The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

Earnings of the Indianapolis G. st. Louis the
Second week of July were s22. 404. again st $40,
Dol for the corresponding week last year.
O. w. Lamport, superintendent of the Cinein-
AAti, Wabash g. Michigan railroad. gives notice
shat W. C. Braman is appointed agent at Elk
bart and W. T. Vary agent at Summitville. Ind.
Commencing Aug. l, the Houston g. Texas
Central railway will operate the Fort Worth &
New Orleans railway between Fort Worth and
Waxahachie, which will open new route to
Fort Worth and northwest Texas.
Detective Pottneff, of the Wabash road, has
secured clew 70 the williams who have at regu-
Oar intervals been attempting to wreck fast ex-
press trains a mile two east OF Wabash, ana
they have been placed under close surveillance
The statement of the business of all lines of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company east OF
Pittsburg and Erie, for june 1886, as compared
with the same month in 1885. shows an increase
In gross earnings of 5000, 4S3 and an increase In
expenses of $158,774
The Wabash is laying large quantities of new
Hteel rail, sxty-seven pounds to the yard, on the
main line The old iron on the Detroit division,
which has been in service for twelve years. be-
tween Denver and Logansport twenty-one miles,
is also being replaced by steel
Conductor Heulet and engineer Wick, Of en-
CINE Ito, which was in the recent wreck at Lo
Ransport by which four persons were badly in
Aured, have been discharged. After thorough in
Testigation by the board of examiners and Col.
Hill, the responsibility has been placed en- them.
Superintendent Black, of the j., NJ. G. L. has
been testing coke on one of the dinkey engines,
at New Albany. with view of using it as fuel
for all the engines OF the line. The test seemed
TO be successful, and was great improvement
over coal, from the fact that no smoke was gen
Grated.
Vice-president Charles Schif, of the Queen
R~ - H. g - 1Aw nn6 hn
with ais friends is largely interested in the Ala
bama Great Southern division, has made ar
Tangements to replace the iron In that DIVISION
with sixty pound steel rails The rails will reach
the grounds at cost Of $50 per ton. There are
200 miles to lay
The east bound freight pool out of st. Louis
is in bad condition, and disruption need occa-
nion no surprise Only last week it was decided
10 form an outlying pool TO cover Wann, Alton
junction, Ashland and Beardstown, but yester-
day Commissioner Blanchard notified the outly.
ing junction lines that the whole question had
been reconsidered, and that these junction pon ts
ynust be included in the St Louis pool proper.
TO all Of which the Beeline, Wabash and o. &
d. will most decidedly object
In the reorganization of the Louisville, New
Albany & ST Louis (Air-lne) road it is said tbs
present officials in the operating department viii
be retained-Geo. F. Evans as general manager,
and Col. r. S. Miner as general superintendent
As soon as the consolidation is completed The
tending the track from Mount Vernon, ILL.,, into
ST. Louis The Louisville Commercial says the
road will soon be leased to Huntington for the
st. Louis outlet of the Chesapeake e. Ohio.
The Southern Pacific Company are negotiat
ing, with fatterng prospects, for the purchase
Of the Houston & Shreveport railway. 2l6 miles,
and the Shreveport division of the Queen q
Crescent between Shreveport and Jackson,
Miss. The Southern Pacific company is sadly in
need of another route out of Texas besides the
one via New Orleans owing to the numerous
cverfows of the Mississippi levees in southern
Louisiana which interrupts traffic for months
at time during the busiest season of the year.
The Chicago offices of the Erie & Pacific Dis
patch and South Shore line will be consolidated
Aug l, with w. II. Hogan as general agent. II
Is undoubtedly the intention to concentrate ali
Of the business of the lines with the exception
Of that over the Chicago q Grand Trunk, on the
Chicago e. Atlantic. re-establishing the working
relations as they existed year ago. These will
Include meat and provision shipments, for which
The Chicago line has for a month past been pre-
pairing refrigerator cars, and an aggressive com
petitive policy for all classes of business. high
and low, out of Chicago.
Richmond is still excited over the proposition
to extend the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton
rat Muncie the extension will be merged into
the Cincinnati, Fort Wayne & Louisville road
and via that to the Chicago & Atlantic crossing
at kingsland, and thence to Chicago via the O
q A The route opens the finest railroad con
pections in the State. and will give Richmond
competing roads that will be able to fight the
rates of the Panhandle. Mr. Worthngton rep
Zimmerman, one of the most active of the c.
81. 81 d. officials. have already agreed upon gen
eral conditions that are satisfactory to both
roads"