The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-04
AFFAIRS OF THE W


Train-dispatcher Ed Weed, Of the vandalia, has
gone to Florida for a months tarry. Mr.. Weeds
health is a little of.
General Manager Beach, Of the Bee-line, will
arrive in the city this morning and will remain
over today and tomorrow.
G B. Meeker, formerly general ticket agent OF
she New York Central. is lying at the point Of
death at his home in Utica, N. Z.
e w. Sloane, division superintendent of the
American Express, who has been In FLORIDA
DOme weeks, is expected home to-day.
G. c. Waite, vice-president of the G., Fl. d d.,
who has been in the city for two or tn rec Gays,
looking after the pending litigation with the
UniOnn Railway Company. returned TO CINCINNATI
last night.
Tho Terre Haute Gazette says the e. q I. Il
Railway Company has decided not to employ any
minors hereafter owing to a heavy Judgment re-
csntiy rendered against the company for injury
10 . minor.
G 81. Holdridge, Northeastern passenger
agent of the c.. r. /. & P, Of Detroit; G. G.
Stowell, general travelling agent, of Chicago, and
Perry Griffith, general utility man OF the c. 81
r. J., are in the city prospecting.
The Panhandle road now declines to receive
freight for points on or reached via the Cincin-
matt, Columbus g Hooking Valley road. as trains
nave been discontinued on that line between
CiAyville Junction and Jacksonville, O..
The actual earnings of the Evansville g. Terre
Haute road for the third week in February were
Bla325. an increase of So. 859; those of the In
diam, Bloomington & Western, $50, 942, an in
crease of So, SOL over corresponding week 1885.
Travel over the Peoria division of the l., B. g
W. is heavy, and connections are complaining,
10 frequently are they obliged to wait on these
trains. This road needs ten heavy passenger
angines fully as much as they did the ten consol
engines recently purchased for freight service.
Superintendent Stevens. of the Wabash. east
@rn division, states that the earnings of this di-
vision will show an increase ia both January and
February, and that by his efforts in behalf of
economy he has cut down the operating ex-
pensess of this division $4,000 per month, as
ccmpared with January and February, 1886.
William r. McKeen, president of the Wanda
liza; NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the C., l., st. L.
& c.; J. n. Mccullough, vice president. and
James McCrea. general manager, Of the Penn
syiyania lines west of Pittsburg.a are to be in the
prpbably remain over until to morrow to attend
8he called meeting of the Traffic Association.
The Decline management estimate that the
contemplated improvements on the system this
gear will reach a cost of some 1919. 900. This in
eludes the purchase of sixty-three miles Of new
Dtsel and several new bridges. and a large
amount of new stone masonry. About 60 per
reDk. OF this sum will be expended on the Indian
Apolis division of the Bee-line.
While the method of operating railways
adopted by President Mackey, Of the e. & I. Ell.
line, may be open to criticism, he certainly is
@eserying of success. SO earnestly does he take
hold of anything he attempts to do. Good au-
fhority says that the year round Mr.. Mackey
spends fully sixteen hours Of each day at hard
work for the railroad interests he represents.
Railway supplies have advanced fully 10 per
cent IN the last ninety days, and with the ad-
vance in price there has has been an increased
demand. Two or three indianapolis roads were
in shape financially to anticipate this advance.
and purchased nearly all the supplies they would
nse in the present year, and are now receiving
supplies contracted for some months ago.
A New York exchange calls it the Corbin-
Gowen syndicate, and remarks that when it was
discovered that Austin Corbin and his friends
were associated with Mr.. Gowen, the market re-
covered from its depression, as the success that
gentleman has achieved in the Long Island rail
read and his Western railway enterprises has
-won for him the merited confidence of the in
vesting public.
President Stevens. of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois road, gives notice that o. S. Lyford, for
merly general superintendent. has been APP
pointed general manager; d.. II. Patterson was
appointed assistant to the general manager in
Rddition to bis duties as purchasing agent; z. w.
Drew was appointed assistant superintendent
and will have charge of train and station service,
in addition to his duties as superintendent of tel
egraph.
Travel over the G., st. L.& P. and the Van
43llA was never heavier t0a0 at CQ6 present. t1m6.
The ZIP. NJ train west over the Vandaiia, Tues
day night, was run in two sections, and carried
20 through passengers and a large number of
local passengers. The train yesterday noon was
run out in two sections, hauling eighteen cars,
Including mail, express and baggage cars. and
263 passengers, ga through passengers. 100 of
fhe through passengers travelling on f~rstrclass
tickets.
The T., p. & G. and L., N. A. & G. people
have compromised the question at issue between
RAn-n wone~2snn awnni-o facilities NJ THI.,~A.>
3s, agreeing upon terms of settlement up to Feb.
1.-the L., N. A. & {. paying a portion of the rental
satisfactory to General Manager Scott The L.,
N. A. 81 G. will at once locate a new line TO con
meet with the Union tracks, and construct it at as
Darly Rday as practicable. The l., P. 81 G. want
nj the room they have at this terminus. and it
will be more pleasant to both parties, they being
largely competing roads in the same territory, to
nave their interests independent OF each other.
John G. Paul, of New York, general manager
of the Woodruff Sleeping and Parlorcar Com
pany, and q. w. Hall, general superintendent,
spent yesterday in the city. Mr.. Paul states
that the company now has 10 cars in active sery-
ice, and their cars cover so per cent. more mile
age than they did eighteen months ago, and be-
fore New Years will cover double the present
mileage. The company is now building at Viii
mlDgton. Del, twelve elegant coaches. eight of
them combination parlor and sleeping ears. The
interior finish of these coaches will be of white
mahogany, which is some darker when finished
III AAd uldD1O WOOQ. n HunDeF o new devices
10 make passengers comfortable, such as high
backed seats. etc., will be introduced in the new
cars.
Il. L. Scott, general manager Of the l., p. &
e, states that there is no truth in the report that
they were dissatisfied with the arrangement by
which the Pennsylvania Comp any uses the por-
hon of the l.. /. & G. road lying between Indian
apolis and kokomo as a part of their through
Louisville and Chicago line. The Pennsylvania
people, he said, treated them very honorably and
paid their bills promptly. He said they are get
Aing the use of their sixty miles of track at a low
Squire. however. They paid one-half the cost of
maintaining the road bed and 6 per cent. on an
nppraisement of SIS. 900 per mile, while it was
appraised to the Wabash people at $25. $50 per
mile, and they, had they paid the interest, were
10 pay z per cent. on such appraisement. He
admitted that 6 per cent. on SIS. 900 permile paid
vas much preferable to per cent. on So. $50 per
mile unpaid
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