The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



John Browning, passenger conductor on the
L.. N. A. e. @. road. has retired from the service
of the company.
Abe Angle and B. Hutchinson, olden-time con-
ductors on thaL, B. & W., have taken trains on
the L., n. A. & c. Airline.
+. Il. Ewell has bean appointed agent of the
C., II. q d. at Farmount, vice w. O. Ritcher.
tFansferred the appointment to take effect to-
day.
The Jeffersonville car-works have elected the
following officers: J. ". Sprague, president; L.
G.. Matthews, vice.president r. III. Hartwell
secretary and treasurer.
j. Atwood the new general superintendent OF
the United Express Company, and route agents
Williamson and Boswell, all of Cleveland, were
in the city yesterday taking soundings
w. A. Stowell, superintendent of the White
Mountain division Of the Boston 81 Lowell rail-
road. has received an additional appointment to
a similar position on the Vermont division OF that
corporation.
The earnings of the c., l., st L. & c. for the
second week in August were So. 300. Or increase
over earnings the corresponding week, 1885,
$7. 302 The increase the first half of the
month was $l2, 257.4I
Recent developments give strength to the be-
lief that the Wabash people have outgeneraled
the bondholders Of the indianapolis, Peru g.
Chicago road, and will in due time come into full
possession OF the property.
The report comes from Sullivan, Ind, that
the Indiana & Illinois Southern narrow. gauge
RAILROAD, after months of putting and blowing,
tugging and sweating, have at last put on pas
seuger train which makes regular trips.
The c., st. L. & P. pay-rolls show that there
are 420 men employed at their shops in the east
ern part OF the city Business is so brisk at the
shops that large number of the men last month
made from six to eight days extra time.
The Z Id. 6 s. road earned the first fifteen
days of the month $22, 40 30, an increase over
earnings of the corresponding period 1885, of
81, 367 "a This statement is the more favorable
as tits against the earnings OF tie best fifteen
days business of the year of 1885
The Wabash this week received four first
class passenger engines from Eastern locomotive
works The management is, az well, spending
,&heir earnings literally in Improvement to the
road bed. A large mileage of new steel rail has
been put in within the last ninety days.
The c., l., St L. g G. next week make an
other changein running time, the train for Gin
scinnati which now leaves Indianapolis at A. NJ.
will depart at $50 A. NJ, landing passengers In
Cincinnati at $50 A. NJ. The change is made. to
better accommodate the way business on the
east.end.
The railroad earnings for July are very en-
,eouraging, and there is excellent prospect
chat the business of the roads will continue good
until the close of the season The movement of
general merchandise is unusually heavy for the
season, and the receipts of wheat at primary
points are the heaviest ever known.
There will be a meeting of the stockholders Of
She Evansville, Seymour 81 Bellefontaine Rail-
way Company, held at the Office Of the COM
pany, in, the city of Evansville, Ind. on the Goth
day of September, 1885, at IL o'clock A. NJ, for
the purpose of electing directors for the ensuing
gear and other business of Importance will be
transacted
Several transfers have been made in the local
pfices of the United Express Company. Mr..
Kitchener, cashier at the uptown Office, has been
made bill clerk at the Union Depot; E. c. Col
Rms, of the Union Depot. has been appointed
hight agent at the Union Depot, and c. w
kireen, night agent, has been appointed money
clerk at the up town Office.
J. w. Reinhart has been appointed assistant
general passenger agent of the Lake Shore road
with headquarters in Chicago the appointment
30 take effect at once. the query in railroad
circles now is, who is. j. w. Reinhart. He is
certainly an unknown quantity in Western rail
road circles. From outside sources it is learned
that Mr. ReiDhart is still young man, who has
lately been general auditor of the West Shore
road at New York.
A gentleman who keeps himself we'll informed
Degrading the movements of the Erie people.
Bays that the steps taken on Tuesday by the
Hrst-mortgage bondholders of the Chicago &
Atlantic road, looking to an early sale of the
road through foreclosure means that the Erie
tsAto get controlio of the property, the programme
being TO issue SIS, 000 900 of new bonds, and from
the sum realized take up the So 000, 600 bonds
now resting the road and With the other
~ 100000 pay off the Fries floating debt. It is
expected that with the Erie guaranteeing the
9nterest the new bonds can be hoated at II per
cent. per annum which would cut down the
liked charges of the G. & A. handsomely. even
with the increased bonded debt, as the present
bonds draw7 per cent annually
The letting down of the bars for the L. B. &
w. to run Niagara Falls excursion is likely to
@isturb east-bound passenger rates as it has led
20 every road which reach the falls through
connections running excursion trains, and it
now looks as if neither Of the -initiatory roads
you'd stop with or two excursion trains
2he Be6line and G., IL. IL d. are already in the
held for second trains, and theI.. B. q w. an
nounce. that they will stop with the train ad-
vertised for the Gath, when it was supposed that
the Niagara Falls excursion business would ter
animate. OF course the Bee-line, the c., III. e.
-. and Wabash will run trains after that date if
the l., B. 81 w. does, and there is no telling
what is to be the result of resuming the running
of trains to the falls, as good deal of ugly feel
Ang is coming to the surface.
Rumors are current that east-bound rates are
being cut on grain at Terrc Haute, st. Louis and
Chicago. Whether true or not it is causing
1neasness among shippers at this point Indi-
annapolis roads are credited with living nearer TO
tariff than do the roads at other points, but Com
missioner Rohertv owes it to the grain men here
be true, indianapolis shippers should be protect
ed, and the roads should meet any cut made at
the points mentioned with proportionate cut
from this point. Shippers here should not for
an hour, after it is shown that rates are cut at
Terre Haute. St Louis or Chicago, be placed at
any disadvantage. Prompt action will do more
TO strengthen pools than conld any action that
might be taken pool which does not protect
the shipper as well as the roads is worthless
affair.
Assistant Commissioner George FL DANIELS of
She Central Traffic Association. passenger de-
partment, announces that reduced fares have
been granted. on the certificate plan under the
Rules of the committees, for delegates and mem
beers from points in territory of this committee
attending the following meetings: Bloomfield
Baptist Association, at Danville, ILL.,, Aug. 10 to
"a; L. A. McLsan. secretary Urbana, ILL.,, will
sign the certificates. The Miami Annual Con-