The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

M. E. Ingalls, president Of the G., l., St L. Il
O., isexpected home from the East this morning
The Senate of Iowa has before it bill to pro-
hibit running trains in that State on Sunday
Superintendent Woodland and General Freight
Agent McDoel. of the L., N. A. & c., were in the
city yesterday.
Charles Bromley, former c., !. st. L. & c.
conductor, has removed with his family to Kan
sas. where he will locate permanently.
William S. Baldwin, general passenger agent
of the L., N. A. & G., who on Thursday last was
called East to bury a near relative, is expected
hcme to-day
The number of crossings of railroads and high
ways at grade, according to the returns in Massa-
chusetts. is q 49, of which 700 are protected by
gates or fagmen.
There are pending in this Congress nine propo
stions to grant railroads right of way through
the Indian Territory, of which half are in the in
terest of Boston capitalists
From 1880 to 1885, the passenger traffic of
American railways increased per mile ~ per
cent, the freight traffic 38 per cent while in that
period our foreign trade declined 20 per cent
G. Bouscaron has resigned the position of con-
sulting engineer of the Cincinnati, New Orleans
& Texas Pacific railway, to take effect tomor-
row, at which time the Office will be abolished.
The Attorney general of the State of Illinois
has given an opinion that it is not the duty of
Railroad Commissioners to institute suit against
railway companies for failure to feed and water
stock in transit
w. F. Halstead, general superintendent of the
Delaware, Lackawanna q Western, has been
elected to the position of general manager of that
company's line. both lease and proprietary. The
position is new one.
Major Robert Emmett, late district passenger
agent of the L., N. A. & c., this week goes TO
New Orleans to be cured of his deafness, an en-
inent surgeon having expressed the opinion that
he can effect permanent cure.
Commissioner George L. Carman has called
meeting of the general managers of the North
western Traffic Association, to be held at his
office next Tuesday, for the purpose of consider
ing the reorganization of the association, which
expires March 81.
A bill is now before the Legislature of Ohio
which provides that each railway shall keep
iagman at every country crossing where the ap-
proach OF the train cannot be seen from both
sides OF the crossing at distance of 100 feet
The penalty is fine of $50 for each day, one
half of which is to be paid to the citizen in whose
name the judgment is recovered and the other
half to the common schools.
The Philadelphia Times SAYS: s"There are
schemes and schemes for reorganizing Reading
and scarcely day passes that does not witness
the abandonment of some old scheme and the
PRONUNCIATION of anew one or two So far, how
ever, they all seem to be based upon one idea
that of getting the par value, and as large rate
OF dividends and interest as possible, upon all
the stock and the immense indebtedness of the
concern"
The following passenger agents, it is stated,
will to-day sever their connection with the Ohio
d Mississippi road: G.. d. Bacon. general West
ern passenger agent, st. Louis: A G.. Goodrich,
Western passenger agent. Kansas City, w. B.
Halsted, travelling passenger agent, Vincennes,
Ind; H. A. Wells, Eastern passenger agent.
New York; D. Bride, passenger agent, Baltimore;
H. y Christopher, travelling passenger agent,
Chillicothe, o.
Governor Albeit, of New Jersey does not
seem to be as frightened over the railroad tax as
the State Treasurer, who suspended payment the
moment he heard that the Supreme Court de-
cided in favor of the railroads by declaring the
tax of 1884 unconstitutional. Under the new law
$I95OO0 has been already collected from the
railroads out OF an assessment OF 1882, 900. TAX
ing the old tax as basis. only $50. 900 will have
to be returned to the railroad, If the Supreme
Court decision stands. So the State of Jersey
stands in no great danger of being bankrupt.
The plan of simplifying railway time tables by
an avoidance of the division Of the day into two
parts of twelve hours each, and by computing
time so that IL p NJ shall be "a o'clock, is about
to be tried on the western division of the Can
adam Pacific. It's timetables. as printed in the
February number of the Travellers Official Guide
make trains arrive at Port Arthur at l P. NJ and
leave Winnipeg at P. M. Hereafter the same
periods of time will be expressed by stating the
time of arrival at Port Arthur as Is o'clock and
the hour of departure from Winnipeg as 10
o'clock.
The family of T. A Lewis we're Yesterday the
recipients of numerous kilograms of sympathy
in this hour of their severe affection and num-
Der of prominent railroad men teegraphed that
it was their purpose to attend the funeral. which
occurs on Tuesday next, at Up NJ OF the num-
Der were H. r. Duval. formerly general mana
ger of the Erie lines, now general manager of
the Florida Railroad and Transportation Com
pany; George Rlstine, present general manager
of the Erie lines; F. H. Kingsbury assistant
general freight agent of the c., St l.. g. p; COL
Joseph Hill, of the Vandalia.
Three or four years ago Michigan Central
railroad train ran into farmers rig at a cross
ing and killed the old man and both horses The
old woman was found a pretty easy customer to
settle with. She took 5000 for the horses, 81, 900
for the old man. and life-pass in payment of
her own shaking up. Within six weeks after
getting the pass she went down to visit her
daughter, near Chicago, and two days afterward
returned to her sons, near Detroit. Since that
date she has used the pass regularly four times
per week, or matter of 800 times Travel
seems to benefit her. and she expects to put in at
least ten years more of life. seeming quite de-
termined to get her moneys worth out of the
lifepass.
A party Of young gentlemen recently made the
trip from Albany to Poughkeepsie, and to relieve
the monotony, says the Albany Express re-
paired to the smoking It was an old-look-
ing vehicle, and despite its age and palpable
wear and tear, it still retained some evidence of
ioruer SrdHueur Inc young men noted lnl5
and one of them remarked to the conductor that
1T was queer kind of caboose for smoking
car" ''You're right" returned the ticket gath
erer I'm sorry to see the old girl come to such
a pass as this. 1t was upon this car that the
body of President Lincoln was carried from
Albany to Buffalo. upon the occasion of that
memorable funeral in 1865. But in one way we
keep the recollection of that sad event wildly
impressed upon our memories. In one enc of
the car we have a large photograph of Washing
tan nh TT fhn ana nf ALL D~&I
entwined in flags, and the upper parts of the car
are appropriately decorated"
New TranscOn tinental Rates.