In May, 1881
there were transferred over the Belt road, "a Gle
cars; in 1882, 20,026 1883, 49, S9; 1884. &c, 035
1885, 81, 293 1t will be seen rhat the movement
last month was still the heaviest of any May
kince the road was opened.
The Pennsylvania relief fund reports show
that there are at present nearly $4,000 members
entitled to the benefits of the scheme Before ii
was made entirely voluntary about 5000 mem
bers signifed their intention of joining, bu,
about one-third of them withdrew their names
when the notifications were made. taking effect
May l. The membership is increasing con
stantly, and the managers feel assured that the
plan will be entirely successful So far over
$4,000 have been paid in death benefits, and
5000 on account of sickness.
The N. Y, L. E. g. W. railroad is completing
Negotiations to secure connection by which this
line will be practically extended to St Louis.
The proposed connection is via the Ohio 81 Mis-
sissippi road, and it is believed thatmatters now
stand iii a position which will lead to a speedy
and satisfactory conclusion. The new extension,
Il is stated by the Erie officers, will give greatly
Increased facilities between the East and st.
Louis for freight and passenger traffic Pending
the conclusion of negotiations between the two
roads details of the arrangements to be made
are withheld
The Vandalia people pushing improve
-ynents on the T. H. g. L. division. Few com
frehend the work now in progress at Rockville
The heavy grade there has always been OBJ
stacie to the freight traffic. The line of the road