The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


Personal and Local.
Paymaster Crawford, Of the vandaia, pays
today on the IT,, FL. s. /. division for February
bervice.
The Brotherhood Of Railroad Conductors win
have q State reunion in Lafayette, Sunday,
April IL.
George Butler, district passenger agent of the
T., B. & w. is better, and was able to sit up for
. short time yesterday
Conductor Charles Yawter. of the L. N A. g
G.. has rendered his resignation. PROBABLY ne
will 90 on to the Ohio g. Mississippi
Paymaster Sheldon, of the Bee-line system,
NAYS on the Indianapolis division tomorrow, and
on ne l. &c St L. Thursday for February serv-
fca
y grand ball at Mozart Hail. the proceeds from
which 20 so j. F. Buckley, o crippled railroad
man.
Il is asserted in syndicate circles that Austin
Corbin has sold his Reading railroad stock, and
that he has none Of the securities OF the COM
pany
An order was issued in. the federal court, yes
terday. directing j. III. Cheney, receiver Of the
Lake Erie & Western road, to purchase thous-
and tons of steel rails.
Ehe second week in March $33, 100 decrease Of
81 TOO as compared with earnings the correspond
ing week of 1885 The earnings of the road since
Jar. show an increase this year of $27,744
On Wednesday last Charles Francis Adams,
IT., addressed large audience of Harvard stu
Gents upon the Chances of Success for College
Men in Railroading" It Is not stated whether
be advised them to become brakemen or con-
duetors
The low rates to California are diverting a
great deal of travel in that direction which
usually goes South at this season of the year.
and, to meet the low rates, the roads TO the
South are about to make substantial cuts in
their rates.
Leading New England papers ara publishing
extended and complimentary obituaries on j. ID.
Deyereux, late president OF the Bee-line system.
But few railroad men are more extensively
known than was the deceased, and none more
highly esteemed.
The Pullman car works are building for the
New York Sleeping-car Company a number OF
magnificent sleeping cars. Several are to oe
pus IN service on the Wabash road, and it is said
viii excel any other coaches in elegance ever
turned out at the Pullman works.
4 committee Of the Knights of Labor In the
IT,, n. A. & C.. shops at New Albany were in
Chicago, last week, to visit Superintendent
Woodward. Whether they wanted an increase
in wages, fewer hours, or the discharge of often
sire partisans, has not been made public.
Frank c. Hollins, chairman Of the reorganiza-
zion committee for the Lake Erie 81 Western
road. says that already between ST, LOG. 600 and
S1, 200 O00 Lafayette, Bloomington % Muncie
first mortgage bonds have been deposited. This
practically assures the success of the plan.
The Boston Advertiser says the Philadelphia
d Reading matter seems to be no nearer settle
nnent than BEFORE while the Baltimore q Ohio
matter has reached the point when the question
to be determined is, to use the expression OF q
contemporary. whether the road win bridge the
Kill, or the courts will kill the bridge.
It is alleged that the Baltimore & Ohio is
again receiving large consignments OF grain from
w. stern points by making heavy cuts on rates
IN word again was uncal1ed for in this case, as
T. so +fx,x,a md fnndf Int haV M
for q moment lived up to tariff rates on freight
from number of points they reach.
The statement of Commissioner Doherty shows
shat up to date since the Indianapolis east bound
live stock pool was established, which was June
"a, 1884, the Beeline has carried East 90 lilo
per cent. of the business; the c., St L. & p, %
no. the c., l., st. L. e. c., 3 2-I0; the l., B. g.
w. "a 10; the c., Ell. & D.. 2-10.
Important changes are in prospect on the
Richmond Sc Danvilie road Instead of there
being president three vice presidents and a
general manager, under the new deal. there will
De president and vice-president, the latter to
be genera manager WELL Z. B. Thomas.
who now is operating the road very successfully,
will be the man for the joint positions.
Passenger circles are somewhat disturbed over
the remark of L. c. Morris, general Eastern
passenger agent of the Indiana Bloomington 81
Western, who said in Buffalo that he would
place order books on sale there to all points west
On his own and connecting lines ''The road
10 got it's share Of business from this territory"
private car, the 'Wanderer." has been
aurued out of the Central Sleeping-car Com
papy's shops in Schenectady for William K. Van
derbist THE car is sixtytwo feet -ong and is
intended to accommodate eleven persons. Out
side it is an olive green. The interior is fitted
np richly ar in excellent taste The builders
OF the car say it is the handsomest car in the
country. Its cost to build was $4,000.
The Corbin syndicate seem to be having mat
fers their own way as regards the Cleveland q
Canton road 1t Is reported that proxies for over
], zoo shares have been added to the list assent
ing to the CorbiE-Parlin plan for the reorganiza-
fion of the Cleveland & Canton. and that the op
position TO the present management has secured
D large majority of the preferred shares, which
alone have voting power at the annual meeting
70 DO held In May.
There is alleged crookedness in the matter Of
weights certified to by officials of the l., D. 81 8.
Elevator Company. Where the irregularity is
seems difficult to ascertain. The secretary is
said 20 distribute signed certificates among grain
shippers leaving the weights blank for the ship
per TO FL: in. Through the weighing association
tt ID shown that the weights certain shippers fill
in are below actual weight, and there is trouble
brewing over the matter.
George Phippen, for twenty years the Montre-
al freight aren't of the Central Vermont rail-
road has been transferred. at his own request,
30 the Office in Boston, where his family resides.
His office staff. last week. presented him with q
handsome morroccocovered armchair. Promi-
nent merchants also dropped in until finally the
meeting eliminated in the presentation of a tes-
fimoniai letter, and something still more sub
etantia, purse of money.
The Lafayette Times says: The Erie railway
deserves to rank as public benefactor. 1t has
bid the train boy be less prevalent. Il has pre-
scribed the number of times he may pass through
4he train selling tour, and has forbidden
him to fling Cory Dick. the Trapper of Muir
Herer's Gulch." and his other literary abomina-
tons into the passengers lap, or to stick into his
hand package of bad caramels that taste like
shcemakers wax and include brass prize.
The division superintendent of the Pennsyl-
xania Railroad Company met General Manager
Chas. T.. Pugh last Saturday for consultation in
reference to the plan of relief for the en-
ployes of that company. A number of sugges-