The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Gaylord Beach, general manager of the Bee
Zine system, is to be in the city to-day.
John B. Carson, general manager Of the L.,
n. A. & c., left for New York yesterday.
Travelling Passenger Agent Alsop. of the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad, died at Harrodsburg, KY,
yesterday.
d. E. ingalls,, president of the c., l.. St L. &
C., passed through the city yesterday, en- route
20 Chicago.
i I. Scott, general agent Of the L, P. & c. bond
esders. is in the city attending to legal matters
pertaining to the affairs Of this ROAD.
! Kinean & Co. are shipping 125 to $50 car
loads of provisions per week to Southern mark
ats, while Eastward they are shipping but FIVE to
Asn cars per day for export
It is stated that the Baltimore & Ohio de-
1ands . per cent. of the New York business,
and will not accept less than 10 per cent Under
the old pool it had per cent.
John Moran, with the Frank Bird Transfer
Company, has been offered. and will probably
seeept the passenger agency Of the c., l., st. L.
e c. in their outside Office on South Illinois
street
Under order of the United States Circuit
Court the Wabash, ST Louis 81 Pacific, on Jan.
vile, Ia, to Abba. a. known the Centerville,
Moravia & Abba railroad.
There has been positive improvementin gen.
erAl railroad business since October. Railroad
earnings per mile in November and December
were better than the averaged the same months
in the previous six or seven years.
The Wabash earned in December 81, 1873, 054,
. decrease of s343, s74 as compared with the earn
fngs of December, 1884 The earnings of the
road in 1885 were $13 $40 6S6 against 14, Gil 063
in 1884, decrease in 1885, $l,065.377.
When the present financial programme of the
L., N. A. 81 c. road is carried out the road will
be bonded for $21, 200 per mile, but free of all
floating debt, and with money in the treasury to
improve the road-bed and increase the equip
ments.
The bondhoders now operating the Cincinnati
& Muskingum Valley road continue in their
service most of the men who were employed by
the Pennsylvania people. f. Ct. Darlington, as
well. continues to fiji the position of superin-
fendent
The Decline people will this spring add
another span, $50 feet in length to the bridge
over the Wabash. on the l. & st. L. division 1t
Is believed the waterway will then be ample,
unless the Wabash rises higher than it has in
the past.
Shippers, when they have a good thing, are
unable to keep it to themselves. One road has
been selling certain shippers 1.00O-mile tickets
at $40, and the competing road has been apprised
of the fact and there is trouble brewing over
the matter
Glasses of freight are now fewer than former
1y, and the probabilities that in the future
they will be fewer. The Middle and Western
Freight Association has only six classes though
At has eight special classes, including coal, lum
Der, grain. etc.
In the year 1886 there we're loaded and I'M
loaded at the Wabash city freight depot 6,076
aars of the Wabash company and 2,475 cars of
the L. N. A. g. c., or total of 8, 551 cars. The
depot force consists of foreman two checkmen
and six platform men.
The members of the Chicago and Ohio River
pool meet to-day at Commissioner Richardson's
Office to take action regarding the establishing of
asixih pool. which will take in the Illinois Cen
fral, the Wabash. the Chicago e. Eastern Illinois
and the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago roads.
L. H. Jaynith. who has been in the passenger
department of the Chicago e. Rock Island road
sixteen years, died on Monday night, quite sud
denly. His remains were taken to Lowell,
Mass, for burial. On the Gay of the funeral
the Offices Of the G. & r. /. were closed out of
respect to his memory while the funeral cere-
monies were in progress.
The L., N. A. & c. people show disposition
TO make the portion of their road lying between
indianapolis and Chicago their main line, and
from Louisville to Monon branch. Passenger
conductors on what has heretofore been known
as tbs L., N. A. g. G. proper now only run be-
tween Louisville and Monon, and their trains
Aueters and train crews.
One of the Wabash receivers is reported as
saying that the road is perfect wreck, and the
company will never be reorganzed. Foreigners
will never put in ST. 000 900 more for this pur-
pose, as the road and franchise are not worth it.
IF the receiver made this statement he does not
know what he IS talking about. The Wabash
proper, well managed, is valuable property, and
physically is in much better condition than two
years ago.
@. c. Waite. vice-president of the c., H. e. D.
system is still East, spending most of his time
1t Philadelphia, where negotiations are pending
70 turn the portion of the c., H. & D. lying be-
tween Hamilton, O., and Richmond, Ind, over
TO the Pennsylvania Company, which proposes to
build from. Hamilton to Red Bank the coming
spring The Pennsylvania people will then have
the short-line between Cincinnati and Chicago
via Richmond and Kokomo.
The members of the east-bound classification
pool meet at Cleveland, O., to-day. The associ-
alton has not met since early in April. There
are now only four classification pools north of
the Ohio river, the trunkline pool in New York,
which Classics Western freight; the east-bound
classification pool, which takes in all business in
territory east of the Mississippi river to points in
trunkine territory; the Middle and Western
Freight Association. and the pool from Chicago
westward.
Mention was made last week that NJ E. In
gals, president of the c., l., St. L. g. c., was
fully determined upon extending his Columbus,
Ind, division on to Bedford, where connection
could be made with the Indiana & Illinois South
ern narrow-gauge road. Col. Scott, who is in
the city. says that at an early day surveys will be
made between these points and probably the
road would be built some time, but not this year.
unless the railroad situation was more encour-
aging than now.
The Omaha Railway News takes a rosy view
of the situation, and in it's editorial columns
says: 'Anno Domini, 1886, will be red letter
day for railways and railway people. Business
is revivng all over the country, and especially
in the West. An era of railroad building is on
rs again. Employees of Western lines are to be
congratulated, FOR their companies will be too
busy building new lines to reduce wages on the
old ones. Prosperity is promised by all the
signs of the times"
In the article relating to the extension of sleep