The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

a meetipgo OF the Trunk-iine East bound Glass
6fcation Committee was called yesterday, to be
heid at Gle veland on Jan. 20.
But thirtytwo ex-railroad men have applied
aoF the position of weighing inspector of the
car weighing association about to be organized.
7. A. Lewis. of the Erie lines, is arranging his
affairs to leave for the Pacific coast, on Wednes-
day, next During his absence Charles Lewis
will have charge of his personal affairs. etc.
The association of freight agents of the West
has elected A. c. Bird of the ST Paul road.
chairman, and Commissioner ]. N. Faithorn, Sec
rotary
Much to the surprise and disappointment of
the travelling public and the scalper, the cuts in
passenger rates owing to the war inaugurated by
she Baltimore g. Ohio, do not materialize in this
section.
James Dun has been appointed assistant gen.
eral manager of the st. Louis & San Francisco
road, with Office at st. Louis. Until further no.
tice he will continue to act as chief engineer of
the road.
The litigation which has been pending for some
three years between the Union Railway Com
pany and the c., H. & ID. Railroad Company will
come up for hearing in the United States Dis
trict Court the first week In February.
G. K. Lord, general passenger agent of the
senger agents that because of certain action
taken in New York on Wednesday thad been de-
cided to postpone the cut from Western points
East.
William Hill, general passenger agent Of the
Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois, has christened their
Florida line. in connection with the Louisville e.
Nashville road, the "Daisy" line. The distance
from Chicago to Jacksonville is now covered in
forty hours.
The Erie road has sent out the following gen.
,eral notice: George w. Ristine having been ap-
pointed general manager of the Erie's CONSOLE
dated lines, to be known as the Erie Dispatch,
will in addition to his duties as such, also act
the Western representative of the freight de-
partment of this company, in charge of through
aeast-bound traffic, with Office at Chicago. Ill"
NJ. D. Motherspaugh, the scalper, who in 1880
and 1881 gave the Union Railway Company SO
much trouble, announces by circular ''that after
an absence of three years, return to engage in
railroad ticket brokerage, and will, or about
March /, 1886, open an Office in indianapolis. !"
Should the movement ow working to stop the
payment OF commissions, and roads working
through scalpers, be effective by March l. the
tieketscaiper will find his occupation so curtail
ed as to make it uphill work to pay Office ex-
penses.
The New York Central Sleepingcar Company
has placed five new sleeping-c cars on the Wa
bash's line between Chicago and st. Louis.
These are the Potomac, Rio Grande, Tidal
Wave and Dolphin. This company is also build
ing number of boudoir cars with buffet
tached, which are to be run on the Wabash road.
Frank Palmer, in charge of the Wabash pas
sengef business at Chicago reports handsome
increase in receipts from the sale of tickets in
Chicago over this route in 1885, as compared
with those Of 1884
The position of freight train conductor on one
the Indianapolis roads is said to have become
quite lucrative. On this road the conductors are
allowed to carry passengers. One day this week
the conductor is reported to have taken in on a
local freight train 4 % Out of this he paid for the
dinner for himself and the train crew, and turned
into the auditor Of the road but CO. as collected
on the round trip. This day is said to have been
better than the usual average. yet the per cent
turned into the company daily averaged well
with that of the good day.
The Western railroad representatives who
have been in session at New York for the past
two days, yesterday worked for several hours
npon the proposed schedule of rates for Eastern
passenger and freight business. It was conced-
I'd tact unless the roads bound themselves to
sustain these rates. the westbocnd business
would become demoralzed The meeting was
harmonious one. Several committees were ap-
pointed to complete the arrangements for the or
ganization Of the pool The work of the confer
ence will probably be completed to-day.
The Baltimore & Ohio now antagonizes not
only the Pennsylvania, but all the New York
lines, for the object of the fight is to cause coz
csssions by threatening the passenger and freight
traffic to that point Mr.. Garrett and his friends
are now loudly demanding percentage Of New
York business, yet the president Of the Balti-
more IL Ohio refused to sign the trunk line
agreement because not being New York road,
he could have no passenger business direct to
that city. This seems somewhat inconsistent
and it looks as if the Baltimore s. Ohio cared
very little about the trunk-line pool. 1t will be
at least six months, yerhaps year, before the
Baltimore & Ohio can have its own line in work
ing order to New York, and in the meantime it is
using the Pennsylvania or other trunk lines to
get its freight and passengers to New York The
only object the Baltimore g. Ohio can have in
York line is to get ready to make demands for q
large percentage of business at the proper time.
One of the most absurd and improbable ru-
mors set afoat for months is that or one of the
Cincinnati evening papers, and which was, as
well, mentioned In the Enquirer of yesterday, to
the effect that the Cincinnati, Van Vert s.
Michigan road was to purchase the Cincinnati,
Hamilton Dayton. This would certainly be a
case of the tail wagging the dog" The Gin
Scinnati, Van Vert q Michigan road is ninety
eight miles long. is only partially built, never
having been ballasted; has one good locomotive.
three old. wheeling tubs eight freight cars,
which are numbered from 1000 to 1908; two or
three passenger cars, and has been struggling
head above water, while the c., H. & d. has 400
miles Of as good road-b as any in the Western
States, l40 locomotives, ninety of them nearly
new, and is well equipped in every respect. A
prominent railroad man remarked, yesterday,
that it made him smile to think of the c., V. w.
s. M. .Mackinaw route" buying up the c.. H. g
ID. railroad.
A A Talmage, general passenger agent of
the Wabash system, after the road is again we'll
upon its feet, will recommend the adoption of
automatic air-brakes on freight engines and on
freight cars as far as practicable. There are now
several freight engines on the road so euuipped
and they are performing very satisfactorily. Mr..
Talmage says: Railroad men all over the coun-
try are coming to realize the fact
that it is wrong in theory and ex-
pensive in practice to expect hand
brakes upon the freight trains not only to
check the momentum of the heavy cars Of
modern construction, with their loads, but also
20 check the ponderous engines at the head of
the trains. The engine, in time. will every
where be provided with some device that will at