The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

FW. Salisbury has been appointed travelling
agent of the Toledo. Ann Arbor s. Northern
Michigan road at Toledo
l. g. Cannon is in Chicago He has some
prospect of securing position which will pay
him handsome salary, and one which he is
fully competent to fill.
John B. Carson, general manager of the L.,
N. A. & c., who has been off couple of weeks
on hunting and fishing expedition, has re-
turned aud is again at his post
District Passenger Agents Jerome and Jen-
kins, of the New York Central, are in the city,
taking soundings for business. Both are wide
awake and friend-inaking fellows
Commissioner Carman will ere long have no
Tess than thirty pools under his jurisdiction. He
10 at present at work on putting the finishing
souches to certain of the agreements.
E. L. Kraft has been appointed chief train
dispatcher of the Indianapolis & Vincennes road
vice w. f. Fox who. on Saturday leaves to &C
cepS position on the Minneapolis g. St Louis
road.
Inquiry regarding Southern tourists rates
already being made, and travel southwark this
Gall and winter promises to be heavy. The
5Decial rates will not go into effect until
Nov. l.
James A. Sahgston has been appointed gen
eral travelling passenger agent of the Mississippi
g. Tennessee road at Memphis, and John M.
Hines has been appointed passenger agent at
that point
Tho American Express Company pays the Bee
line $40 per day for hauling it's two through
express cars from Cleveland to Union. where the
regular express train which leaves Cleveland
some two hours earlier, is overtaken
Commissioner Blanchard mas called meeting
Of the Central Traffic Association to be held at
Chicago on the Goth of October. At this meet
ing the better maintenance of rates and arbitra-
matters Will
9. F. Braune has been appointed emigrant
agent Of the Pennsylvania railroad at Philadel
Dhia, vice Francis Funk, deceased. Mr.. John
g. Haberstroh has been appointed agent Of the
company in New York in place of Mr.. Braune.
AS yet no action has been taken looking to an
advance in east-bound rates on Nov l. 1t is
said that at the meeting, last week, little was
said about the matter, and that there will be
anything done before the close of navigation is
now the question.
The cash receipts on inbound freghts at til e
Bee-line city freight depot were, in September,
in round numbers 1886, 000-about Sc 900 better
than in August, which was a big month. The
receipts this month will doubtless be in excess
of either of the months above mentioned.
In the United States Circuit Court at Pha-
delphia, yesterday, the application for the dis
missal of the Robinson Reading railroad fore
closure suit was denied and argument was pro-
Ceeded with The court appointed Austin Cor
bin the third Reading receiver, and made
decree
general mortgage.
There is great scarcity of coal cars, and at
the present time there is not any description of
coal on this market in supply sufficient to fill
the dem and. This remark applies to coal of our
Indiana production, as we'll as to Ohio and Penn
sylvania Goals. If this state of affairs long con-
tinues. it will be seriously felt and will more or
less cripple our industries.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is build
ing at its shops in Altoona thirty freight
gines weighing 114,000 pounds or 107 tons.
They rest on four pairs of drivers and pony
truck, have 66-inch boiler and $50 fues These
engines to haul the cars the company is
building of ffty-ton capacity, which built
prOpOrtionately strong with the monster loco
motives
The Cleveland & Marietta Railway Company
announce that the assessments of the bondhold-
ers will be returned on presentation of tho re
eeipts at the Metropolitan Trust Comp nr's
Office. The reorganization of the road has be-
completed, and j. K Nash, A. T. Wykoff, A. }.
Warner NJ. K. Jessup and j. W. Ellis have been
elected directors of the new company, with A. T.
Wykoff president and manager.
8gGn commenting the position Governor Pat
tison, of Pennsylvania has taken regarding coal
and railroad pools a far-Seeing railroad man says
that long time after the Governor has been
under the ground the ffty-ton locomotives of the
Pennsylvania lines will be jingling their bells,
and hauling coal at rates the volume of their
business will justify. or, in other words, he said
more than he could chew"
The directors of the Belt road and Tndianapo-
lis stockyards held their regular monthly meet
ipg yesterday. A. d. Lynch, secretary and
treasurer, rendered his resignation, and r. S.
Mckee was elected to the position The subject
of paying dividends quarterly, instead of semi
annually, was discussed. but definite action
taken; but it is highly probable that at the next
annual meeting action to that effect will be
taken. No other business of Importance was
transacted
Commissioner Blanchard has not yet been
officially notified that the Ohio e. Mississippi
road had withdrawn from the passenger depart
ment of the Central Traffic Association. The
Ohio & Mississippi is said to be perfectly salts
fed with its standing in the freight department.
of the traffic association and with it's per cent.
In the st. louis east bound pool, and we'll they
may Ce, as whenever a change in percentages is
made the o. & NJ. will not be allotted the per
cent. it has in the present award.
Two Western and Eastern roads are using to
great advantage the air brake on their trains and
the steam brake on their passenger locomotives.
The air brake is used until the speed of the
sraln is partially checked, and then the train is
stopped by the steam brake the locomotive.
While this is a considerable saving in wear and
5ear OF equipments, it works admirably when
she train stops starts. the annoying trouble
which often comes at such times with the air
brake being entirely avoided, as before the train
ZONES to standstill the brake lets go it's
Aold. the steam brake, which reinquishes its
aold promptly, handling the train handsomely.
Millionaire Mackey has just reached New York
from San Francisco via the Canadian Pacific
railroad and grows enthusiastic it. He
saws: "The railroad from Fort Moody to Mont
PEAL has mileage of 1905 miles. and for its
size l consider it of the best built roads in
She world. The magni6cepee of the scenery Is
beyond my power to describe. I may say, how
ever, that it is the grandest 1 have wit
messed, not even excepting Norway and Sweden.
Ia fri ie eli nj and In ha
appreciated the country must be travelled
through The accommodations provided of
jhe very finest Splendid dinngroom cars are
attached to each train, and there is an innova-
zion in the sleeping cars.
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