The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


John NJ. Egan has resigned his Office as gen
eral superintendent of the Canadian Pacific to
accept position on the St Paul. Minneapolis s.
Manitoba road.
Col Joseph Hill, superintendent of the Van
'dalia. accompanied by his two daughters, has
lRone East on pleasure trip. He expects to be
away couple Of weeks
District Passenger Agents A. d. Perry, of the
Chicago g. Alton, and A. d. Hendry, of the At
schison. Topeka e. Santa Fe. with their families,
have gone north a pleasure trip. The party
expects to be absent ten days
IL is understood that on Sept l, J. F. Nc
Claiche, master mechanic of the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago will retire and will be sue
ceeded by III. Long, engineer now running
on the Airline division Mr.. Long was former
,ly master mechanic of the Hannibal % 81 joe
The fast trains on the L., N. A q G. road now
make the run from Chicago to Louisville IN ten
fhours and thirty minutes. The distance Is 323
miles With stops taken out the average speed
of the train is forty-two miles per hour. Stops
are made only at county-seats and crossings of
railways.
F. Fl. Kingsbury, who occupies the newly-cre-
ated Office of through freight agent of the Penn
sylvaEia railroad, has established his Office at
NO GAG Broadway. in the building where Mr..
Finks Offices are situated. and he treats his
friends from Ohio and Indiana who call on him
very handsomely.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen will
hold its annual convention in Minneapolis,
MINI, beginning on Wednesday, Sept. l5. Del
egates from every State in the Union will be
present, and a grand time is anticipated. The
Eureka undanapolis) division win send as dele
gate H. G. Randall.
After an inspection trip. the officers of the
Chicago 81 Northwestern road gave A. &.
Morse the credit Of having the most perfect di-
vision, physically, on the system,Iit being up to
the Pennsylvania standard. MIR. Morse was, for
some years, roadmaster on the Indianapolis di-
vision of the Panhandle lines
The Terre Haute car works have just COM
pieted a contract to furnish 100 box-cars to the
C., L, st. L. 81 c.. and the Lafayette car works
this week commence the building of 100 cars for
this road These cars are fortytwo feet in
length. have a carrying capacity OF 10000
pounds, and are equipped with the Wagner car
door.
The c., l., St L. & G. company have this week
xeceived from the Schenectady locomotive works
-FOUR large freight engines. These engines
weigh forty eight tons, have 17x24 inch cylin-
ders, and 1t is expected will haul thirty load
ed cars over any grade on the road. They are
numbered Ii, 30, so and 81, and are equipped with
air brakes.
A. J. Smith, secretary, gives notice that the
gemiannual meeting of the National Association
of General Passenger and Ticket Agents will be
held In New York, at the Hotel BRUNSWICK,
Tuesday Sept 81 at III o'clock A. NJ. Special
arrangements have been made by the proprietors
of the hotel to for all the members on either
the American or European plan.
H. Fraser, general agent of the B. & O. Kan
kakee Dispatch, was yesterday engaged in the
unpleasant task of notifying shippers by that
line that all contracts to carry property to New
York were annulled, owing to the arbitrary ac-
ton taken by the Pennsylvania road, over which
the business of this Dispatch consigned to New
York has been forwarded from Philadelphia.
The Midland routes are getting on their war
paint. General Passenger Agent Townsend, of
ha Miccouwi pani6n haC Oivau n0tica WaSt1rn
connections that his road will accept any rate on
east-bound tickets that may be necessary to meet
the cut rate via Chicago. He does not limit
them to given price, but simply says: Meet
thesrate of our competitors, whatever it may be.
A strong pressure is being brought upon East
ern roads to induce them to adopt some style OF
combination ticket for travelling statesmen upon
which they can travel on any road. AS yet the
general passenger agents have given them little
encouragement. the passenger agents taking the
position that the low rates given travelling sales
men and business houses generally should be
satisfactory.
E, T. Scott, general manager of the fndianap-
oils Peru 81 Chicago road is in the city. 1t is a
matter OF surprise IL railroad circles Inat the
p g. G. prorates with the Wabash on Toledo and
Detroit business which originates on the l., p. d
C. On the present rate the l.. p. 81 c.. gets L
cent per 100 pounds for hauling it seventy three
miles, when it should. being the original line get
at least q cents or one half the rate from Indi-
annapolis to Toledo.
The roads which handle the west bound an
&hracite coal traffic are anticipating heavy fall
and winter business The summer shipments
have not reached the usual volume until quite
recently; then shipments are to be made more
extensively this year to points further west
The roads handling this traffic show no DISPOSE
ton to advance the rates, but favor extending
them to markets more distant than they have
heretofore been allowed.
rumor comes round through Chicago that
0oI %1,o~
loads of grain out of Peoria five cents per 100
pounds. 1t might be well to take but little stock
In this rumor, as it is well known that desper-
ate effort is being made by certain shippers in
the West to bring about Generalization in
rates The roads. however are now making too
handsome earnings to admit of such shippers
carrying out their schemes
John w. Cloud. engineer of tests on the Penn
sylvania road has been appointed mechanical
engineer vice Mr. j. B. Collin, deceased, to date
from Aug |. The Office of engineer of tests
will from that date be merged into that of me-
chanical engineer and the department of phys
ical tests will be in charge Of the mechanical
engineer WAC will make Investigations examine
current supplies and materials to be purchased
and perform the other duties which pertain to
that department.
Frank S. Cannon has resigned his Office as
general superintendent of the New York City &
Northern road. to accept an important position
con the Baltimore & Ohio Mr. Cannon ad
dressed farewell letter to the officers and en-
ployes of the road, thanking them for the man
ner in which they have performed their duties
during the past five years under his charge
The employees presented him with a valuable
watch and chain as 8 testimonial of their es
TEEN for him.
An Evansville ticket scalper has hit upon
new scheme to secure commissions. He watches
for parties VIII, purchase tickets at the depot,
scrapes up an acquaintance with them, then ex-
amiDes their tickets, gets number, form and deS-
tination. and then sends them in to the companies
as having been sold by him. In this manner he
proposed to get commissions some fifteen
tickets sold. reading over the Chicago. Milwau-
kee & St Paul road and but for the shrewdness
of District Passenger Agent Mordaugh the
scalper would have succeeded in getting COM
missions on the fifteen tickets.
A short time since the Knights Templars of
Cincinnati and their friends contracted with the