The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-14
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local
Hereafter the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
pill NOS employ men who are over forty-Rve
PEARS of age.
The Wabash to-day drops out OF the Indianap-
Pills Weighing Association General Agent
Lynn says that the road is not dealt with fairly.
The stock of the c., Fl. q d. Is still advanc-
Ing. l.479 shares sold Monday at $50. It is be-
lieved that 1t was bought in Huntington's In
Eerest.
The management of the Wabash, st Louis g.
Pacific railway has taken off the fast mail train,
NO ~, to connect with the Lake Shore fast train
ut Toledo.
The trunk-line executive committee have not
yes taken any action on the position OF the CHI
cago q Atlantic, pending the receipt of state
nent of the new president MIR. Benedict
The better earnings and smooth manner in
which the affairs of the Bee-line are now run
ping along Is again bringing the road into prom
lnence and creating demand for the stock.
Reid Northrop president of the American
Refrigerator Transit Company, was in the city
yesterday Official business. He reports the
business of the company, which operates over
fhe Wabash system, to have increased 100 per
eeBt the last year.
The Wabash, with its refrigerator-car line
put OF indianapolis, seems to be securing its full
business.
fwo carloads of poulty and eggs for New York
end New England points out for Indianapolis
lhippers. Until this year this road has made no
effOgt to secure this class OF traffic.
Col VIM. Bailey, president and general man
pgsr of the Kansas City g. Southern road, Is in
Lbs city. He has trains running and doing an
Excellent business between East Lynne and Os-
Dsols, eighty miles, is pushing the extension Of
Lbs road from Osceola to Kansas City and Lynne
10 Bolivar. Mo-. and paying every dollar as the
work progresses.
The trunk line executives committee at their
tass meeting. agreed to check the decentralization
in rates on New England business by having In
epeetors at the important avenues out of New
England, wherever the freight is transferred to
The trunk lines. In order to check the cutting
nf rates on Philadelphia business they agreed
mot to participate IN any rebates.
Shipments of hardwood lumber to Eastern
markets continue to be very light, the lower
Rates of the summer months not improving bust
peSS Most or this class of business goes to New
England, but the lumber trade throughout New
England ID demoralized by the labor troubles;
hnd while good deaf OF stock, under ordinary
conditions, would go into consumption to satisfy
demands and the yards require immediate re-
plenshlng, dealers manifest but little disposition
20 purchase, and business is being done in q
band to mouth fashion.
States Express Company will be closed perma-
hently. The recent decision against them in
Eheir suit with the Pittsburg & Western railroad
kEd q somewhat similar difficulty with the New
York. Pennsylvania s. Ohio railroad, have shut
khem out of that city entirely. Three years ago,
when they closed their Office, they had trouble
with the Pittsburg g. Western road in regard TO
rates The difficulty adjusted, however,
Pnd the ofice opened again three months later.
This time the probability is they shut out
for good The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio
viii, it is said, enter into contract with the
Baltimore 81 Ohio Express Company, and the
Pistsburg & Western people will run their own
Express.
The oldest engineers running on Indianapolis
roads state that Tuesday and Wednesday nights
were the most dangerous to run trains that they
have over experienced. The continuous sharp
lightning blinded their eyes, and they were liza
bic at any moment to run into washed-out Gull
vert or strike a tree which had blown across the
crack. They say it was only through good
Duek that the trains reached their
destinations without accident. Still there
Rre railroad officials who think that the
engineers and fremen who face such
hangers are too well paid or paid better than
any other class Of workingmen One who sees
Ehese brave fellows on the footboard pull out at
bnidaight aud face all these dangers can but
think they earn all they are paid.
New Mutual Benefit Association.