The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


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Abel s. Markley has been appointed superin-
tendent of bridges and buildings on the c.. v. &
c., vice c. d. Bradley, resigned.
II. B. Chaplin has been appointed assistant
general freight agent of the Boston & Albany
Railroad Company, with Office at Boston.
The l., D. g. s. road earned, in September,
$685. 1856 Sc; an increase over the earnings the
corresponding month of 1885 of 81. 558.38.
1t is limited that "spotters" have been working
the l., B. 81 W., as we'll as the l., d. & s. road,
and the boys are climbing on to the anxious
seat
Two ex-passenger conductors of the Erie road
are in the city, looking for railroad positions.
On one division, recently, OF the Erie, out OF
seventeen Jnductors, but two were retained in
the service.
Fl. r.. Derng, assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg, is having severe tussle with the quinsy.
He has been confined to his room two or three
days, but was better last evening.
Carl Won Schmalensee, superintendent of the
Cornwall & Mount Hope railroad. died at Leb-
anon, Pa, on Sunday. He was about thirtytwo
years old, and, as engineer, constructed the road
OF which he became superintendent
Notices have been posted in the baggage cars
OF the G., l., ST. L. 81 G. forbidding any train
man smoking Wnen on duty. Inc n0Glce says IL
this order Is dispensing the offended party can
retire from the service of the company
Robert Lawson and John Connely, baggage
masters on the l.. D. d s. have been promoted
20 passenger conductors. taking the places of
Conductors Porter and Edgerton, whose heads
tumbled into the waste basket last week.
The c., l., St. L. e G. is feeding nearly all
the Eastern lines out of here They are now
loading couple of hundred cars on their west
ern division for the c., Fl. & D., three hundred
for the Bee-line, and large number for the l.,
B. & w.
Gen. James Bowen died at his residence at
Hastings, N. Y. last week, agen seventy-eight
years. Some forty-fvs years ago he d.
rector Of the Erie railroad, and was chosen
president of the company in l843 serving for
three years
One of the vandalia's forty ton freight
engines. on Saturday night. hauled twenty-eght
carloads Of fine stock from Indianapolis to ST.
Louis in twelve hours and ten minutes. The
fast passenger trains are usually eight hours
making the run.
G. w. Smith, general manager of the Atehi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe system, gives notice
that Russell Elliott has been appointed assist
ant auditor of the Sonora Railroad Company,
with office at Guaymas, Sonora, vice James
Stevenson, deceased.
It is now three years since there has been a
hrst-cass wreck on the j., M. 6 I. road. IL such
excellent condition is the track that a speed of
mile minute Is frequently made by passenger
trains, and the freight trains move twenty-five
miles an hour much of the distance.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and the Masons will this afternoon attend the
funeral services of Sammy Crawford the en-
Rineer who met death on the footboard OF a c.,
L, st. L. & c. engine on Saturday night. The
deceased was a member of both organizations
General Superintendent Miller. of the G., st.
L. 81 p, and p, G. & St L. lines gives notice
that w. B. Russell has been appointed freight
ksz1-4 ~ Il /" N
Keefe, reslened. The freight and tickea agency
at Reeds Mills have been reopened, and j. A.
Welday appointed agent thereat.
Conductor Conant the c., l., ST. L. g. c.,
who has been off duty some four months took
his train again yesterday Mr. Conant has been
In New England settling up an estate from which
be. as an heir, gets $62 600 Although he is we'll
fixed, as the expression goes. he does not propose
to give up railroading. at least for the present.
The fifteen indianapolis roads received and
forwarded at this point n. 900 loaded cars in the
month Of September, against 69,863 in 1885.
against SO, OPT in 1884. against rs, liz in 1883,
against so. 525 in 1882, against ", 698 in 1881
and against 81, ga in 1880. 1t will be noticed
that only in the year of 1882 was the movement
as large as this year.
VIM. Garstang master mechanic of the Bee
line shops at Brightwood, returned yesterday
from a visit to his old home. fifteen miles north
OF Cresson, Pa. He profted while absent by
spending day at Altoona. going through the
Pennsylvania Companys shops at that point.
where $500 men are employed in the locomotive
department and like number in the car depart
ment.
There are three important railroad meetings
this month. The Roadmasters' Association of
America will hold its annual convention in Sc
Louis on Tuesday, Oct. IL; the General Time
Convention will hold its fall meeting in New
York on Wednesday, Oct. 13; the Association of
American Railroad superintendent will hold its
next meeting at No. 46 Bond street, New York,
on Thursday, Oct IA
The UEion Switch and Signal Company, of
Pittsburg, has bought the old Swissvale car
works on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Pitts
burg, including thirteen acres of land and three
large one-story brick buildings. The Union
Switch and Signal Company will remodel the old
buildings and erect new ones and remove its
plant thereto as its present quarters are en-
tirey too small for the rapidly growing business
The c. l., st. L. & G. is creating quite sur
prise in Chicago's railroad circles in the volume
OF east-bound business It is taking from that
point, last week carrying perscent of the east
bound shipments, which, for a new conner, was
considered good showing. The tonnage of the
''Big -Four" was reported in the pool for the first
time last week The business carried by the
Vanderbilt lines last week amounted to 46 ITO
per cent; by the Pennsylvania lines. 80 Ito per
cent.
The Indianapolis pool has become the biggest
farce in its history. Ninety per cent. of the
business forwarded over the Eastern lines out
of here is billed coming from points beyond
If the O., II. s. ID. or the Wabash happens to
get few cars from the Vandalia or the l., d. g.
S. roads. their per cents. in the east-bound pool
run way ahead. Never before has indianapolis
been made so much a way station, so far as the
movement of grain ia concerned, as at the pres
ent time
The H;nkley locomotive works, in Boston,
which shut down during the dull times and low
prices, have been reopened under the general
management Of Mr. W. E. Barrows, formerly
president of the Willimantio Mill Company, late
assistant to the president Of the Pullman Palace
car Company, and more recently general man
ager of the Dickson Manufacturing Company at
Scranton, Pa. These works are now prepared
60 execute new orders for locomotives aud to do
repairing of all kinds.