The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


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3. n, has been spending several days in the
city prospecting for business.
George e. Pomeroy, who claimed to have been
She originator of the express system of this
. country, died at his home. in Toledo, o., last
week. aged sssenty-nine years.
Fl. r. Dering. assistant passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, was sum-
moned to Louisville yesterday, A. Anderson, the
Louisville passenger agent, and two of his clerks
being sick with malarial fever.
Mr. Nelson Robinson says that his mission to
Europe in the interest of the East Tennessee re-
organization has been entirely successful, and
ne looks for speedy settlement.
There were loaded and unloaded at the
Wabaah freight do pot in Peru, Ind, in the year
1886, 7,402 cars of freight The force doing this
work was one checkman and four truckmen.
George r. Mckenzie has been elected director
of the New Jersey Central road. in place of Rob
ert Garrett resigned Mr.. Mckenzie is presi-
dsnt of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
The present severe cold spell is not affecting
Indianapolis lines SO much as that of ten days
ago, there being no snow to drift upon the track.
The railways in the Northwest, however, are
having a trying and expensive experience.
The Ohio Falls Car Company. of Jefferson
willie. Ind, has notyet resumed operations. but
has taken advantage OF the low prices to stock
mp with material and may be expected to be on
hand when the proper time comes.
: The Wabash people expect to remove their
passenger and freight offices from their present
Rioomy, out-of the way quarters. n.South ILL
snois street, to the room in the Bates House, now
being fitted up in such grand style. on Feb. 1.
Ten shares of the Westinghouse air brake
original stock were sold in Pittsburg last week
at 800. This stock last year paid a sixty cent
dividend The present capitalization is $780,
600, and it is proposed to Increase it to So, 000,
900
w. J. Hammett who has been in the service
of the Louisville 81 Nashville road for thirty
four years-seven years as conductor and twenty
seven years as engineer-died recently at Louis
vile, KY, from the effects of injuries received in
an accident on the road in November, 1883. The
stories told of his adventurous life are numerous.
The item regarding the c., Cd revising
and amending its rules and making such addi-
fioHs as are needed, which appeared in yester-
days Journal. should have read that the work
was being done under the supervision of NJ.
Mounts. master of transportation, M. s. Conner
and ID. Shumway, train dispatchers, assisting
him.
Russell Elliott. who fora couple of years has
been engagedin selling real estate and loaning
money, in Kansas City, will Feb /, take the
authorship Of the Cincinnati g Eastern road,
twoyears out of railroad life having satisfied him.
The C. 81 E. is now a narrow gauge affair, but
mcvenaept is on foot looking to the convertingo of
itintoa standard gauge
Horace Tucker, general freight agentiof the
Illinois Central, has just completed his eleventh
year in that position and his twentythird year
OF service with the same company. The Railway
Age says Mr.. Tucker is still young man, and,
judging from the success with which he has
managed his important department. is likely to
remain many more years in the same congenial
service.
The vicepresideut Of one Of the roads in the
indianapolis east bound pool is said to have en-
tered a complaint before the executive commit
tee OF the trunk-line pool, charging that Commits
sioner Doherty was partial in his actions dis
eliminating against the road in question If
4his official Will see that his road lives up to
agreements regarding the maintenance of rates.
he will find no reason for complaint against the
indianapolis pool commissioner.
Ethel A. Spooner, bright ten-year-old GIRL
3iving in New York, has just been awarded YER
hict and judgment for $4,000 against the Della
ware, Lackawanna q Western Railroad Com
pany for injuries received some time ago at a
Erossing of the Morris e Essex branch Of the
road. 1t seems that.her right foot was caught
between the rail and the crossing boards, and
that 10 save her life she had lean over and let
4hs train crossa and cut off her leg
William r. McKeen has just entered his nine
1eenth year as president of the Terre Haute &
indianapolis. he having accepted the position in
January, 1867 When Mr.. McKeen took hold of
abe T. FL. & l. there was but seventy three miles
of main line Now there are in the Vandala sys-
iAem, Of which the Il. II. & L is a part, 423
miles of main line, and it is proposed to extend
She line northward from South Bend to- Benton
Harbor, some forty miles, the coming summer.
The ferro manganese car-wheels invented and
perfected by N. Washburn, of Allston, Mass,
'nre rapidly making records which appear to sat
1sfy both the inventor and the roads on which
they are running The tire of the wheels con-
ieists OK what is sometimes called manganese
Gteef' though it is not properly steel at ALL The
Iznetai is really a manganese iron. About 1000
pf these wheels are now running. and some of
hbese first put out have now made a record Of
zoo, 900 miles on engine trucks.
A Wholesale house in Winnipeg received q
iNhort time ago two cars Of goods from Chicago,
lNpon which the total freight charges wers 1923
From Chicago to St Paul. a distance of All
miles, the amount charged was 1874 Sc; from st.
Paul to ST. Vincent, 800 miles, the charged was
&267. A. and from st. Vincent to Winnipeg, 62
miles. $l21. According to this showing the rate
per mile between the points mentioned would be
as follows: From Chicago to st. Paul, so. 3273,
st Paul to ST Vincent So 6SS7; st. Vincent to
Winnipeg. 81. 9516.
ii. S. Haines general manager of the Savau-
nah, Florida q Western railway, has prepared an
elaborate reply to the inquiries issued by Sem
Atof Cullom's committee on Interstate commerce,
which presents the chief arguments against leg.
lslative control of railways in most admirable
ard telling manner. Mr.. Haines takes up
Eefiatim the fifteen questions propounded by the
COMMITTEE, and answers them with calm and
convincing array of facts and logic. He thinks
uniformity ard stability of rates are to be greatly
desired and that publicity of rates would be a
ErsasOnablo requirement.. The idea of establish
bng q system Of maximum and minimum rates
Ehe believes to be impracticable. Uniformity of
classification he declares to be desirable. but
Earniformity Of rates not desirable Certain
GLASSES OF discrimination on local rates, he says
ARE just and reasonable but intentional dis
examinations between individuals should be
ma6s criminal offenses. Legal sanction of pool
ling contracts he considers desirable.
The trunk-line troubles are still unsettled
Ehough active efforts are being made to arrange
the difficulties between the Baltimore & Ohio
and the Pennsylvania, which have precipitated a
war Of rates and seriously threaten the integrity
of the pool The question at issue relates
Baltimore, 6 Ohio to New York,
and the points Of difference between