The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-18
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


track of the entire system. yesterday passing
oysr the Airline division.
c. c. Waite and w. A. Proctor are the only
members reelected of the old board of directors
Of the c., II. & D. road
The Lackawanna people have paid into the
trnnk-line pool to even up May per cents $6o,ooo.
The journal has this statement officially.
T. A. Sealey yesterday took the agency OF the
Oh & D. at Glendale, vice A. Lowell, trans
<erred to Cumminsville, vice y. w. bearo, re-
signed.
It has developed that the young man, FL. S.
Ives represents G. p. Huntington in the c., Fl.
g d. deal, and that the new directory Is OF
Huntington's choice.
Passenger men are much elated over the hand
some improvement IN travel the last few days,
large per cent of which is carried at tariff rates.
Travel eastward is so heavy that it is difficult to
furnish sieeping-c accommodations.
Not for years. if ever before has local bust
ness of the Vandalia been as heavy in June as
this year. General Agent Wetsell reports that
10 fhe warehouse an average of thirty cars
per day loaded the first half of the month.
Next week nine miles of new steel rails will
be distributed on the western division of the
L & ST. l.. When this is III the track, every
foos of the Beeine system, main track. will be
laid with steel, the l. 81 st. L. with rail weigh
ing sixty five pounds to the yard.
G p Huntington, president of the Chesa-
penkA a. Ohio road. says his road has net made
any application to join the trunk line pool. He
sayS it will probably join as soon it has some
thing to pool 1t is not doing enough business
10 make it an object for the pool lines to have it
join them.
George Branham, superintendent of the ST.
Ions cable road is spending day or two in the
city. He reports everything working like
charm on the cable road and every day strength
ems the belief that the Indianapotans inter
zessen IN this have interest in which there is
dig money to them.
Is is little singular that, after all the jeering
the l., b, & w. has been subjected to as resort
anggo all manner of tricks to secure the Dunk
ards this season, there more of the Dunkard
refurn tickets in the hands of the scalpers read
Ing over either the l. & st. l.. or Vandala line
than ever the l.. b. & w.
TIE new B. e. o. line between Baltimore and
Philadelphia is carrying all freight offered
but viii not be ready for passenger traffic before
the lst of September. The terminal facilities at
Baltimore will not be completed for some time
Ehsreafter but business will be conducted by
WAY II Camden until the whole work is finished
The Pennsylvania Company was reorganized
for she current year at meeting of directors
held on Wednesday. George B. Roberts was re-
eierted president; j. n. Mccullough, first vice.
president; William Thaw, second vice president;
Thomas d. Messler, third vice president and
comptroller; S. B. Liggett, secretary and Ste
pheD White, jr.. assistant secretary
Nearly all Indianapolis roads are showing such
handsome earnings that the arrangements are
kOosening their purse-strings and are giving the
kleass of departments orders to increase gradu-
ftlly their forces to such extent that the road
Seeds and equipments may be fully maintained.
son nearly all roads the number of secton-men
mas been increased and shops being put on
kuli time
john Newell, when in Chicago on Monday,
hsSed an Indianapolis railroad official if Indian
ma inta nj
answered in the affirmative, he remarked: eff
Ehey commence it again down there will be one
of party to go down there and hang the offend
ang agent" He then spoke of the favorable re-
suits which are shown in the increased revenue
following the maintenance of rates.
The ups and downs of the world were strik-
1nEay illustrated yesterday when Geo. p. WorceS-
Ter. who was one of the engineers in laying out
1hs St. Louis, Vandalia e. Terre Haute road and
svbe also held the same position the Texas g.
Pacific road, approached an agent in this city
and begged transportation to reach his friends.
lie carries a relic letter and pass issued by
sForn Scott when president of the T. p road.
H. E. Ingalls, and " IT, Malott will return
drcm Chicago this morning, and the latter will
ne fully prepared TO explain what the Union rail-
~Say management desire in the way of modlhca-
sion of the amendments made by the city author
1ssPs TO their petition their trip to Chicago,
an company with Messrs. McKeen, MCCULLOUGH,
-1seCrea and Beach, they had ample time to talk
ace matter over. There is good authority for
saying that every official is anxious to have the
improvement begun and pushed as far as posi-
Bile this season.
Indications are that there is to be a change in
she general passenger and general freight
agent of the c., H. & d., for what reason it
would be difficult to tell, as under the present
sseerE the road has prospered highly. Samuel
Stevenson, the general ticket and passenger
Egenf, has been on the road since 1885, and since
1856 general ticket agent A. 81. Mcleod gen.
grEl freight agent of the road since 1875 Both
are looked upon as honest. square men, and rate
5nasntainerS whenever their competitors hold
rates.
The Indianapolis Weighing Association is not
accomplishing the good results predicted and is
stirring up good deal of ill-feelng between the
Toadss There is lack of system, which causes
anueh of the trouble. and not until all cars are
weighed can the workings of the organization be
satisfactory. Seemingly, the most cars are
weighed on the roads which move the fewest
which causes the weaker lines to share more
shan they ought to of the expense of maintain
ing Ihe organization. 1t is now five months
sines the weighing association was established,
ana Do is high time that the machinery of 1t, SO
TO speak. was working more smoothly and
Rquitably. 1t is run too much on the cheap
There seems to be but little question that Col.
j. s Hayes is to be the president of the Bee
1ine system. just now Mr. Hayes is not actively
engaged in railroad work having resigned
Short time since because of i'll health The
biography of Colonel Hayes is in brief as follows:
ZIe was born Oct. - 1876, at Philadelphia, Pa
When twenty-one years of age he entered the
railway service as assistant engineer on the Erie,
previously having been employed two years in
locomotive shopsat Paterson. n. j. Three years
later in the spring of 1870. he was appointed
rhief engineer and general manager of the Texas
81 New Orleans road, which position he retained
F1ut n short time. in the fall of the same year
he accepted the position of assistant chief engi-
neer of the international railroad of Texas. In
1s-3 he vas appointed chief engineer of the Texas
1nacihc, and a year later he was offered and ac-
.epsed the position of chief engineer of the In
xernatonal & Great Northern railroad. After a
wears service in that company ne was made vice.
president. That was in the spring of 1875. In
1873 ne was created receiver of the same road,
aud III the fall of 1879 its president In 1851 he
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