The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-15
AFFAIRS or THE RAILWAYS.


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James McCrca, general manager of the Penn
syisania lines. will be in the city to-day and will
remain for day or two
The l., B. g. W. landed 1900 Dunkards at
Fisisburg, o., on Sunday. This is the only road
ysAat runs directly to the grounds.
DC. e Ingalls, has returned from New York,
and will be in the city tomorrow to attend the
Daion railway officials meeting.
The Bee-line shops at Nation, which have
been working but eight hours for some months
PAST yesterday commenced running nine hours.
Paymaster Sullivan, on the c., l.. St. L. & c.,
VIII pay, ON Thursday on the eastern division
For May service, and on the western division on
Friday
General Superintendent Miller, under date of
Enhe I3. gives notice that Jacobus Station. on
she p. G. 81 ST. L., will hereafter be known as
IaHkton
a dispatch from New York states that T. J.
11ester declined the presidency of the Cleveland,
Cdsumbus, Cincinnati 6 Indianapolis road. To
Hay he starts on tour of inspection of the c.,
B. g @. system.
The lowpressure engine No. 49, on the c., L,
nj Il q O., has just been rebuilt. and made it's
sirSa trip yesterday. Expert judges say it is now
khs lest proportioned and handsomest engine
EuBsing on Indianapolis lines.
General Manager McCrea and Superintendent
sfaylor, Of the Panhandle railroad, took the Wis
ktisg party of French engineers, now in Pitts
f,usg. out to Washington, Pa. on special train
10 box over the oil and gas field.
b. L. Doherty, commissioner of the Indianapo-
lis bound pool, has gone to Chicago, to be alb
BeBa y couple of days He goes there to aid Com
missioner Blanchard in adjusting the pool per
rents at a number of Western points
Caicials of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pnzy say there is no truth in the rumors that
khe company will try in any manner to prevent
Ehs erection of the bridge over the Arthur Kill
ny abe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.
q G. Davis, for some time past accountant
;0f che general freight Office of the Grand Trunk
E&AwAy, in Montreal, has been appointed
ditw and assistant to the general manager of
kha Erie 81 Huron railway, with headquarters in
sTmSntc
George w. Smith. general passenger agent of
ths Lake Erie g. Western who for years was
ssne6dsed as being the champion rate-eutter, has
dFpppeG out of sight apparently since H. NJ.
HsFseson. general passenger agent of the l., b. d
w has put on his war-pa;nt 1t must be try
eng 10 Mr.. Smith to have his laurels rudely
jriBgked from him.
TArough business, east-bound. out of st. Louis
IL - heavv that both the Vandalia and the Bee
1ius are often obliged to put on extra sleeping
coaches to accommodate the travel On arriv-
Ing Rt Indianapolis each takes an additional
p5ssping coach which also filed 1t is stated
Ghna travel in this direction was never heavier
Ahsa fer ten days past
TAe Bee-line and Pennsylyania people have
treated the l., B. & w. so shabbily that HI. NJ.
Bf@nson has notified George Daniels, commits
Eisaer of the passenger department of the Cen
1krA Traffic Association, that he will not train
sssssA such fellows, will not be a member of any
pess they are in, or enter into any agreement
wish either to maintain rates.
4: e. Henderson, general manager of the l..
D. q W., who returned from Europe Saturday
taas but just landed when telegram notifying
n Al. -
siAs deceased resided at Weaverton, Md, and
AVIS IS years of age Some two years ago she
grsnt several weeks with her son, and made
sDsay warm friends in this city, so bright and
socsable was she.
Doubtless Commissioner Daniels. of the pas
Heager department of the Central Traffic Asso-
eistion, wishes he had remained as commissioners
Eaf freight association il the salary was s. 900
bese He gets the troubles adjusted at one point
Hna they break out in uelier proportions at an
miAer. He is quoted as saying: You might as
Tfa look for harmony in - as for harmony be-
Hveen the passenger men," 1t does seem as
Essural for them TO quarrel as for ducks to swim.
The passenger department of the Pennsylvania
psailroad Company announces that on and after
Monday, June Ia, thousand-miie tickets on the
ksshuyikill division, when purchased by q mem
Bser OF business firm, will be accepted for the
passage Of any other member employee of the
pane firm. These tickets will also be accepted
tpr the passage of members of the purchasers
5amiiy. This is an advance step, and one which
should be extended over the entire Pennsylvania
pystem. 1t would encourage travel and increase
revenue therefrom without doubt
yandala engine No. s, on Thursday last
pnsde record which some of those monster new
taatsburg passenger engines will be troubled to
ssxeei. She hauled ten cars, well loaded, from
Nsreencastle to the Belt road-thrty eight miles
lin forty three minutes The engine is Hinck-
icy build like No. z. weighs thirty EIGHT tons,
ANA has been in service seven years. 1t is stated
that either of these engines will start train of
lto1r coaches from a standstill, and reach such
speed before the last coach passes a person that
4he most active railroad man cannot board the
Ffrnsa
nssaisviile, New Albany & Chicago road, Is in
Mes York. One of the subjects to be cousid-
'er0d by the executive committee there is the
proposed construction of branch line from
Oraeane to the West Baden Springs, at French
Lack. Ind. The latter point is some fifty-five
Eniies from Louisville. The proposed line would
he but seventeen miles in length. but it would
pead direct to the celebrated springs mentioned
nspve, that at present can be reached only by
Pngons.
The "school-marms" are creating quite stir
IN passenger circles. Some two hundred Of
&nem. In this and adjoining States. will attend
Ahe National Education Association. which cor
~soes 10 Topeka, Kan, July ID. The l.. B. &
w and Chicago 81 Alton have stepped in and
Peeured the lions share To be more polite than
Gheaf competitors, they propose to run through
chair-ears from Indianapolis to Kansas City.
Thss is new precedent. and competing lines
Eow threaten to knock the bottom from under
rates, and allow ALL not only the school teachers
bus outsiders, to go at the same rates. chair car
Recommendations. etc Now Commissioner Dan
Lels has the racket on his hands to SETTLE
President Blood of the Cleveland & Canton,
has not been In Cleveland since the May cleo
hon. 1t is said that he is remaining in Boston
Ia order TO avoid personal service in the quo
sRarranto proceedings instituted by the Corbin
people In the Ohio State Supreme Court Serv-
lee by publication was therefore necessary It
commenced June 3, and requires four weeks.
Then the defendants will be allowed two weeks
en- which to reply. 1t will therefore be late in
July before the can be reached, and By that
time the supreme judges will probably have adj
tourned for the summer No one will disnute