The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal, Local and state Notes.


Decline system, is expected in the city to-day.
The passenger crews on the Lake Erie s.
Western road appeared yesterday In new uni
forms.
receiving fourteen new engines, ten of them
heavy freight engines.
C. 0. Wheeler has been appointed superin-
tendent of the northern and middle division OF :
the Wisconsin Central road.
j. A Shute on the first OF May takes the po-
siton of general freight agent of the St Paul,
Minneapolis 81 Manitoba road.
Most of the presidents and general managers
Of the roads in tho territory covered by the
Central Traffic Association are in Chicago at
tending railroad meetings.
S. c. Stickuey. who superintendent of the
construction Of the Illinois division of the Chi
eago. st. Paul & Kansas City road. has been ap-
pointed engineer OF maintenance OF way
Charles f. Choate, president of the Old Colo
ny road. has carried through his scheme OF con-
soldatine with the Boston g. Providence, and
now goes to Europe to spend the summer.
On Monday last the c., l. St L. g g. COM
menced the work of building their freight
depot at Cincinnati, which is to be 700 feet long
by sixty-hvs feet wide, three stories high. En-
glish style
The standard form and colors of coupon tick
cts adopted by the general passenger agents at
their meeting few weeks ago has already been
adopted by forty roads and their use promises
To beco me general
r. r. Morris, of PIttsburg, special accountant
of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, is
spending day in the city. He is we'll
pleased with the duties which deyolve upon him
through his recent promotion.
The officials of the INDIANAPOLIS Decatur s.
Western road are much pleased over the busi-
ness theif new Kansas City train s doing. Last
week it paid 81 20 per mile RIM. which is a new
thing on that road for a train to do
The assessments which the engineers fire.
men and switchmen have been subjected to the
last thirty days convinces them. says one of
their number, that strikes expensive for the
MIR all for ThM raiIr ME
involved.
built entirely of iron gas pipes has been
standing on one of the O., l., ST. l.. g. O. side
tracks for two or three days. and has attracted a
substantial appearance. and is rated to carry
forty tons.
e. Hill win to-day be appointed engineer of
maintenance of way on the indianapolis q Vim
cennes road, vice NJ A. Zook transferred. Mr.
Hill has been for some years Of the super
visors On the Indianapolis division of the c., St
l.. & P. road
President Cable of the Atlantic g. Mississippi
subsidies which being voted for the line. He
personally visits farmers and business men
along the line and convinees them that the road
Is greatly needed
The Cleveland Leader says that the Beelin .
people will build this year fine new building in
Cleveland for their general Offices. About
year ago ARRANGEMENTS were partially com
pleted to that effect, but at the last moment
they were abandoned.
E. A. Mccormick. general passenger agent of
the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago road,
spent few hours In the city yesterday He re-
ports that their passenger business all over the
system is improving daily. and the revenue
fron this department ID very gratifying to the
officers of the road.
James McCraa, general manager and fourth
vice-president of the Pennsylvania lines of
Pittsburg, has been working eighteen hours of
the twenty-four the last few weeks, and his
health has become somewhat broken. He pro-
poses to take couple of weeks rest, leaving his
post IN day or two.
f. A. Loree. for some time past engineer of
maintenance of way on Logansport division of
the Pennsylvania lines. has been transferred to
the Cleveland 81 Pittsburg division, and NJ. A
Zook, who held the same position on the Indian
apos q Vincennes road, succeeds Mr.. Loree on
the Logansport division.
Receiver McNuta of the Wabash, has an
nounced his intention of reconstructing tine
into state of dilapidatiOn account of the
Strengthened circumstances of the Wabash.
The railroad commission recently examined the
road and reported unfavorably.
The monthly meeting of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company was held yesterday at Balti-
more. Mr.. Charles o. Scull, assistant general
agent, was promoted to be general passenger
agent. Semi-annual dividend of per cent
the stock of the Washington branch was de-
clared, but no dividend was allowed on the main
stem.
Superintendent Mansfield of the Indianapolis
q Nlucennes road, proposes TO put on the stock
yard trains soon as the work on the new
Union station is some further advanced and
trains can be handled without trouble. He will
not attempt to run as many trains, however, as
Were run Ehen the experiment of running them
tried before.
The present situation shows decided i'm
provement in the outlook. Indications that
railroad managers will not increase the uncer-
families OF the future by internal dssensions.
The wiser among them begin to realize
how bad their earnings will be from natural
causes. and there is disposition to protect
ing by maintenance of rates.
John F. Miller, general superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Southwes lines; w r. Woodland,
superintendent of the Louisville. New Albany
q Chicago road. and G. II. GIBSON president of
the Louisville Bridge Company, were in confer
ence at the Denison House the greater part of
yesterday, settling up some old bridge affairs
over which there has been some trouble
The resignation of John Muir as traffic mana
ger of the Chesapeake q Ohio road will take eff
feet May !. The position will not be filled at
freight agent, having full charge Of the fraieht
department. and Harry Fuller as general pas
senger- agent. Division Freight Agent Plummer
goes to New York as general Eastern agent of
the road
Local passenger agents yesterday received cir
culars and vouchers from the general passenger
agent OF the Southern Pacific announcing that
hereafter that road would pay commission on all
passenger business sent via Ogden, Demng and
Ell Paso The receipt OF these documents was
great surprise to the passenger men. and the
good boys the Pennsylvania lines i'm m diately
forwarded them to their general passenger agent
at Pittsburg
John f. Miller, general superintendent of the
Pennsylvania lines south and west of Pistsburg,
stated last evening that it would be month be-
fore their trains were running over the new
road between Red Bank and Hamilton, o. He
further stated that it still unsettled
whether the Pennsylvania Company would pur-
chase or lease the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
ton road between Hamilton 81 Richrnond, Ind.
build a line.
The scheme of closing the outside ticket Offices
at the prominent railroad centers is again being
sgitated. It will probably end in closing the
hotel Offices only as has been done in Cincinnati
by agreement of all roads centering there The
regular Offices. such the Bee-line. the Penn
sylvania Company and the c., l.. St l.. Il c.
maintain ct Indianapolis, are great convenience
70 the travelling public and have become too
firmly established to be closed now.
The Louisville. New Albany s. Chicago main
line. from Indianapolis to Chicago, is now laid