The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-14
Personal, Local and State Notes.

Personal, Local and State Notes.
The management of the Indianapolis. Decatur
& Western claim to be operating the road on %
per cent. OF the gross earnings.
The Vsndaiia passenger department Is neeo-
tiating for offices in the Jackson-place Block,
proposing to close Its Offices under the Spencer
House
TIE Midland lines, to meet cuts of Chicago
roads. have dropped the rates on provisions
from Kansas City to New York to 81 cents per
LOO pounds
The Toledo St. Louis & Kansas City company
will, this week, let the contract for an iron
bridge 900 feet in length, to span the Wabash
river at Sherwood, Ind.
The passenger department Of tho Central
Traits Association met at Chicago yesterday.
but the attendance slim that but little
business was accomplished.
Leslie Farmer general passenger agent OF the
Erie road, and w. c. Rinearson. his Western
general passenger agent were in the city yester-
day and left on the midnight train for st. Louis.
The Pennsylvania Company is building at its
shops in Altoona, Pa, eight white postal cars,
sixty-four feet IN length, TO be run between st.
Louis and New York over the Vandalia and
Pennsylvania lines.
W. j. Brig general travelling passenger agent
| Of the Chesapeake e Ohio, is spending day or
two in the city. This road in the near future.
will make stronger effort TO secure more pusi-
ness from this territory.
Freight matters between Chicago and the sea-
board are in very bad shape, and it is feared
that the worst has not yet been touched. tbs
| apparently fight between the Pennsylvania
and the Vanderbilt lines.
| The auditing committee Of the proprietary
| lines in the Union Railway Company are spend
| ing couple of days in auditing the bills, In
connection with the building Of the new Union
| Station and its system Of tracks.
| An official of one of the important east-and-
west lines is quoted as saying that the vaciilat-
ing policy of the Pennsylvania lines in rate mat
ters, during the last month has COST the rail-
roads Of this country 81, 100000.
| G. n. Wheeler, who for some time past has
been in the Union Station at Terre Haute as
ticket agent has been offered the position OF
| travelling passenger agent Of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas road. and will probably accept It. *
The Pennsylvania special which leaves here
for the East at p. M, with five cars. on reach
| ing Bradford junction takes on three more, az
| Columbus another one, and then runs through
with nine cars, five of them vestibule. to New
| York.
numbe, Of general passenger agents passed
through here last night route to ST. Louis TO
attend the conference of the members of the
Transcontinenta Western States Passenger
Association and Trunk-line associations, which
| is TO be held there to morrow.
| 1t is stated that, but for the handsome earn
ings from passenger traffic which several of the
roads in thu Central Traffic Association have
been making in the last four months. the gross
earnings would have shown mp badly, so low
have freight rates been.
The Ohio, IndianaS& Western road is ID
| rather peculiar condition. It has double the
| power that it can use, and are thousands OF cars
| behind filling orders. With the dropping of
the Cincinnati. Sandusky d Cleveland road, q
large number OF consol engines are unem-
| ployed.
The contract for grading the extension of the
Louisville, Now Albany & Chicago road from
| Howlands to connection with the Belt road
was awarded yesterday to Branham & Hege.
who will begin work this morning. The L., n.
A. & G. people hope to have the connection
made by Dec. /.
1t will be some six weeks before the Cincn-
natl, Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago people
will send their freight trains over tho North
Bend cutoff, as the contractors are not willing
passing Of trains. Only passenger trains are
now run over It.
j. B. Chaplin. division superintendent of the
Boston d Albany road, has resigned, after con-
tinuous service on the road Of forty seven years,
being the Oldest empioye 10 the service Of the
company. For twenty years he was passenger
conductor. and was appointed division superin-
tendent in 1866. s. H. Clark succeeds him.
The Chicago & Alton road has given notice of
its withdrawal from the agreement to discou-
tinue the running of fast trains between Chca-
60 and Kansas City. The time expires JAM IA,
will 60 on again. giving the Ohio, Indiana &
Western and the Lake Erie g. Western their
u old time conn ection.
President ingalls,, of the Cincinnati Indian.
apolis, ST. Louis & Chicago road, has secured
thirty acres of ground in North Indian apolis,
and is now negotiating for ten acres more.
There is said to be little question as to this
pany's erecting its new shops on this ground
next year, and they are TO be among the largest
| and most complete in the country.
Il
Pennsylvania lines, spent yesterday in the city.
de states that as soon as Washington, ID. C.,
connection from Harrisburg for train No. 20 ia
arranged, q through sleeping coach will be
hauled daily, each way, between Indianapolis
and Washington. This is the train leaving here
at ) p NJ, running through to New York in
tweEtv-four hours
Competitors Of three of the roads which are
not members OF the Central Traffic Association,
named the Indianapolis, Decatur & Western;
the Ohio, Indiana & Western, and the Cincin
cinnati. Indianapolis, st. Louis g. Chicago, it is
alleged, are shading west bound rates again.
For about q month passenger rates out OF here
in all directions have been well maintained, and
the belief was growing that new era had set in.
The tenor of articles appearing In the fnan-
cial columns OF Boston papers indicate that all
hopes OF the Ohio, Indiana & Western and the
Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland roads again
establishing friendly relations are groundless.
Whether true not, the c., s. q c. people
with the road than at at any time in many
years, while the situation with the Ohio, In
diana & Western is far from satisfactory.
The general use Of natural gas by the manu-
factories here has so decreased the demand fol
block coal that the Vandslia is now bringing in
only one train of twenty-five to twenty three
cars per day. against seventy-ive TO eighty car
loads one year ago. There is still some demand
for IL where the gas mains have not yet beer
laid. The demand for this coal in the North
west, however. has greatly increased of late, AZ
that the output in the near future promises tt
be as large as ever.
Gaylord Beach, general manager of the Bee
line, is feeling rather blue over the outlook fol
the railroads. few days ago il looked as i
such rates were to be maintained as would ena
BILE the east-and-west lines to make handsome
exhibits of earnings, as the tonnage carried wa:
apparently limited only by the cars which coulc
be commanded, but in the last few days freigh
rates have been breaking badly in all directions
aud no road will feel the effects of the reduc
tions more than tho Bee-line. it being so locatel
a. to catch the brunt of the rate war;
, Miscellaneous Items.
Sixteen carloads of hops were taken East il