The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

pounds capacity
The Chicago & Indiana block coal road, last
week, contracted with the Pullman car works to
build 600 more box and eoal-cars.
The FIVE Western lines last week brought into
this station 1877 loaded cars, against 1890 in
the week ending Sept. 49, and against 1881 the
corresponding week, 1855.
TIE c., H. & l. and the L., N. A. & G. people
expect to get on solid trains between Cincinnati
and Chicago the 18th of next month. Parlor-
cars will be hauled on the day trains.
The next annual election of the o. & NJ. oc-
ours Oct IA, and it is quite generally beiiev ed
that the English bondholders will step in and
superseie the present b. g. o. control
The L., N. A. & c. people are pushing their
Orleans, Paoli g. JASPER extension vigorously.
They now have ten miles of track laid. and will
have trains running into Paoli by the 10Th Of
next month
The return of Robert Garrett probably will be
eignaZed by meeting of the trunk-iine execu-
tive coUmittee; ana an enort TO get all OF the
presidents together to settle the question of the
Smigrant pool
The motto with line agents at this point now
g. 1--WE are dong no rate-cutting at this end of
Che line" As one turns to leave. they say you
might write to people East; maybe they
would do something for you
West-bound tonnage is on the increase The
loaded care: the e., ST. L. 81 p, 962 loaded cars,
and the in bound tonnage of the other Eastern
Zines was proportionately large
General Manager Matthews. of the Ohio Falls
car works at Jacksonville. Ind, is rapidly get
ting the works into good running order and has
already secured several good contracts to build
Rreightcars for Southern roads.
Superintendent Woodland, of the L.. n. A. g.
c., is rising man in railroad circles. Within
the last fortnight he was offered the general su-
perintendency of one of the best roads cross
sng Indiana, if properly handled
The earnings of the l.. D. g. s. for the three
weeks OF September ending the ga were $685.
S4940. This Is increase of $3.50 80. The
earnings of the road in September. 1885, were
she best of any month in that year.
It is stated good authority that the Mackey
syndicate, which proposes to build the Evans
vile & Richmond road. by no means expect to
stop in their construction eastward at Richmond
but they propose to go east as far as Day ton, o..
before calling a halt
The Cleveland Leader SAYS: Citizenship is held
@heap at Philadelphia Mr. Corbin. a president of
she Reading. must be a resident of Pennsylvania,
but he can attain that civic status by buying a
few Berkshire hogs and occasionally patronizing
a Philadelphia Hotel over night.
There were transferred over the Belt road last
week 9.644 cars, against 9,861 the corresponding
week. 1885 The lighter movement this year is
due to the fact that part of the time last week
the bridge over White river was undergoing re-
pairs.
A San Francisco dispatch asserts that some of
the Eastern lines have decided to abolish their
passenger agencies in that city on the ground
that the cost of maintenance is greater than the
profits. Such belief is gradually gaining
ground IN Eastern railroad centers, az we'll as on
Ehe Pacific slope.
Commencing with the LIST of October the
frankfort accommodation train over the L. N
A. 81 @. will run through to Monon. The same
Date a new train between LAFAYETTE and Chicago
Fill be PIT on both ways and the Indian apolis
knd Monon trains will make connections with
Che Lafayette trains
The Decline people are again getting Down to
business. Last week they forwarded from this
station l $40 loaded cars. which was the largest
east bonnd movement in any week for many
months The road brought into this station
from the East ], l68 loaded cars, making a total
of 1888 received and forwarded.
The Eastern lines are doing much heavier
Business east bound this year than in either of
Ehe preceding years since 1882 The train rec
ords show that the Bee-line, the c., Sc L. & p.
the O.. H. & |. and the c., l., st. l. & @. last
week forwarded from this station 1886 loaded
ears, against 2S75 1885. 2,57l in 1884 g 552 in
1888
A party who we'll understands the programme
Of the bondholders of the three divisions of the
indianapolis Peru & Chicago road states that
the bondhoders will appoint joint committee
to bid the road Ia at the coming foreclosure sale;
and, further, that it will be reorganized an in
dependent company, and that if, in the future,
At Is operated In the interest of the Wabash 1t
will be through traffic agreement.
The relations between the officials of the Ohio
80 Mississippi road are not of the most amiable
character. In fact, it is stated that two of the
officials never speak when they pass by. One of
she directors is quoted as saying that, at the
coming annual meeting, there will be board of
directors elected who will put an end to all the
petty squabling by clearing the deck of all the
present officers and putting in their places corps
OF officers who have been very successfulon other
systems of roads which were in much worse con-
ditlon. financially and physically than is the o.
81 M.
The Philadelphia & Reading railroad, which
now attracts so much attention, is one of the old
est corporations In the country 1t was chartered
April 4, 1883, and portions OF the line opened in
July, 1888 list of past presidents. with their
terms of Office, is as follows: Mr.. Elihu Chaun.
cey. elected 1884; W. F. Emlep. 1872; John Cry
den, lS43; John Tucker. 1914 Robert c. Cullen.
1855; Asa Whitney, January, 1860; Charles E.
Smith, July. 1861; Franklin B. Gowen, April,
1859; Frank s. Bond. March IA, 1881; Franklin
D. Gowen, January, 1882; George De b. Keim,
January, 1884; Franklin B. Gowen, January,
1886
q. A. Ford, under date of Sept 25, sends ont
the following notice: Upon request of num-
Der of parties interested who could attend the
convention il held later than the 18th proximo
khe meeting named for that date at San Fran
cisco Is postponed. aud meeting of general pas
esnRer agents. their officially authorized repre-.
eentatives is hersby called at the Palace Hotel,
San Francisco, on Tuesday, Oct. g. 1886, at Ii
O'Clock A, n, sharp. for the purpose of adopting,
If possible, q more comprehensive and salts
factory plan than that now in vogue for the con-
Guet of east bound through passenger traffic from
the Pacific coast"
A Reform Which VIII BE Appreciated.
The matter of adopting uniform coupon
ticket on all roads 10 this country came up for
consideration at the semi annual meeting of the
general ticket agents held in New York last
week. A uniform coupon ticket would be
great convenience to passengers as we'll as the
ticket agents and the train officials who handle
than Al tho mating thu nnasiinn rraa dc