The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Eandalia, is to be In the city to-day.
Local traffic over the Pennsylvania railroad is
reported to be better than at the same time last
gear
F. W. Sanger yesterday assumed the duties of
city passenger agent Of the L.. N. A. & G. road
at this point
Belt road engines handled last month AGA
carloads of live stock, against 1854 carloads in
January. 1885,
The Evansville e. Terre Haute road earned
crease of 81. sos.
TheI & V. company have established sta
ton at Allen City G.. w. Kennard has been
appointed agent.
The receipts of grain for Indianapolis proper
yesterday numbered l34 car-loads-1l4 of corn. IL
of wheat, 8 of oats.
There were transferred over the Belt road in
January 40 $50 cars. against %. 587 in 1884, &c.
40 in 1882 90 IA in 1885, 81, loo in 1884, and &c.
720 in 1885.
W. j. Cation has been appointed general pas
@enger and freight agent of the Chautauqua
t4Salway Company, with headquarters at James
town. NJ Y.
Fpany to restrain the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
spany from using it's Long Branch division has
'been allowed to lapse
Messrs. Towne, Stubs and Gray of the
Southern Pacific Company passed East yester
day, route for New York, to attend the trans
sentimental pool meeting.
n. c. Underhill has been appointed agent in
charge OF the business of the Globe line to and
from points the Buffalo, New York & Phila-
delphia railway, with headquarters at Buffalo.
General Manager w. J. Spcer. of the Chicago
u Grand Trunk road, has been at Mt. Clemens,
Mich, of late, under treatment for muscular
rheumatism, and is reported much improved in
health
Tue c., H. & D. people yesterday put on new
train north, with which the 355 p NJ. train out
of Indianapolis. over the c.. H. g. l. makes
close connection. at Hamilton, for Dayton and
other points on the c., Fl. & ID. main line.
The Indianapolis & Vincennes people have
their Greene county coal branch, twelve miles in
length, opened to Digger, where are shafts now
In operation, which will raise 200 tons per day,
and the capacity is TO be increased this year to
400 tons per day.
There is a rumor to the effect that the Balti-
more q Ohio telegraph is to be leased to the
Baltimore & Ohio read for fifty years-the for
mer company to issue $40 600, 600 ives, which the
road would take The telegraph company is
said to be debtor to the road already for 81,
O0000O
Clark Fisher. C. E.. Am. M. Soc. c. E.. Tren-
ton. N. j., is in the city. Mr.. Fisher represents
the Fisher rail-join works. and is patentee of
the Fisher patent truss joint. which is being
tested, and giving great satisfaction on several
OF the leading roads In che country
Reports current for some days that Mr. Charles
Francis Adams, jr., intended resigning the presi-
dency of the Union Pacific, have brought out
denial from that gentleman He says: Il have
never felt more confident of being ultimately
able to place the property on sound dividend
paying basis than at the present time
Timothy O'Brien one of the best-known local
passenger men. is quite low with consumption
In years past Tim as he is Familiarity known.
did some good work in soliciting business for the
Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines and in later
years for the c., l., St L. g. G. 1t is some thirty
years since he entered railway service.
The baggage agents at the Union Depot han
died. in January, 27,636 pieces OF baggage, of
which number $500 pieces were checked ont.
Notwithstanding the general complaint of light
travel there were 342 more pieces checked out
than in January, 1885, and the revenue from
excess baggage was S127 ahead of last year
A majority of the first mortgage bonds of the
Louisville Evansville & St. Louis Railway Com
pany having been already deposited with the In
. ternatipnal Trust Company, the reorganization
trustee, tEeSsuccess-of the plan of reorganization
S assured. The time within which the balance
of the securities could be deposited expired yes
terday.
The efforts which American railroads make to
prevent the destruction Of the profits on their
business by unrestricted competition are attract
ing much attention abroad. The contract
of the trunk lines has been described in
German Railway Union publishes translation
of it in full, and also the official Austrian rail
road journal
The meeting called for tomorrow by M. E.
angalls president of the committee of eighteen,
TO be held in Chicago has for its object to bring
all of the roads west OF Buffalo and other West
ern trunk line terminals and east of the Misss-
sipp river into close communication, bind them
together in organization, the main object of
which is to do away with rate cutting, parcel out
h,xci hocic oficfxy uli of<1
roads parties to the compact with their allotted
share. and, in short, to inaugurate a milleninm
In railroad affairs.
On severa; Indiana roads, in the last thirty
DAYS, engineers have demanded pay for time
they are laid ont on idetracks, and in most
cases it has been granted. An old engineer said
yesterday this step was taken more for the pur-
pose of squirting train dispatchers up to their
sdutythan for an increase OF pay He said: Some
train dspatchers seem to take pride in holding
aus side-track, seemingly to show their au-
shortly Now" said he. ''f it is done our
road it is done at the expense of the company;
we shall get 30 cents per hour for the time we
are laid out"
Nineteen prominent railroad magnates and
public men guests of President George B.
Roberts, of the Pennsylvania railroad. on Fri
day night last, at his elegant residence in
Philadelphia. In the spacious dining hall a
dinner was served. and the following gentlemen
sat down to the feast CYRUS W. Field OF New
York; j. B. Garrett George Thomas, John King,
president of the Erie railroad; George W.
Childs. j. Wilbur, of the Lehieh Valley railroad;
g. Deb. Keim. ex-president of the Reading; j.
Pierrepont Morgan. of New York; Chauncey NJ
Depew. president of the New York Central rail
road; Frank Thomson, John Welsh, Wayne
MacVeagh. Col. A. *. Mcclure Hon. Samuel
J. Randall. W. L. Scott. S. d. McConner, A l..
Dennis, j. C. Bullitt and A. j. Cassatt
1t is said that Commissioner Fink's attention
has been called to the large number of foreign
v%ao oh rfa rad fnr IN or Ralt
more. but why. or just what action he is called
upon to take in the matter. is not indicated The
gentleman will have q pretty large burden upon
bis shoulders If he should impose on himself the
additional contract of regulating ocean as we'll as
inland tonnage. The Chicago Times says: $50
long 9 there il n ncnof that rates not heing