The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


The Erie people have accepted the resignation
OF Charies Paine as second vice president of the
road. He viii retire Jan. 81.
Owen Rice, the Woodworking general passen-
ger agent Of the Cincinnati. Wabash & Michi-
agan, is in the city taking soundings.
j. Proctor, president, and Alex Bruce. secre-
tasy, of the Northern & Northwestern, Cana
ia road. are in the city. The party leave for
Detroit this evening.
District Passenger Agents Apologize, of the
st Louis & San Francisco, and Brady and Hal
pin. of the Baltimore g. Ohio, are in the city
prospecting for business
BY order of the United States Circuit Court,
the sale of the Danvie, Olney q Ohio River
railroad, which was to have taken place to-day,
has been postponed till Feb. 10.
Commissioner L. d. Richardson, of the Chica-
go and Ohio River pool. has gone to Cleveland,
Sandusky and Toledo to examine into the &C.
tails of the lumber interests there.
The superintendent of the several Indianapo-
lis roads meet here to-day to put the finishing
touches onto the new indianapolis Weighing AS
ISOLATION. 1t is expected to get 1t in working
order by Feb /.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen Of the
United States have accepted proposition to
admit to their organization the Conductors and
BFakemen's Association of Canada of which the
membership is 5000.
The programme now is that George FL. Daniels
IA TO be chairman of the passenger branch of the
Central Traffic Association. Commissioner Geo.
B Blancharis power will extend over both the
freight and passenger pools.
A movement is on foot to include live stock
traffic in the Indianapolis Weighing Association.
In this direction reform is more needed than
An the weighing of dead freights. as but few
loads of stock are handled at any where near
actual weights.
M n L., al xp;f \, fha
general passenger department of the c., B. & O.,
and lately general passenger agent of the Texas
Sc Pacific railway las been appointed general
passenger agent or the Chicago, Burlington 81
Northern. now in course of construction.
One of the rate demoralizing papers of Chicago
says freights are nominally unchanged, but
well-defned suspicion exists that the agents
would not be entirely proof against temptation if
rate shading propositions were made to them in
the right spirit by shippers of discretion.
The one who accepts the position of inspec-
tor of weights of the Indianapolis Weighing AS
ISOLATION will need to be man of nerve. said
freight man yesterday, there is class of
agents, he said, who would resort to all sorts of
nnder-handed schemes to work through freights
nrderbilled
J. FL Filcer, general foreman of the boiler
department. Of the Indianapolis & ST. Louis
division of the c., c., c. e. /. railway,
has rendered his resignation, to take effect Feb.
], and has accepted position with the
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insur
nDce Company, with headquarters at lndianap-
Dlis
Fl. t. wilkins general passenger agent of the
California Southern road, gives notice of the
completion of the new line from Barstow station
TO Cotton. Cal. where connection is made with
Its old line to Cotton and National City; ALSO of
the extension of the road from Cotton to Los An
geles by lease of the Southern Pacific companys
branches between these points.
The wretched work the postal department is
making of late in carving mail matter is prov
ing god-send to the express companies, as
parties who have been sending money postal
orders or letters of value by mail returning
TO the express companies in large numbers.
The fact is the express service is about as cheap
as the postal service, and much safer.
The Expressman. journal published in New
York, says: 1.-THE ultimate copsummation of the
Pennsylvania Companys plans for new Union
depot at Indianapolis will be matter of great
congratulation to the several express companies
represented at that point, rs the volume of bust
ness has developed beyond the space allotted
them in the present structure"
It has been settled by conference between
General Manager Gault. of the Queen and Ores
cent, and President Smith, of the Louisville &
Nashville road, all the other roads agreeing by
previous correspondence. that j. Il. Ogden,
at present general freight agent of the East Ten
nessee. Virginia & Georgia railway, shall be COM
missioner of the Southern pool, and it is under
stood that he will accept
that the rumor of numerous changes on the ROAD
amounts to just this: A few telegraph operators
who were hardly competent 10 fill positions in
the more important offices have been transferred
to lass important offices, and these places have
been filled by men who were better fitted to do
the work Not man has been discharged, and
none to be that he is aware Of.
George r. Blanchard. the newly-appointed
commissioner of the now being organized Western
trunk line pool will reach Chicago this evening.
lie comes West to look over the territory in the
pool. He will next week call meeting, proba-
bly, IN Chicago, of the managers or presidents of
the lines that will necessarily be parties to the
p0oi-lines that run out of st. Louis, Peoria and
Indianapolis The feeling that the pool will be
permanent is stronger every day.
Henry Monet, general passenger agent of
the West Shore road, has advised ticket agents
that in selling tickets to Columbus, Springfield
and Dayton, to and via Cincinnati or Indianapo
lis, they should give the business to the Bee-ne.
To or via St Louis the company's relations to
the Grand Trunk system, in connection with the
Wabash, remain the same as heretofore. They
routes to or via St Louis, as between the Grand
trunk in connection with the Wabash, or the
Lake Shere in connection with the Bee-line.
Regarding the rumored trouble at the Wabash
shops, Springfield. ILL.,, the explanation obtained
is that the shops had merely shut down indefi
niteiy as means of reducing expenses, and that
tins follows as part of plan all along the line,
similar shut down being reported for all the
shoDs IN the system But little definite informa-
ton can be obtained, but it is alleged that the
stoppage will continue until after the transfer of
the property, which is expected to take place,
under the recent trder of foreclosure and sale
IN the federal courts at an early day.
The earnings of the l., D. & s. the third week
OF January were:
Passen- Mail &
Freight. ger. Express Total
1852 81 465, 40 s3l7.28 $l02l86O
1885, 4,992l2 1,7al.28 3l728 1880 68
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Ine.---...- s.. 44a.so ..,..... ..---.. $3ls7.e2
Total for three weeks 1885. $21 092 O4
Total Cor three weeks, 1886. 81 290 70
Inc. Observation-Disclosures. $685. 60