The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-09

tlops WHICH eppoiU ed z Similar committees AZ
rsesnt meeting. The Bee-lins has loo mem
bers aud the & ST L. 2S6. Upon consolida-
ton IL is proposed that the paymasters of the two
roads pay assessments for employees and deduct
the amount from their wages All &c st L.
members will be solicited TO ratlfy the action
. majority already having done 80.
Personal. Local aud State Notes.
The Grand Rapids 6 Indiana road has been
testing the McElroy method OF heating trains
by steam with good results
E. A Ford. general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, 10 10 be
in the city to-day on official business
G. NJ. Cummings has been appointed general
manager of the ST. Joseph & Grand Island road,
with headquarters at ST. Joseph. Mo-
The Ohio Falls car works at Jacksonville are
building q number Of irst-class passenger
coaches for the Louisville Southern road.
Presdtnt Msckey, of the < & T. H. and p,
ID. e. E. roads, 10 eeuipping his lines with the
improved United States railroad track scales.
manufactured in Terrs Hsute.
ID. J. Msckey. president Of the Evansville
Terrs Haute road, has ordered the pay Of the
men in several departments advanced, surpris-
ing outsiders. well a. the employees
H. s. Mount, alternate delegate to the Order
OF Railway Conductors annual convention, won't
to Toronto 20 represent the Indianapolis di
vision. L ID. Baldwin being unable to go.
Engine No. GIL on the Jacksonville, Madison
& indianapolis road, on Monday hauled . vesti-
bule train Of five cars from Louisville to Indian
apois, ITO miles, In two hours and forty eight
minutes.
L. s Allen has been appointed Northwestern
passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio vice
T. II. Dearborn. resigned on account Of i'll
health. H. W. McKewin will look after that
eompanys business ut Chicago.
-.
for the Erie road say that j. r Shaler, superin-
tendsnt of the N. Y, p. q O., is TO be made
general manager of the Erie, and that c. A
Brunn lie to succeed him on the n. Y, P. e. o.
Pearce & Co.. who built several public build
ings in this State, the courthouse at Lafayette
contract to build the extensive shops which the
Louisville & Nashville are to erect at Decatur,
Ala
Wabash engine 1006, on Friday last, hauled
Superintendent Wade and other officials Of the
road from Lafayette TO Peru, seventy two miles,
foot board, one OF the veteran engineers on the
road.
The steamers which the Wabash propose to
put on, to run between Toledo and Buffalo, will
carry grain and general freight. The details Of
the arrangements are kept secret. Trouble IL
looked for in rate matters when they begin
operations
East-bound traffic over CHICAGO roads showed
. decrease again last week. OF the business
forwarded the Vanderbilt lines carried 3d. per
cent; the Pennsylvania lines, 26.4 per cent.
The e.. L, St. L & c. just now cuts no figure
In the business
The Lafayette car-works commenced deliver
Ing cars. this week. on their contract with the
Chicago, Burlington g. Northern These cars
are models, strongly built, 80, 900 pounds ca
pacity, thirty -four feet long, trussed with one
and one-half inch rods
The syndicate controlling the Chicago & East
ern Illinois road and the Chicago e Indiana
Coal road have struck 9 legal suag, and work on
the construction of the link which was to con-
meet the two has been suspended pending the
action Of the Illinois Legislature.
The Lake Shore road has two construction
trains at work dumping dirt into sink hole
pear Sedan Twenty years ago the company
had . great deal of trouble with this sink hole,
but finally got solid ground for their track; but
few days ago it again commenced going down.
The Lake Erie e. Western contemplates the
substitution Of iron for wood in nine spans at
four different crossings Of streams The Key
stone Bridge Company has the contract for the
substitution OF iron trusses 10 the place OF eight
Howe truss spans OF $50 feet each over the
Sandusky at Fremont, q.
President Ingalls, tells the friends of the
Chesapeake & Ohio road in the East that the
completed, and their track laid into the Grand
Central Station. Cincinnati, by Jan. 1, 1889.
One span of the bridge will be $50 feet in length
and two spans 400 feet each.
The immigration commission of New York has
notified the trunk lines that they must each
have a representative OF their own at Castle
Garden. The New York Central, the Pennsyl-
vania, the Baltimore e Ohio and the Erie have
appointed G. T. Dean, former joint agent, a.
their representative. The Lackawanna will ap-
point an independent agent.
Chairman Daniels. Of the passenger depart
rF ~. 49, -
notified the general passenger agents Of the
roads in the association that the Grand Trunk
railway, the Chicago & Grand Trunk road and
the Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee have
again cast In their lot with the Central Traffic
Association. Another effort is to be made to
bring the Ohio, Indiana & Western into the as
ISOLATION.
The Pennsylvania and the Vaudalia decline
TO close their Office on South Illinois street
and as consequences the Bee-line people will
not close theirs. The Pennsylvania people
claim that they are obliged to keep the Office
open 20 protect them against the scalpers. and
that at the same time IL is paying institution
In the year 1887 nearly IS. 900 worth more of
tickets were sold than in 1885, and this year the
record of 1887 promises to be beaten.
At the coming annual convention of the train
dispatchers new feature will be introduced
that OF mutual benefit branch of the oreaniza-
ton, to be known as the American Train-dis-
patchers Mutual Benefit Association. Any
become q
member Of it and share its benefits, providing
he Is in good health and free from disability.
The admission fee is TO be e. 30, and an assess
msnt Of 81 Is to be levied on all members on the
death of q member and proof of claim.
District Passenger Agent Fisher. of the Gin
cnnsti. Hamilton q Dayton lines on Monday
dropped down on the Evansville & Terre Hauts
road and gathered in between Evansville and
Tsrre Hsuts about nine hundred Knights of
Pythiss who will take the Vandalia and the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis roads to attend
the coming annual convention to be held in Gin
cinnati. i. ID. Baldwin, of the Mopon, has
secured several thousand in thu Northwest and
northern Michigan who will come over the L. ,
n. A. g. Q. to Indianapolis. and then 60 over
the G.. h q L to Cincinnati.
Western roads have been notihei that the
Philadelphia & Reading road after sixty days
trial. has abandoned the per diem charge for
cars and will return 70 re old mileage system.
Balances were against IL. Or other roads the
per diem system Is proving quite satisfactory
Statistics furnished by the West Shore show
, that In February that road the cars of the
tuenty-eieht roads that have adopted the Der
diem car charge had an average mileage per car
per day Of 245, against 206 last year when the
old mileage system prevailed. The period of de-
tention has fallen from &c days to Sc DAYS
West Shore cars on lines adopting the per diem
system have increased their daily mileage from
2l7 TO 80 miles. and lowered their detention
from s days to 7 days These figures show
that the ear movement is accelerated under the