The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


C. J. Thompson has been appointed foreman of the
shops and roundhorse of the Beeline at Union City
rice H. G. Beckhold, transferred to st. Louis.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania, has issued
= circular calling attention to the large number of
free passes issued and directing that the number be
cut down.
Harry Crawford paid but % cents On the dollar for
= major portion of the L.. B. & NJ. income bonds,
which he sold at par Tuesday. Tor none did he
nav over 80 cents on the dollar
George L. Scheuck has been appointed chief train
dispatcher of the Cincinnati, jackson e. Mackinaw
road vice III. E. Craft removed. Mr. Seheuck's head.
quarters will be at Van Vert, o.
The title of Lucius futile, who goes to the Union
Pacific is a one in railroad circles. There are
traffic managers freight traffic managers but never
before has the title of passenger traffic manager been
noted.
The employees in the freight department of the c.
st I. & p. Railroad Company have been notified that
hereafter they will receive extra pay for overtime.
This includes the freight conductors. brakemen and
yardmen
Alfred Suly il quoted as saying that Austin Corbin
will make the Philadelphia & Reading dividend pay
It is making many heart ache to place the road in
such position
w O. Irwin engineer of the Decline system is in
the city looking matters. He states that the 74O
miles which constitute the line system is the best
continuous track physically for so great distance to
be found in the United States.
The executive committee of the Chicago and Ohio
River pool at their meeting yesterday not being able
TO agree the divisions of Southern business agreed
to continue the sixth pool until Jan. 49, 1887. An
other effort viii be made in the meantime to reach
compromise
The c. T.. ST. L. g. c. for the winter months length
en- the time of their fast express trains the West
ern DIVISION next Sunday, twelve minutes, and on
Che Eastern division ten minutes This includes the
solid trains run between Cincinnati and ST. Louis
well as the Chicago trains.
The nomination of w. P johnson as arbitrator of
the passenger department of the Central Traffic Assoc
alton is subject to the confirmation of the general
managers of the roads in the association Without
doubt they will confirm the nomination. Mr. john
son is a very suitable man for such position.
Col Horace Scott was in the city yesterday and
Witnessed the operation of the LIE Grande electrical
signal in at the crossing of the J., M. s. L
and the Belt roads and he it works like charm
BY the by, the company formed to handle this signal
propose to manufacture them at Indianapolis.
The question whether E. B. Thomass resignation
as general manager of the Richmond & Danvle sys-
tenn will be accepted will be settled to-day by the
board of directors. The telegram from Washington,
D. o. that he had resigned to take the presidency of
the Decline seems to have at least been premature.
Jay Gould, said an old railroad man yesterday. is
fast losing his grip on st. Louis then the city will
now needs to open the way for marked era of pros
perity is to build another bridge. which likely will
now be done, so many new roads are heading toward
St Louis.
E. H. Scott general manager of the T., p g O.. and
enc the trustees for the bondhoders is of the opn
ion that the affairs of the company will by the first
of the year be in shape to cut loose entirely from the
Wabash far the L. P. 81 @. is controlled by the
traffic agreement which the two roads have been ope-
rating under for some months past
John Osborn commercial agent of the Wabash sys-
tenn in the city In speaking of the interstate coma
bill he said it would have the effect to place all
shippers equal basis, so far rates were
eerned and for that favored the Culo bill
# for no other Mr.. Osborn, although Wabash man,
believes in the maintenance of tariff rates and no dis
elimination.
change in the presidency Of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad is likely to at
distant day President Watrous has not been in good
health for time and will doubtless ere ling, find
it desirable to be relieved from the and respon
sibties Of managing extensive business interest
fhe consolidated road He has been at the head of
that road for eight or nine years.
G.. Wicker commissioner of the Chicago freight
bureau association of local shippers has
Issued circular contending that the terms and con-
dtons in the form of bin of adng, to enter into
effect Jan are in many respects misleading and I'M
lawful Railway companies cannot limit their liabil-
Sty sought in the uniform bill of ladng, and
cites decisions of the courts to sustain this view
The Boston Advertiser says: The consolidation
reorganization scheme of the l., B. & W. and the c.,
s G: roads is said to be moving along quite salts
factorily but depends upon the adjustment of L. b.
WIS difficulties with its security holders When
che consolidation Is completed the name will be
changed to Columbus, indianapolis So Western rail
oad and the road will be put in the best possible con-
htion."
The Evansville Courier states that President D. J.
Mackey while at Washington. on the G: q f. l.. q
few days ago, heard of wreck and getting hand
gar, proceeded rapidly as possible to the scene,
working at the levers himself. Rounding curve, an
engine was seen coming toward him at the rate of
thirty miles an hour. Mr.. Mackey and the section
tnen jumped into the ditch and were considerably
bruised.
At the meeting of the passenger department of the
Central Traffic Association on Tuesday it was agreed,
among other things that mileage tickets purchased to
test rates should be redeemed at pig cents mile
It also agreed to put the rules regarding the re-
demption of tickets which adopted at Cincin-
natl Nov. g. into effect eastbound business from
Dayton Springfield and Columbus, o., provided the
Other lines represented at the meeting would agree
to this arrangement.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says '.Snce thu attention
of capitalists called to the Indiana coal fields in
1868, more than of railroads, most of them
Bound to Chicago have been projected to at least pen
citrate the fields, while few have been planned to
reach from Chicago to the Ohio river. Time has
proved that it is not to build than to build.
The Chicago & Indiana Coal road built during the
past year was built on the ruins of at least two
three such projects"
Everything is ready between Baltimore and New
York over the B. & o. and Reading for the movement
of freight and passengers and all that remains to be
done to arrange the time schedules. This may take
. few days. train, however, did pass through the
sunne ct 8 o'clock last evening. For the last two
freight trains from New York, by way of Wayne
Junction Birdsboro and Wilmington. The direct
soSte will cut off eightyfve miles.
Cleveland Leader: There has been a hitch in the
SETON of the Middle and Western States Freight AS
location 10 advance freight rates to the West but it
Is believed by local freight agents that the delay will
be only temporary The resolution adopted by the
meeting in II Louis last week provided that the ad
vance should be made Jan. 3. 1t is now found that
It will be impossible to make the advance on all
classes OF freight that date and there will
quently be delay until about Jan. Is, or later"
Ex-dstrct passenger agent Col VIM. Shaw has
taken interest in the Deeds wick iuster and trim
mer lantern, especially adapted to railroad service
This company. which proposes to manufacture this
lantern entire viii establish themselves at Indanapo
lis T. Fl. Waldron, ex general manager of the Lake
Erie & Western road, is president of the company.
Railroad who have the lantern and its excel
lent features say that it is the simplest most
plee and serviceable little affair they have
amned.
President Roberts Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, says that that corporation is not opposed
70 legislation the subject of pools As he has been
srbp@naed to testify in the inquiry instituted by At
torneygeneral Cassidy. he declined to what opn-