The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-11
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The tieket-brokers hold their annual meeting
ct Cincinnati tomorrow. George Frey will rep
resent the Indianapolis scalping fraternity
The Evansville & Terre Haute earned IN the
four months ending April 30, S2l9 5o6 increase
ever earnings corresponding period 1889. ~,
Commissioner Doherty, of the Indianapolis
sast-bound pool, has gone to St Louis 70 talk
over pool per cents. with the St Louis frelgnt
men.
g. w. Burt secretary of the c., O.. c. & ].
Mutual Benefit Association, is In the city. lie
reports the organization to be in most prosper
OPS condition.
J. D. Campbell, general solicitor of the L. B.
kW. is in the city on official business His
Unable wife accompanies him. They are the
quests of Mrs. G. W. Fairbanks
Engine No 9 on the l., d. & s. road comes
uI of the shops rebuilt to-day. Improvements
ave been made on her which. it is believed,
will make her the fastest running engine in the
vest
The Bee-line management will not shorten the
banning time Of their express until the Both.
The 10th was the date fixed upon, but there is 9
hitch, the Boston & Albany kicking in the
traces.
George R. Blanchard is making the Central
fraf1c Association as perfect and useful an or
ganization as Commissioner Fink's trunk-line
pool. Abuses and evils are being abolished and
rates are maintained
A. B. Southland, late general manager of the
L., N. A. IL g.. to-day, with his family, removed
to Chicago. T. Noonan the general manager of
the new B. & o. Kankakee dispatch, has rented
his house on North Meridian street.
John Ewar, superintendent of the Bee-line
who is in rather poor health, and Walter Nichols
district passenger agent, have obtained three
weeks leave of absence, and will spend the time
at French Lick Springs, in the southern part OF
the State.
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan railroad
will next Sunday begin running two passenger
trains between Warsaw and Indianapolis. Gen
eral Manager Beckley has heretofore opposed
the running of Sunday trains and the new de-
parture creates some surprise.
"A friend who is intimately acquainted with FL.
j. Jewett, says: s'Mr Jewett has concluded not
TO devote the remaining few years of his life to
schemes of revenge against the Erie for kicking
him out of its management. He has therefore
resigned the presidency OF the Chicago % At
1antc.S
The Railway Register says: ut would be a
great stroke of policy should Mr.. NJ E. Ingalls,
be chosen president of the Decline property.
No person who has been named would be more
in accord with the conservative course which the
present times demand. Let US have Mr.. ingalls,
by all means"
The meeting of the Indiana Train dispatchers'
Association at Lafayette, on Sunday, a very
pleasant affair. Some twenty dispatcners were
in attendance Several interesting papers were
read. and there was lively discussion on train
orders and rules. The boys were treated very
handsomely by their friends in that city
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will appear
before the public again this summer as a bene-
factor IL has imported the customary quantity
of fans from the domain of the Mikade, at Toxic,
where they are made by the Nippon Mercantile
Company. Ten.thousand are to be distributed
an its southeastern connection, the l.. B. 81 w.
Should new management take hold of the
c., n. e. d. after the June meeting, they will
find some fWaite-y' litigations hanging over the
company says prominent attorney, "as U Y.
Waite fought bravely whore he thought the
rights of the company were trampled on the
three years he has been the general manager"
F. D. Childs, for many years superintendent
of the Hinckley locomotive works in Boston, has
accepted similar position in the Canadian
locomotive engine company.s works. Kingston,
Canada. Mr.. Childs is well known. having
wide acquaintance among railroad men and
high reputation as q designer and constructor Of
locomotives.
''Gems of the Northwest" comes with the
compliments of the Chicago Milwaukee 81 ST.
Paul road. 1t is bright. fresh and readable. 1t
all refers to the prominent places of interest
along the line of the road that knows how to
prepare and publish and place before the public
n book that will attract attention to the road and
be retained as interesting guide IN itself.
The c., W. g. NJ. Railroad Company will bal
last its track. through the sandy country of
northern Indiana and southern Michigan, with
crushed limestone from the bluffs at Wabash
a large stone-crnsher, with capacity of ten
car-loads day, has .een put III place The sand
ballast easily washes out and Is carried away by
the high winds. and the stone will make sub
stantial Improvements
George w. Boyd, assistant general passenger
ngent of the Pennsylvania road, made the city q
flying visit He came West to get his family
who have been visiting his parents for a couple
of weeks, and with them returned to Philadel-
phia last evening. Mr.. Boyd reports travel over
1he Pennsylvania proper heavy-the labor
troubles not having affected Eastern roads in the
volume of travel as much as Western roads
have been.
The Railway Register says. 1T might be in
4sresting TO those who argue that Colonel Hoxie
is not friend of the workingman to know that
while general superintendent of the |. e. G. N.
many employees let their money accumulate till
from $500 to 81, 900 were due them. Prior to the
receivershp Colonel Hoxie took an engine and
car and hunted up all the creditors of this kind,
paying them every cent, after which the road
went into the handssof the court"
If South slider" will spend few moments
with General Manager Malott, of the Union
Railway Company, examining the plans and
location of the new union depot he will see the
folly of writing such article appeared
in yesterdays Journal denouncing the enter
prise. The gist of the article was against
placing viaduct over Meridian street. an idea
which WAS abandoned some weeks ago. Then
NJ. E. Ingalls, came in for considerable abuse.
The fact is, Mr.. ingalls, has attended none of the
meetings of late and has had less to say about
this matter than any other of the several rail-
road officials.
new invention called the "Deeds Metallic
Packing" manufactured by company lately in
corporated in this city, given very severe
test on yesterday, by Engineer Edward Tinney,
pay-car engine No. 1041, Wabash railway, and
Il was successful in every particular This pack
ing consists of Babbitt metal segments, cut lon
gitudnally and suspended in rubber rings on
piston and valve stems. The run was made
from Indianapolis to Peru, seventyive miles,
in one hour and ffty-fiye minutes without ad-
justing the glands or other care On arrival at
Peru the pistons were bright as new, and showed
not the least sign Of heating. This is considered
remarkable, as it is this high speed and great
friction that has proved so fatal to metallic
packing. Engineer Tinney, who has run an
Engine for this company for twenty nine years