The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Persona Al and Local.

Personal and Local.
W. A. Folatte has been appointed joint agent
Pity and adjoining territory. in place of G. Fl.
Weed, resigned.
The earnings of the l., D. s. S. road for the
!hree weeks Of April ending the 2lst were S2o,-
lO2 5l, an increase over the earnings for the cor
responding period in 1885 of 81, 1888.
Since the Lehigh Valley has been turned to
ehe path of recituds the Wabash which mas
furnished 1t with grain, has been consigning It's
shipments to the West Shore. its old connection.
The speck of trouble in the horizon of the
krunk-line pool caused by irregularities 10 rates
made by the Lackawanna and Lehigh valley
roads, has faded from sight for the moment, ana
everything is again running smoothly.
NJ B. Talcott. vice-president and general man
nger of the Mobile & Ohio. has issued circular
Announcing that the office of Sumner Hopkins,
assistant general freight agent of the line, has
been transferred from Cairo to 81 Louis.
o. B. Skinner traffic manager Of the Decline
system is to return from California in about
thirty days, and there is considerable specula
Rion as to whether he will again assume the
duties of the position. Before leaving, some six
months ago, he intimated to friends that he
Mould not
The Indianapolis az Vincennes road is surpris-
Ing its best friends il the volume of traffic 1t is
Earrying The earnings of the freight depart
ment in March were some 30 per cent in excess
of this month promise to be the largest Of any
April in the roads history.
A. r. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent OF the Pennsylvania lines, returned yes
kerday from Florida. While absent he travelled
Extensively over Southern roads. and he was
ihere has been made the last year or two in the
physic al condition CT the roads of the South
The Pennsylvania Company are identifying
tbeir grounds adjacent to the shops in the east
ern part of the city by laying them out in hand
eomely graded grass plats, and setting out large
end those adjacent thereto already appear Ike
beautiful parks the grand shade trees adding
much to the scenery.
The Bee-line general freight officials are now
puzzling their brains to settle old rebate claims
which the White line saddled upon them. One
way he Is satisfied that there will be no more, as
Che men at the head of the freight department.
he the present time working for revenue
homage being secondary.
The Vandalia and Pennsylvania people are
quietly looking on while the Decline. Lake
Shore and New York Central complete the ar
engagements for shortening their running time
between ST Louis and New York. The former
viii then arrange timetable between st. Louis
end New York that will be at as high speed AS
fhe average American will wish to be hauled
between the two cities.
torney and myself have been investigating the
crcokednsss at the elevators in this city, in the
matter of giving certificates of weights. and the
deeper we get the more rascality do we uncover;
and the worst feature of the case is that there
were railroad officials who we'll knew that these
nnderbilling schemes were being practised on
kheir own roads. and winked at them They had
Found cases whore dozens of cars had been for
warded to interior points underbilled from 2,c00
30 5000 pounds
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Miller of the Pennsylvania lines; William r.
{McKeen, president of the Vandalia; Gaylord
Beach, manager of the Bee-line system, are to
be in the city to-day for further conference re.
garding the new union depot. The ordinances
10 be presented before the City Council will
eome up for approval, and the question of loca-
Zion will probably be definitely settled The sixty
days option on several pieces of property expires
IN afew days, and there can be but little more
lilly dallying in the matter.
J. Francis Lee has been appointed commercial
@,ent of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company
knd will have charge of the freight and passen-
ger business. with offices at Chicago for that
kerritory In the United States west of and in
Eluding the States of Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee,
Georgia. and Florida Mr.. Lee, who was for
many years the Canadian agent of the Rock
island road, has been succeeded by G. E. Nc
Pherson. Mr.. Lee, says the Inter Ocean, has
addressed rather remarkable document ito
Friends and colleagues In the railway service of
canada and the United States, in which the first
person singular does not stand isolated, but
keeps itself company.
The skies are certainly brighter as regards the
labor trouble on Western roads. and there is
healthier outlook to transcontinental matters
and the affairs of the granger roads, and the set
Element OF the Lake Shore strike leaves the rail
road situation far more clear and free from en-
barrassment. So far as actual disturbance is
concerned, there remains only the alleged strike
Pm the Missouri Pacific. With regard to this,
authorities differ. The labor organizations pro-
fees to regard it as an important movement in
full swing, carried on with firm determination
10 win or to ruin the railroad. Hr. Hoxie daily
reports progress in disposng of the vast accumu-
batons of freight piled up at terminal points,
Rnd also at the local depots on the company's
tne. He states that extraordinary exertons are
being made to bring up arrears of work, and as
poon as this is accomplished the road will be in
regular serviceable orasr again, and all signs of
Ehe strike, save where property has been de-
btroyed, will have disappeared.
One Live Industry.
w. e. Chapman, Of the Midvale Steel works,
Philadelphia, was in Pittsburg Tuesday, and in
talk with a reporter of the Pittsburg Dispatch,
ha stetsd that the crders this year ara vary