The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



The yandalia. in the year 1885. brought into
indianapolis 16. 240 carloads of block coal, an
average of forty four cars per day.
E. A. ro-d, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines, passed through the city yes
,terday. en- route to the Louisville meeting
A A. Egbert. formerly superintendent of the
Colorado division of the Union Pacific. has been
appointed superintendent of the Texas Pacific,
with headquarters at Marshall, Tex.
w. s. Nichols, district passenger agent OF the
Bee line is still detained at Belefontaine, Ohio.
by the illness oS his mother, which IS or so serl
1o1s character that she cannot recover
The Concord railroad is having a locomotive
built at Manchester TO be named the Governor
Currier. A majority of the New England roads
are so short and own so few locomotives that
they still cling to the custom of naming iocomo-
Efivcs rather than numbering them.
Tt is stated that William f. Symonds, assist
ant general freight agent of the Boston & Low
ell railroad, is to be made assistant to j. f.
Crockett superintendent of the southern di-
syision of that road, and that after Mr. Crocketfs
resignation takes effect Mr.. Symonds will sue
sceed him.
BY mutual consent no effort is to be made to
establish east-bound pools at Terre Haute, La
fayette, Frankfort. Kokomo and Logansport I'M
I'LL the per cents of the east-bound pools at Chi
,cago and Indianapolis have been agreed upon-
n
pyithin the next thirty days.
W. P Harris. general superintendent of the
Baltimore & Ohio. Pittsburg division. resigned
Saturday last. Mr.. Harris was formerly con-
pected with the Louisville & Nashville road. and
will probably return to that road. Mr.. j. V.
Patton formerly superintendent of the Junction
road. has been appointed to fill the vacancy.
Commissioner Doherty, of the indianapolis
east-bound pool, has requested President In
CALLS of the c., l., St L. 4 o.. to fix upon some
day when the presidents, general managers
and general freight agents shall be requested TO
meet and agree upon the per cents. for the re-
spective roads, the old per cents. being no longer
In force.
J. " Stanberry agent of the Traders Dis
patch at this point. who for some days has been
Ill with severe bilious attack, was able to at
tend to business yesterday. the news that the
Traders Dispatch was to be operated indepen-
IDENTIFY, and that he would be retained as agent
having better effect upon him than medical
treatment.
M E. ingalls,, president of the c.. l., St L. &c
C.. is quietly making his arrangements to extend
his Columbus branch further westward tho COM
ing season. His real aim is at no distant day to
build the road through to st. Louis, and estao-
lish line fully twenty miles shorter than any
line between the cities of st. Louis and Cincin-
matt now in existence
r. L. Engle. for several years past connected
with the leading lines of the West-Atchison,
Topeka g. Santa Fe, Atlantic 81 Pacific. Next
can Central and Denver 81 Rio Grande-as en-
gineer in charge of construction, has been called
10 the construction department of the Chicago:
Burlington Il Northern road. an extension OF
the Chicago Burlington g. Quincy
! The c., l., ST L. & c. people are yet undecid-
ed whether they will put their Seneca trains
on Feb j or March 1. Whenever they are
put on, the Z 10 A. NJ. train out of indianapolis
will haul a through car for st. Paul. This car
will connect with the fast train of the Chicago
& Rock Island, and will land passengers in St.
Paul next morning, or in twenty four hours, In
dianapolis to ST. Paul.
Commissioners L. D. Richardson and Secretary
fB. Z. Hand, of the Ohio River pool. and William
Orr. secretary of tae Middle and Western States
Freight Association. as a committee appointed
by the North and South Lumber associations to
gather statistics relative to cost of production
and shipping rates of lumber from Michigan
points, will have their report ready to submit to
a meeting of the reads interested to be called
about the Goth irst
It is stated mat d. W. Caldwell receiver Of
che Nickel-pla ate road. and general manager. as
well came out fat-footed against consolidating
the Traders Despatch with the other Erie lines,
he claiming that the Traders Dispatch was
Nickei-plate fast freight line The Lehigh Valley
people, as we'll, objected to the arrangement. and
President King was finally converted into the be-
lief that it would be better for the Erie people to
allow the old running arrangement to continue
Shipments of dressed meats from Western
year, showing all increase. out of st. Louis, of
fully 80 per cent The legitimate outcome of the
dressed beef industry comes in the moving of
packing houses further West into the heart of
the cattle-raising region. If dressed beef can be
shipped 900 miles in refrigerator cars it can
1000. and Hough & Dustin. of Lincoln. ILL.,, will
build monster packing house on the Northern
Pacific. at Miles City. M. T. They will put up
0,000 tons of ice this winter, and their estab-
lshuent will be able to kill AMI pack 200 beeves
aday.
General Passenger Agent Fee, of the Northern
Pacific road has issued the following notice:
Oscar Vanderbilt having resigned the position
of district passenger agent. to take effect Jan.
49, ID. W. Janowitz, heretofore representing
THIS company in Pennsylvania is hereby trans
ferred to the Indiana district with headquarters
at 46 South Illinois street. Indianapolis. J. Ell.
Rogers, jr. who has during the past season been
acting as general tourist agent with Office at St
Paul. will resume his duties as district passen-
ger agent for Pennsylvania, vice Mr.. Janowitz,
with headquarters at Ill South Ninth streets
Philadelphia
Pools doubtless have their benefits and aid in
4hs maintenance of rates. but when one.half of
the prominent shipping points are pooled and the
other half are not, shippers over the pooled lines
suffer. To illustrate. between louisville, KY,
and indianapolis the business is pooled; between
louisville and Terre Haute it does not
ssrks pool To-day a car load
of produce can be shipped from
Louisville to Terre Hante. 22o miles, over the
Ohio e. Mississippi and the Evansville G. Terre
Haute road at So less rate than the same car
load of produce can be shipped from Louisville
60 indianapolis. just one half the distance. So
long az such determinations exist, just so long
will pools experience uphill work
Beats Indiana's Mackey.
The Reading railroad statement published for
ahe month of November has excited considerable
comment on account of the low rate which the
operating expenses bore to the gross receipts.
II seems that it cost only 1854 948 48 to nav ex.