The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local

IN Chicago
All the bridging on the Chicago & Indiana
Coal road extension from Fair Oaks to Lacrosse
is finished except over the Kankakes river.
In the Wabash railroad telegraph system there
are 81 600 miles of wire, and to operate the lines
batteries having aggregate of 1850 cells are
required.
The division of the L., P. & c. road lying be-
tween Indianapolis and Peru, in the month of
September earned $5O,2iO which is said to be
the handsomest earnings this division ever made
in thirty days
The United States Circuit Court at Philadel-
phia has granted decree for the foreclosure of
the Reading railroad under the general mort
gage bond. Every effort will be made to effect
an amicable foreclosure.
jay Gould says if he could get the cars he
would buy fifty per day for the Missouri Pacific
road. He declared he had sold none of his stock.
and he had $19, 000, 900 of it yet; but he added
that George only owned 1000 shares
F. Van Deusen, chief clerk Of E. A. Ford gen.
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pttsburg, and D. !. Roberts, assistant
passenger agent, headquarters at Cincinnati,
were in the city yesterday on official business.
The Michigan Central is receiving ten engines
for freight service of the same pattern as the
heavy freight engines recently placed on the O.,
J., st. H. 81 G. road. They are built at the
Schenectady locomotive works. and very
powerful engines
Mr. Fink said to reporter that he had been
in consultation with Robert Garrett, and that
gentleman manifested conciliatory spirit touch
ing pool matters so that all differences between
the Pennsylvania and Baltimore q Ohio would
soon be settled without any doubt
The T. H. & I. last month brought into In
dianapolis 1.180 carloads of block coal. This
: Is considered a large movement for Septem-
Der, and shows that the manufacturers are con-
Stunning much more coal and hence doing bet
ter business than at the corresponding period
last year.
III. f. Houghton, trainmaster of the Detroit
division of the Wabash. with headquarters at
Butler, has resigned to accept the position of
superintendent of transportation of the Balti-
more & Ohio road. He is succeeded by w. c.
Heth, chief train dispatcher at Peru, who, in
turn, is succeeded by r. V. butcher
The controversy between the Wabash and ST.
Louis. Kansas City g. Colorado railroads over
the right of the latter to an entrance to St Lou
is over the Wabash tracks has been decided in
favor of the Colorado line Harry Drew's rail-
road), the master holding that by payment Of
trackage it is entitled to the use of the road.
At meeting of the English holders of Penn
Sylvania railroad securities on Wednesday last
In London resolution was adonted declaring
that the time had come to distribute among the
shareholders portion of the company's reserve
funds, and declaring also that the directors of
the company ought to agree upon some definite
principle of division of the future net earnings
OF the road.
The Chicago e Indiana Coal road owns a strip
400 feet wide in Brazil, extending along their
main track from the city limits two miles north.
It Is high and level Two additions to the city,
running along the strip for almost half a mile,
have just been incorporated. The round house
Is located on the strip, and contract for coal
ehutes, to cost $1,000, has just been let, to be
erected this season.
Freight business inbound with the Western
Zines has dropped off considerably the last week,
The dizziness, however, is thought to be but
temporary, there are still large quantities of
oats in store on the line of the roads and consid
cradle quantities Of wheat is known to be held
back in the hands of the farmers, and it is
thought largo per cent. of this will be shipped
within the next ninety days
The Baltimore & Ohio Railway Company has
Opaned its new all freight route to the West and
fSUdsAyest, which is to be known as the Balti
more g. Ohio railroad and Continental line and
the B. & O. Kankakee Dispatch. Freight is re-
ceived at the companys new pier, No 81, East
river, New York, and is carried thence on floats
around the city to the piers of the Central
Railroad of New Jersey. The route is thence
60 Philadelphia.
Jehn EVAN, general superintendent Of the In
eianapos division of the Decline, leaves for
New York this morning to attend the time con-
Beeline twentys six years and has fever before
beer further east than Buffalo. j. O. Van Win
kle. general agent of the Beelne at this point
and William Ernst, chief clerk Of w. p. Ijams,
secretary and auditor of the Belt road, accom-
pany Mr.. Evan.
AT the coming meeting of the Central Traffic
Association and the trnnk-line people when the
question of advancing east bound rates comes
up there will be decided opposition shown to
making the proposed advance. Some of the best
AfOhtr in tha Wos
force the grain into she cribs and elevators there
10 remain until navigation opens whereas,
phould there be no advance made, there will,
without doubt, be large movement of grain
through the winter months by rail.
The September number of the Locomotive
Firemans Magazine is received. and it is more
than an ordinarily interesting issue. as several
emportant matters pertaining to railroad opera
tions, which are we'll written, appear This
Journal comes out in favor of weekly payments
90 railroad employees. The ACCESSIBILITY Of week
~ payments is open to difference of opinion.
On the roads in Massachusetts, where this plan
IT PAYMENTS in vogue, 1t is not working salts
actoriy, the emeioyes being the first to take ex-
septions.
A New York paper gives currency to rumor
that D. b. Thomas, now general manager of the
Richmond d Danville system, is to be president
Of the Ohio & Mississippi road. A friend of Mr..
Thomas, who but recently had talk with him,
gays there is nothing in the rumor. Mr. Thomas
As very proud of his present position, and will
not retire from 1t until he has placed the prop
erty, financially and physically in No l condi-
ton. This he has set out to do, has the money
TO do 1t with, and Mr.. Thomas is not man who
puts his hand to the plow and then looks back
The Chicago Inter Ocean says Alexander
Mitchell president of the ST. Paul road. passed
Through Chicago, Thursday, on mis- way TO New
York. He seemed to know nothing of the rumor
TO the effect that Frank S Bond, the vice presi-
dent OF the company was to succeed him as
president of the company next June. AS Mr..
Bond is not a resident of Wisconsin he is not
eligible for the Office. The laws of Wisconsin
require that the presidents of ali corporations
chartered BY the State shall reside within the
State, where the principal Offices shall also be
held
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, in
resuming freight traffic between New York and
the West. offers to shippers only the established