The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

Belt road engines last week handled 1,096 car
loads of live stock, against $40 the correspond
ing week of 1885.
The five Western lines brought into this sta
ton last week s. l22 loaded cars, against s. 800 in
the week ending Dec. 1s.
The G., Fl. & D. system earned the third week
in December $62. 906; increase earnings CORE
spending twenty-one days of 1885, $5,093.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg and of the
Vandalia. is in the city, and wiz remain until
noon to-day.
The west-bound shipments over the Bee line
are now the heaviest in the history of the road.
Last week this road brought into Indianapolis
l,257 loaded cars.
The stockholders Of the c., FL. & D. Railroad
Company will hold special meeting on the 4th
of January. Several important matters are to
come up for consideration
The five direct Eastern lines-namely, the
Decline, the l., B. e. W., the c., St L. g. p.
the c., Fl. & L and the c., l., ST. L. & Cast
week forwarded from this point Lilo loaded
cars, against 3, 1893 in the week ending Dec. 49,
General Manager Waite, of the c.. H. & d.
lines, has awarded the contract to build $50 coal
cars for the Dayton & Ironton division to the
Indianapolis car works. The cars are to be 40
600 pounds capacity, and are to be delivered in
April and May next.
D. G. Bachelor dispatcher on the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad, has resigned to accept a similar
position on the Nypano road. Mr. Bachelor
was formerly on the Pittsburg &c Lake Erie road.
He is comparatively young man, but has had
an extensive railroad experience
w. D. Buss will succeed c.. B. Squire as Cleve-
land passenger agent of the Mt Vernon & Pan
handle road, his appointment taking effect Jan.
l. Mr.. Buss is at present ticket clerk with AS
sistant General Passenger Agent Kimball of
the Pennsylvania Company. He was formerly
agent of the Cleveland g. Pittsburg road at
Canal Dover.
The official statement of M. Mcdonald as GEN
eral manager of the Champaign & Western road
shows that he operated the road the two years
he was its general manager on % 55100 per cent.
of the gross earnings. It should be stated, how
ever, that in this statement is not included the
cost of large lot of steel rails which we're pur-
chased by the receiver.
Lou Andrews, cashier of the Wabash railroad
at Peru. and a prominent candidate for the
agency of the road at that place, under the new
management, is stopping at the Denison. Mr..
Andrews came to the city, bringing with him
bride. much to the astonshment of his old
chums. as he had been listed with the bachelors
Of the Wabash system.
The new paint shops of the T.. D. e S. road
will be ready for occupancy on the coming in of
the new year. These shops said to be the
most convenient and commodious in the West.
This company is now doing a good deal of work
for the Woodruff Sleeping-car Company. They
now have in their shops five of their coaches,
giving them general overhauling, repanting
and upholstering.
The c., l., st. L. g. G. earned, the first three
weeks of this month, 1852. 587. 88. against $143,-
$50 the corresponding period, 1885; increase this
year, SIS, 707. 49, Could the company have COM
manded cars the earnings would have been 25 per
cent, if not more larger than shown in the
above statement The increase in earnings was
wholly in local and foreign freights, as with all
other roads Passenger earnings are dropping
behind those of last year.
1t is stated that the Illinois Central companyis
trying to get control of the Dubuque 81 Sioux
City road. The Dubuque Sioux City is 143
miles in length, from DUBUQUE to Iowa Falls
and the Iowa Falls & Sioux City is 1S4 miles in
length from Iowa Falls to Sioux City. The I'LL
Sioux City to connect with the Central
Iowa and other roads running north and
south. even though it does not retain the Iowa
Falls & Sioux City; but the general belief is that
1t will not allow the latter road to be taken out
of its control.
General passenger agents are feeling blue
over the light travel and the unfavorable exhibit
the roads-most of them-are making of revenue
from this department of the service. Even DUR
ing the holidays travel did not reach the usual
volume General passenger agents will doubt
less learn some tinae, that the running of low
rate excursions to all points through the sum-
mer months tells seriously on the earnings be-
fore the twelve months roll round. Most of the
railroads of this country are now we'll enough
advertised to do without this expensive method
of advertising through carrying passengers at
low rates.
At the special meeting of the Middle and
Western States Freight Association executive
COMMITTEES at Cincinnati, on Thursday last, the
Michigan Central road was not represented and
its detection from the lines that had agreed to
adj mt ha of was
criticised It's refusal makes four lines that re-
fuse to adopt the bill; besides it, the Wabash,
the Flint g. Pere Marquette. and the Allegheny
Valley The latter two are not regarded as
capable of much disturbance, but the Wabash
g. Michigan Central will make the situation in
terestng at Chicago Most of the other lines
will the bill of lading on JAM l, irrespective
of the opposition to it,
It is stated that the Pennsylvania people have
tired of the couquetting of the owners of the
Richmond division of the c., Fl. & D. system,
and have decided to build a line paralleling the
c., H. & D. from Hamilton to Richmond, which,
when their line now building between Red Bank
and Hamilton, is completed, gives them an indie
pendent line from Cincinnati to Richmond. 1t
is twelve years since the Pennsylvania Company
opened negotiations with the c.. H. Il d. com
pany to purchase the road lying between Hamil-
ton and Richmond. Several times the price has
been agreed upon, and some trivial matter has
come to the front and interfered with the con-
summation of the purchase.
The Pittsburg press is again positively assert
ing that the South Penn road will be built,
which, the Pittsburg papers predict will so Grip
pie the Pennsylvania road, which was built so
unfortunately through that city. if the tenor of
the articles published from day to day in some
of the Pittsburg papers are to be given credence.
However, there is good deal of guessing being
done as to where the money is to be raised with
which to complete the South Penn railroad, and
it is stated with more or less positveness that
the Vanderbts will put up more; that in the
present state of the money market Garrett will
findit impossible to raise the large sum required,
and that, therefore, the scheme is more likely to
fall through than to be carried to successful
completion.
The Railroad Interests of Illinois.
The sixteenth annual report of the Railroad
Commissioners of Illinois was placed in TIE
hands of the Governor on Saturday. There are
fifty eight roads reporting, aud they show the