The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
T. T. Daley has been appointed agent of the
Decline at Houston, vice S L Germ. resigned
J. n. Quigley, representative of the purchasing
syndicate of the r., G. s. ST. L. road, and Col
Robert Ingersoll left for Toledo yesterday.
George Butler, district passenger agent of the
L, 3. & w. is seriously i'll. His troubles, which
are of chronic form. causing him great suffer
ing
AT meeting of the directors of the Chicago q
Eastern Illinois Railroad Company. Tuesday
Hon Stephen NJ. Crosby, OF Boston, was elected
q director
With the taking effect of the new timetable,
on she l4th. the day express trains over the u,
J., st. l. 81 c. will make five less stops than
under the present schedule. between Lafayette
and Kankakee
Commissioner Fink says that the Trunk-line
pool was maintaining rates admirably. and they
thus displayed an attitude in striking contrast
with the California roads now warning with each
other. In general way, he said that he be-
heved the tariff was better maintained now than
before in years.
The third number of the Railway Lantern is
out, and in many respects excels either former
Issue. 1t contains portraits OF +. d. Talbot,
editor of the Railway Age, and or y. h LORD.
general passenger agent of the b. &c o., and
brief sketches of the manner each reached their
present positions.
Il is stated that week or longer will elapse
before Judge Gresham gives his decision in the
Chicago & Atlantic receiver case and the result
will be awaited with great anxiety by all parties
interested The quantity of legal talent inject
ed into the hearing gave it Importance, outside of
the large interests at stake.
The Seneca trains, which go on Monday next,
going north and coming south, will make close
connections with the T., P. e. w. trains at Shell
don for Peoria, and with the Illinois Central
trains at kankakce for Chicago. 1t is quite prob
able that the management will decide to haul
through Chicago coach on these trains.
The l., d. & S. and the l., B. g. W.. which
send large per cent Of their Kansas City bust
ness over the Chicago e Alton, are working the
st. Louis strike scare for all there is in it,
despite the fact that passenger trains running
through st. Louis running with their usual
promptness. and are not as yet affected by the
strike.
The Woodruff sleeping-car people COM
planning of the heavy expense to them of selling
their tickets at the Union Depot Last year an
average of $4,000 per month of Pullman tickets
were sold, and 81, 200 per month OF the New Y rk
Seepingcar Company, while but $500 per month
we're sold for the Woodruff people, yet they are
asked to pay 20 per cent. of the expenses.
The work of connecting the Panhandle and
Cleveland q Pittsburg railroads at Steubenville
: was completed yesterday, after several months
hardwork, and freight can now be run from the
Cleveland 81 Pittsburg road without the trouble
which was formerly met with. The connection
of these roads revives the talk of a union depot,
, BY which all trains will be run into the same
station.
1t is just a year this week since the thousands
of men employed on the Gould system of roads
in the Southwest brought the railway business
of Texss, Missouri and intermediate and
Meeting points to complete standstill by
united strike, and at that tina the Vandalia and
/. u st L.. issued notices declining to receive
freight, similar in character to those issued on
Tuesday.
There will be special meeting of the Inter
national Travelling and Passenger Agents Asso-
citation held at No. 234 North High street, Co
iumbus, O., April T. 1886, for the purpose of
sidering the feasibility of changing the time of
holding the annual meeting, made necessary by
the annual encampment of the g. A. r. at San
Francisco, Aug. 3, 1886. 1t is said the officers of
the association favor holding no annual meeting
this year, the present officials to hold over.
The Lafayette Call says: SIT is pretty def
initely settled, say those who know, that e. III.
Waldron can have the general managership Of
the Lake Erie 81 Western when the road is
reorganized and taken out of the hands of re-
- e6sfSF, IL indeed, movement is not made for
change of receivers pending reorganization
But, already stated on Mr.. Waldron's author
ity, he has received fiatteriDg overtures from
another direction, and just what may develop
out of them remains to be seem"
The Philadelphia Inquirer says that MIR. Cor
bin had a long interview. Tuesday, with Mr.
Gowen. The latter has his plan ready, and his
tfleuuS say tIdb III Is Ddck6u ny enough money
to carry it through trumphantly. If the syndi-
cate plan is good Mr. Gowen will indorse it; if
not he will present his own. One thing is evil
dent, that since Corbin took hand in the mat
ter the fear of the Reading concern passing I'M
der the control of the Pennsylvania railroad has
been almost entirely dsspated, as investigation
and discussion have brought out more clearly
the simple and business-like intention of both
the Reading trustees and the syndicate which
proposes to guarantee the execution of this plan.
The air is full of OF strikes, which,
when investigated prove false. One was that
the switchmen of all roads centerng here were
quietly organizing to strike for so cents per day
more. But one switchman could be found who
had heard any such report, and he said brake
man told him such movement foot
Another rumor that the Vandalia engineers were
to strike proved equally groundess. The switch
men well know that their grievances, if they
have any, if properly laid before the supera-
tendent of their respective lines, will be duly
considered and acted upon So far as the Van
dalia engineers concerned, 80 per cent are
veterans in the service and we'll know that VIM.
r. McKeen, president of the system, will let no
Injustices be done them if they have any cause
for complaint.
What Coercement viii Result In.
In commenting on the rumors of strikes on the
Erie the New York Central and other Prominent
roads of the country, and upon the strikes now
in progress on Southwestern lines, the New York
Post says:
eff the employees are able to coerce the rail