The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and I.ocal

Of the c., ST L. & P, does but little Boosting
get
The illness of Austin Corbn, president of the
/, B. & W., which was alluded to a few days
ago, is reported to have assumed a somewhat
serious character.
The heads Of six freight conductors on the l.,
d. & S. road yesterday tumbled into the bas-
ket. If half the reports are true, Superntend-
cat Bender should have weeks ago dropped some
Of them.
On May 80 there will be a change of time on
4he Logansport division of the Vandalia, and an :
other through train will be put on. There will
then be two through trains each way daily to
South Bend.
Vice-president Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, sailed for Europe Saturday
last with his family, in the Cunard steamer
Etruria. He expects to extend his European
visit till fall.
Railroad men state that the improvements
that have been put on the Logansport and Chi
cago division of the Panhandle road the past
gear have made it one of the best pieces of track
In the country.
George G. Saville, representing the Eames
Vacuum Brake Company, is in the city. This
company has recently doubled its capacity for
work, yet IS crowded with business that they
are running day and night
w r.. Woodland, superintendent of the L.,
N A. q c., has so far recovered from his recent
illness as to be at his post again. This was the
hrSt time in thirty-one years of railroad service
which he has been confined to his bed.
The pool contracts binding the lines in the
louisville committee have all been duly signed
and we're on Monday placed in the hands of the
commissioner An evidence that no trouble
Is expected from the Louisville lines
The Central Traffic Association has, according
10 the Chicago Tribune. been in deaths throes
we of m hei
fhe last day or two however, show it to oe one
of the healthiest invalids in the pool interest
Mumford & Mckenzie, leading ticket-scalpers
In Chicago, have made application to the Ma
fional Ticket brokers' Association to establish
an Office at Indianapolis. which, under the rules
of the association. they cannot do without per-
nit
The through coaches which the Chicago &
Great Southern, in connection with the L., N A.
Il c., are running between Brazil, Ind, and
Chicago are said TO be elegant affairs-Pull
mans best. Each coach has a porter. and the
company is putting real trunk-line style.
The Cincinnati, Wabash Sc Michigan will on
june l, a special free train from Indianapo-
lis 10 Warsaw, to accommodate the members of
the order of Railway Conductors who. with
their families, picnic on that date at Warsaw
The train will leave the Union Depot at A. NJ !;
arrive at 10 p NJ.
The quarrel between the poultry shippers at
this point has become so bitter that OF the
largest shippers has notified the agent of one of
she refrigerator car lines that he would not ship
by that line if he continued to carry poultry for
the shipper who has brought down lpon him the
b0ycotters wrath.
The oldest employee of the Central Vermont
company is Samuel G. Smith, who has been
station agent at Hartford, VT, for thirty seven
years, has been employed by the railroad ever
since it was built and is now the senior employee
of the company. both in years and in length of
service. He celebrated his eightieth birthday
recently.
M. E. ingalls, has been in Chicago for couple
Of days attending meetings in the interest of the
Central Traffic Association. Pools intended to
cover the business originating at junction points
between St Louis and Peoria and between Chi
eago and Peoria have been up for consideration
These junction points include Warren, Boards
town and Seneca.
The Bee-line people will shorten up the time OF
their express train on May 80, regardless of the
protests of the Wabash and the threats of the
Pennsylvania people Would the Boston 81 AL
bany act well its part. the run from St. Louis to
Boston would be made four hours quicker over
the Bee-line Lake Shore, New York Central and
B. IL A., than 1t now is by either of their COM
petitors
The Wagner car-door, introduced by the Wag-
per Car-door Company, of indianapolis, which
WAS organized by L. A. Lewis, deceased is now
being put on 1.I00 new cars for the Chesapeake
IL Ohio. the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis
81 Chicago and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe roads. All new cars built for the Pennsyl-
Vania Company, the Pittsburg Cincinnati d ST.
Louis, and the Chicago, ST. Louis 81 Pittsburg
have this door. The Wagner door has been in
Louisville, New Orleans 81 Texas road, and is
highly commended by the officers of that road.
A movement is on foot to build forty miles of
road between Evansville Ind. and Mount Car
mel where connection with the Chicago, Cairo
IL Vincennes road will be made. The move
ment is backed by the Chicago 81 Eastern Hill
nois Railroad Company and citizens of Evans.
yille and 1t u stated is to be built to head off
ID. j. Mackey. who now controls all roads from
the north running into Evansville. The under
standing is that the C. & e. l. will use the c.
c. 81 v. road between Danville and Mount Car
mel, to connect with the Louisville & Nash
vile For come years past the relations of the
E. 81 t. H. and G. 81 Il. L have not been of a
friendly character
Since May the L., N. A. & G. people have
gut IN twelve miles of new steel rail- and by
July |. the main line between Hammond and
New Albany and Indianapolis and Michigan
City will be laid large per cent. of it
with steel rails. The company will next
week put steam shovel at work in their gravel
pit. north of Lafayette. and will put three
gravel trains to gravel the road between
Monon and Hammond, forty five miles. In the
last siyty days 300 900 cross-ties have been dis.
tributed on the system, and Superintendent
Woodland says there is to be let-up on i'm
proyements until the L., N. A. 81 G. is in as good
condition physically as the tracks of their COM
petitors.
Theatrical parties are complaining of the red
lape methods which they are obliged to go
through TO theatrical rates for parties
entitled to them. First they must get an order
on the agent of the road over which they wish 10
travel from the manager of the theater This
mnst then be presented to the ticket agent, who
properly indorses il. The ticket then goes TO
Commissioners Doherty. who places his official
stamp upon it. Then the purchaser can return
10 the ticket Office, ans the agent will sell him a
ticket on the order which originated with the
manager of the theater Theatrical parties can
hardly complain. as their 6ishonorable methods
If dealing with the railroads have made such
measures against imposition necessary.
Speaking of the treatment the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Fremen received from Vice-presi-
Gent Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific, Mr. E "