The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local
B. s. Campbell, passenger conductor on the
L.. N. A. g. c. road retires on March l, to ac-
cept similar position on the Ohio & Mississippi
road.
The expenses OF the L., N. A. & G., at Indian
apois and Louisville are to be cut down by a
consolidation Of Offices. The programme will
shortly be announced.
1t is said Hannibal & ST. Joe man has
been selected to succeed ]. w. Kennedy as So.
perintendent of the road when in passes under
control of the L., N. A. s. G. people, April l.
The presidents and general managers Of the
roads composing the Union Railway Company
will meet on Wednesday next to settle the ques
ton OF the location Of the now Union Depot.
There Is another hitch in the putting on Of the
Seneca trains by the O., ]. st. l.. 81 G. Possibly
they may go on March 10, but will not be put on
hlarcn unless there is change in programme.
The Baltimore g. Ohio through sleeping coach
put on recently to run between Indianapolis and
Washington, ID. O., is not paying institution,
and unless 1t Is better patronized will at no dis
| tant day be taken off.
special train Of twenty-five cars, loaded with
California oranges, reached Omaha on Tuesday
last, the train making the run from San Fran
cisco over the Union Pacific TO Omaha in six
days, which is big time for freight train.
The Philadelphia Times says: 1.-THE sensible
method Of reorganizing the Reading will DO one
based upon the probable earnings Of the road at
moderate rates Of freight on coal. This involves
scaling down the fixed charges to somewhere
near what idle capital can earn now"
|. The Journal Is in receipt OF letter from VIM.
Is. Shattuc, general passenger agent of the Ohio
81 Mississippi road. the tenor of which indicates
| that he is not worried as TO the permanency of
his position, and that the Quarrels of syndicates
| factions a re ad mr. i1yalV a
| affect his department.
| George Mckenzie, ticket broker at Chicago,
| writes the Journal that he is not interested in
the scalping Office recently opened in Indianap-
oils The report, he says grew out of the fact
| that when in Kokomo he returned to Chicago via
Indianapolis and. while waiting for the Chicago
train to go out, loitered about the scalping Office.
The scheme of few Bedford, Ind. business
| men to build ten miles of road TO connection
with the Ohio 81 Mississippi road has died of in
anniJion, the L., N. A. 81 @. people assuring
| them that there was intention to take ad-
vantage of the fact that they now own both
| roads out of Bedford and therefore could advance
rates.
The officials of the L., N. A & c. road yesterday
took an inventory of the property Of the Bedford
q Bloomfield Railroad Company, which consists of
fveocomotives in good order, four passenger cars
aud sixty-seven freight cars. Mr.. Adams, super
intendent of transportation, expresses surprise
| at the excellent condition in which he found the
| road-bed and equipments.
A. E. Sherman. for twenty years past freight
| agent of the L., N. A. 81 c. road, at Lafayette,
| G. Brockenburg. ticket agent j. Yundt, cashier.
| were all notified yesterday that their services
would not be needed after March /. j. FL. Jack,
a well known Hannibal q St Joe man, has been
| appointed joint ticket and freight agent. Who
| is to be his cashier is not yet announced
The c., l., St L. & c. people propose this year
| to make extensive improvements at Kankakee,
to better accommodate their business at that
| point Chief Engineer Morris has prepared
plans for yard in which there will be nine
miles of track, about one-half Of which will be
laid as soon as the frost is out of the ground.
The round house is to be enlarged to hold sixteen
locomotives
The manner that the postal department is
| handling money orders is rapidly driving this
/ Oh of service over to the express companies
again, business men not daring to trust to the
mails, so uncertain is it when letters carrying
orders will reach destination. Some vexing de-
lays are almost daily reported and the fact that
| this tSsnch of service with the express com
paniesS is double what it was even year ago. is
evidence of the feeling which exists
The Omaha Republican says that it is not al
together unlikely there will shortly be trouble
| among some or the Union Pacific rail
| road employees in that vicinity. Having recently
| naugurated scheme to reduce expenses as
| much as possible, the company has determined
! to try new plan or two in the mode of handling
| freight trains. II is proposed to combine, and
run what they call double headers The
plan is to be tried first on the Nebraska division.
| The Chicago roads are now doing heavy
| east-bound business. 1t is quite evident that
| Chicago rate demorazers have for once been
! outgeneraled by the railroads. For ten weeks
| they withheld their shipments, showing de-
| termination to force the roads to break in
| rates. Finding that the railroad managers were
equally determined to maintain their position,
| they (the shippers) have yielded, and now the
N nd Ia huci
ness.
The managements of the several Indianapolis
roads are feeling much encouraged by the inn
provement in business that they are inclined to
make considerable improvement to their road
beds and further increase their equipments.
The c., l., st. L. g. c. has contracted
for 20 miles of steel rails, weigh
ing :. 67 pounds to the yard. The
weighing 60 pounds to the yard, 40 miles of
| which will be laid on the Bee-line proper, In
dianapolis division: % on the l. e st. L., west
end; The /. F. G; is laying 28a miles, the I.
on the Peoria division, the j., NJ & l.
16 miles on the Cambridge City division, the
Vandalia will replace some % miles of light steel
| on the Il. H. & l. division with sixty four
pound to the yard steel rail- and the l.. d. & S.
| has just completed the laying of % miles of
sixty pound to the yard steel rail- making total
of 1913 miles of steel rail to be laid in the next
| few months.
The employees on the T., G. & St L. narrow
| guage road complain of the treatment they re-
ceive at the hands of Superintendent Pettibone.
Whether they have grounds or not for it, they
have conceived the idea that he is disposed,
when opportunity offers, to drop the heads of old
men into the basket In one instance it is
stated one of the Oldest and best men on the
road was discharged under the following circum-
stances From Decatur, Ind, to Delphos,
O., they run mixed train, mail
and express, on freight train.
The used for mail and express
| is an ordinary box-car, with end and side doors
cut in, intended for caboose. The mail agent
wrote in chalk on each side of the car; at the
ends used by messenger and mail agent sex
press mail" on the hind end of the car, Nv. H.
Petitioners idea of mail car" AS the pay
car with General McNulta and Pettibone) was
passing train with this car attached, Pettibone
SAY the inserintior, calIed cnndnctor md