The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


M. NJ Stern, of San Francisco, has been ap-
pointed to represent the passenger and freight
departments Of the Canadian Pacific. at San
Francisco
The appointment of Capt. Ed Raschig route
agent or the more tony title. travelling auditor,
Of the American Express Company throws James
Troutman, who has filed that position some
years. out in the cold.
The Erie road is building one thousand new
box cars in their own shops, and have made ar
rangements with Charles Lewis, business man
ager of the Wagner Car-door Company to equip
them all with the Wagner door.
The excursion Of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public over the c.. H. & l., on Tuesday next
promises to be big affair. The company will
run the train in two sections, and will make no
stops between Indianapolis and Cincinnati ex-
cept for water.
W. P. Robinson, jr., has been appointed agent
Of the Great Western Dispatch division of the
Erie Dispatch fast-freight line at Chicago, vice
James Sharpe, transferred. James Sharpe has
been appointed foreign freight agent of the Erie
Dispatch at Chicago.
This year, the movement of grain, principally
wheat has made the month of August an ex-
traordinary busy one for the railroads, and for
everybody concerned directly or indirectly in
the transportation of merchandise September
does not promise so heavy movement
G. G. Waite, vice president of the c., 81. 6 ID.
company, returned yesterday from his Eastern
business and pleasure trip, combined. There
are but few railroad officials who do as much
real hard work as does Mr.. Waite, and the fact
that the road is prosperous is largely due to
his earnest work and aggressive policy.
The Nor.nern Pacific annual election will take
place Sept l6 During the last few days it has
been again rumored that President Elijah
Smith, of the Oregon Transcontinental COM
pany, will contest with the management of the
Northern Pacific for control. Parties we'll
posted say his efforts in that direction will be
fruitless.
Hon. A. Mcdonald, of New York. and the
party of capitalists who propose to build the In
dianapolis & Eel River road, have reached Chi
cago, and will be in Indianapolis as soon as they
get a matter in which they are interested set
that they may not be in this city before the
early part of next week.
G. FL. Worcester, who has for some time been
assistant superintendent of the Elkhart and To-
ledo division of the Lake Shore Il Michigan
Southern railway, yesterday took the position of
superintendent of the Detroit branch, while Mr.
Charles Worth. whose position he assumes, be-
comes superintendent Of the Toledo and Elkhart
division, j. E. Curtis having resigned.
James McGregor engineer, with Bennett fir.
ing and Sine conductor, in charge of the train,
left indianapolis, on Monday, on train No. e. j.,
vi. N L., at 44U, ana arrived at Jetf6rSOnvlllo at
100 r. NJ, after having been delayed twelve min
utes at Taylorsville and FIVE minutes at Column
bus, making the run of ITO miles in two hours
and eight minutes from depot to depot.
Speaking of railroad earnings. thoughtful
railroad man calls attention to the fact that the
greatly increased summer travel which the
roads have had this year not only meant good
earnings for the railroads, but served as an ex-
cellent barometer of the prosperity of the peo-
pie generally Travelling, he said, is always cut
down to a noticeable extent in hard years. The
outlook for fall travel, as well, is exceedingly
promising.
The Wabash pay-car paid at Fort Wayne on
the 3lst of August, for July, which causes the
Fort Wayne Sentinel to remark that this is the
first time in six years that the Wabash company
has paid the men at that point for work done in
the month prior, the payments usually being six
ty days or more behind, BY. the by. how is it
that the court which rules that labor shall be
first paid for allows the receivers to use money
to pay other bills before labor is paid2
Passenger travel over the Wabash main line is
reported to be unusually heavy Probably at nc
time in the history of the road has the physical
condition OF the property been better. This re-
mark will apply more especially to the d-bed.
Some of the passenger equipments are hardly up
to the standard, but fast it can be put
through the shops it is being put in the best of
shape. The companys through trains haul six
to eight coaches, and they are almost invariably
General Manager Moore, of the Midland road,
states that the track-layers will to-day reach the
Boone county line The track is already laid
some five miles east from Lebanon and there is
now but seven miles of track 70 lay to complete
the road between Anderson and Lebanon, Ind j.,
and the material is on the ground ready for USE
Mr.. Moore states that the road is doing a very
nice local business and earning little money
above operating expenses on the portion of the
road over which trains are now running
Alta meeting of the New York Emigrant Com
missioners. held yesterday afternoon at Castle
Garden, at which were present Commissioners
Starr Stephenson, Forrest and Brunn, the ap-
plication of the Baltimore & Ohio company to
sell tickets to emigrants in Castle Garden was
granted. There some opposition by the
other companies, as it was considered only fair
that the Baltimore e Ohio should join the pool,
but this the commissioners thought private
matter which concerned the companies inter-
ested only.
The Lafayette Journal, which has warm
side for G. G. r. Bent. says: '"The Ohio 81
Mississippi earned the third week in August
$104639 some ten-thousand- dollar increase
over the earnings the corresponding week last
year" Possibly, General Passenger Agent Shat
tue and General Freight Agent Duncan will
take exceptions to this statement, as their de-
partments make the earnings. While on that
road of late, the business Of the superip tendent
seems to have been to discharge men for Presi-
dent Peabody to reinstate
Gaylord Beach. general manager, and Edgar
Hill, general freight agent of the Decline, spent
few hours in the city yesterday. Superintend-
ent Burrows accompanied the officials over
from ST. Louis. Mr.. Beach speaks of the l. g.
ST. L. as being in grand condition physically
The construction trains have been ordered off,
and the expense of keeping up the roadbed will
for some time to come be comparatively light
Mr. Hill says the Decline is having a healthy
business They could do more, but on the traffic
they are handling the company is reaping good
results, tks earnings from week to week even
exceeding their most sanguine expectations.
William r. McKeen, president of the Wanda
liza. and General Manager Beach, of the Bee.
line, were in attendance at the ST. Louis pool
meeting on Tuesday. Besides agreeing to APP
point a board of three arbltrators to readjust
the percentages for the st. Louis east-bound
lines, it was also agreed that the outlying Juno