The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



of the same road at Judson.
j. Caldwell has been appointed superintendent o.
the Cairo, Vncennes & Chicago line Mount Carmel
H., vice J. NJ. Gill; resigned.
| G. b. Squires, who has been the Cleveland passen
ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines during the pas
year has resigned to accept the position of
and freight agent of .he Atchison Topeka 6 Sants
Fe, at Buffalo, N. Y, with Mr. Pangborn.
Several carloads of California fruits have come
through of late this and other business ceners
this State and in Ohio days from time of ship
ment This fruit is hauled fast freight traits the
cars OF which are equipped with air brakes.
The Wabash pay-car is on the line and win pay on
the Indianapolis, Peru Chicago road this month for
November service. and will next month pay for De-
cember service, and thereafter the trustee of the
bondholders of the L. p @. has to look after this
matter.
Paymaster Lincoln, of the Bee-line is making his
first trip the road since appointed paymaster.
He has made himself at the outset popular with the
boys by making his rounds few days earlier than
usual, that the boys might have plenty of money for
the holidays.
The Union Railway Company will to-day put in a
sdetrack from the track north of the Union Depot
| the work over which the material will be placed
convenient for use. There are 160 carloads Of
stone in the Big Four yards for the foundation of the
new union depot.
Commencing with Monday next, the train out of In
dianapolis the Bee-line. known the Anderson
II a. NJ, will run as far east Muncie making close
| connection with the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Louis
vile road for Fort Wayne.
The man whose business it is to keep passengers
| from being at the Union Depot, Springfield
| Mass, himself and killed a day two
ago. How it happened nobody knows. but he was
found in dying condition at the time of the usual
making up of one of the trains.
George T. Evans receiver of the Louisville Evans
vile & st. Louis railroad, filed in the federal court
yesterday the report of the operation of his trust
ance on hand Oct of $57 ,634.O4, and there is
present balance of 1922 439. ID.
The l., b. & w. shows decrease in earnings the
that Of the correspondine period 1853 This due
to two reasons: First. the road has been 500
short of filing their orders then the strike in the
Ohio mines cut down their revenue sharply.
| The chief engineer of the Chicago Evanston & Lake
| Superior Railway Company, Mr.. Z. g. Nourse, has
resigned and goes at once with the Santa Fe road.
Prior TO his departure he was presented by his former
associates with handsome diamond pin mark of
their appreciation of him, personally and officially.
Chicago Inter Ocean, Commissioner j. N. Abbott.
of the Southwestern Passenger Association at his
new office Monday and was called upon by a number
| of officials of high and low rank who greeted him
kindly and welcomed him to his home He does
expect to get fully ready for work before another
week is
| T. j. Sheppard, formerly agent of the Chesapeake
q Ohio at Staunton, Va, has been appointed special
agent OF the passenger department Of the Chicago,
| Burlington Il Northern road, with headquarters at
st. Paul. MINI. Mr.. Sheppard is well posted in pas
| senger business and will doubtless make good man
| for the new line.
The hrSt fifteen days of this month the tonnage of
| the Indianapolis & Vincennes road into and out of
indianapolis increased 20 per cent that of the
| corresponding two weeks 1885. The indianapolis,
Decatur Springfield road, as we'll shows a hand
some increase of about 60 per cent. the
| spending fifteen days, 1885.
The work of reconstructing and ballasting the To-
| ledo ST. Louis & Kansas City narrow gauge railway
through Howard county is beirg pushed forward with
| vigor. Over one hundred men are at work near Ko-
komo. The work of relaying the entire line with
heavy steel rails will begin, when the road will
be converted into a standard gauge.
Horace Morrell, of the Oldest express messen-
gers in the employ of the American Express Company
is in Lafayette. at the home of HI. H. Lancaster Mr..
Morrel is suffering from an abscess on the brain.
which disables him from work. Mr.. Lancaster will
in few days visit Chicago, and make arrangements
for his removal to the asylum at Kankakee for treat
ment.
E. B. Walls superintendent of motive power of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pttsburg states that there
| is not idle engine the southwestern system at
the present time it be fit for service and they could
fifty engines than there the lines to
good advantage were they to be had For this
the superintendent of the & " is hiring two engines
| from the l., d. & s. road
party we'll acquainted with the affairs of the Bee.
| line states that there grounds for the
rumor that Il. B. Thomas was to take the presidency
| of the company. The position offered him, and
he to Cleveland in the early part of this
month to look the situation over. and while there
learned that there was some opposition to his assum
ing the duties of the position and he then declined to
| further consider the matter.
Present indications that there are to be fewer
year than is usual The fact is that the railroads
of this country certainly Western roads, are now Off
cered by the brainiest and brightest in the coun
try and IL would be difficult to improve the present
officers. From general managers down TO agents. in
| the cutting down of expenses, wherever employees
have been dropped the valuable and reliable men
have been retained in the service so far possible
prominent business man of Kansas says it would
not surprise him should Jay Gould the whole
State of Kansas some day. He owns what is called
the Missouri Pacific railroad system which ramifes
| the State of Kansas. Before Gould would build a
single foot of railway he compelled every township
through which it to pass issue bonds to defray
tho whole cost of construction. AS soon as these
bonds were issued they placed the market.
and most of them bought up by Gould. When they
mature he IL have the rest Then he'll really have a
mortgage on every township, town and city in Kan
sas
The L.. N A. & c. people, to show the business men
of that they interested in the prosper
ty of that city have for days past been running
special train in there from the north in the
ing to accommodate the holiday trade. The COM
pany, well, give the Lafayette works the pref.
in building their cars, for the purpose of
benefting the business ntetests of that cty yet said
one of the officials, there is clique of business
in Lafayette doing all in their power TO inure our
business at that point and keep the howl that the
L., n. A. & G. road is discriminating against Lafay-
cite.
Superintendent Woodland, of the L. N A. e. c. sys-
tenn who in the twenty-five years of his official life
has made study to keep the good will of the men
under him, feels greatly grieved the strike of
the freight conductors, as, had they given him a
reasonable time he would have brought about proba-
bly, better results than those following the strike
Thisfwas the first strike he had had contend
with in his twenty-five of serving railroads in an
official capacity and this made him the sensitive
the recent trouble some of the leaders of which
he had befriended the since he took the supern
tendency of the L., N. A. & c. road.
Indianapolis has lost its prestige passenger rate
cutting point although it is now bad enough. Des
Mones, Ia. and Cleveland, o. struggling for the
championship just and the local passenger agents
at both points leaving stone unturned to make
a record in this foolish business. The Cleveland
Leader of yesterday states that passenger from
Cleveland to the West Northwest and Southwest are
about deeply demoralized they have ever been
known to be. They very cratic. Rates that are
quoted day cannot be obtained the next but when
there is contest over any given business in sight
rates go straight down to the bottom.
The movement toward the general adoption of
automatic car.couplers has grown broader and
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