The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-04
Personal. Local and state Notes.

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Personal. Local and State Notes.
S. n. Cook succeeds J. II. Klein as train mas
ter of the Lake Erie & Western road. Mr.. Cook
is promoted from the position Of train-dis-
pstcher.
In the month of August there were transferred
over the Belt road 54,sS2 cars, against 56, 700 in
the corresponding month CT 1887, being . de-
crease this year of 1864 cars.
It is stated officially tina. in the frat eight
months of 1858 the Bee-line will show an iu-
crease in earnings of over 800, 900 AZ compared
with the corresponding period in 1887.
Chairman Blanchard, Of the Central Traffic
Association. has called q meeting Of the general
managers or the roads in the association at Chi
cago on Thursday next, to consider the stu
alton generally.
The New York Times says that the trunk line
association Is doomed. This paper made the
same prediction in 1880, but the relations be-
tween the trunk lines have been in the main
harmonious ever since.
Walter Nichols, formerly district passenger
agent OF the Decline at this point, has been
appointed general freight and passenger agent
of the Kanawha & Ohio railway, with head
quarters at Charleston. W.. Va.
On Saturday last the Michigan Central took
e~raveling and making several fills on the por-
ton of the road lying in Indiana. By this move
some 100 men are thrown ont Of employment
On Sept. l, the Lackawanna fast-freieht line
began it's fifth year of taking business from this
territory. The first year the line took out but
156 loaded cars, but during the last year it has
taken out OF Indianapolis and adjacent territory
500 loaded cars.
All passenger conductors on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton e. indianapolis road now run through
to Cincinnati. Conductor Evans has been trans
ferred TO tho main line and Clemmens, Place and
Corey run the three through trains each way
over the c., Fl. &
The Bee-line continues to carry q large Der
cent. Of tho live stock shipped from Iudiauspo-
lis and from points west Of here, and will proba-
bly, do so until the Pennsylvania people take
hold and make East Liberty the important mar
ket that it should be.
Belt road engines last month handled 3 ,073
carloads of live stock, against 3, 1874 carloads in
the corresponding mouth Of 1887, a decrease this
year OF S2l cars. The cause of the falling off is
the low rates which Southwestern lines have
been making on live stock to Chicago.
N. s. Skinner, jr., formerly contracting agent
of the Great Western Despatch, has been APP
pointed general agent of tho line at Chicago,
succeeding W. +. Robinson, who has resigned
to accept the position of general freight and pas
senger agent OF the St Joseph & Grand Island
road.
1t is stated that if the rates on freiehts car
ried over the Indianapolis, Decatur G. Western
road had been the same now as prior to the
taking effect OF the interstate commerce law,
the earnings for August would have been SO per
SOh" 'ohecE tuio cdr tudu III ltuc OL TIC last
three years.
Some of the roads from this section have
dropped the rate to the Grand Army Of the Re-
public gathering in Columbus below l cent per
mile. tho agreed rate. The Pennsylvania peo-
pie will not meet it, but will make l cent per
mile their rate from all points and also with
their connections in the West.
In the mouth of August there were received
and forwarded at Indianapolis a total Of 90, 053
cars, OF which number 1892 were loaded,
against a total 10 the corresponding month of
1887 Of 81, 529 cars, of which number "a. Up were
loaded. This shows a decrease in the total
movement this year of ,416 cars, and of loaded
cars a decrease of 6 $40.
1t is stated that the parties controlling the
Decline have secured control of the Columbus,
Sandusky q Cincinnati road, over which the
Bse-line now runs. under q lease. If the report
is true it will revolutionize matters considera-
bly, with two or three roads which are ~profring
In their business By the manner this piece OF
road has been operated by the Cincinnati, San
dusky q Cleveland Railroad Company.
Officials of the Vandalia state that it was ow-
ing to gross carelessness that the buggy in
which Lewis Bishop and friend was struck by
the Pennsylvania special on Sunday last Tho
train on the south side of the Vandalia track
can be seen nearly five miles of, and between
Davis station to the point whore the track is in
view an engine whistle is blown three times at
highway crossings.
Ii. J. Holmes, Of Nashville, Tenn, one of the
largest contractors in the country, spent yester-
day in the city, and. in company with contract
ors Routier and Fatout, looked over several Of
the best buildings here, the new Union Station
being of the number. He pronounces the sta
ton one of the best-inished, largest and most
complete buildings for railway purposes in this
country.
Since the present management Of the Indian
apolis, Peru & Chicago road, now the Lake Erie
& Western, took control of the property the i'm
provement to the road-bed and to the equip
meuts run north of Peru, are said 10 have
been fully az much as that of any part of the
road. In years past this part of the road was
neglected. . q result of improving it and pay
ing some attention to the wishes of patrons Of
this portion OF the road the earnings are show
ing large gains.
The Ohio, Indiana & Western people say that
! when their new freight house, south Of the Van