The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and IncaI.


rector of the G., c.. C. & Railroad Company in
place of VIM. FL. Vanderbilt.
The Merchants Dispatch has reduced freights,
New York to Nashville from 81 OF Der hundred
pounds to 70 cents. This business is turned over
40 tho j., NJ. g. l. at Indianapolis.
Three frst-class passenger engines, weight
about forty TONS Pittsburg build, passed over
abe Belt road yesterday. consigned to the Chi
cage DC Eastern Illinois Railroad Company
The output of coal or switches in Clay
county, over which the L. H. 81 L does the
switching is now $40 cars per day; that OF the
Carbon mines on the /. IL St l.. 10 cars per
day.
freight traffic the last two or three days, which
So evidenced by the increase in transfers over
the Belt road, which are again up to 600 to
i. 700 cars per day.
At Altoona. Pa, the employees in the Pennsyl-
vania Companys boiler and blacksmith shops
have received orders to go On full time-ten
hours day-until further orders. This will af-
feet between 400 and 500 men.
The parties opposed to the construction of the
Pennsylvania Southern line say the appeal of
fhe Pennsylvania railroad from Judge Simontons
decision will tie the ownership of the road In
court for an indefinite period.
The inspector of car weights of the Indian
apolis Car weighing Association will make Com
missioner Dohertys Office his headquarters. In
fact ali roads are to report their car weights of
1r0lgnC 10 bno CONF lSSl0nefS ONCE.
General Manager G.. B. Sherman announces
that's in accordance with the decision
of the auditors of the roads interested in
the Red, White, and Midland lines, the next
regular meeting for auditing line accounts will
Re held at Buffalo, Jan. 81
Thomas P. Fowler has been elected president
of the New York. Ontario 81 Western, in place
eUf General e.. Z. Winslow, resigned. new
board of directors, including number of New
York Central men, were elected. Mr.. Fowler
represents foreign interests.
When the Indianapolis. Peru & Chicago road
will be sold by the trustees seems to be more
problem than ever. There are several complica-
ted legal questions relative to the bonds which
the courts will be called upon to decide before
the liabilities. which must be paid, can be def
nitely understood.
The friends of the Chicago e Atlantic say
that Jay Gould and j. f. Joy have an interest
in this property, and when Gould gets back in
the spring they will 60 into the directory and
arrange for the construction of new line from
Marion, o., to connect this road and the Wabash
with the Lackawanna.
There is some unpleasantness between the
freight agents of the Western lines out of In
dianapolis, recently. The agents of all Western
lines entered into agreement as to rates to
Western points on machinery and other heavy
freights, which agreement, it is alleged. one of
the agents is not living up to.
Prominent capitalists met in Toledo Thursday
and organized the Toledo. Saginaw 81 Muskegon
railroad. to run through the rich western and
northern counties of Michigan and connect with
the Toledo, Ann Arbor 81 North Michigan road.
David Robson, jr., elected president. The
road will be lao miles in length.
Trunk-line officials are of the opinion that the
present differences between the Pennsylvania
and Baltimore 81 Ohio roads will not in any
event be other than q local matter. 1t cannot
spread into general Generalization without the
assumption by somebody of more grave respon-
sibilites than any individual will dare to be &C.
countabie for.
ding on rapidly. The track-laying is completed to
twenty miles below Yeddo. At the l., D. & s. a
temporary crossing has been made and several
large forces now at work at the oyer-crossing.
The surfacing force has been doubled, and the
entire work to Brazil ought to be completed
within thirty days.
Fixing the date of the foreclosure sale Of the
Champaign & Western road has again been de-
ferred. The fact is, that under receiver the
road is earning operating expenses, sufficient
sum to pay the interest on the bonds and some
thing of surplus for improvements, and, under
such circumstances, the bondholders who are in
control are not disposed to hasten the sale.
The c., Fl. & D. people are behind the age re-
garding train rules, still putting them on the
back of time tables. One of the first moves of
the new superintendent is to revise the rules and
print them in book form. Officials of the several
departments are now engaged in the work of re-
vision movements Master of Transportation
m. s. Corners and Dave Shumway are to prepare
the rules for the government of men in train
service.
Mr Craig, who represents the Baltimore &
Ohio in New ork city. is quoted as saying that
during the past eight days his road has sold over
100 tickets from New York to the West fur
&her cut IN the rates from Boston has induced
buying in that city. He regards the business as
altogether satisfactory The Pennsylvania Off
Gals he adds, are simply laughing in their
sleeves at the predicament in which the weak
roads find themselves. These TOO Baltimore &
Ohio tickets represent gain to the Pennsylva-
mia in passenger business Of about 81, 600.
In the second week of January the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois road delivered at Chicago $4,000
bushels of corn, leading all Chicago roads in
volume of deliveries The Chicago & Rock ISL
and delivering but II 900 bushels; the c.. B. &
g., but 80, 600; q. 6 N. W., but 90 oo0 Right here
it occurs that Indianapolis roads have some rea-
son for Directing to a Chicago road coming into
tbs territory of Indianapolis lines sand hauling
their freights round through Chicago instead of
East over the direct lines The c.. l., st. L. &
g has within the last sixty days got couple of
hundred carloads of corn through its Seneca
connection with the Chicago d Rock Island road,
and Chicago has gone even so far as to enter
complaint with Commissioner Fink
The Bee-line people are credited with having
on the /. & st l.. division. one of the most con-
yenient and most economical plans of coaling
their engines, at Fontanet. that is found ia the
West Under the arrangement the miners car,
after reaching the surface, is run on a circle
track over the bins. and the coal, without ham
ding, is dumped by automatic arrangement
5rem the car into whichever bin it is desired to
put it. The car is then returned to the mining
shaft on the circle track, the same power which
lifts the car up the shaft hauling the car over
the belt track The bins are close upon the rail-
road track. Some contain two tons of coal
others four tons. If an engine needs but two
tons. it stops at two-ton bin; if four at four
ton bin. The fireman pulls rope, the same as
he does at water tank. and the coal is dumped
into the tank in minutes time. Really it is
easier to coal-up an engine than to take water
for it from tank Under this arrangement,
which, by the by. was constructed on ideas sug-
gested by E. b. Thomas. the late general man
ager of the Decline system, the cost for
hsndling the coal after it is raised to the sur
face is mere trifie besides being very econom-
ieal in the handling of the fuel IL is great saw