The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-14
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


The employees Of the L, D. & s. will to-day be
paid for July service.
Since Aug. /, 10000 tons Of steel rails have
been ordered in England for American roads Of
E3 IFS Cd per ton, or $l761.
The three first days Of this week the O., L st.
L. &c G. showed an increase Of earnings over the
corresponding days Of last year Of $500 per
day.
The friends of G. s. Sawyer, general manager
OF the Continental line. viii be sorry to learn
that he is in poor health. hardly able to attend
TO the duties Of his position.
The c., FL. e. D. are increasing their equip
ments This week they have received from the
Brooks locomotive works two forty -hve-ton
freight engines, and are TO have two more.
Yesterdays complete newly painted passenger
train, PENNSYLVANIA standard color, came out OF
the l.. d. e. s. shops. and looked as nicely as
when first turned out of the Pullman shops
n. r. Dsring. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines accompanied ~
his family, left last evening for West Virginia
on pleasure trip to be absent three weeks.
President ingalls,, OF the c., L, st. L. g. c.,
yesterday notified Superintendent Sherwood of
the safe arrival Of himself and family at Watch
Hill. Mr. ingalls, expects to be away three
weeks. or more.
The indianapolis car-works this week COM
pete the contract to build 300 cars for the Terre
Haute and Indianapolis road, and next week be-
gin the rebuilding OF 500 cars for tho Chicago g.
Indiana coal road.
Thomas F. Fitzgerald, superintendent of the
trans Ohio division OF the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, has been appointed superintendent of
the main line, and will remove his headquarters
from Newark, o., to baltimore.
Vice-president Spencer, of the Baltimore &
Ohio, says their action does not necessarily
break up the Trunk-line pool. If they have no
New York line the other roads will simply divide
she b. Do y. per cent among themselves.
A conference was had Thursday between
Commissioners Blanchard and Richardson re-
garding the arbitration of Peoria percentages,
and it was agreed to postpone the matter until
next week, when it will be taken up at New
York
General Manager Noonan of the B. & o.
Kankakee dispatch, yesterday appointed L. s.
Nowlan6 district agent of the line, with head
quarters at Peoria. Ill. Mr.. Rowland for some
months past has been pool commissioner Of the
Decatur pool
The following appointments have been made
by the board of directors of the Denver & Rio
Grande Western, to take effect Immediately:
David G. Dodge, general manager; William a.
Bancroft, general superintendent: Joseph w.
Gilluly, cashier; j. q. Bennett, auditor
The wife of Hon. A. Mcdonald, president Of
the indianapolis & Eel River road. died in New
York. Wednesday. Yesterday, Mr.. Mcdonald,
who was to have been in Indianapolis this even
Ing. telegraphed that, owing to his sad bereave-
ment, he would defer his trip west for the pres
emit.
Things are moving. Yesterday the Union
Railway Company PURCHASED of Frank Wright
two lots on the corner of Mississippi and Louis
lana Streets and the adjoining property known
As the Reagan property, and two of the parties
against whom suits for condemnation had been
brought agreed to sell at price acceptable to
the Union Railway Company.
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going on at Martins Ferry, between the Cleve-
laed Lorain & Wheeling Railroad Company and
the Pennsylvania Company, operating the Cleve-
land & Pittsburg railroad. The fight originated
from the O.. L. q W attempting to run branch
line along side the G. 81 P from the c., l.. g. w.
main line, in Bridgeport, to Martins Ferry.
Dr. w. F. Barnard, the assistant of President
Garrett, of the Baltimore & Ohio: George Reul-
ing. surgeon; W. G.. Woodside, paymaster, and
e. j. d. Cross, the attorney, are on an extended
Western trip. They travel in the private car of
President Garrett, Of the Baltimore 81 Ohio, the
car which President Cleveland and his bride oc-
cupied on their wedding trip to West Virginia.
Commissioners Fink is quoted as saying that
The new break between the Pennsylvania and
the Baltimore 81 Ohio attracted but little atten
ton, that the executive committee did not think
it necessary to take any action upon it at all.
The Baltimore 81 Ohio will get its percentage
whether it does the business not, and will
naturally prefer to take over ii only such freight
as will pay.
A pool official says without doubt there is
some deviation from strictly tariff rates going on
by some of the roundabout lines, but the Trunk
lines are doing as big business as they ever
did, and they are disposed to wink at the cutting
OF rates. so long as it does not 60 far enough to
work Generalization and enable the weaker
roads to earn their percentage instead of taking
1t out in cash.
A. A. Zion one of the members of the nation
al executive committee of the Train-dispatchers'
Association Thursday evening sent the follow
ing telegram to Mrs. D. E. Finley: ION behalf
of the American n-dispatchers Association
of the United States. tender to you our most
profound sympathy and condolences on the I'M
simely death of your husband, and our esteemed
brother and friend"
The laying of the iron on the Muskegon
Grand Rapids & Indiana was commenced at the
Detroit, Grand Haven & Michigan junction
Thursday. The work will be rapidly pushed,
and If the weather continues favorable the road
win be completed about Dec. l, but if heavy fall
rains should occur the track bed will wash badly
and thus delay the work. The Pennsylvania
Companyis backing the enterprise.
The Boston capitalists who had looked upon
their investment in the Danville & Olney road
(now the Chicago e. Ohio river road) so much
money sunk, are very complimentary in their
remarks as TO the management OF the property
by G. e. Henderson, and have come to the con-
clusion that it would be wise to put more money
into the enterprise in the way of improvement
to the road-bed and building certain extensions
and soon movement In that direction will be
made.
Chairman Daniels has been authorized by the
local east-bound passenger committee to buy up
certain ticketes in the hands of brokers, the
roads interested agreeing to redeem the same at
tariff rates. These to include tickets of
regular Chicago issue, tickets issued by trunk
lines for round trips the return portion of which
may be used to reduce the rate, and those of
Western lines, and used here to disturb the reg
ular rates.
The Chicago Times says. "As an instance of
the rigidity with which tariff is observed by the
Central Traffic Association roads, it may be men
toned that the Kankakee' line has just made a
Eontract at Racine, Wis. to haul to Philadelphia
plarge number of wagons etc. The freight pays
local to Chicago and 35 cents per hundred pounds
60 Philadelphia, a cut of cents below tariff.
The business goes over the Illinois Central to