The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-30
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


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ings of corresponding week. 1885.
VIM. Vandegrift, who for some months has been a
sort OF generai-utility the c.. L. St l.. q O..
division.
General Phineas Pease formerly superintendent of
the l.. B. g. was in the city yesterday Mr.. Pease is
now president and general manager Of the Ironping
Company, Chicago.
j. E. Gimperling, superintendent of the Dayton &
lronton road In the city yesterday. He is troub
led for cars This company for year past has been
attempting to run the road with half the equipment
needed.
There seems to have been change in programme at
the beeneoce. L. j. Baker at first stated is to be
the representative of the White Line at this point and
T. O. Peirce jr is to be the chief clerk of General
agent Van Wrinkle.
Chester NJ Dawes has been appointed assistant so.
citor to succeed L. o. Goddard in the legal depart
ment of the Chicago, Burlington g. Quincy road the
latter gentleman having time ago, accepted the
position OF assistant to Vice president T. j. Potter.
The Cairo, Vncennes & Chicago road earned in the
third week of September, $14 235, an increase
earnings OF the corresponding week of 1885 of So,
o14 The road is profting handsomely through its
traffic agreement with the Indianapolis g. Vincennes
road.
The poor old Wabash makes a handy scape goat for
any road which seeks for shading rates. In
uaapohs IS TO-DAY Disseminated against seriously in
It's grain traffic lest the Wabash should chance to get
few carloads of grain which comes in here off of one
OF the Western roads running in here.
W. w. Lord who for years represented the
recently represented the @. & A. Harrisburg, Pa,
has resigned and taken service with the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company. j. H. Earnshaw has been ap-
pointed to represent the G. 81 A at Harrisburg.
Notwithstanding the numerous denials of the of
cials of the Pennsylvania lines that they have been
cutting rates. circumstances have to light In the
last few days which can hardly be explained satisfac
tory going to show that they did carry the property
OF the firm of Hancock s. Co. at less than tariff
rates.
At the meeting of the Union railway, on Tuesday
1t was unanimously resolved to name the large, tr
angular space which will be in front of the new Union
Depot, the jackson Place" out of respect to Uncle
Billy Jackson, who has been secretary of the Union
Railway Company since its organization thirty
tive years ago.
The Coron people say they will have possession of
the Cleveland Canton road inside of sixty days from
this date possibly in half that time. the money viii
be ready to pay every legal obligation of the company
make equitable arrangements with the terminal and
car stockholders and change the gauge of the road to
the standard.
Directors of the New York, New Haven & Hartford
road are considering voluntary reduction in passen
ger fares which, owing to the road being onopoly
have been kept up for thirty years above the fig
ures any other road out of the city The revenues
have naturally been enormous, and the surplus runs
into the millions.
Robert Law, superintendent of the leased lines of
the Chicago Burlington % Quincy railroad, in Iowa,
will retire from that position TODAY and will be tenn
porarily succeeded by Mr.. g. NJ Lew the assistant
superintendent OF the same lines 1t is reported that
Mr. Law VIII hereafter occupy an important position
Oh GIe milwaukee, % 81 raul ROAD.
E. T. Scott general manager of the l.. P. g c.. Su-
perntendent Mansfield, of the I. g ". and Colonel
Yeoman have entered into arrangement which will
place the coal from the mines the /. & V. road in
the northern and northwestern manufacturing towns
at very low figure and at the time greatly in
crease the business of the two roads.
+ the e. H. D. people have put Of the change .S OF
fifteenth of next month. Then the Connersvie &C
commodation will be made through train, leaving
Cincinnati at 61 A M. returning leave Indianapolis
and trains No 6 and 81 will make the run between
Indianapolis and Cincinnati in three hours and thirty
five minutes
At m Getting of the members of the passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic Association, held at
Chicago, yesterday, the question of forming gross
money pool on Chicago business for New York came
up for discussion. The Chicago g. Grand Trunk in
sisted that all business going east of Buffalo, Pitts
burg ETC.. be included and carried its point. Stats
tics will at be submitted covering the business
done in agreed periods in the past-he years of 1885,
1854 and ashland upon these the divisions of
traffic will be parceled out among the pool roads.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean of yesterday says: 1.-The
meeting of the Central Traffic Association passenger
department. called for Tuesday in this city was not
held, it being found that Mr. George Washington
Smith, of the Lake Erie q Western road not
present 1t was at first believed that through some
clerical the notice addressed to the his
country Smith had been sent to the of the Wash
ngon Ratchet but asst learned later that both Mr.
Smith and his little Ratchet were in the city, it
deemed prudent not to meet until he could join the
fold"
The resignation of W. 8. Mellen as general super
ntendent of the Chicago & Northwestern road takes
ton Of general manager of the Wisconsin Central
road, in place of F. N. Fnney, and will assume
his new duties early IN October Mr.. Finney will re-
main with the road however, and assume a position
among the board of directors The Northwestern
road thus loses of its best and oldest officials
Although but forty years of age Mr.. Meen has been
with the company almost constantly for twenty-one
years. entering its services Dec 10, 1860 when he
was a telegraph operator and clerk.
Mr.. E. P. Wilson, the commissioners of the three
Western passenger associations who has resigned to
become the general passenger agent of the Northwest
road Oct. has also sent in his resignation as
arbitrator for the passenger department Of the Cen.
trail Traffic Association and also of the New Orleans
passenger pool Mr. Wilson has received some ex-
ceedngy gratifying letters of congratulation from the
general managers for whose lines he served as arbi
traitor James Charlton, general passenger agent of
the Chicago Alton is still being pressed to take the
position of commissioner of their association but he
still declines and quite positively, too.
The Cincinnati press is disposed to attach more i'm
portance TO the decision of Judge Jackson in the
troversy pending between the o. S. q O. and the l.,
b. W. railroad companies the rental question than
careful reading of his decision would Justify. The
Judge orders the ceiver ont of the onethrd of the
earnings which he must pay into the court to take his
rental of 1875 0OO and Ehatsoever may be due the
quarterly statement Whatsoever of 80 13 per cent.
there may be in of that will be the subject of
further adjudication between the receiver and the
parties in court Tt win be noticed the vital question
at issue is still left for further adjudication. The
very point the u, S q u proposed to make when they
brought suit for what they claimed was due under
their construction of the lease after the L. B. s. w.
supposed they had fully performed their part of the
lease, is still undecided.
The executive committee CT the Cincinnati Sandus-
ky & Cleveland railroad under the present manage
ment consists of John S. Farlow, y. W. Pierce Isaac
Fenno and Levi G. Wade, and believing that the tri-
umph of the l., B. & w. people in the coming election
would be contrary to the interests of the other stock
holders the four gentlemen named not likely to
permit change of control without a contest The
Boston Advertiser publishes letter giving some in
terestng inside history and it is intmated that
of the kind will follow. In fact the efforts of
the Sandusky to harmonize with Mr.. Ccrbin have
been very much like those of the tabled lamb which
was accused of rolling the water that the wolf
drinking, although the latter really stationed
further up the stream than his victim The Advertiser
further says the statement of the letter that the very
suit which the l.. B. g. w. people complaining
about was brought at the suggestion of Mr. Austin
Corbin is especially noteworthy. Moreover the San
dusky is such poor property the l.. B. & w peo
pie would intimate. II is the commercial highway of
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