The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

WIlam Harold mas Deen appolnteo agent OF
the Vandaiia at Cartersburg.
Superintendent Mansfield gives notice that
Ellis Mills station, on the Indianapolis 81 Vim
cennes road. has been closed.
Superintendent Turner, Of the c., ST. L. &P.
road, gives notice that a ticket agency has been
established at Fountain Park, o.
Commissioner Fink's name is prominently
mentioned as the arbitrator in the transcon-
tinental pools, If the lines succeed in forming
them.
Superintendent Taylor, of the p, G. & St L.
road. gives notice that a freight and passenger
station has been established on that line at Black
Lick, and M. p. Atwood has been appointed the
agent.
T. 81. Cooper, division superintendent Of the
Grand Trund road, died at Toronto on Monday.
Mr.. Cooper had been in the service of the COM
pany for the past twenty years, and for a long
time was the Eastern agent at Boston.
The New York Central Sleeping-car Company
has closed a Contract with the Pullman company
for enough sleeping cars to equip the Bee-llne
throughout. The cars are to be equal to the best
the Pullman shops can turn out, and are to be
provided with every modern improvement.
From remarks dropped yesterday, there is
more than q possibility that John McNulta will
be appointed receiver of the Chicago & Atlantic.
should Judge Gresham decide to throw the road
into the hands OF a receiver. To the credit OF
General McNulta, employees claims on a road of
which he is made a receiver are the first to be
paid.
The reorganizers of the Toledo, Cincinnati e.
st. Louis Railroad Company find themselves in
an unpleasant dilemma. The laws of Ohio say
that a railroad company doing business in that
State mustselect q majority of its directors from
residents of Ohio. Illinois has a similar law:
The question now arises how can a majority OF
the directors reside in two States.
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over freight to the c., ST. L. s. p. to even mp per
cents in the east-bound pool very rapidly. Thus
far the Bee line has turned over 100 tons and
the l., B. s. w. 200 tons. Probably when bust
ness revives they will make short work of the
matter. The Wabash people show no disposi-
ton to turn the 500 tons ordered over to the c.,
Fl. & D.
John B. Carson, general manager. w. r.
Woodland, general superintendent, and w. II.
McDoel, general freight agent of the L., N. A.. &
Q. system, were in the city Yesterday. on official
business. All are of the opinion that the Bedford
& Bloomfield road, under their management, will
become a valuable feeder to the L., N. A. &C.
proper, and nothing is to be left undone to de-
velop the industries on this line.
Indiana is credited with having the most favor
able laws to railroad interests of any State in
the Union, while Illinois is said TO have laws
more adverse to railroad interests than has any
State in the Union. This point is the most re-
markedly apparent in the laws for recognizing
railroad companies. The Indiana law of 1865 on
the reorganization of corporations is looked upon
as an unexceptionally good law by the legal fra
ternitv.
The c., B. g @. people are disposed to treat
their employees handsomely in the matter Of
wages. Without solicitation they increased the
wages Of freight conductors from So. SO to 1913
per month, according to class, and of brakemen
SD. SO per month. Wages of passenger brakemen
are increased So per month. New rules have
also been adopted, providing for a hearing be-
fore the superintendent before any conductor is
discharged.
The Pennsylvania Company has officially pro-
tested to Assistant Commissioner Daniels, of
the Central Traffic Association. against the
April 1 passenger rate sheet. Arbitration will
follow, but 1t is doubtful if their decision will be
more satisfactory than the present rates. The
Pennsylvania Company is opposed to differeL-
tials, and will worry the executive committee of
the Central Traffic Association until differentials
are abolished.
It would be well for Commissioners Daniels, of
the Central Traffic Association passenger depart
ment, TO see that when there is a reduction in
rates all lines interested be promptly no.
titled. Some days since several roads were no.
titled that the round-trip rate from Indianapolis
to Kansas City would be based on $40, a reduc-
ton from the former rate of So. 40, and the lines
which were promptly notified have been using
that rate while others where there had been de-
lay In the matter, have been selling, if they
could, at $50. 40.
The State Inspector of Oils has brought down
upon himself the wrath of csveral railroad super
intendents by going into their oil-bouses, in
speeding the oil therein, and then sending in bills
for such work. The railroad men take the
ground that he has no business so to do. The
oils they use are inspected when purchased at
Pittsburg or Cleveland, and that ends the mat
ter. The railroad officials say if they were offer
ing these oils for sale it would be proper for the
inspector to inspect them, but under present cir
cumStapceS he has no right go to do.
General Manager Beach has given the en-
ployes on the Decline system to understand that
hereafter it will be the established policy Of this
company to give preference to employees longest
In the service. When a reduction in the number
of employees In any department of the company's
service becomes necessary, those retained shall
be of those longest in the service, everything
else being equal, /. e., as between persons equal
~ honest, sober and capable; but seniority in
service is not to be made a cover for shortcom-
ings of any description, or to prevent Che com
pany from securing the best attainable service.
General Passenger Agent Bronson, of the T.,
B. & W., was yesterday notified by Commission
er Daniels, Of the Contra. Passenger Traffic AS
ISOLATION, that charges had been preferred
against some Of the l., b. & W.. agents in Ohio
of cutting rates. Mr.. Bronson promptly an
swered back that the competitors at such points
were cutting rates If their agents were, as the
l.. B.s& W. agents at all points were instructed
to strictly maintain rates as long as their compe-
titors did, on penalty of dismissal from the serv.
ice Of the company. should it prove that they
(the l., b. & w. agents) were the first to cut the
rates.
The purchasers Of the Toledo, Cincinnati e.
st. Louis road expect before the week closes to
have conformed to the laws of Indiana, Illinois
and Ohio in the matter of reorganization in the
different States. But under the law of Illinois
it will be nine weeks before the division of that
road lying in that State can be consolidated with
the portion OF the system lying in Indiana and
Ohio under the name of the Toledo, st. Louis 81
Kansas City road, and from present appearances
the summer will be well advanced before the
purchasers will have the property SO well in
hand as 70 mme general Improvements to
the roadbed, and equip it properly.
California travel has set in briskly the last day
or two. Some forty persons have purchased
tickets for the Pacific coast at indianapolis
offices. From other points many people are now