The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-14
AFFAIRS OF. THE RAILWAYS.


AFFAIRS VI. The RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.
The general time convention and the Southern
time convention meet in Cincinnati to-day.
H. H. Poppieton, general solicitor of the Bee
line, is in the city looking after certain matters
which are in litigation.
Commissioner Doherty, of the eastbound
pool, goes to Chicago again to-day to figure with
commissioner Blanchard on pool per cents.
Freight agents of Western roads have been mo-
titled that the new Iowa liquor law is in force,
: and OF the penalties it provides for violation.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati, Wabash
& Michigan, and of the Atchson. Topeka q
Santa Fe hold their annual election tomorrow.
VIM. B. Petit has been appointed superin-
4endent of the Southern division of the Mann
Boudoir Company, vice c. P. Krauth, jr., re-
signed to take effect to-day.
VIM r. McKeen, president of the vandalia,
came over Yesterday TO meet v. T. Malott and
confer about new Union Depot matters, but Mr..
Malott had not returned from Pittsburg.
The earnings of the Wabash road for the
fourth week of March were $3.50 tit, q de-
crease of $57, 839; for the month. 81 OPP 815. a
decrease OF $l8.720, and since JAN i 81, 89l, 645,
= decrease of STOP. 454.
The freight and passenger business of the G..
d, St L. 81 G. is again moving with its usual
Dr0mptness. In fact the high waters did not Sc
riously interfere with their business at any time
during the recent rise of the Ohio river.
Master Mechanic Prescott. of the vandalia
lines, has dropped from service sixtv-sx men in
the T., I'll. & |. shops All will again be given
employment as soon as business revives. which
will be with the settlement Of the labor troubles
Paymaster Snee of the Pennsylvania lines is
On his monthly rounds, paying for March serv-
1ces- In the last twenty years, with but one ex-
ception, this pay-car has reached Indianapolis as
aAFlU az tha of aaah nan a
18th.
The Northern Pacific road has addressed CIR
Eular to the Eastern lines requesting them TO
put on sale tickets to Sitka, Alaska. Such tick
cts have never before been on sale, but the in
creasng demand for passage has made it neces-
sary to place thsn in the market
With the coming of mild weather boys begin
70 swarm around the Union tracks, and to jump
on and OF. of moving trains. Yesterday after
noon, but for the promptness of one Of the
switchmen who hauled boy off the track he
would have been crushed to death. The police
should give this matter special attention.
Ticket agents in central passenger committee
territory advised by II. C. Townsend, gen.
eral passenger agent, under date OF April IL,
that tickets to California points may be sold at
current rates via Missouri Pacific railway and
FL Paso; also, to make rate via Missouri Pacific
and Union Pacific railways same as other lines.
The attorneys of the Union Railway Company
are preparing their special finding in the rental
Euit of that company versus the Cincinnati,
Hamilton d Dayton Railroad Company, and the
matter will come up for final disposal it is said,
on Friday or Saturday. II the Pennsylvania
people have secured the c., III. 81 D. the litiga-
sion becomes of little Importance.
Brakemen in the through freight service on
the Pennsylvania lines, west of Pittsburg, have
asked for an increase of wages. They have
made simple request for the increase. There
has been no demand, and the men do not pro-
pose to attempt to force the road TO their terms.
They think they are entitled to more pay, and
will endeavor to secure it by peaceable and
driendly negotiations with the officials.
It is stated were the law to become general
that all roads should pay employees weekly, as Is
to be the case in Massachusetts after July l. it
would require eight pay cars to do the work on
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg Pay
master Snee is now thirteen days of each month
out with the pay-car the divisions he pays
over. Several of the northern lines of tie Penn
sylvania Company are now paid by another pay
master
From cover to cover, the annual just issued
by the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Company is
marvel of beauty. The illustrations, in black
and white and in colors, through which mean
ders brightly written description of the Balti-
more & Ohio railway system, are by j. g. Pang-
born. and are not only clever in conception but
are finished admirably by the engravers. The
book, as a whole, contains fair reflection of
every phase of life, and the most beautiful
scenery on this continent
Miss Maria Mitchell, the professor of astrono
my at Vassar College, thinks that surveying
would be healthful and pleasant pursuit for
women" especially "as surveying is done mainly
in pleasant weather" The Engineering News
jealousy remarks: 'If the Vassar girl will link
her fate with those who engineers would be, ,
we earnestly advise her to practice in the
church chancel, rather than in ploughed field
or on the mountain side. She will find the first
much more 'healthful and pleasant"
IL r. Duval, receiver and general manager of
the Florida Railway Navigation Company, is in
the city for day or two Mr.. Duval has made
an excellent record in the six months. he has
managed this property. Its physical condition
Ohio river. During his general management
160 miles of new steel rails have been placed in
the track, sixteen frst-class locomotives, aud
some twenty-five passenger coaches, and several
hundred freight have been added to the
equipment and the business Of the road is de-
veloping grandly.
Who is to secure control of the Cincinnati
Hamilton Il Dayton through Albert Meter is
still problem. The fact that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is the only company which
has loose money to make so important purchase
leads to the general belief that they the real
purchasers, while there those who be-
leye that John King president of the Erie, is
behind the movement This rumor would have
more weight were it known that he had any
money TO put out in that direction. There il q
possibility that the real ownership will not de-
velcp until the annual meeting, on the second
Tuesday in June.
The mania for establishing fast-freight lines
has broken out afresh. Last week anew line, to be
known as the Kankakee g Baltimore line to work
between Chicago and Baltimore, over the c., l.,
st l.. & G. and it's connections, was opened
and yesterday arrangements were made for the
new Lehigh Valley & Wabash Dispatch, to work
business east-bound out of here over the l., P.
s. O.. and p. A Lynn has been appointed agent
Inc line will take business for New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania points Indianapolis
again has its old number of fast-freignt lines,
twenty-five. This includes north and south as
well as east and west lines
w. G. Irwin, general road master of the Bee
line, was in the city last evening. For some
days past he has been in East st. Louis LOOKING
matters over. He reports the business of the
Esnn-lina e. CT l. diuisinn 90 uatt;pe, h. 81.