The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

O. returned from New York yesterday.
f. C. Murphy, superintendent Of the Humes-
bon & Shenandoah road, is in the city for day
Dr. two. His wife accompanies him.
c. *. Lord. general passenger agent is said to
be the best paid officer Of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company. His salary is 10000
c. G. Gridley has bean appointed commercial
agent of the Columbus, Hooking Valley iole-
do road, headquarters at Toledo, he succeeding
Frank Jones, resigned.
z. P. Ripley the general freight agent of the
C., B. & @ road returned to Chicago yesterday,
after an absence Of five weeks. spent principally
ia Southern California, where he fully recovered
his health.
A. Patrarche has been appointed division
freight agent OF the Michigan Central with
headquarters at Bay City He will have full
supervision of the eompany's interests in the
Saginaw valley.
John Halpin, who for twelve years past has
been city passenger agent CT the Baltimore q
Ohio at Cincinnati. retires to-day. General
Passenger Agent Lord has mounted the econ
omy hobby, and this is the outcropping of it.
Benjamin Tinney who ninety days ago
appointed city ticket agent of the Baltimore q
Ohio at Columbus, o., retires to day. Mr. Tin
ney but two weeks since removed his family
from indianapolis TO that city, supposng the
position to be of permanent character.
The Kankakee Baltimore Dispatch com
aneuces operation to-day They will put on ex
press freight trains to ran between Chicago and
Baltimore, and, in time, through to New York.
and nothing is to be left undone to make the
transit Of freight rapid and the line popular
A prominent railroad attorney who thinks he
fully understands the situation, says there is no
Houbt as to the reorganized Wabash Railroad
Company in due time securing full control of the
Indianapolis. Peru & Chicago road. They have,
he says, been working to such an end for months
The committee of five appointed to hold con-
e. -
division of the duties of Commissioners Fink and
Blanchard, and of dividing expenses, have ar
rived at no result. The whole matter was finally
Jeff to the two commissioners TO settle between
themselves.
The auditors of the railways now attend the
fast freight line meetings monthly and compare
9gures The general freight agents will now
stay at home and dwell on "reminiscences For
years past these gatherings monthly have afford
I'D the general freight agents much pleasure, as
fhey mingled pleasure with business, and it was
really relief for these overworked officials.
Under date of April 30 G. E. Henderson, re-
esiver of the Danville Olney e Ohio River road
Issues the following notice: 1.-THE Danvile, Olney
q Ohio River railroad, having been sold by the
United States Circuit Court and the same hav-
ing been conveyed to the Chicago e Ohio River
Railroad Company. the said railroad is hereby
$urned over to said last named company, which
Will have charge thereof on and after the LIST day
OF May, 1886.
Commissioner Blanchard will, to-day, turn the
agreements on per cents over to the arbitrators
Messrs j. G. McNuln, r. Z. Cable and T. j.
Potter, who are to agree upon new allotment
Of percentages. Mr.. Blanchard was amused at
n report circulated by one of his critical literary
eensors who announced that the pool lines did
not carry enough business TO pay the expenses of
aha commissioners office It so happens that
tsus far the pool expenses have been just one
half of per cent of the earnings from the pool
traffic.
The statement of the Journal some days ago
10 the effect that NJ. E. ingalls, had been offered
the presidency of the Decline system &C., c., C.
& L. proves to have been correct. 1t is under
stood that. under certain conditions, he will &C.
eept The matter will be settled within few
days. Should he accept, it is stated he will con-
Aanue as president of the c.. l.. St L. & c.. this
beiag his pet enterprise. That Mr. ingalls, is
just the man to straighten out the affairs of the
company no one will question who knows his
ability.
The c., c., e. & T. road, the first quarter of
1885 showed a deficit of $112 900 after paving
sts fixed charges. The first three months of
1885 the road has earned a sufficient sum to pay
Sta fixed charges and operating expenses, and
quite a respectable surplus is in the treasury.
This is one Of the results of maintaining freight
rates. When property is hauled at a loss, the
revenue viii invariably make an unfavorable ex-
Aibit. The showing for April will not be as
good, owing to the strikes at East St Louis and
In the Southwest
Passenger business in the month closing yester-
day has been disappointing. There is not an In
dianapolis road which will show as handsome
earnings as those of April, 1885, from this de-
partment. Some roads, it is stated, will show
Falling off of 25 to 80 per cent and the decrease
ls all attributable to strikes at East St Louis
lad on the Southwestern lines. For two or
three weeks people were afraid to travel This
wssk there has been some improvement Usual
AZ che travel of March and April foots up the
1ost favorable of any month in the year. but it
Viii not be the case in 1886.
For some time there have been occasional ru-
mors of traffic combination among some of the
roads of the Vanderbilt system and the Austin
C8rbin system at the West The rumors have
now and then limited that close financial ar
Kangement was contemplated This. it is stated
30 New York. is not the case. No consolidation
leasing or union is involved in the PLAN although
1he project is still inchoate In outline it is for
&he establishment of closer traffic relations and
y division of business where possible among the
New York Central, the Lake Shore, the Cleve-
land, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis. and
Indianapolis q st. Louis, the Lake Erie e. West
ern, and the Indiana, Bloomington & Western
The Chicago Times says there is disposition
80 belttle the operations of the roads outside of
the east-bound pool, on the principle, possibly,
81 'sour grapes" yet it is fair statement that
nj least 20 per cent of the east bound shipments
from Chicago in the last six weeks has been
taken out by the n-pocl lines, while the Wa
bash and Indiana, Bloomington g. Western have
done equally az much to the South. 1t has been
only pretended indifference, however, assumed
Tor outside effect In the secret councils the
subject has been discussed with all due gravity,
and, feeling incompetent to deal with the ques
tson on their own responsibility, the Eastern
trunk lines were appealed to to apply a remedy.
cloud has come over the Toledo, Cncin-
matt d ST. Louis road again. Business islight, and
Ills found to be uphill work to pay even operating
expenses. John McNulta held the receivership
In very opportune time. The few months he
held the Office there good crop OF grain to
move, and he was able to keep down his expenses
by eulling out the equipments that were in order
TO run and expanding little on repairs. The
present management found freights to be light
and the equipments large per cent. of them
an such shape as to need extensive repairs, which
il will be hardly wise to make if the road is soon
20 be converted into standard gauge Anoth-