The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


system, is in the city ON official business.
John Newell, president Of the Lake Shore.
nho has been In Florida for a few weeks, has re-
burned, much improved in health.
The L, B. e. w. has earned this year, up to
March Is, $431, 444, an increase of 500. All over
earnings of the corresponding period In 1885.
G. P. Huntington, president of the Chesapeake
q Ohio. is in Chicago in attendance on the Cen
sral Traffic Association meetings, which is looked
npon as a favorable omen.
The indianapolis Decatur & Springfield rail
way is now engaged in putting in an iron bridge
across the Sangamon river &C Decatur, LII A
large force of men is employed.
D. c. Corbin, recently elected president of the
Woodruff Sleeping-car Company, succeeding j.
a. jackson, who declined reelection, Is a
brother of Austin Corbin, president of the l., b.
& w.
There is some delay in signing the west-bound
pool contract, due. it is said. to the dilatory &C
zion OF the Pennsylvania, which not only wants
10 read and digest but to assimilate the docu-
menk
The earnings of the Wabash road for the Sec
Dnd week in March were 1927, TIA. against $50
A57 last year, an increase of $l2,317. and since
1an- !, So. $3.50, OH. against 2,42O, 93l, q decrease
of $4O,9l3.
The official east-bound classification commit.
Geo. of which Mr.. F.. Fl. Kingsbury is secretary,
ia still in session at Chicago. A number of changes
in the classification of more or less importance
win be considered.
TIE local ticket and passenger agents me. yes
4erday and passed appropriate resolutions on the
death of L. L. Burnett. They will to-day attend
ehe funeral in a body, and carry with them an
Appropriate floral decoration.
ID. G. Corbin and General Manager Paul. of
she Woodruff company, are expected in the city
to-day. BY the by, it is said Austin Corbin has
recently become q large holder of stock of the
Woodruff Sleeping-car Company.
II has leaked out that at the last meeting Of
she executive of the trunk lines the
Pennsylvania was brought up for violation of
che pool contract, but proved that the infraction
was only technical, and the matter was not
pressed.
William Orr has been elected secretary Of the
s0ast-Dound classification committee. This will
be an addition tc his other duties as secretary
sCf the Middle and Western States Freight Assoc
Eiation. He will continue to have his headquar-
&ers at Toledo.
The c., t.. St L. g. G. earned, the third week
m March, 54.323. ii, against 9,240 during the
corresponding week in 1885; increase this year.
@5.O8311. The increase for the first three weeks
of this month over the corresponding period in
1855 was $l2, liz. AZ.
The New York Evening Post says without
qualification that Mex. Twombly is to be elected
president of the c.. c., c. & /. and j. d. Laying,
general manager of the West Shore, is to be the
new vice president and general manager. Prob
ably speculation as TO who is to be the successor
of the late j. H. Devereux will end with to-day.
Edward Ferguson, who recently retired from
the pension Office at Chicago, has been appointed
Auditor of the Wisconsin Central railway. The
position of auditor has been held by James Bar
ker, general ticket and passenger agent. but the
increased business of the road makes it neces-
gary for Mr.. Barker to devote all his time to the
passenger and ticket business.
The faur engines which Reuben Wells built,
when master mechanic Of theJ., M. e. L, specially
Tor freight service have been converted into
passenger engines and equipped with air brakes
and other modern improvements. When DIR.
Wells built these locomotives they were cousid-
cred the most powerful west of the Alleghenies,
tbs engine then running on Madison hill ex-
eepted. Now they are to be used in hauling the
a., ID. q L heavy express trains.
Should the square between Tennessee and Mis-
gissippi streets, partly occupied by the Coburn &
Jones lumber yards, be selected for the location
of the new Union Depot, there would be no de-
lay in proceeding with this work, as one Of the
three plans drawn was with a view to locating
on this ground. General Manager Malott says
he wants to push matters to such an extent that
work shall be commenced early in April on the
foundations. or. at ~furthest, iby April Is.
A number Of grain shippers have asked that
She Board of Trade take some action on the
Statement Of the secretary Of one of the elevat-
ors to the effect that his name was forged on
certificates of four Empireline cars which were
billed out 2. 700 pounds under actual weight, last
week, the elevator officials certificates showing
that each car contained 80, 900 pounds, while
ont, and on which the secretary says his name
was forged, showed but 80. 600 pounds to the car.
It is stated that A. III. Billings, a Chicago cap
italist. has secured full and absolute control Of
the affairs of the ST. Louis. Kansas City & Colo
rado Railway Company, and that the road will
be bnilt to Kansas City and Fort Scott. The in
teresting part of the statement is that the fnan-
cial power behind Mr.. Billings is the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe, which will use the rights
and franchise to secure a through line to st.
Louis. This is the road in which Harry Drew,
Thomas Chandler and other Indianapolitans are
Interested.
An engineer now in the city. who has run on
the Texas 81 Pacific road, says that trainmen
are better paid on that road than on any road in
the country. Their runs are long; have but lit
tlS bad weather to contend with, and at all i'm
portAnt stations the switching of freight trains
Is done by a switching-engine and local train
crew. Engineers make from $lo0 to $170 per
month, fremen $40 to $50, and brakemen do as
as well il not better than the fremen. The en-
gineer said that on the Missouri Pacific train
men are well paid, and the Wabash pays its
out of st. Louis. He had never heard train
crews OF either of the roads named complain of
the amount Of their pay.
The flower offerings at the funeral of Hank
McMinn, the veteran engineer on the Logans-
port division of the c., St L. & p, are said to
have been very numerous and appropriate. A
sickle made of smilax, pinks and roses, a gift
from an unknown friend in Logansport, attract
I'd marked attention. A sickle and base, from
Mr. e. II. Rosenberg, a passenger conductor on
the Nickle-plate road, was also much admired.
A handsome bouquet OF Gala lilies. presented by
Miss Lima Stanley, of indianapolis, was q mas
Earpiece of work. A beautiful pillow made of a
collection of lilies, attached TO which were large
raised letters which read Papa" was presented
by the deceascd's two sons. A beautiful offer
ing, representing a broken engine wheel. and a
large drive wheel, was also included in the col
lection. This offering came from the deceased's
a. - 800 &A4 .t-Ak - q 18Th f.~~-
Richmond.
Carroll d. Wright, in his first report as chief
Of the national bureau, as q cause for the labor
depression, apparently puts frst the cessation of
railroad building. This fell from IL, Sic miles in
So Sudden a droD means n great deal to the metal