The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-08
Personal. Local and State Notes.

Oh prOHt ana loss
Personal. Local and State Notes.
A. Broddus, general Western agent of the
Virginia. Tennessee IL Georgia tAir-llnel
road, Is spending a day or two III the city.
President Brown. of the Texas Pacific,
says he has not resigned the presidency,
and that he has not discussed the matter
with anyone.
FL. S. Halfway has been appointed gen
eraI Southern agent of the L., n. A. &. u
and the Louisville Southern roads, the lat
ter being operated by the L., n. A.. T..
The Lake Erie & Western is distributing
eleven miles of new steel rails this week,
and in the present month will receive the
hve new freight engines ordered a Few
weeks ago.
The Pennsylvania Company has just
placed two hundred more cars OF sixty
Thousand pounds capacity In the Empire
line; They were built at Altoona. and are
model cars.
The official report shows that in the
month OF February an average of one train
In every forty-ive minutes left the e., L.,
IT. l.. d C.. yards at Indianapolis, either
over the eastern or western division.
| Numerous changes in the boards of di-
reetOrs of Western lines at the coming an
nual meetings are indicated, and q good
many directors who are seeking reelection
VIII not have many votes TO spare IL they
succeed.
Stock of the Louisville, New Albany Il
Chicago has again commenced to move up
ward, several sharp advances having been
made in the last week. Few north-and-
south roads have as bright prospects as has
this road.
The new railroad and wagon bridge
which 1t is proposed to build across the
| Ohio river from J~effersOnville to Louisville
has been located, and work will soon COM
mence on the structure. The bridge on the
Indiana side starts on Mulberry street.
General Manager NoOnan. of the b.. d o.,
Dispatch, returned from the
East Yesterday. The new deal of the Gin
clnnati, indianapolis, st. Louis q Chicago
road, will not curtail the business of the
Il. & o. Kankakee Dispatch over the Big
-Four.
Calvin Brice, president of the Lake Erie
q Western road, and a half dozen other
lines, with a party. of friends, proposes to
spend a few weeks in the West Indies; con-
sequently he will not look over his Western
lines this month, as he had contemplated
doing.
The roads running into Chicago last
month delivered at the stOck-yards there
Der the c., b. q Q. delivered !, 729, the larg-
est number; the L., N. A. 81 c., 60 car
loads. the smallest number, and the Wa
bash LII carloads.
j. w. Sherwood, formerly superintendent
OF the g., l.. st. l.. 81 c., spent yesterday in
the city,. There are good reasons for saying
that In the near future he is to be appointed
to a higher Official position than he has
ever yet held, as a result of some of the
deals now In progress.
The Vandalia Is distributing its business
much more literally among it's connections
at this point b one year ago.. This is
lone largely at the expense of the c., II. e.
l. road, which, shortly after the Ives
Staynor deal, prOfited handsomely through
Its ' andalla connection.
In February there were forwarded east
from Chicago 1878 loaded cars, against 5, 70l
in the corresponding month of 1888. OF this
number the a Shore took out the larg-
est number, 2,lS5 cars, while the c., l., st.
L. & c. took out 542 cars, against 224 in
February, 1885, the smallest number of any
road.
The appeal of Messrs. Fish and Hartman
for proxies in their name for use in the an
nual election of the Illinois Central road,
appears to have aroused fresh hostility,
land started anew sharp criticism of the
character which has already been passed
upon the methods of management of the
property.
The Mackey syndicates are still in doubt
as to what rOute they will take as their
connecting link for ST. Louis. 1t was first
understood that they would build sixty
miles between Mt. Vernon and Belleville,
but it is now claimed that a shorter and
more feasible route can be secured via Cen
tralia, Ill.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
which already has a large water frontage
on the Delaware river at Philadelphia, has
just purchased wharf property opposite
paid S750.000. The purchase was made to
head off the Baltimore 81 Ohio and the
Philadelphia q Reading roads.
Robert T.. Brydon, the newly appointed
general passenger agent of the Lake Erie
X Western, yesterday assumed his new of
ticial duties. He has had large experience
in the passenger traffic. and will have a
good field to display his ability in that
direction. The business of the road is, how
ever, largely local: still there is room to i'm
prove on its through traffic.
j.. Il. Harahan is to succeed General Man.
ager Odell, of the ~Chesapeake& Ohio Rail
road Company, whose resignation was an
nounced a few days ago. Mr.. Harahan was
for several years general manager of the
assistant general manager of the Lake
Shore IL Michigan Central. with head
quarters at Cleveland. Mr. Harahan is ex-
pected to assume the duties of his new pO-
sition in about two weeks.
On the matter of building more roads in
the West, President Roberts, in his annual
report. is quite outspoken: He says: 1.-The
enactment of hasty and unjust laws in
many of the Western States is seriously af.
fecting the value of railroad property in
that section, and seems plainly to indicate
that no further investments should be made
b. your company In those States, except to
protect capital already invested, until q
more liberal and just policy is pursued
toward the existing roads,"
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday last So
600 people were carried between New York
and Washington, over the Pennsylvania
and the Central road of New Jersey, in
conjunction with the Baltimore IL Ohio,
and not a person was injured. 1t is said to
have been the heaviest travel ever known
Over the Pennsylvania road, it carrying
from March l TO 3, 1000 persons on ex-
cursion rates. besides its regular. travel.
On Sunday twenty -nine trains left the
Jersey City station for Washington
twenty-three specials" and six regular
trains. The Central road of New Jersey
sent out six specials" in addition to its
two regular trains.
The officials of the Pennsylvania lines
who nave been inspecting the Cairo Il Vim
cennes road, returned last evening, and
after a few minutes delay left for their re-
spective headquarters. One of the C.. Il V.
officials who was in Vincennes last night,
is reported as saying that the c. q V. would
be sold to the Pennsylvania Company
within q few days, and with the Indian
apolis IL Vincennes, a good line would be
opened under one management between In
dianapolis and Cairo. Thu citizens of Vim
cennes are so we'll satisfied that the report
is true that they are already moving to
have the shops of the consolidated lines 10.
Gated there.
TIL success of the Lake Erie Il Western
is largely due to the heavy traffic of freight
carried. Industries at all cities and towns
on its line have been encouraged by laying
side-tracks TO them and then giving as
reasonable rates as possible. In Other
words. the manufacturers on the line have
found the road a true friend to them, and