The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


General Freight Agent Hubbard. of the Van
Italia. left for New York last evening, and Gen.
sral Freight Agent Diehl Of the L, B. g. W.,
will go this evening.
Tho l.. B. & w. people are boasting so loudly
OF their new New York route that competitors
will. at the first meeting OF the trunk-lines pas
senger committee, insist that the l., B. g. W.
shall not be allowed diferentials.
The Wabash people win to-day cease to use
the indianapolis, Peru & Chicago division to
reach their Eel River branch They have decid-
cd to run from the main line via Logansport
West-Side over the Eel River road.
w. 81. Harrison, formerly master of machinery
on the trans-ohio divisions Of the Baltimore 81
Ohio railroad, who was recently appointed su-
perintendent of motive power. Saturday removed
his headquarters from Newark, o., to Baltimore
st. Louis boasts that it is soon to have the
tallest commercial building in the world An
insurance company is soon to add four stories to
ats eight-story structure in that city in order to
provide offices for the Gould Southwestern rail-
gay system.
Indications all point to the Wabash people
dropping the Indianapolis, Peru Sc Chicago road.
Tt seems like olden times to see the trains run
ming over the road, when backed into the Union
Depot, all relettered, even to the locomotives
Indianapolis, Peru e. Chicago Railway.
There are now outstanding but $2S. 900 of the
$4,000, 900 in mortgage bonds issued by the Hud-
son River Railroad Company in 1850 They stand
in the names of parties whose addresses are not
known, and the original trustees of the mort
gage given to secure the bonds are now dead.
The FIVE Western lines last week brought into
this station 8, 308 loaded cars against 399 in the
week ending Dec. &c 1885; decrease of LOCI
cars. The corresponding week, 1884, the same
roads brought in but 3, l43 From this it will be
Deen that the business of last week was 165 cars
heavier than last year.
The separate ticket Offices Of the Cleveland,
Akron Sc Columbus. "Nypano,' and Pittsburg &
Western roads at Akron abolished. union
Office will be maintained, with w. Z. Langdon as
union ticket agent and Elmer e. Jones assist
ant Mr. Langdon is an old express man, and
formerly resided at Indianapolis.
The receivership of Mr.. Clark on the New
York & New England road expired Jan. l. He
then became president with the corporation in
full control of its property. The past history of
what cheekered one, but for the future we trust
and hope that it is entering upon career of
increasing prosperity.
A man living in Salem, Mass, has invented a
method OF ventilating railway cars by means Of
fans revolving underneath the car through gear
ing attached to the axles The air is forced up
into the car through pipes having bell-shaped,
movable openings above each seat; but this air
10 freed from dust by first passing through water.
The Boston & Lowell road is testing the device.
The Boston Record, as does President Nc
Keen of the Vandalia believe the country has
railroads enough. The Record says: ''There
were LOCO less miles of railroad built in this
country in 1885 than in the year previous, and
less than in any year since 1878. AS one result
pr this. there will be fewer roads to go into the
hands of receivers, or to pull money out of
stockholders hereafter. This country will al
ways build all the railroads it needs"
The members of the Chicago and Ohio River
pool will meet on the 9Th, at Commissioner Rich
an -
committee appointed to fix the per cents for
1886. The changes, as compared with 1885, will
be trivial. The fact 70 that they are now so near
dust and equitable that it is difficult to improve
upon them, the variance Of the earnings of each
Eoad which was thrown into the pool pot all
summed, not reaching per cent of the grosC
earnings. There is no pool in the country whore
Che members show so much good sense as In
khis. They have their family jars, of course.
but always at the right moment some member
take the correct position, and all then fail into
dine.
The east-bound trunk-line officials, it is said,
arr trying to account for the great gain made by
fhe Baltimore & Ohio in its grain tonnage during
she past ten days. Grain is pouring into the
Baltimore & Ohio in a perfect food, not
only at the Chicago end, but at all points where
Ahe Southern lines are fed by Western feeders.
The Baltimore & Ohio people deny that they are
cutting rates, but the denials are not generally
believed. The reputation of this road as free
booter and breaker of traffic agreements fills
competitors with distrust A lowering OF the
east-bound tariff is not improbable, though tre-
mendous effort is being made to maintain rates.
unless the B. & O. boom is shown to be carried
at tariff rates.
The Decline forwarded East. last week, TAG
lcaded cars against 932 in the week. end
ling Dec 26. 1885, and against 772 the CORE
tspondiag week of 1884; the c., St L. 81 P,
645 against 698 the preceding week, and against
A85 the corresponding week. 1884; the l., B. &
Nv. forwarded East 1884, against $50 in the pre-
ceding week, and against 331 the corresponding
week, 1884; the c.. H. & l., 277 against 366 in
spending week. 1884 From the above it will be
seen that 2. lO2 loaded cars were forwarded last
week, against 2, 925 in the week ending Dec 26,
1855, and ], 885 the corresponding week, 1884,
making but 2l7 more loaded cars forwarded last
week than in the corresponding week. 1884.
e. Fl. Scott general agent of the bondholders
Of the l., P. s. G. road. and George w. Stevens,
superintendent of the Wabash road operating
hhe l., F. Sc c., have issued jointly the following
circular: IS. B. Sweet, division freight agent,
will have supervision over all matters pertain
ing TO the freight department on this line, with
office at Peru. Indiana. P. A. Lynn is appoint
ed commercial agent Of the l., P. g. G. railway
at indianapolis. He will have charge of the
freight business at indianapolis and on the line
mp to and including Nobesyille. r. d. Couch is
appointed commercial agent of the l.. P. & G.
railway In charge of the freight business at
Michigan City Commercial agents will report
30 the division freigth agent and receive their in
etructions from him. F. p. Wade, district
passenger agent, Indianapolis will have charge
of the local passenger business on the line"
One Of the fastest trains run in this country is
she afternoon express between Indianapolis and
Louisville. The past year eight times out of ten
the train has left the Union Depot ten to forty
minutes late. 50 apt is enc more of the con-
nections to be late in arriving It's regular
running time, stops deducted and time train
is obliged to run slow. is forty-one and one-half
miles per hour and whenever late the time is
invariably made up lest Southern connections be
missed therefore, it is not at all uncommon to run
the train the Ito miles in two hours and Ave
minutes, and there is no better track in the
country to make such high-rate speed over
Eastern roads boast great deal fast time
their trains make, yet their speed is almost daily
nxcaled on the J. AZ .6s road The Navy York