The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-03
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Local and Personal Notes-An Attempted
Patching Up Of Passenger Rates.
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Patching Up of Passenger Rates
Walter j. Nichols of the Beeline, has gone
to Cleveland.
Supt j. J. Turner. of the indianapolis divis-
ion of the Panhandle. is in town.
I'll. r. Garfield. formerly local freight agent of
the Airline H.. N. A. & c. is now proprietor of
the Brunswick Hotel.
The L & v. will have several extra trains
daily to Bethany Assembly, beginning with the
opening of the camp meeting there on Thursday
of this week.
The building committee of the Union Railway
Company is booked for conference on Aug Is.
1t can't meet too soon, nor act too speedily to
suit this public.
e. NJ Hawley, formerly of Peru, and later of
Carinda, Ia, with Manager e. C. Murphy, of
the Humeston & Shenandoah railway, has ac-
cepted position in the dispatchers Office at
Peru, under Superintendent Stevens, of the
Wabash.
w. III. Fisher, who has taken service with the
T., ID. d ID. as indianapolis agent. is an old
hand at the passenger business He was in the
Wabash Office under the Frank Palmer regime
FOR years. His brother is also a passenger man
of experience in the Wabash service.
| The movement of grain towards the lakes has
been and continues extraordinarily heavy. The
Wabash seems to have the call in this business.
Yesterday Agent Lynn started five extra freights
for Detroit and Toledo, hauling hundred cars of
The Big Four has made big thing of the
Lafayette encamptment By encouraging the
local militia to travel-the inducement being
free rates-the road persuaded thousands Of
others TO visit the encaTnpment at cheap rate,
and the aggregate business has resulted hand
somely to the company.
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan (via Bee
| line) is doing an improving business out of
Indianapolis The passenger department., es-
pecially, is coming to the 'front.' Representatives
of the line claim that their friends include every
body except the doctors These find the health
resorts on the G., w g. NJ. their most successful
competitors.
/ The August number of the Railway Reporter
contains picture of Volney I. Malott vice.
president of the Union Railway Company. The
goodlooking man. In this particular picture.
however, there is far-of look in the dis
tinguished railroaders eye, as If he were peer
ing into the remote future, seeking view of the
proposed new union passenger depot
It may seem strange. but every regular pas
senger train now is an excursion. Nearly every
body WHO'S travelling, to whom few dollars is a
consideration, puts himself in time with the excur
sions. The c., FL. e. l. each Friday and
Saturday of this month will run excursions to
Put-in-Bay, round trip S.. The Panhandle and
the g., FL. 81 d. are billed for Dayton excursions
soon. The l. e. V. has an excursion to Gosport
on Thursday.
The local passenger agents attempted to meet
yesterday. and patch up agreement to main
tain rates. 1t failed of quorum-to the emf
nent satisfaction of several of the agents pres
ent, who are not friendly to the scheme to re:
quire money forfeit for each violation Of local
agreement TO maintain rates. The terms of the
Central Traffic Association agreement will prob
ably soon be enforced, and pending their adoption
the .'boys" are disposed to make the most of
their opportunity.
People will change the tenor4of their career
and modify well-laid plans for the sake of tax
ing 'dead-head" ride. 1t was estimated re-
Gently that forty coaches would accommodate
all of the invited to the picnic of Panhandle en-
ployes. When the day came eighty coaches
were found to be inadequate. The cars will hold
each, as they were filed that day, a hundred
persons, and there must have been, therefore,
| at least 900 employees" and their families who
accepted the free ride.
There is howl on 'fScalpers Row. because
the l., B. e. w. is selling round-trp Kansas
tickets at one fare This, it is claimed is in vio-
lation of all agreements. On the 18th of August
all lines reaching Msseuri-rver points will sell
tickets to Nebraska. Kansas and Texas at half
fare. The l., b. 81 W., it seems, has simply ad-
vanced the date week or two in the hope of
skimming the cream off of the milk in the cocoa
nut The diurnal frigidity is great when there
isn't row of some kind on hand among the pas
senger men.
The Bee-line boys are in demand. Ed Cost,
for several years contracting agent In the local
Office, has accepted similar employment with the
Big Four at Chicago at an advanced salary
Charlie Finney recently went cut of the same
Office to accept lucrative position in the West.
and there are more at the same place competent
to give good service in any department. The
trained employees of the great railroad systems
such as the Pennsylvania or the New York Cen
trail. and, to degree, 10 the offices of the
smaller companies, may be machines given to
drudeery, but their work is perfect and they can
be adjusted to new positions. They are IN de-
mand.