The Indianapolis journal., 1889-10-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Perronal. Locsa AND General Notes.


their refrigerator cars at the Paris exposi-
tion, and has received gold medal.
DF Whitcomb, general superintendent
of the Union Railway Company, who mas
been East for two weeks, returned yester-
days
President Stuyvesar.t Fish. of the Illinois
Central, who has been in Europe for some
weeks, sends word chat he VIII remain
there another month at least.
The Lake Erie a. Western will, in the
next few months. sell some of its light en-
gines and in their place put new and
heavier ones. probably of the Brooks build.
A. Gates. who for some years past has
been passenger conductor on the Fort
Wayne. Cincinnati d Louisville road. has
resigned. and j. i. Miller has been pro-
NOTED TO his position.
There is another hitch between the Louis
vile. New Albany X Chicago and the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton * Dayton in the change
of time ordered to take effect tomorrow,
and the matter has been postponed again.
NJ. II. Spellman. superintendent of the
Shell Beach road, who but recently re-
turned from Europe. has protited hand
Bomely by investments which he was able
TO make in the interes of certain English
capitalists.
The Baltimore &. Chic company has one
division that is able to pay dividends to
its srockholders-tha Washington branch.
The stockholders of this division get 5
per cent. dividend fs,r the six months end
ing Sept So
Complaint is made THAT the Big Four ad-
yertises local sleeping coaches as running
between indianapolis, and st. Louis. and
have none. Passengers are routed out OF
their berths at 3:45 A. NJ. on arriving at
Indianapolis.
Construction work t,n the Gosport branch
of the indianapolis az Vincennes road Is
progressing rapidly. superintendent Mans
field says that they will be hauling coal
over it from the new mines, now being
opened, by Jan. i, $780,
c. z. Henderson. ex general manager of
the Ohio. Indiana 81 Western. who has
been north for few weeks. returned yes
serday. The report is revived that he is
soon TO take an impor tant position on one
of Mr. Corbin's Eastern lines.
The Vanderbilt party. which was in Gin
cinnati yesterday. will to-day make the
run over the Big Four from Cincinnati to
Chicago. Their special car will arrive at
Indianapolis at 115J5 A. NJ. President
ingalls, will accompany them.
Barney SE Smith have been awarded the
day trains, parlor ciir with each, for the
Big Four company. The works are in
structed to spare no pains in making the
coaches elegant and substantial.
The indianapolis oar-works were yester-
day awarded the contract to build 900 coal
cars for the Pittsburg g & Western road, of
which NJ. Mcdonald is general manager.
Two hundred of these cars are to be deliv-
cred within thirty tlays and the rest by
Feb. I, 1890.
The Lake Erie g. Western has closed the
station at Howlands. The people living
in that vicinity are much exercised over
the matter, and have asked the Louisville.
New Albany & Chicago to establish sta
tiOn there. The company has the matter
under consideration.
General Manager SAUL of the Fort
Wayne, Cincinnati &, Louisville road, who
has been in New York for several days,
will return to-day. Mr.. Saul has agreed to
remain on the road If the owners of the
property will furnish funds for him to
properly equip it and develop its business.
J.J. SurouIl, general Eastern agent of the
Illinois Central road, who has just spent
two weeks in looking the property over.
himself as highly pleased with the outlook
for the road. He states that the road is
now carrying the largest tonnage in its
history.
The engineers of maintenance-of-way on
the. Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg
will start on their annual trip Monday
next. On these trips decisions are reached
as TO what improvements shall be made to
the roadb'd during the next year. They
will go over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago rUad first.
Chief Engineer Morris, of the Cincinnati
division of the Big Four, has been instruct
ed TO at once begin the work of lengthen-
ing the side-tracBs on this division to ac-
one time yesterday there were nine freights
moving on twenty eight miles of track just
east of GFeensburig.
The Ohio. Indiana g. Western is making
a sharp drive to get fair share of the east
bound livestock traffic out of here. Yes
terday the road secured thirty carloads.
Last week this road took out of Mahomet.
ILL.,, twenty-eight carloads of livestock,
and IN slxty-seven hours, IN connection
with the Erie, landed them in Jersey City.
~ xv1,c hao t,-o< o1o al
president of the Cincinnati, Jackson 81
Mackinaw road to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of j. II. Fisher, is men,
Der OF the banking firm of w. III. Brown 81
Co., but prior TO entering the banking busi-
ness had some experience as a railroad man,
mostly through his connection with the
contracting firm of Brown, Howard & Co.
The officials of the Vandala say that the
roadbed of the entire system was never be-
fore IN as good condition for heavy winter
service. as this year. and the tonnage is
heavy beyond parallel. There have been
times when the eas6-bound tonnage was
slightly heavier. but never before was the
west-bound and east-bound tonnage so well
equaliZed, some weeks not vasying more
than twenty-five cars
indianapolis can still boast of having the
only genuine belt road in this country. The
belt road which is projected for Philadel-
phia will be one mile long. and merely con-
meets several docks, with the three leading
railroads. The Indianapolis Belt road is
thirteen miles long, eight miles of the dis
tance Is double track, and this year thus
far an average OF 2110 cars have been
transferred over it daily.
The progress that the present manage
ment has made in bringing the Louisville
New Albany n Chicago to the front is
being favorably commented on by the
Eastern press. But few roads have so
rapidly come into prominence as has the
Monon In the last three years. and through
connection with Son thern llres, arranged
of late, the business of the road bids fair to
be 80 per cent. heavier within the next
twelve months.
The New York Central will within the
next thirty days. let the contract TO raise
or lower the grade of their track over all
Buffalo streets crossed by that company. 1t
Is expected that it will siost 5000 900 to
make the Improvement. Tile company is to
bear the full burtlen of tn o expense. The
city OF Buffalo has set apart $4,000 to be
expended IN depressing or raising the grade
of the streets at crossings. but not a dollar
toward changing the railroad grade. 1t is
expected that 1t wial take two years to do
the work.
That President ingalls,. while being bold
financler. is q prudent one, is evidenced by
the fact that when he leases a road as in
the case of the Cairo IL Vincennes or the
Ohio, Indiana &: Western the rental is
carefully calculated. and is sure to be no
greater than the road can earn under ordi-