The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


returned yesterday from ten days very sue
sessful hunting expedition.
William r. McKeen was in the city yesterday
for conference with General Manager Malott
regarding Union railway matters.
meeting of the Chicago rate committee of
the Middle and Western States Freight Associa
tion will be held at Chicago to-day.
The jurisdiction of Harry Fuller, as general
passenger agent, has been extended to cover all
divisions of the Newport News s. Mississippi
system.
The friends of ". FL. McDoel, general freight
agent of the L., N. A. & c., will regret to learn
that his illness has taken a more serious char
ecter, and 1t is greatly feared will terminate
fatally.
The l.. D. & s. road earned in the twenty. ons
days ending Aug. Il $33, 5l552, al increase
over the earnings of the corresponding week in
1885 Of $93z58.
l. g. Cannon. formerly the general agent Of
the Transcontinental Association at San Fran
cisco, is in Chicago. where be has some prospect
of securing good railroad position.
B. The Oregon Railway & Navigation Company
notifies connections that it is not prepared to
accept through tickets to San Francisco via
Portland, nor to Portland via San Francisco.
An explicit denial of the grand extension
schemes of the New York Central comes from
the New York Office, although hardly necessary,
rs the story was most absurd on the face of it
The vandalia people have the material on the
ground to replace the present wooden bridges
over streams at Reelsville and at Vandala with
substantial combined steel and iron structures.
Ira w. Gault has been appointed agent of the
Great Eastern fast-freight line at Chicago, vice
~ f. Jennings, resigned W. Town
send takes Mr. Gaults position at Peoria. The
appointments taxa effect to-day.
I KioOvuill hoe haap aupointa d aydifnr Of
the Chicago g. Indiana Coal Railway Company,
In place of G. w. Dunlap, resigned. taking
immediate effect The Office OF auditor has been
removed from Attica to Chicago.
An excursion train of twenty coaches, laden
with excusonists from points on the l.. z. d q.
this side of Plymouth, will arrive in the city at
D:30 this morning and will then be forwarded
over the c.. II. g D. to the Soldiers Home,
Dayton, 0.
AT the coming meeting Of the Central Traffic
on business from interior common points will be
considered, and the pooling Of business from in
terror points by placing it in one Of the pools will
be considered.
a. NJ. Stingon, general agent of the c., l., st.
T. 81 c., headquarters at Lafayette, on Aug %.
when on q Wabash train lost morocco pocket
book which contained his passes. While they
are of no value to the finder, he is willing to pay
for their return
Cards have been issued to trainmen on the
Pennsylvania railroad, known as detention
cards. Whenever a train is late in reaching its
destination one OF these cards is to be sent into
the superintendent Office containing an expla-
nation for the delay.
The grading of the extension of the Manitoba
line to the Missouri river at Berford will be COM
pleted this year and the track probably laid to
Burlington. Beside the main line, two branches
have been graded of fourteen and fifty miles in
length, respectively.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says ]. W. Rein
hardt, the new assistant general passenger agent
of the Lake Shore road, is temporarily in charge
of the passenger department. w. P. johnson
being now in the East where he is sporting
with the salt sea waves
The programmed Danville 81 Olney, now the
Chicago 8 Ohio River whose earnings ran
81 1923 behind its operating expenses for the year
ending june 30 1885. is now earning $40, 900 net.
c. Il. Henderson. general manager, has reason
TO be proud of his record on this road.
The prediction frequently made that the Wis
consin Central would soon extend its line into
the Gogebic and Penokee iron region is substan-
TALLY verified, work on the branch from near
Penokee gap to Bessemer, where the Colby mine
Is located, having been in progress for several
weeks past
When Henry OReilly. who died last week
wanted forty years ago to put up a telegraph
line between Philadelphia and New York, New
Jersey railroad refused him permission to do it
along its way the ground that the telegraph
ing the railroad.
Sept. "a has been fixed upon as the day for
holding the next meeting OF the Central Traffic
Association, when the reports from the various
committees from the several pools where work
was not completed will be heard and acted upon.
AT that time rates for short hauls will also come
ap for consideration.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: "While the
pools at Chicago, Indianapolis and Cincinnati
were made more binding, and tho loopholes for
the cutting of rates and the diversion of business
closed, the committee from st. Louis was not so
successful and will have to hold another meeting
1t ST. Louis on Aug. 30.v
The Chicago Times says: Traffic Manager G.
B. Reeve, of the Chicago 81 Grand Trunk, was
At his desk on Monday for the first time in three
months. The gentleman has BEEN absent in
England for some time. and returned just in
time to participate in the Central Traffic Asso-
station meeting at New York last week, with his
usual success judging by the results of that ses-
sion.
Twenty-Five passenger associations have been
organized and dissolved at San Francisco in
twenty eight months. This is believed to be the
champion record. The Wabash is said to be the
disturbing element, and General Manager Tai
mage has been asked to tone down somewhat j.
H. Woodland, who represents the Wabash on the
Pacific slope
The belief prevails that at the coming meeting
In ST. Louis to adjust pool troubles at that point,
the Vandalia will be given an increased per
cent, which il justly earns. A pool man high
In authority is quoted as saying that the Van
daia had fully demonstrated that when rates
are in any measure adhered to, the road will
earn So per cent of the live stock traffic, and
will carry 30 per cent Of the dead freight for
warded from st. Louis
There Is good authority for stating that all re-
ports to the effect that the enterprise known as
the St Louis, Kansas City g. Colorado road, and
In which Harry Drew, Thomas Chandler and
w G. Wasson, of this city, and N K. Elliott, of
Terre Haute, interested, is under cloud.
are false. The financial men behind the enter
prise are coming up nobly. On the 1st of each
month every claim is paid. and there Is no
longer any doubt rs to its becoming the impor-
tant through line which its friends have pre-
dlcted.