The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal ana Local.

Personal and Local.
John ETan, general passenger agent of the c.,
Il, st. L. & e., who has been in Minnesota for
couple of weeks hunting and fishing, is expected
home to-day.
The l., B. & W. people are gathering in con-
siderable local business their eastern division.
Until this year, as local road. the eastern di-
vision has been a rather tame affair
The official figures of General Passenger
agent Rockwell, of the c. H. 81 D., show that
the company on Saturday last handled at the
station in Cincinnati 9.057 passengers.
/ The Nickel-plate people have already COM
lmsnced settling with the parties who were in
Hured in the collision last week, and with the le-
Igal heirs of the persons who were killed.
The presidents and general managers Of the
roads in the Union Railway Company have all
tagrsed to meet in this city on Tuesday of next
week to confer on the new Union Depot enter
Yprise.
Z President Zimmerman, of the c.. Fl. & l. Rail
road Company, has fitted I'D room in fine
style in the building at Cincinnati, on Fourth
street which is occupied for the general offices
of the c., H. & d. company.
/ o. B. Skinner seems to have fully severed his
connection with the the Bee line as its traffic
manager, and is arranging his affairs to spend
some time in California, where he enjoys much
better health than in Cleveland, o.
William r. McKeen, president of the Van
dalia. was in the city yesterday Mr.. McKeen
lis in excellent spirits the present volume of
business the Vandalia is doing, and the outlook
for business for some months to come.
The Beeline people are rebuilding two of
their freight engines to run them as heavy pas
senger engines The work on 32l is being done
at Nation, and On 3l8 at Brightwood There
is considerable rivalry between the two shops as
to which will turn out the best locomotive.
superintendent Nelson, of the c., Fl. & D.
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employ to enter matrinony by promoting them
when opportunity offers On Monday last,
Kent Chesborough took unto himself wife,
aud oH the same day he was promoted from a
freight to passenger conductor.
The c.. l., St L. g. c. people this morning
commence the reconstruction of the yards at
Greensburg. The improvement will cost some
$4,000, and when completed there will be four
and half miles of side track at the Greensburg
station, which is becoming one of the most i'm
portant way stations on the road.
The earnings Of the Indianapolis & Vincennes
for September now promise to be the largest of
any month in the history of the road, and Octo
Der and December WILL it is thought. make even
more favorable exhibits, as in addition to their
heavier coal traffic and tonnage of miscellaneous
freights. they will have the immense corn crop
on the line to move, as we'll as a larger hog crop
than for many years.
Train men are now but little troubled by men
and boys jumping on to moving trains the
Union tracks Since the Union Railway Com
pany employed special policemen to look after
the matter ffty-two men and boys have been
arrested and fined for jumping on to or off of
trains when moving. AS q consequence not an
arm or leg has been cut off for two weeks by
men or boys falling under trains the Union
tracks.
Roadmasters are squirting up the section men
20 get ready for winter weather Roadmasters
Of Indianapolis lines, without exception, state
that the road-beds have never been in better
shape to 60 into the winter than this year. The
handsome earnings the roads have made the last
three months has made the higher officials more
willing to put money into improvements and
the road-beds show the results of this iberal:ty
quite plainly.
The prospects are not very Hattering il is
stated, that the townships through which the
Evansville, Richmond & Eastern Railroad Com
pany propose to build line will vote the per
cent tax on assessed valuation that the COM
pany AJAX as an inducement for them to construct
the road through such towns. AS yet not much
enthusiasm has been aroused to the enter
prise. Possibly when IL is better understood the
project will meet with more favor.
One who is in position to know what is going
on in the higher railroad circles states that the
rumor published in the Journal of Monday, to
the effect that Eugene Zimmerman. president
Of the G., II. 81 l. road. is in the near future to
succeed g. q. Waite as general manager of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, calls the
turn correctly, he having heard that the change
was decided upon week before last. when Mr.
Zimmerman was Ia New York However, the
day when the change shall take effect has not
been definitely settled upon.
1t is said that three persons stand in the way
Of an early adjustment of the questions at issue
between the l., B. & w. and the Cleveland, San
dusky e. Columbus road. Were a readjustment
effected these three c., S. & c. mon would doubt
less be out of jobs By the by, don't be surprised
to wake up some fine morning and see by the
newspapers that the Corbin syndicate own
enough Of the c.. S. & @. stock to control the
property, and when such is the case the Corbin
people will make short work of taking the l., B.
& W. out of the hands of a receiver.