The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

(5pueral Manager Moore states that the track
of the Indiana Midland will be completed so as
to run trains between Anderson and Lebanon by
Jan. /.
The l., d. & s. road is not member of the
Central Traffic Association, yet it never was
more prosperous in its history than at the pres
ent time
G. A. Cartright, the new general ticket and
freight agent Of the Cincinnati, Wabash s. Mich
sgan road, spent yesterday in the city, looking
che field over
I,ucius Tuttle general passenger agent OF the
Boston & Lowell railroad, has accepted thesDo-
sition of passenger traffic manager OF the Union
Pacific railroad. He will commence his new ou-
ties jan /.
The I. B. e. W. company yesterday reached
their one thousandth suit in law since the road
was reorganized as the Indiana, Bloomington d
Western Railroad Company. OF course many of
these were petty cases
L. J. Sergeant traffic manager of the Grand
Trunk road says 1.-THE railroad company can
ind it's true prosperity only in the prosperity OF
its patrons and it is to this end that every In
teligent railroad manager strives"
The derricks for raising the heavy stone to be
laid in the foundation of the new Union Depot
will be placed in position to-day. Seventy-fve
carloads of stone to be used in the foundation
stand on side-tracks west of the river.
time of late in Boston, says that without ques-
sion the A., T. Sc g. +. people will build into
Chicago, as the Boston parties interested In the
road feel that they must do so for self-protec-
zion.
The impression of eight out of ten mon in the
freight service is that it was very unwise in the
roads to order an advance in east-bound rates
on the 10Th of this month. They express the
belief that it can but lead to general demorali-
cation of rates east
The Chicago RalwaysR eview of Dec. II con-
GAINS an excellent cut of the Union railway sta
Hon it Is proposed to build at indianapolis, and
after giving it's dimensions, says it will be a
structure of which the citizens Of Indianapolis
may we'll be proud.
An effort is making to form syndicate
of the freLds of the indianapolis, Peru q Chi
sago road, who reside in this State, to purchase
the property. The parties in the movement
have asked for thirty days time to perfect, if
possible, their scheme
The Cincinnati board of public affairs yester-
lay resolved to bring suit against the Cincin-
Aati q Indianapolis and the Little Miami rail
aoads for back rents for the privilege of a track
on Front street The amount TO be recovered is
above S., 900 year for twenty years.
The tendency of the ordered advance in east
bound rates is to kill off the little shippers.
but few of them are able to wait three to six
months for rebates, the big shippers OF
course on rate based on 80 cents--Chicago to
New York-the big shippers will expect and will
get a rebate in due time.
One of the legal counsel of the Illinois Mid
land road yesterday stated that the parties who
bid 1t in at the recent foreclosure sale will nut
tho road bed in good shape and properly equip
it and operate it independently, turning over
their business to the road which can benefit
them most through reciprocaton of traffic.
The roads in the Central Traffic Association
have had another meeting at which the following
resolution was adopted:
M
tied fare for the round trip may be made follows
Tickets may be sold Dec. "a and 25, 1886, and Dec
81 1885 and Jan. l. 1887, good to return up to and
including JAM 3, 1887.
General Manager Talmage of the Wabash
has been notified by the bondbolders committee
of the Indianapolis, Peru e. Chicago road to at
once gather ND the equipments of the l., P. q
~. scattered over the Wabash lines, and turn
them over to the l., P. & c. road preparatory
50 terminating the working agreement between
the two companies.
a. b. Hammond, president of the l., D. 81 s.
Railroad Company is one of the railroad officials
who thinks the railroad traffic of this country
will never be properly regulated until the En-
RlSh clearing house system is adopted in this
4puntry. The actual traffic balances cleared
&hrough the English Railway Clearing Organiza-
sion amount now to about eighteen millions
Sterling, Or say, elghty-eight million dollars a
year
There is already row on hand between the
Erie and the Baltimore & Ohio express compa-
MES over the former entering Chicago over the
p. s. o. road from Mansfield, as arranged for
the Erie Express Company to do but Saturday
last Old express men were surprised that the
d. d 0. Express allowed the Erie to run over
their own road into the same territory TO com
pete for business, and well satisfied that
such an arrangement cannot be of long duration.
The Detroit Tribune says: "What the effect of
Judge Gresham's decision will be upon the Wabash
and It's bondholders cannot yet be predicted
with much certainty, because, as Mr. James f.
Joy recently intimated in published interview
the decision itself rather unsettles and mixes
some things connected with the company's af-
fairs which 1t has been heretofore supposed were
properly disposed of But that the decision is
an emphatic blow to the business of railroad
wreckinR in general Is clear"
H. R. Duval, formerly the general manager OF
the Erie lines, ano we'll known in INDIANAPOLIS
tailroad circles, and who is now receiver and
general manager OF the Florida Railway &c Nav
tgation Company, is prominently mentioned for
the position of Senator from Florida. 1t is
stated as being quite probable that he will be
nominated ard elected, so prominently has he
identified himself with the interests Of that
State. Mr.. Duval is much of gentleman and
finely educated, and withal an excellent business
man.
The Wabash carried Is $40 per cent of the
business east bound out of Indianapolis the first
eleven days of this month. 1t is billed out as
export business via Portland, Me-, but it is al
legged, is distributed over New England, never
being put on sh;pboard. Last year when this
{oad was leading in tonnage. General Freight
Agent Sweet stated that the Wabash was ship
ping the grain into New England territory that
could not be reached only over the abash and
Grand Trunk. This dodge seems to have become
threadbare
Said general freight agent yesterday: ~
hope the shippers will hold an Indignation meet
Ing over the new bill of fading which is to be
adopted by all roads on the 1st of January, then
she freight men will have an opnortunitv 10 ex
plain to them why this form of bin of ladine was
adopted, and what its real meaning is. as it
means no more for the railroads interested than
the laws of Indiana give the railroad companies"
lie added: I'm Cleveland an Indignation m et-
ing was called and great noise made over the
form of bill of lading, but as soon as it was ex.
planned to the shippers they took no exception to
1t except that the books in which the bills of