The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYSI


pany refusing to adopt them.
The Vandalia management Is ballasting heavi-
~ with gravel the T. a. & L. division, loading
the trains with steam shovel
Paymaster Sheldon of the Bee-line system,
paid on the Indianapolis division yesterday, for
April service. He pays on the !. & st. L. to day.
The American Express Company has declared
semi-annual dividend Of per cent. The stock
of this company is now worth 106 A year ago
it sold at 81.
James McCrae, general manager, and John f.
Miller, general superintendent, of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, arrived in the city last evening, and
will remain over to-day.
The Pennsylvania Company hasin local service,
west of Pittsburg 942 cars Their through
included in the above statement
The Indiana Midland seems to be under a
cloud. Nothing is doing on the extension, no-
are repairs being made to the old portion Of the
road, where the washouts did damage.
The st. Louis. Alton & Terrs Haute (Western
division Of the I. 81 ST. L. earnings for the sec
ond week of May show an increase of $941 over
those for the corresponding week of last year,
The railroad war at Erie will end just where
it began. But both parties will be the worse for
broken engine Or two. and possibly few
broken heads. That's the way they always do.
The Pullman local sleeping coach running be-
tween Indianapolis and st. Louis over the Van
daia is said to be the best-paying coach to the
Pullman company running on Indianapolis lines.
M. Lyons ex-traveling freight agent of the
Canada Southern, goes on pleasure trip TO
San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Port
land Ore, etc. His many friends no doubt
will wish him pleasant trip.
indianapolis roads will be we'll represented at
the master mechanics convention, to be held in
Boston next week. VIM Prescott, of the Van
dalia; VIM. It. Turreff. of the Bee-line, and VIM
Black, of the c., II. g. D.. will be there
The Vandalia yesterday received the second OF
their mammoth Pittsburg build freight engines.
These engines are QUILT on the specifications of
Master Mechanic Prescott, and 10000 pounds of
the weight rests upon the three pairs of driving
wheels.
The Beeline limited train will, commencing
with Sunday next, run via Belefontaine and
Gallon, instead Of via Dayton as under the pres
emit arrangement The Daytan g. Union will put
train to connect closely with the Bee-line linn
tied trains.
If the softcoal miners should be successful in
their strike for an advance of ten cents per ton
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, which is
the largest consumer of soft coal in this country,
would have to pay about $186, 900 additional each
year for its fuel
Negotiations are pending between the l., ID. 81
S. people and the new management of the Pc
oria, Decatur & Evansville which. If successful.
promise to handsomely increase the business of
the l., D. 81 s. road, and be. as well, Of benefit
to the traffic of the P, d. & E.
G. G. Cochran general freight agent of the
N Y, p & o.. is in the city official business.
Since the death of T. A. Lewis the Erie people
have treated Indianapolis rather coolly, but the
fact that Mr. Cochran is spending day or two
here taking soundings would Indicate that 1t Is
not the intention to ignore Indianapolis.
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directors Of the Atlantic 81 Pacific Railroad Com
pany, yesterday, the following were elected
officers of the road FL. c. Mutt, president: E.
+. Winslow, first vice-president; w. Is. Strong,
second vice-president; W. HI. Gardiner, secre-
tary and treasurer d. L. Gallup, auditor; D. b.
Robinson. general manager.
The Dallas g. Greenville, a road to be built in
the interest of the Missouri Pacific mas been or
eanized, with Fl. NJ Hoxie. D. S. Fl. Smith,
George q. Smith, James A. Baker, Joseph Her
rim, N. W. Hunter and G. j. Gooch as directors.
H. M. Hoxie Is president; James A. Baker, vice.
president; d. S. III. Smith. secretary and treas
urer; w. Fl. Abrams, assistant secretary and
treasurer and William Kerrigan, general man
ager The general Office of the company Is To-
Gated in Dallas, Tex.
G. A. Nichols. who died in Philadelphia day
or two ago of paralysis had been connected with
the philadelphia 81 Reading road half century.
In 1886 he went to Reading as rodman, and as.
Sisted in surveying the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad. He was afterward superintendent of
transportation, engineer aud superintendent and
vice president successfully. Later he was chosen
president of the branch road, and at the time of
his death held that position the Reading 81
Columbia, East Mahoney, Danville & Shamokin
Railroad Company.
An official OF the Union Railway Company
says If the city does not want such an inn
provement as they propose to make, the former
will not force 1t upon them; but it seems rather
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of his time the last three years to getting the
homogeneous of the roads up to the point where
they are willing to build. as has " T. Malott,
that the committee who led In the opposition to
vacating streets and alleys should so grossly mis-
represent the plans of the Union Railway Com
pany. and the relations Mr.. Malott bears to the
enterprise.
A report comes from Toledo that an important
change will occur in the administration of the
Michigan e. Ohio railroad j. A. Latcha, re-
ceiver of the road has resigned his receivership
in order to go into q better place with the COM
pany constructing the Croton aqueduct in New
York, and for whom he has for a year acted as
consulting engineer His successor in the re-
ownership will be George L. Bradbury. who was
vice president and general manager of ths
Peoria, Decatur g. Evansville road AS soon az
the legal forms can be gone through with, Mr.
Bradbury will be installed as receiver of the
Michigan & Ohio, and after its reorganization
he will continue with che road as general man
dgSr MT. LatcDa VIII commune TO De the pr6Sl-
dent of the Michigan & Ohio railroad
At the recent meeting, in Chicago, of the
Central Traffic Association. it was agreed that
the business passing through Beardstown, Ash
land, Wann and Alton junction should be in
cluded in the ST. Louis pool; that Bloomington
should be made part of the Peoria pool, aud
that the Wabash business and traffic passing
through Seneca. Dwight. Streator and Kankakee
be included in the Chicago pool. The commits
sioner was directed to prepare the contracts
covering these new pools and submit them i'm
medlately to the executive committee and the
roads directly interested TkAs additions to
the pools bring no lines into the association,
but will bring in large amount of new bus,-
ness which was intended to be placed in the
pool when the organization first organized,
and which could not be secured because the
lines interested could not be made to harmonze.
The new business that will be secured by the
Central Traffic Association may be estimated
when it Is remembered that during the year 1885
no less than 225.0O0 tons of freight were carried
through the gateways that have now been closed.