The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-21
AFFAIRS OF THE
Personal and Local.

good to return until June 80. The rates are the
game as iast year.
The Lake Erie & Western railroad has been
granted an order by Judge Gresham to purchase
two thousand tons of steel rails.
John Muir having resigned, B. Campbell has
been appointed general freight agent of the Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Companyfs lines.
The Decline yesterday brought in an exeur-
sion from Sidney. O.. and points as far west as
Union. There were Cos excursionists on the
train.
L. G. Cannon left for Chicago to look after his
fences as commissioner of some OF the new
pools Of Western and Southwestern lines now
being organized.
The L., n. A. & G. and the C., 81. & /. get on
their solid trains between Cincinnati and Chi
cago Sunday, Oct 81, unless there Is another
change in programme.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania lines,
and the party who accompanied him on his
Western trip reached Chicago on Tuesday night,
and yesterday started homeward.
c., L, ST. l. g. G. stock sold yesterday at par.
Will G. z. Huntington, who lie quoted as saying
when the big Four stock reached par he would
be ready to sell" now unload2 He can get bets"
that he will not.
Manager Moore, of the Midland road, is ar
ranging with the Wabash H.. Pa CD for a
closer traffic agreement. By working with this
road he gets a longer haul than with the L., N.
A. & G. lAir-line.)
An eight-mile feeder will be built by the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati St Louis railroad from Hol-
liday's Cove. thirty-nine miles west OF Pittsbure,
south into West Virginia, opening up a rich sec
ton of that State.
So heavy has freight traffic been of late over
the Bee-line that it Is not an unusal thing for
the train crews TO run over the road between In
dianapolis and Union, eighty-four miles, three
times in the twenty four hours.
G. NJ. Ball, general manager, l.. g. Kies,
Western superintendent, and F. M. Bissell,
auditor Of the Empire Line. are making an ok
tended Western trip. They left Indianapolis for
81. Louis yesterday, over the l. d ST. L.
v. T. Malott, general manager of the Union
Railway Company, is expected home from the
East to-day. 1t is said he went East to look
after matters connected with the coming fore
closure sale of the Indianapolis, Peru g. Chicago
road.
The Boston Advertiser says: ''Indiana. Bloom
1ngton IL Western common stock-whose pros
pective assessment under the plan of reorganiza-
ton was first promulgated in the Daily Adver-
tiser the other day, looked sick enough Satur-
day. closing at 49,"
The c., st. L. 6 P. officials. who are this week
on their annual inspection trip, leave Richmond
this morning at 1880 A. NJ, reach Indianapolis at
11:3O A. M, spend the afternoon in looking over
the shops and yards at this point, and will re-
main over night here.
~ II EutuOEoo bHhO liz Odudulau racine ROAD
has completed arrangements for a direct route
from Montreal to New York by the acquisition
or control of several local roads in New England,
including the old Lebanon Springs road, reor-
eanized last year as the New York, Rutland &
Montreal.
Report has it that Col. William Shaw is to be
the joint agent Of District Passenger Agents
Nichols, of the Beeiine, and Martin, of the G.,
l., St. L. & c., in their new office. which they
propose to open on South Illinois street, provid-
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do not interfere.
The death is recorded of James Kennedy,
once manager of George Stephenson's works at
Neweastle-on-T Tyne. He planned the first three
locomotives on the Stockton g. Darlington rail-
road, in 1925, and built the Liverpool-the first
locomotive with horizontal cylinders applied Ill
rectly to the crank-shaft or axle.
Chicago & Eastern stock has reached par. it
will be noticed. On the 29th os September it
sold at 80, and since that time it has grown in
favor, not rapidly but steadily, and on Monday
it reached its par, without the help of shorts and
without the aid Of any great expectations, ex-
cept such as are based on the business merits Of
the road.
The officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company state that the shipments of coal over
their system this year will amount TO 16, 600, 900
tons against 100000 tons last year. The
company is still complaining OF a scarcity of
cars, Notwithstanding Is, 900 cars are in use on
its system, and that the shops of the company
are working day and night turning out equip
ments.
1t Is said that the Dinner Brothers will have
some sharp competition in securing the dining
rooms of the new Union Depot, there being two
Or three other parties who are casting their eyes
In that direction.
It is stated that west-bound freight rates are
again being badly cut out of Indianapolis. Some
months past the agents have been behaving very
handsomely in this matter, and it Is to be re-
GREETED that any road has again taken the iui-
tiatory steps which will bring on q general de-
moralization of west bound rates. as it leaves
little to the initiatory road which hauls the husi-
ness, so arbitrary and ~exacting are the roads west
Of the river.
The O., II. q l. make several important
changes in theirrunning time on Sunday, Oct. 81.
The Connersville accommodation is made q
through train. and the time Of their express
trains is shortened between indianapolis aud
Cincinnati thirty minutes, and the two express
trains each way make the run between the two
cities in three hours and twenty minutes. Their
fast trains are to be known as the Flyer and
the Hummer"
The Chicago Times says: 1.-THE example in
the Wabash in demanding a rearbitration of
percentages In the Southwestern railway pool
seems TO have been contagious, as the Chicago &
Alton on Tuesday took similar action by formal
ly fling with Commissioners j. w. Midgley a
document OF the same tenor, asking for rearbi-
tration of percentages and a new allotment The
grounds taken are that the divisions, as they are
now made. are unjust to the Chicago & Alton
and Go not fully represent the volume of natural
traffic subject to pool government which comes
to that line. To be in the fashion, the Rock ISL
Land followed suit with a like demand, and as
the roads seem to be nearly unanimous OH the
SUBJECT, a readJnstment will probably follow.
To round up the matter, the Chicago, Burlington
d. Quincy gives notice of withdrawal from the
Southwestern lumber pool, and this action doubt
less insures a reorganization of that very profta-
bic combination.
Express Changes.
The United States Express Company on last
evening, Oct. 20, withdrew from the Panhandle
road between Richmond, Ind, and Chicago, and
that route is now occupied exclusively by the
Adams express.