The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-13
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PersonaI and Tocag

O1 LAO uaVnehig Eouuoss paying Tor July service.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois earned the
Arst week in August go. 47O an increase in earn
angs OF 81, go over corresponding week of 1886.
j. W. Sherwood. superintendent of the c.. L.
st L. & G.. who has been away some four weeks
on rest, returned last week in excellent health
and spirits.
II. B. Hammond, receiver of the l., d. & 5.
road. Is in the White Mountains. enjoying him
self hugely. He writes he will not be west I'M
I'll after early September.
The earnings of the c., L. st. L. & G. for the
hrst week in August were $50. 754 30, against
$47, 800 the corresponding period of 1885. In
Grease this year, "a, 854 30.
The excellent time the Wabash fast trains are
making this season is favorably commented on
in railroad and business mems circles, and Is ev-
fdence that their roadbed is in good condition.
There were received and forwarded at this
point in the month of July, 81, 49l cars; OF the
number handled 59,572 were loaded cars. 1t
will he noticed that an unusually large per cent
Of the cars handled were empty.
Engine 706, on the Indianapolis & Vncennes
road, has run 122,075 miles without going into
the shops for repairs This remarkable record
speaks well for the engineer who has handled
her, and well for the superior build of the en-
CINE.
d. F. Jennings, general agent Of the Great
Eastern line IN Chicago, has resigned The
probability is that Ira w. CAN'T, the agent at
Peoria, will succeed him there, and that General
Agent Townsend, of st. Paul, will succeed Mr.
Can't.
The ]. & St L. management is widening the
waterways for the Wabash river where they
cross it near Terre Haute $50 feet, by putting
In an additional span of bridge. In times past,
the company has had good deal of trouble at
this point.
AS soon as certain improvements low la prog
ress on the Western division of the G.. st l.. 81
~ n - - n
TO shorten the running time of his fast express
trains between Cincinnati and Chicago one hour
and thirty minutes.
The present owners of the Chicago 6 Ohio
River road formerly the Danville & Olney. will,
as soon as they can get matters Strengthened out.
The parties owning the property are friendly to
the l.. B. q w. interest
| Western railway managers are experiencing
trouble in getting orders for steel rails filled
promptly. Eastern papers report that steel
rails are sold 80 far ahead that the difficulty of
obtaining early deliveries from domestic mills
stimulates some importationa
The trunk line presidents and acting presi-
dents have promptly sounded the warning that
no participation in any Western cuts will be al
lowed. and their promptness in reassuring the
public is decided guarantee that the reins will
be tightly held for some yet, at least
The American Express, frcm small begin
mig. about forty five years ago. has grown to be
one Of the largest ia the world, having con-
tracts on over 36, 200 miles of railroads in tho
United States and Canada. This company has
6fty-tw messengers in and out Of indianapolis
daily.
l. p. Kimball, formerly general agent Of the
Rock Island road at st. Paul, has been appointed
general freight agent Of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road at Minneapolis, vice j. A. Haniey,
appointed traffic manager of the Minnesota &
Northern road. The appointment viii take eff
feet Aug %.
The indianapolis division of the National
Train Dispatehers Association met last evening
at the G.. H. 81 d. Office. and passed appropriate
resolutions on the death of d. s. Finley, who
was vice president of the division association
and man who was highly esteemed by all who
had formed his acquaintance.
The l., D. & 8. to day occupies the most indie
pendent position of any road running into Indi-
annapolis, and Is proving a valuable feeder to all
of the eastern and southern lines out of Indian
Apolis. Had the L, B. & W. maintained the
same independents position with the Peoria
division, it would to-day be one Of the best
railroad properties in this section.
A Dubois county citizen says the extension of
the t., n. A. & c. to French Lick is booming all
that section of country. Grading is going on
rapidly southwest from Orleans towards the
Lick, and there is busting and q stir in Or
tange county never before known. The road is
TO be extended also from French Lick on through
Dubois county to Jasper, and an appreciable adj
j. s. Patterson, master mechanic of the c., l.,
st L. & c.. was in the city yesterday. He has
the new freight engines already in service and
they perform admirably. Besides being pow
srfnl engine, they are handsome fallows; have
extension boilers, straight smoke stacks, spark
arresters and many other modern improvements.
Mr.. Patterson SAYS the company now have power
10 handle readily on the system 800 cars per
day.
The old lines between Indianapolis and Chi
H. L11 80 fN,1- 49, -
THE L., N. A. c., airline now leaves Indian
apols thirty Ave minutes later than does the c..
st. l.. & P. for Chicago, and arrives at Chicago
fifteen minutes earlies than does the c., St. L.
will doubtless lead to the other Chicago lines
out of here quiekening the speed of their express
trains.
superintendent Mansfield of the / & ", has
devised very simple method by which he can
sell at glance the mileage that any engine on
the road has made in any month of the year, or
since the opening OF the year. and, as well, the
condition of the engine, the time it last went
into the shops, and when it came out The
whole can be ascertained by turning his eye to a
board neatly painted and arranged, which hangs
near his desk.
John H. Weeks, has been fappointed gen.
eral freight agent of the Baltimore 81 Ohio
Railroad Company at Philadelphia, and an
nounces that the freight department. of the road
would go into active service on Monday next
Freight will be loaded in cars barges. which
will be towed down the river and up the Schuyl-
kill to Grays Ferry; where the cars will be run
to the tracks of the new Baltimore and Phila-
delphia road.
The Evansville ticket scalpers say that the
statement made by c. Mordaugh. in regard to
tickets reported by them, is without truth or
foundation. Mr.. Mordargh has in his possession
the demand for commission the tickets al
ludeG to, end, also has receipt from T. W. Ven
ner and A W. HARDWOOD. ticket agents at Evans
VILE on the same tickets which the former par
ties asked commissions on, and some very inter
esting correspondence regarding the matter.
The Monarch Sleeping-car Company 10 expert
menting on plan to ventiiate coaches which
promises good results on q coach that they have
Just placed in service. In place of single
roof. which must necessarily become soon
heated ey the rays Of the sun, the roof has been
constructed double, having an air space extend
ing from end to end. through which whan the