The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Ohio & Indiana division Of the Wabash railway,
Aas been abolished. All freight shipments for
Shat point must be prepaid
i. Now that the limited trains over the L & St
~. stop at Danville the bus line between Dan
vile and Clayton. on the vandalia, has been dis
continued. it not paying to run it
1t is stated that one of the South Illinois
street ticket agents is not fully satisfied in sell
ing tickets at q three-fourths OF cent per mile
rata. and where he can secure a party OF nve
gives one pass.
The fne parlor cars the c., FL. & D. people
put on between indianapolis and Cincinnati are
becoming paying institutions. Good equipments
and trains always on time is what catcnes on
Bvlth the travelling public.
Geo. Frey. ticket scaiper,s will, this evening
be married to Miss Lizzie Webb. of Brownsville
Mo Miss Webb is niece OF VIM. Hlckln,
agent of the l., d. 6 s. at their South Illinois
street passenger once.
Quite a number of South Meridian street bust
ness men leave this morning on pleasure trip
10 Benton Harbor via the Bee-line and the Gin
cinnati Wabash 81 Michigan. They are TO De
absent three or four days
Charlottesville has offered large tract of land
and a subsidy of sixty thousand dollars to the
Louisville New Albany 81 Chicago X they Will
locate their new shops at that point II Lafay-
cite people expect any show they will now needs
bestir themselves
f. s Elder, n. D.. and party OF thirty five,
who go San Francisco over the Vandalia and
man car. on which the party will 90 through to
San Francisco and return without change, tax
ing the coach at Kansas City.
The Terre Haute & Indianapolis is pushing
work on their extension branches at Brazil
earnestly Connection with the old Terre Haute
e Southeastern will be made in q few days. 1t
is quite possible that it will pay to run mixed
passenger and freight as well as coal trains over
this branch.
General Superintendent Fillmore states that
.the Central Pacific railway will cooperate with
skhe Union Pacific to shorten the overland SEIZED
ule time. The decrease between San Francisco
and Ogden will be one hour eastward and two
and one-half hours westward. The new time
table goes into effect on july o.
+. G. Fargo, division superintendent, e. K
Folsom, agent of the American Express Com
pany at this point, G. s. Phillips, agent of the
United States company, and T. ID. Hall, route
agent of the Adams Express Company, have
gone to Chicago TO attendahe annual meeting of
the Expressmen's Mutual Benefit Association.
The report that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company had thrown up the sponge IN their OPP
position to the aggressiveneSs OF the Baltimore
e. Ohio does not prove true. The Baltimore e.
Ohio has begun its shipments of coal and emil
grants over the Reading and the Wilmington &
Northern from New York to Baltimore, which
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company takes ex
ceptions to and is making sharp fight against
Business Is again good with the c., II. & /.
Eoad, and switching crews have again resumed
their old practice of running on the Union tracks
with long cuts, blockading streets and interior
Ing with the movement of passenger trains.
Yesterday one of these cuts with ffty-one cars,
stalled on the Union tracks, and made good
deal of trouble. II the Union Railway Company
has no power to stop this method of doing BUSH
ness the city authorities should take it IN hand.
The passenger engines on the /. IL st. Il. road,
mos. ITO, 112 and lib, which are making so re-
markable running record, were built at the
company's shops, Mattoon, ILL.,, whea d. B. Nc
Clure was superintendent, and OF specifications
prepared by A. j. Sanborn, then master me-
ehanc of the road They were built TO haul
heavy live stock trains at high speed, and are so
Meet with heavy trains that the Bee line people
put them IN service hauling their fast limited
trains.
The Terre Haute Gazette says: ''The impress
sion that Mr.. Mackey's new route to Cincinnati
will be shorter than via the Vandala and Big
-Four is mistake. Mr.. Mackey's new road will
run from Washington, on the e. 81 l.. to Mar
Ainsville. where it will strike the Big Four
branch. The total distance will be about 200
miles, against 176 via the Vandalia. The route,
however, will be desirable for freight from all
local points, and will be a short line from Evans
vile to Cincinnati
Grain is now coming in off of the Western
Zines at the rate of some three hundred cars per
day. just now the l., d. 81 s. is in the lead in
shipments from Western points, more especially
are treating indianapolis grain dealers quite
honoraby in rate matters. 1t is somewhat
singular yet true. that considerable shipments
of both corn and wheat are now being made from
indianapolis to Chicago. Such has been the
case before, but it is out of the usual line Of
movement
The Adams Express Company took out of
here last night carl load of young chickens for
New York. This is a new move on the part of
the express companies, and the experiment will
Heretofore poultry at this station for Easte IN
markets has been shipped dressed largely by
freight. 1t costs 5000 per car to get through to
New York carload by express But it is be-
heved that the difference in cost OF transpor-
4ation will be more than made up by the prices
live young chickens will bring
At meeting to be held in Washington. D. c.,
Eoday, efforts to abate the long standing troubles
IN rate matters between the Chicago and Ohio
river pooled lines and the Southern roads are TO
be made. L. d. Richardson, r. w. Geiger, w.
j. Young, A. II. Mcleod w. H. McDoel. Fl.
Coope and F. Y. Davis were appointed the com
znittee to meet in that city and endeavor to ad-
just matters. 1t is hoped good results will fol-
low this conference, as rates IN the territory
covered by these associations have been badly
demoralzed for many mouths.
Ono of the peculiarities Of the American sys-
tenn OF railroads is that year in and year out the
number OF miles of line which pass into bank
ruptcy about equals the number of miles of new
RECONSTRUCTED line This statement is rather
startling, but is substantiated by an investiga,
ton of the past record of our railroad CORPORA
tions. 1t is very seldom that new line of road
Is built in new country, however glowing the
prospects, without bankruptcy laying hold of it,
and running the men who built it. There are
few lines which have been constructed and oper-
ated with profit to the original proprietors
which have escaped this fate but their number
is extremely limited
The PHILADELPHIA Times says: "President
Gowen, Of the Reading Railroad Company, seems
TO be so much worried by and engrossed in the
foreclosure suits against his corporations that
the little matter of paying off some twenty-five
millions of bonds officially called by him for pay
ment here and in London has entirely escaped
his memory. 1t would seem, also, that ha has
become intensely interested in the employ
ment of legal quirks and bubbles to prevent