The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-25
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Name Of Road.
Personal, Local and General Notes.

personal, Local and General Notes.
General Manager McCrea, of the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg, in COM
| pany with j. +. Miller, spent Saturday in
the city.
Belt road engines last week hauled ,3l2
cars of live stock, against 1,2S2 in the cor
responding week of 1855; increase this year,
thirty cars.
There were transferred over the Belt
road last week IA, 791 cars, against i. 21S
cars corresponding week, 1888; increase
this year, 1913 cars.
The Terre Haute car-wOrks have COM
menced on a contract to build two hundred
refrigerator cars for the American Refrig-
orator Car Company.
The Montgomery & Erie Railroad Com
GERS: President. j. b. Wilkins; vice-presi-
dent and treasurer, c. j. Everett; secre-
tary, w. j. Mead.
The representatives of Eastern trunk
lines have advanced the passenger rate
from st. Louis to Boston to $3.50, COM
New York. as fixed on Thursday last.
A larger number of loaded cars were
handled on the Chicago division of the
Pennsylvania lines and on the lndianapO-
lis e. Vincennes road, last week, than in
any former week in the history of either
line.
James Bruce was on Saturday last. ap-
pointed superintendent of the, Toledo di-
vision of the Columbus g. Hooking Valley
road. and f.. A. Wright superintendent of
the telegraph and car service of the same
company, the appointments to take effect
on the LIST of December.
The Pullman company is building two
fourteen-sectiOn drawing-rOom sleeping
coaches to be run between Cincinnati and
Chicago over the c., H. 81 ID. and the L.,
W Pullman cars nightly, each way, be-
tween Ciaclnnati and Chicago. taking on q
third at indianapolis for Chicago.
Charles Platt, who recently resigned as
superintendent of the Western division of
the New York 81 New England road, has
been appointed general manager of the
Grand Central Station and Mott Haven di-
vision of the New York Central road. On
leaving the n. Y. d n. Z. road Mr.. Platt
and his wife were very handsomely remem-
bered by the employees of the road, Mr.. Plat
receiving a handsome gold watch and chain
and Mrs. Platt an elegant diamond lace
pin.
In passenger circles a feeling prevailsthat
the roads of this country. at least the New
England roads, the trunk lines, and those
coming to the point when all excursion, all
party, all theatrical, and rates to clergy
men. will be 2 cents a mile to all classes of
travel, in fact, local and coupon tickets pay
| ing the same rate. This would put a stop to
r~ate-cutting and to understanding, it is
believed,
An ex-railroad manager, on Saturday last,
in speaking of the dangers of the men who
stand OH the foot boards of engines, said
that. were he to return to railroading,
among the first things he would do would
be to increase rhe pay of the engineers and
tiremen. The more he thought of the mat
ter the more convinced was he hat the
men on the foot board. and the men in the
train-dispatchers' offices. should be the best
paid men on a railroad. He supposed that
his ideas would not agree with those of q
majority of the managers of roads, vet,
nevertheless. it was true that the classes of
employees he had named were not paid in
accordance with their ability, the respon-
sibility of their positions. and. with the en-
gineers and hremen, in proportion to the
dangers of their position.
The move to force a sale at foreclosure of
the Ohio. Indiana q Western is not a sur
prise to some who are on the inside of mat
tiers. 1t was we'll known that Austin COrbin
had sunk 100000 of his own money i'm the
last few years in keeping the road from a
foreclosure sale. hoping that a brighter day
would dawn for 1t; but exactly the Eeverse
was the case. The Lake Erie a. Western,
in the last twelve months, has become a
sharp competitor for business at the most
vulnerable points on the o., /. 81 w. The
equipment was run down. and the road-bed
becoming uneven, and the outlook was dis
that be would rut up no more money, and
the proposition from the Big -Four people to
lease IL was jumped at by Mr.. Corbin and a
few others of the largest stock and bond
holders, but that the minority would make
an effort to defeat the leasing of the road to
the Big Four was rather expected. There
are those who believe that should the road
be thrown on the market the Pennsyl-
vania Company will he one of the bidders
for it. The Peoria division would be a val
liable property for the Pennsylvania. Sc
curing the eastern division would shut out
a road which in the not distant future,
if controlled by n powerful syndicate like
that of the Big Four, will likely become an
ugly competition.
Twelve months ago General Manager
Beckley, of the Cincinnati. Wabash &
Michigan road. ordered two combination
chair and sleeping cars built at the car
works. Wilmington. Del. and placed them
| on the line last spring. running them indie
p%endently of all sleeping car companies.
The Woodruff for years previous furnished
the accommodations of this character. In
the last number OF the Railway Gazette a
lengthy article written by Mr.. Beckley ap-
pears. showing the results of the expert
ment. he carrying the business at lower
rates than do the sleeping car companies.
| He says: "As we lave control of these cars
we made the charges as follows: One per
son in a berth. Sl.25: two persons Sl.75;
chair rate through, including blanket, ETC.,
- cents; locally. one-fourth of | cent.
per mile. with a minimum of - cents. From
statements compiled in this office / find that
during the months of July. August and
September, 1852. we carried in these ears 6S
per cent. more passengers than during the