The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-31
Personal and General Notes.

streets on the lst prox.
The stockholders of the Michigan branch
of the Wabash railroad-the Detroit 81
State-line Wabash-met in Detroit yester-
day and voted to ratify the recent CONSOLE
dation.
Division Superintendent Bender. of the
Big Four. has returned from New England,
where he went to place his family in sum-
mer quarters. He reports travel on all
Eastern roads heavy.
General Freight Agent Hubbard. of the
Vandalia, has appointed +. S. Holmes COM
mercisl agent at Cincinnati. Mr.. Holmes
was for twenty-one years connected with
the freight department of the old Big -Four.
The c.. H. g. ID. has established station
at Gwynneville, two miles east of Norris
with w. III. Leisure as local agent. An
elevator with ample side-tracks has been
built.
There are $500 employees in the service
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
AS the system comprises 10,5oS miles, this
gives Ills employees per mile-the highest
average of any railroad system in the
country.
Arlington, on the c., II. & D., is rapidly
growing in importance as shipping point.
It has an elevator with a capacity Of 5000
foW. supplying all the gas ss' that is needed
for business and domestic purposes.
Any one who may have doubts as to the
local ticket agent earning his salary, how
ever large, should sit by and hear one talk
to an intending tourist. The amount of
work necessary to sell ten-dOllar ticket
In many cases would, if expended in almost
any other direction, yield a princely in
come.
Articles of incorporation were filed at
Topeka on Monday for the Galena, Guthrie
q Gulf Railway, with headquarters at
100000 and the length of the proposed road
is 2l0 miles. running from Baxter Springs,
through Oklahoma and the Indian Terri
tory. to the Gulf of Mexico.
J. III. Hyland. general agent of the c.. H.
extended to embrace Detroit, and will re-
move to the latter city. G.. +. Fox goes
from Lima to Toledo to succeed Mr.. Hy-
land. while J. c. Riley lost-freight agent
at Cincinnati. goes to Lima as successor of
Mr.. Fox. These changes take effect Aug. /.
The Louisville, New Albany g. Chicago
road gave notice yesterday that it would
meet the reduced rates of the Panhandle
route to Southeastern points On and after
Friday, Aug: = its passenger rates from
matt, S.; to Indianapolis, $3.50. The Kanka-
kee line Will take the same action.
John Thomas, SUPERINTENDENT of the
Cleveland & Pittsburg division of the
Pennsylvania lines. has been made general
agent of the Cleveland Il Pittsburg diyis-
His office will be in Cleveland. l.. f. Loree,
engineer of maintenance of way of that d.
vision. has been made superintendent, vice
Mr.. Thomas. The changes will take effect
on the LIST proX.
Division No. 1. of the Yardmasters' Mutu-
al Benefit Association, met on Sunday and
elected officers for the ensuing year as fol-
lows: President. Geo. McCutcheon, of the
o., !. a. W.; vice-president, w. II. Smead
of the Belt railroad; secretary and treas
urer. III. e. Chapel, of the c.. ii. & d.
The regular meetings will be held on the
second Sunday of each month at the Van
dalia freight-house.
No decision has vet been reached by the
court on the petition of Receiver Alalott for
authority TO issue $500, 900 of receivers GER
tihcates to be used in improving the prop
erty of the Chicago 81 Atlantic and to dis
charge floating obligations. but it is be-
leved the authority will be granted. 1t is
conceded that the property has good show
for business if the means are afforded for
putting IL in working condition.
Governor Francis, of Missouri. has re-
turned from New York, and not only vigor-
ouSly denies the report that he was there to
Jay Gould, but declares that he did not meet
Gould while in New York. Messrs. Rain
water and Cobb, of the Merchants Bridge
Company; indignantly deny that efforts have
been made TO- dispose of the bridge. and
contend that it will be completed and OPP
Grated as originally contemplated.
A conference of representatives of the
Eastern and Western lines was held at Chi
cagO yesterday for the purpose of agreeing
upon a plan for the division of through
ritory of the Central Traffic Association.
After full discussion of the matter a
special committee was appointed to out
line the various districts or groups on
which the different percentages will apply.
new, and, it is claimed, improved rail
Ea 10 haf fha d. |.r<
Rochester d Pittsburg railroad. Instead
of crushing through the tie as the present
spike does, it cuts through, owing to the
fact that the angles of two corners of the
point are cut off. 1t was found on uplift-
Ing a tie in which common spike and the
improved one had been driven, that the
wood of the tie hugs the new spike much
closer than it does the old. giving about IS
there is no lodging place left for. water
around the new form of spike. il is thought
that lt VIII prolong the lie of the ties in
winch IL Is used by preventing decay.
=, Four and half years ago the Houston &
Texas Central railroad went into the hands
OF receiver, and IN September of last year
committee, but the 5ondhoiders have
not yet received their new bonds
the certificate of the new corporation has
not been Med, nor has the assessment on
the STOCK been called or even fixed. Vari-
Gus causes are alleged for the delay. among
others the opposition of G. =. Huntington,
who. being the owner of 81 600 900 OF the
stock, would naturally like to defer as long
as possible the payment of an assessment
which. at $50 per share-the estimated
amount necesSary-would call for 81 OOO-
600 from him. The bondholders have be-
come impatient, and at meeting held in
New York on Saturday were clamorous for
an adjustment. and the assessment of the
stock, winch Mr.. Tweed, counsel for Mr.
Huntington. promised should be done AS
speedily as possible after certain needed sta
tistics were furnished-probably this week.
General Thomas III. Hubbard, of counsel
for the Central Trust Company. saws the
delay is i'm no way due TO Mr. Huntington.
but to the operation of hostile Texas
laws. He thinks it was outrageous for
Texas people to invite Northern capital
down there to build railroads and then
turn round and pass laws making il i'm
possible TO run them. He says, further.
that the road. as reorganiZed. cannot earn
within $4,000 of its fixed charges. The
demand for speedy settlement of the
affairs of the Houston * Texas would seem
TO offer an explanation of the sale of MIR.
Huntington's G.. a. O. stock--the sum real
lzed from that transaction being just about
what will be required to pay bis assess
ment on his Houston ~ Texas Central stock.
That storm is gathering over the pas
senger business in this territory Is pretty
CERTAIN. IL is asserted by all competing
lines that the Pennsylvania has given no
satisfactory explanation for its cut on CHI