The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
Rogers Ia the name Of station opened on
"wednesday on the Evansville q indianapolis
road. 3. Rogers was appointed agent
A number Of indianapolis railroad men are ar
banging to attend the funeral of j. 81. Dever-
leux, late president of the Bee-line system which
occurs at Cleveland at 2 o'clock Saturday after
moon.
The safety gates at the railroad crossings on
s@he Union tracks are proving expensive affairs.
eThe cost of keeping them in repair would about
pay for employing a second fag-man at each
crossing.
The executive committee of the Union Rail
way Company have fully decided that they viii
met pay $4,000 of the 81, 000, 900 borrowed to
wrsct new Union Depot in purchasing ground
Nor it to stand on.
The c., T., St L. & G. earned, the second
week in March, $51, 6147 70, against $40, 240 for
&he corresponding week of 1885. Increase this
year 1894 10; increase the first fifteen days Of
March, 81, 0S9 81.
I'D Newcomb and Miss Eva vigus were mar
@Dcs of only few of their intimate friends.
EEhs groom is well known conductor on the
panhandle road.
Charles Francis Adams, ir., president of the
pnion Pacific railroad, delivered lecture in
Sever Hall, Harvard College, Wednesday last,
on rairoadng The lecture was one Of those in
&he course on the professions.
The l., d. & 8. road continues to run its chair
cRrs free, much to the annoyance of its COM
Eetitors. II the practice long continues the new
cOashes recently put on will be much less at
Eractive than now, as all classes of travel are rid
ing in them
Ed Pagett formerly agent of the L. E. g. w.
railway at Montmorenci, and who has been i'll
with consumption at his home in Oxford for
long time, is sinking rapidly, and can survive
but short time. Mr.. Pagett was for some
years on the c., l., St L. & G.
0aaanh Ant 4ho a. 80 49, :. -...,
ming CAB of the T. & St L. when derailed on the
Rsls road, Tuesday evening, will probably die
from injuries then received. Last night he was
unconscious His mother and wife arrived yes
Aerday morning and are at his bedside
EA. Cooper, superintendent of theIndianapolis
Gar works, sewers his connection with that insti-
SUTTON April l, and has accepted the position of
general superintendent of the St Louis cable
eoad, in which COL M. A. Downing, Csc. Bran
nam, and other Indianapolis capitalists are in
1erested.
The railroads leading from Chicago to the in
Garior while not showing heavy grain traffic,
gre said to be doing large miscellaneous freight
business. Their passenger trains are also crowd
ed and if they fail TO make fairly good show of
earnings the current week it will only be from
Hack of compensating rates for the services rem
Tiered.
The Southern roads have notified their North
harn connections to discontinue the sale of tickets
no New Orleans and return on account of the
k6ts sold on or before that date to expire not
later thar March 81. Tourist tickets will remain
sale until further notice, good to return until
Z Dune 1.
The passenger department of the Chicago,
milwaukee & st. Paul road has issued lengthy
Acircular relative to rates TO be charged ac-
count of the q. A. r. reunion at San Francisco.
Irhe round trip rate via Council Bluffs and the
Union Pacific and the Central Pacific roads will
DO $62 80, the lines west of the Missouri river
accepting $50.
Within the last forty eight hours some thirty
1ndianapolitans have left for trip to the Pacific
slope. The passenger traffic over the Rocky
pnountaius is Of unusual magnitude at the pres
ant time. On last Thursday morning, out Of
Kansas City. the west bound passenger train on
she Atchison contained twenty nine cars. The
1rain was divided into three sections.
The l., ID. & S., in connection with the c., Ell.
- D. and the Wabash is running reclining chair
ears between Cincinnati and Keokuk. which are
really elegant affairs. more especially those put
ION by the l.. d. & s. and Wabash, which are
practically new The one which the c., Ell. g
ID. has run, each road furnishing car, will soon
acorae out of the shop rebuilt in fine STYLE
Wednesday last, the officials Of the Pennsyl-
Evania railroad and Of the Huntingdon g Broad
non railroad companies confscated consid-
kerable bitusninous coal which was in transit to
IsPhladelphia over their lines This was done to
tDrotect the companies against scarcity of fuel
IN the event of the strike in the bituminous re-
nRioRs becoming general and the coal will be paid
Cor at the regular rate
VIM. Garstang master mechanic of the Bee
Zine shops at Brightwood. anticipated the order
that the shops should be decorated with mourn
fng embems on account of the death of Presi-
dent Devereux, and at A. NJ severaI of the en-
plOYes, assisted by number OF ladies, had be-
gun the work The main entrance to each of the
chops are hung with heavy streamers, neatly
made rosettes, etc, and the flags on each build
&ng are hung at half-mast.
There is good authority for saying that what
rs known as the Conrod syndicate has not aband
Oned the idea of securing the controlling stock of
the Cincinnati. Wabash e. Michigan road They
arc quietly purchasing the stock and expect, at
no distant day, to have sufficient amount to
rontrol the road, and then make 1t, in connec,
zion with boats they are running on Lake SUI
sseror, the southern outlet for the ore in extern
give iron mines which they the Conrod syndi-
cate, own. Their programme is to reach the
indianapolis, the Cincinnati and Louisville, Ky,
markets with their ore.
The most important business transacted by
ehe Middle and Western States Freight Asso-
ciation. at it's quarterly meeting, was the adop-
Gion OF a uniform bill of lading. It was adopted
subject to the approval of the general managers,
and will be taken up for final action at the June
neeting of the association and il no obstacles ap
pear, carried into effect Aug L The form
: adopted by the association has already been &C
Eepted by the legal departments of che most i'm
porsaEt lines, including the Lake Shore, Penn
ByAVSHla, Doe-lne, Big Four, w. % M. and others,
80 the chances are that it will be generally rat
Lied
Traffic Manager Lazarus, of the T.. d. e. S.
road, IN a. note dated March Is, says: II find
Rn article in this mornings journal. stating
chat we have withdrawn from the Indianapolis
Weighing Association. Prior to the organza-
Zion of the Indianapolis Weighing Association
Dur yardmen weighed every carload on our
track scales and way bills were corrected ac-
EeFdingly. except grain destined to elevators which
weights we are compelled to accept Since joining
the association the same yardmen have weighed
DH orr scales. and the only difference is now we
are required to pay proportion of the expenses
pf the weighing association reporting the over
and under weights TO Commissioner Doherty,
end We are not benefited in the slightest The
numerous associations impose a considerable
lax, and we cannon afford to belong to any that
does not afford US some benefit