The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



Engineer Reece, of Toledo
r. NJ. Fraser, general freight agent of the Gin
cinnati, Washington 81 Baltirnore road. was in
the city yesterday on official business.
j. J. Turner, division superintendent of the
c.. St L. g. p. who has been East some four
weeks with his family, visiting returned yes
terday.
n. f. Wood, of Cleveland, superintendent OF
The Valley railroad, and formerly division super
intendent Of the New York, Pennsylvania q
Ohio railroad. has resigned.
General Freight Agents Page, OF the u, l.,
st t. 81 c.; Mcleod, of the c., H. d D., and
Albert s. White, of the Beeline, were IL the
city, yesterday, to attend the pool meeting.
The passengers over the Decline who now
leave indianapolis at 1856 P. NJ reach Boston at
10 p NJ the next evening, Eastern time, or, in
other words. this train ma kes the run from In
danapolis to Boston in twenty-nine hours.
G. W. Fairbanks. c. E. Henderson and other
Indianapolitans. who held common stock in the
Dayton g. Ironton road, aud who have sold out,
1t rs stated, were paid in preferred stock, which
promises to be valuable in the near future.
J. II. Swartz, private secretary of J. J.
Turner, division superintendent of the T., ST. L..
& F., has resigned to accept a similar position
in the Office of President Stavnor. OF the CIncin-
nssi Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Company
The movement of grain continues larger than
was expected, and this, now that the trunk lines
have decideo not TO advance their rates on the
1st of December, bids fair to last through the
wintes p1 oaths a steady part OF the east bound
railroad srafic.
But seven miles Of the Indiana Midland track
is yet to be laid TO complete the road from An
derson TO Lebanon. Last evening Manager
Moore, with an engine and construction train,
fnzf t r ~ tn ham
and to-day commences laying track from that
end of the road.
Chas. O. Scull yesterday severed his connec
Sion with the Central Traffic Association to &C
sept his new position of assistant general pas
benger agent of the Baltimore Il Ohio road.
Mr.. SOUL is unquestionably one of the brightest
passenger men in the business, and will be
valuable man for General Passenger Agent
Lord.
Brent Arnold having decided to remain with
the Louisville & Nashville road, John F. Ewing,
who represents the Bee-line at Louisville, is to
be made, it is understood. division freight agent
of the Decline, headquarters Cincinnati, with
charge of the Louisville territory. In this man
ne- the Bee-liue makes one man fill the positions
held by two men, thus saving the salary OF one
official
The counsel of the Pennsylvania railroad are
busy prepring answers in the South Pennsylva
MIA 81 Beech Creek suits in which unfavorable
decisions recently confirmed in the Su-
prnme Court. They will be printed and filed
soon as possible, and the counsel are confident
that statements assumed facts, in forming
the recent decisions will be shown to be based
By slip of the pencil. the Journal OF the 23d
credited the Railway Age with publishing in pam
phet form the argument of Judge Stevenson
Burke, acting president Of the Bee-line. on the
legality of pooling contracts. when the Railway
Review sh ould have had the credit as the argu
Tnent of Judge Burke first appeared In the Re-
view which has of late become one of the wide
awake railroad journals of the times.
G.. g. Cole master of transportation of the
Ohio g. Mississippi road yesterday retired to &C.
i3ept the position of division superintendent on
che Northern Pacific road. Mr. Cole has been
on the O. G. M. for several years, and is a rail-
road man of considerable ability but his rela-
tions with c. &. r Bent. general superintendent
of the y. 81 M. have not been OF the pleasant
est character, consequently he drops out.
The talk that an agreement is to be entered
Into between the Atchison, Topeka IL Santa Fe.
the Pennsylvania railroad and the Wisconsin
Central by which the three companies should
exchange traffic at Chicago is doubtless a bull
Jtem for the Wisconsin Central yet it would
constitute one of the most beneficial transconti-
mental and Northwestern connections that the
public has ever known. But all this is merely
one Of the possibilities of the future.
Almost withoL exception the master mechan-
Jos Of indianapolis roads are experiencing a good
deal of trouble with their locomotive boilers
Owing to the dry summer the roads have been
obliged to use water strongly impregnated with
lime. or we'll water surface water having been
IN short supply. Master Mechanic Garstang of
the Bee-line shops states that owing to this
trouble il has cost 80 per cent more to keep up
their engines than in ordinary season.
H. G. Wicker. traffic manager of the Chicago
81 Northwestern, who was appointed arbitrator
of the indianapolis east-bound pool, and who
was yesterday, TO meet the general freight
n0F %ha~ de iv,4 81;
route here. informed by telegraph that his moth
or, who resides in Vermont, was sick unto death.
and he Immediately turned about and, last
night, left for the East Consequently the
meeting called for yesterday has been indefinite
1y postponed.
party Of Southern railroad officials we're in
the'city yesterday examining the railroad sig
mails ut the crossing of the j., NJ & l. and the
Belt road, known as the LeGrande electro-me-
chancal signal, and the Union signal at the
crossing of the Decline and the Belt road. The
party, all of whom are expert mechanics were
greatly pleased with the workings of the Lee
Grande signal, which is new invention They
were specially impressed with its simplicity and
the perfectness of its work and with its low cost
rs compared with the Union signal.
W. III. McDoel, general freight agent of the
L.. N. A. q c., was in the city yesterday. look
ing after the interests of the road in the Indian
apolis east-bound pool. The percentage this road
has been earning in the pool the last thirty days.
9lHce rates nave Oeen maintained Dy the Blue
Zine, makes IL less probable that the increase in
The per centage of the L.. N. A. & G. in the pool
asked will be awarded. The more the matter is
looked into the more apparentis it that the pres
ont awards in the Indianapolis pool are now
about as justly made as they we'll could be.
The Boston Advertiser drops remark which
some OF the enthusiastic friends of new railroad
enterprises in the Southern part of this State
would do well TO heed How many of the-rail-
roads. says the Advertiser, which seemed to be
blossoming into prosperity in 1881 have since
been nipped by the cruel frost of receivershisl
The fifty railroads which went into the hands Of
receivers in 1885 carried with them the homes
and savings of large harvest of spectators
who went into them, in 1881, with the same
buoyant prospects which are leading second
erop to invest in 1886 in enterprises whose issue
is perhaps even more doubtful
t. p. Wilson. general passenger agent of the
Chicago az Northwestern. ia hecinn ming IN raSal,