The Indianapolis journal., 1886-11-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


lse5 Increase this year $43t 1893.
The L.. ~ A. & C. management this week
.ontracted with the Brooks locomotive works to
mild for this road four firstclass heavy freight
nncines and two switching engines.
n,he railroad clerks are making some headway
r. orcanIzing local association. They hold a
conference some time within the next ten days,
and will take steps to form permanent organiz
ation.
The Martin Nichols combination ticket Office
norner of Meridian and Illinois streets, was
onened for business yesterday. Such con-
ciomoration of tickets AS is found in that Office
cannot be duplicated in any outside Office in this
country.
The L., N a G. c. road earned in the third
week of October, $i30. 700. which was an in
erease over earnings the corresponding week,
5ss5. of $18,734 The increase of earnings since
Jan over corresponding period, 1885, has been
e17l,748
Engine No. 612 on the J., M. e. l. left the
Union Depot thirty minutes late yesterday after
noon, hauling eight cars, two of them parlor
4ars and went into Louisville on time. The
average speed of the train was forty eight miles
per hour
President c. F. Adams and General Manager
g. r. Galloway, of the Union Pacific road, are
In Chicago President Adams has, for some
thirty days past, been inspecting the U. T.. and
returns greatly pleased with it's prospects for
She future
The great work of cutting down the camel's
back at Rockville on the Vanda,ia. will soon be
completed. Tie track is all laid; the only work
which remains 20 be done is filling up under the
trestle-work. 1t is thought that trains can pass
over the new track in month.
G. B. Sherman. general manager of the Red
line Transit Company, announces that W. w.
Copeland has been appointed agent, taking effect
Nov. L. in charge of the east and west-bound
business of this line, for Omaha, Neb., Council
Bluffs Ia, and adjoining territory.
The L., N. A. & c. people yesterday agreed to
pay over to the east bound pool, their excess in
percentage in cash. subject to arbitration, Of
courG Should the arbitrator decide that they
are entitled to larger per cent. the proper pro-
portion of the money will be returned.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: Horace Tuck
er, general freight agent of the Illinois Central
Toad; ex Governor Hamilton and number of
wealthy Chicago merchants arrived at San An
tonic. Tex, on Tuesday from the City of Mexico,
and were feted at the Munger Hotel by Mr.. G. e.
Gibbs
The Eastern financial papers state that Presi-
dent Corbin has gone to work in earnest to effect
economies on the Philadelphia q Reading road.
Wait until he gets G. e. Henderson over there
Rs general manager; then there will be squirm-
ing N all departments over the economical
measures which will be introduced.
Assistant Commissioners UoOrR0 III. Daniels, OF
fhe Central Traffic Association, has called meet
ing of the rate clerks and rate-sheet companies,
20 be held on Thursday. Nov. IL, for the purpose
of revising the Central Traffic Association basing
Fate-sheet A general revision is made neces-
gary by reason of tho recent changes in rates to
St Paul and the Northwest.
An observing retired railroad man remarked
yesterday that he was glad to notice that Judge
Gresham was disposed to step on the parties who
Rre manipulating the affairs of the Wabash. He
thought the time had come for the courts to
cease protecting and encouraging the raseaIly
schemes concocted by the fellows who have been
handling this property of late years.
Matters with the local division of the National
Switchmen's Association are not moving along
smoothly. At the last meeting one of the Off
cials talked SO roughly that the association
thought there was a blizzard in the room, and
asked said official to turn his books over to the
association, which he did, and then asked that
bis membership should be considered as at an
end
G. c. Waite, general manager of the c., H. &
d. lines. was in the city yesterday. He states
fthat the company has now got it's road bed in
good shape, and they are now turning their at
1enti0n to the equipments. He is now in the
market for several hundred freight cars and ad-
ditonal passenger equipments He will this
week let the contract to build three parlOr cars
of the same pattern the fine parlor car run
ming on the day express between Cincinnati and
Indianapolis.
J. NJ Brodbelt, chief clerk of D. F. Whitcomb.
superintendent of the Union tracks and Belt
road has prepared very complete and well-ar
ranged statement, showing the number of trains
that arrived and departed at the Union Depot
in the month of October. and the numb of cars
banded. This statement shows that during the
thirty days, a. 442 trains arrived and departed.
OF this number, 4, 328 were regular trains and 81
special trains. There were hauled these
trains 26, 964 cars
The discrimination against Boston in the mat
Ter of passenger service from the West is in a
fair way of being remedied. 1t will be remem-
bered that passenger going West is carried
from Boston to Chicago in thirty and one half
hours. while a passenger coming East is not per-
mitted to make the journey between the two
cities in less than two days and one night, or
two nights and one day. The Boston & Albany
management is expected TO announce within the
next few days new express train from the
West, which will do away with this discrimina-
Sion
The general managers and general freight
agents of the roads running east fl iom this point
were in session several hours yesterday, to take
some action in regard to the demand of the L.,
N A. 81 g. for an increased per cent. in the
east-bound pool. The conference resulted in
turning the whole matter over to III. G. Wicker
10 arbitrate all roads agreeing to accept his de-
rision on the matter. The L., N. A. & g. peo-
pie claimed that every pound of freight they had
taken out of Indianapolis had been carried at
$af tariff rates, even the lumber carried by the
Blue line.
The Boston Transcript says "Mr. Corbin
has not bought a share of Dayton e. Ironton
stock since his original purchase. some two
years since; he has not acquired control, and,
moreover, the matter of consolidation with the
J., B. & W. has never been considered Neither
company is in position at present TO build
connecting line While the taking of an active
interest in Dayton 81 Ironton by Mr.. Corbin,
who is director, by the way, would probably
be a good thing for the road, no arrangements
such as have been intimated are as yet under
consideration"
Commissioner George II. Blanchard, OF the
Central Traffic Association. telegraphed to Chi
Sago from New York that he had held several
Anformal conferences with the representatives of
che Eastern trunk lines, and that he felt reas-
gured that freight matters were in better con-