The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-15
AFFAIRS Oh. THE RAILWAYS.
Persona, and Local.

bash at Detroit Mich, Is In the city on omciai
business.
e. A. Ford. general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines, will be in the city to day on
Official business.
t'aymaster Hedges, of the c., FL. & d. sys-
te,u, pays on the indianapolis division to-day, for
De sember service.
r j. Stricken, yardmaster Of the G., 81. & d.
at t.iis point. was married last evening to
youig lady residing in North Vernon. Ind.
There are English steel rails in the track of
the Wabash road which have been laid nine teen
years, and they show but little sign Of wear.
ID. w. Janowitz, who il to succeed Oscar
Vanderbilt as district passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific. arrived In the city yesterday
and at once assumed the duties of the position.
Austin Corbin, president of the l.. B. g. W.,
and J. G. Campbell, general solicitor will arrive
in the city this evening and probably inspect
the Peoria division tomorrow
Charles McCammon. passenger conductor on
the L., n. A. e. c. road who has been on the sick
list for nearly month, is so much improved In
health that he has taken his train again.
Oscar Severance, late stock agent of the Nickel
plate has been appointed general solicitor of live
stock shipments to the Indianapolis yards. Mr..
Severance will make good record in this posi-
tion.
James B. Pace the newly-elected president Of
The Memphis, Birmingham q Atlantic road, is
one the wealthiest men in the State of Virginia,
and pays the largest tax of any man in Rich
rmond, Va
The directors of the New York, Hartford s.
New Haven road have chosen Hon. Chauncey
n. Depew, president of the New York Central.
a director in the place made vacant by Mr.. Van
derbilt's death.
,fion Of superintendent of the Georgia division of
Ahe East Tennessee, Virginia g. Georgia road. to
accept the more important position OF superin-
fendent of the Mobile & Ohio road.
The engine .Chief" purchased by the Madison
& indianapolis Railroad Company thirty-eight
years ago. is still running, doing service on the
Rockport & Southwestern road 1t is said to be
the oldest engine now running west of the AL;
1egheny mountains.
Tuesday was field day at the Union Stock
yards. Chicago. Receipts of cattle aggregated
10, s66 head. number larger by 5000 than the
receipts of any previous day in the history of
the yards. A large percentage of the cattle
came from Illinois and Indiana.
Commissioner Fink yesterday reduced emil
grant rates to Chicago from New York, from SO
to ST. The new joint ticket Office at Castle Gar
den will be opened in few DAYS. The Emigrant
Pool Commission will distribute the business
pro rata among the different roads.
In commenting upon the election of F. B.
Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading
road the Philadelphia Record says: 1T is use
less to expect the tongue OF one man to sustain
. company that is staggering under liabilities
that are 500, coo, 600 in excess of its assets"
The passenger agents met again at Louisville,
yesterday, and adjourned to meet in Cleveland.
o.. Feb. l. The new rules submitted by the
revision committee were adopted, subject to the
approval of the general managers of the various
roads The new rules have not been made pub
lie, but will go into effect on Feb. il approved.
The day seems to have gone by when the
stockholders of the Baltimore e. Ohio can talk
of there being $50. 600. 600 surplus in the treas
ury, said we-informed railroad man yester-
day. Before five years rolls round, the B. e o.
road will be as badly in the mire, financially as
was the Erie when John King took hold of it, I'M
1ess young Garrett changes his programme.
4 Master Mechanic Black, of the c., II. & D.,
Twas in the city yesterday He states that next
week he will turn out of the Lima shops forty
ktwo-ton engine adapted to either freight or pas
,senger service. The engine has an Is by 4-inch
cylinder, feet drivers extension iler, straight
stack air-brake and several Improvements
which Mr.. Black has introduced in its construc-
4ion.
The year thus far has not been so favorable to
railroad interests had been hoped for, and
January earnings. the first half Of the month,
will fall considerably below either half of the
month of December. The fact is, that not for
many years has passenger business been as
light as since the holidays. The severe cold
weather doubtless has had much to do with the
dull traffic.
There ia said to be ample evidence that Presi-
dent Garrett, of the Baltimore 81 Ohio has in
Augurated the present passenger-rate war, not as
q measure of railroad policy much stock
iobbng device and by some of the Eastern pa
pers the Il. 81 o. has been chrstened the Ish-
maelite of the trunk-line railroad interest There
Is now great fear that should his passenger-rate
war fail to accomplish the ends intended he will
open freightrate war;
The train which left Kansas City on Jan. 6. at
fha e.
Fe road. was snow bound on Jan. IL at Kinsley,
n town BIG miles west of Kansas City. A num-
her of passengers from Indianapolis on
board. and one of them writes that on that date
4he prospects were good that the passengers,
some 300 IN number, would be obliged to remain
there two or three days longer. The railroad
company sees that they have plenty of fuel,
plenty of food. and pays all their bills.
The subject of railway regulation is again
brought up in England, the immediate cause be-
ing q complaint of discrimination in the trans
portation of some Scotch fish. The Pttsburg
Despatch says: "What would England do if
some frsC-cass American determinations were
discovered there. like building up monopoly in
controlling the distribution and prices of the
fuel supply of one-fourth of the natonW How
she Dispatch can make point in the case of
rates for transportation of coal would be diff
cult to bring out, as the roads alluded to
hauling anthracite coal at the rate of three mills
per ton per mile--a rate which even Western
coal dealers are surprised that they are enabled
to obtain.
So large per cent. of the travel is now on
shippers tickets or at special rates, it would
doubtless be wise for Indianapolis roads to take
such action regarding l,000-me tickets as did the
New York. Hartford d New Hayen people.
at the last monthly meeting the directors made
a radical change in the nature of their mileage
tickets which practically reduces local fares to
cents mile en- the road The company has
for some time issued 1.000-mile tickets for $40,
stipulating that these could only be used by the
purchaser or his family and should not be good
beyond three months from the time of purchase.
they have now removed these conditions alto
gether and the tickets are hereafter good for all
slime and transferable to anybody. One person
may borrow anothers ticket and ride on il, or
several may pool together and buy one. The
book is good when presented, no matter by whom
Or when