The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-03
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local

AffAlhO VI HE hAlliNAI Ds
Personal and Local
Belt road engineers in March handled 2,515
carlOads of live stock.
In the month of March, 1885, there were trans
ferred over the Belt road Al, lS3 cars.
q c. Waite, vice-president of the c., II. & D.,
- expected home from New York this morning
General Manager Beach, of the Bee-line sys-
sem, and John t. Dye, attorney for the compa-
ny, are in ST. Louis
The Peninsular car.works are building 400
Poxcars, thirty-four feet long, for the Cincin-
mali, Hamilton & Dayton railroad.
One Of the improved American electric loco
massive headlights has been placed upon O.,
ST. l. e. p engine running between Dayton and
Kenia to be thoroughly tested.
Thirty members of Congress will upon invita-
Zion of the Baltimore 81 Ohio railroad, visit the
proposed site for the Arthur kill bridge, be-
kween New Jersey and Staten Island, within
few days
Managers McCrea and Baldwin, of the Penn
syigania lines west of Pittsburg, are about con-
Eraeting for the erection of new freight depot,
$50 by 400 feet, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, Pittsburg, Pa. 1t will cost $780, 600.
Freight agents of Indianapolis roads have
bsen notified by the Northwestern lines that the
4rAffe association has passed out of existence,
and any rate they make will be approved by
ffhBkr Northwestern connection
The only people that are sure of reaping
rich reward from the transcontinental traffic
wAr are the Pullman-car people, who never re-
dnce their rates, and who always do an increased
bnsiness when the railway lines cut the rates
Commissioner George r Blanchard left Chi
cngo for New York yesterday, being called away
by the serious illness of his wife. 1t is there
fore possible that the Cincinnati and Indian
npslis pool meetings, called for Tuesday, will
DDs be held.
me labor troubles have not as yet affected the
north and south lines. The G., l., st. l. 81 O.,
fhs c.. FL. & D., the j., M. g. I. and the L., N.
A & G. roads never have done better business
in March than this year, and not for years have
ms good rates been obtained on the freight car
Eied
The Northwestern railroad has met the open
Rzk In freight rates inaugurated by the Milwau-
kss e. st. Paul road to st. Paul and Mime
Rpolis. The roads are all now making ten
nsns on first, second and third class and eight
ceats for fourth and fifth class, Chicago to st.
Paul
The strike on the Southwestern lines seems to
have completely checked emigration to Kansas.
Thousands of people who had arranged to move
4hsre in colonies have abandoned their inten-
tons, for the time being, at least AS conse-
unence passenger men denounce the strike with
maDre severity than the railway managers even.
) There is a good deal of grumbling on the part
OF members OF the Indianapolis Weighing Asso-
riation as to the division of expenses. Roads
doing the least business are in some cases called
npon to pay as much of the expenses as those do
ing Ave times as much business Were all cars
weighed, which is the proper method of doing
Business, discrimination of this character would
mot occur.
The l., B. & W. and c., A. & D. are using
ths differential rate on east-bound business for
AL there is in it, and their competitors are feel
ing sore. By the by, under the new agree
msnt, if these lines earn over their pool
per cents, they must pay over full rate
On alli passengers they carry to the pool pot
Under such circumstances it will hardly pay to
push their business too strong.
Charles Scribner, engineer on the c.. St
L. If p. railway, died yesterday morning at his
xesid ence 80 Arsenal avenue, of Brighs's disease
Of the kidneys. His remains will be taken to
Isogansport on Sunday morning By special train,
which will leave at 10 o'clock A. M from the
corner of Arsenal avenue and c., st. L. IL P.
tracks. and buried under the auspices of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Fire
men, OF which orders he was member.
Ashrewd ticketscalper on South Illinois street
succeeded, three successive Saturdays, in getting
Ten tickets at theatrical rates and a pass for
Chicago he employing man to do so under the
gpise that it was for theatrical troupe. The
third time the local passenger agent placed
man on the track of the purchaser. who, it was
found went directly to scalping Office and sold
these tickets and the pass. Two or three days
after the last transaction the scaper met the local
Jacket agent, and with broad smile passing over
6is face remarked well, you got on to me, didn't
your
The Pennsylvania Railway Company April
Fmk into effect passenger rates between New
York and Philadelphia and Pittsburg. The rate
FOR irst-class limited tickets for continuous
passage between New York and Pittsburg will
hereafter be $1,000. and between Philadelphia
and Pittsburg SO. This is a reduction of ST. in
tbs fare from Philadelphia The same rates
WIN prevail east-bound. The rate for 900 mile
tickets will also be reduced over all lines of the
Dompany east of Pittsburg and Erie, except the
united railroads of the New Jersey division,
from $25 to $40.
General j. FL. Devereux was trustee of the
Pitsburg s. Lake Erie road. His death leaves
Abe South Penn board equally divided between
W. K Vanderbilt and Jacob Henrici on one
side. and Messrs. Hostetter and Bennett, of
Pitssburg on the other. Ii the Hcstetter faction
gains control the South Penn road will
have boom. Mr.. Heinrich is eightytwo years
Of age and liable to die at any time DIR. Hos
setter is likely to secure control of the road. A
Pitssburg paper, in commenting upon the ques-
1iou, says: 1.-THE Hostetter faction gaining con-
troll Of the road would help the South Penn
wary much"
The l., B. & W. people have recently given a
good deal Of attention to locating watertanks
where soft water can be procured for their loco
motives, and a number of new water stations
have been erected in the last few months on the
eastern division. In some parts of the New
England and Southern States the firebox of
locomotive lasts about as long the boiler and
the tubes last fifteen or twenty years. and only
require renewal owing to the wear resulting
from the attrition of einders. In some parts of
Ahe Middle and Western States a fire box is
worn out with mileage under 100, 900 miles,
and the tubes have to be removed every six or
nine months.
A South nlinois-street passenger agent. not
daring to cut the rates yesterday. resorted to an
old subterfuge to effect sale of two tickets to
Kansas point. The parties had excess baggage
which would have cost them 81 so to get through.
The agent told them if they would take his route
ne would get their excess baggage through with
out additional charges. To do this he filled out
three tickets and presented them to the baggage