The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-17
AFFAIRS OF THE
Personal and Local.

garuary service.
c. w. Fairbanks has gone East to complete
tbe arrangements for reorganizing the Danville.
Olney & Ohio River road.
Feb. &c has been fixed as the date when the
general freight agents of Indianapolis roads
shall get together and fix per cents. in the east
bound pool.
1t is now thought that the $175, 900 paid at the
foreclosure sale of the T., {. d St l.. road will
hardly cover the court expenses. the receivers
debts and the six months labor claim.
T. A. Lewis, late general manager Of the Erie
3ines. who has been in Riverside. Cal, for a
short time for the benefit of his health, is ex-
peeted to reach home tomorrow or the next day.
Ed Morey, an old-time Wabash conductor. but
WHO has been living in Boulder, COL, having
besn Obliged to move there on account of his
poor health over two years ago, has returned,
and again taken a train on the road.
H. NJ. Green, vice-president of the Hooking
Valley road, has come out fatfooted against all
pools. He has ordered his general passenger
agent to have nothing to do with any passenger
rool, and to avoid all arbitration schemes.
The Pennsylvania company is building at their
shops west of Pittsburg, and at Altoona, fifty
Sriae new locomotives, twenty-three to be placed
on the SOUTHERN, or indianapolis line, and
thirty-six to be placed on northern, or Chicago
Zines.
George Darling, general utility man of the
New York Central. who has been West several
days taking soundings, returned to New York
aass night, fully convinced, he says, that rates are
now better maintained than at any time in several
years past.
The local line Of sleeping coaches put on by
Abe Wabash-L, p. 81 C.-to run between Indi-
annapolis and Fort Wayne nightly. is proving a
paying arrangement. It Is stated, officially,
that these coaches carry more passengers than
do the fhr0uoh Tndianan01iS and DatrOit Si1an-
Gng-coaches.
The last few days has developed the fact that
there is to be a large immigration to Oregon and
Washington, as well as Dakato, this spring.
One passenger agent reports four large colonies
in southern Indiana and Illinois as arranging to
jmmigrate in the near future, and inquiries
from numerous other parties.
The committee of eighteen. of the Central
Traffic Association, has agreed to form an east
bound freight pool for business originating in
Cincinnati and Immediately contiguous territory.
on the basis OF the Chicago east bound pool, and
viii shortly perfect the arrangement. 1t will be
In force from Feb. l to Jan. 1 next.
William III. Fenner, who is well known In
railway circles through his connection with the
Rhode Island locomotive works, and who is re-
Earded with popular favor by railway. officials
generally, has been elected president of the
Anen Paper Car,wheel Company, whose plants
are located at Pullman and at Hudson, N. Y.
e. w. Smith. vice-president of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe road. has taken hold with
his customary energy. He is looking after the
GLASSES of traffic which have been neglected; one
ts that of live stock. He expects to double their
present business. The building of extensive
stock-yards at Argentine is part of his general
plan.
General Manager McCrea, General Superin-
Aendent Miller and Division Superintendent
Turner and Mansfield left for Louisville last
evening. Their mission south is to see if the
City Council of New Albany cannot be induced
10 let the Pennsylvania company make improve
ments in that city which they have been anxious
TO make in New Albany for some years.
The new passenger engine on the New York &
New Haven road, which is doing some fast run
ming, has an Is by 22-inch cylinder, 5 feet 9-inch
driver; 100 aues; length OF boiler, % feet IL
inches; diameter of boiler. SO inches; fire box, 6
feet 2 inches by 3 feet 5 inches. With the ex-
ception of the cylinders the proportions are much
she same as those of the Vandalia, built at the
P1ttsburg locomotive works.
The Wabash management is gathering up their
equipments from all parts Of the country, so
that by April 70, when the road is to be sold,
they will know what they really have. Probably
the freight cars of no system of roads in the
country have become so scattered as those of the
Wabash. In fact. no road in this country seems
70 have had so many direct and indirect connect
ing roads as did the Wabash in it's palmy days.
and in this they possessed advantages had they
been improved.
There is a large west bound movement of
empty cars, which will all be needed, should the
country roads remain solid. There is a large
quantity of corn in cribs convenient to the rail
roads, but the holders show a disposition to hold
st. expecting better prices as soon as the country
roads become impossible. Freight men rather
encourage them in this expectation, as they had
rather load their cars with receipts from the sur
rounding country, brought in day by day, than
with the corn cribbed adjacent to their tracks.
The Eames vacuum brake is rapidly coming to
Aha front At thair works in Rootou Mass thau
are running day and night. The company have
lately added twenty-five new machines to their
factory equipments. quadrupling their former
capacity and they will soon double this increased
capacity. Orders arc now booked which will
keep their works busy for the next six months,
and the future outlook is considered very bright
This brake is in use on the indianapolis, Decatur
&Springheld road and performs promptly, and
"a much less troublesome to operate than the
Westinghouse.
That the passenger rate war between the North
western lines should be brought to O close, as
NJ IS reaching out in territory tributary to Chica-
GO Both the Lake Erie q Western and l., B..
ID w. are working st. Paul and Omaha business
with the roads in the freight from Ohio and In
diana points. urging the cut rate from Chicago
~ connection with their rates to Chicago. That
tho generalization is likely to spread is evident
from the fact that the Lake Shore people have
asked the O.. NJ. 81 ST. p. to allow them to use
the " rate from Chicago to Omaha and st.
Paul.
Commissioner L. d. Richardson. of the Ohio
River Pool, announces that the following new
rates have been put into effect: On coffee in
sacks, carloads and less tper 100 pounds) from
Chicago to indianapolis, 13 cents; Cincinnati, l5
SCENTS; Jeffersonyille. Ind. Is cents; New Albany.
and., etc. Is cents: Louisville. IL cents. The fol-
lowing arbitrary rates may be applied on business
destined TO Southern Green line points: From
Chicago to Cincinnati, Jeffersonville, Evansville
Or Cairo. on oatmeal in boxes, il lots of less
than 2. 900 pounds, 20 cents per 100 pounds; in
lots of 2, 900 pounds or over, and L. c. L., Is
cents per 100 pounds.
The Wabash Railway Company, now that it
pays its employees more promptly than formerly
shows a disposition to tighten the screws on the
boys. and has issued a circular. which is being
distributed on all sections of the system, read
sng as follows: TO all employees on the rolls of
this section; Any person whose name appears