The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-09


Peers. The board organized by electing
the following officers: Thomas ID. Messler,
president; S. b. Liggett secretary; 9. III.
HOLES, assistant secretary, and John h.
Davidson, treasurer.
Personal. Local and State Notes.
On Feb. 1 the general freight agent of
the Chesapeake g. Ohio road will remove
his headquarters to Cincinnati.
Complaints are again becoming numer-
Gus of the petty stealing of brasses from
cars when standing in yards here.
w. r. Hill, general agent of the Decline
at this point, is in Louisville. where his
wife, who went there on visit, is seriously
ill.
The board of directors of the Terre Haute
g. Indianapolis road meet, to-day, to elect
officers of the company for the ensuing
year.
R.V. Jackson will to-day be appointed
agent of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st.
Louis q Chicago road at Chicago, vice b.
Z. Hand, resigned.
John A. Gaynor, chief operator in the
office of Col. Joseph Hill, general superin-
tendent of the Vandalia, and Miss Mamie
Cawley, of Greencastle, will be married
this morning.
The Ohio g. Mississippi people are build
ing two elegant vestibule trains which,
with the taking effect of the spring time
table, will be put on between Cincinnati
and st. Louis,
Logansport is becoming quite a railroad
center. Thirty-four passenger trains arrive
and depart there daily, and the number of
freight trains sometimes gets up into the
hundreds daily.
The new Western classification goes into
effect tomorrow. Under its revision no
advance in rates on any article is estab-
hshed, while there are several reductions
from former tariffs.
.n taf t.n hot
Miller, general freight and passenger agent
of the Cotton-belt route, is to be made gem
eral freight agent of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago road, and
that his headquarters will be In lndianapo-
lis.
the Lake Shore and the Lake Erie roads
have protested against the new west-bou
tariff on iron which went into effect on
Jan. 1. They claim that it shuts them
practically out of the western territory as
competitors.
Theinterstatec commission is endeavOring
to ferret out who the Southwestern freigh
man is that guaranteed cut rate, con-
trary to the agreement made by the presi
dents of the roads interested. The dis
cOvery of the cut was made by quotation
furnished to the Lackawana road.
Business men of the West would like to
see the Baltimore IL Ohio extend its line to
New York. There is business enough for it
and the lines already in there. For eight
weeks the present number of trunk lines
have been blockaded with business. and
such is the case whenever the West has
good crops.
Engineering News, in its last issue, pub
fishes very interesting map, showing,
prominently, the railroad construction in
the United States in the years 1886, 1887 and
1888. In the last year Indiana does not cut
much of figure, building only 1921 miles.
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Illinois built 2S1.37 miles.
The Ohio-river Traffic Association has de-
cided to renew the agreement of 1888, which
provides that shipments of fruits and veg
etables from points In the South shall be
received without prepayment or guarantee.
Louisville, Jacksonville and New Albany
to Chicago, making the figures the same as
those that apply from Cincinnati.
Under the direction of the passenger de-
partment of the Central Traffic Association
there has been issued in pamphlet-form
statement to the effect that the business of
ticket-scalping is unnecessary, illegal and
demoralizing, and leads to frauds upon
travellers and to daily violations of the
interstate law. The writer. shows quite
explicitly the railroad side of the question.
On the first of next month the Ohio g.
Mississippi people will commence the con-
centratiOn of their shops at Washington,
Ind. A large amount of new machinery
will be put in, and the machinery will be
removed from the present more limited
shops at Seymour and Vincennes When
in full operation, the Washington shops
will give employment to 400 or more men.
In the year 1888 seventeen firms built
2,1S0 locomotives, and 3S2 locomotives were
built i'll shops of the railroad companies of
this country. The cars for freight service
built in 1888 were made by thirty-seven
ear-building establishments, which turned
out 62, $50 cars of all descriptions. In the
shops of sixty-six railroads were built 49,
$40 cars, making an addition of new freight
equipment to the roads of this country last
year of 81, 100 cars.
1t is intimated that the Louisville, New
Albany 81 Chicago people leased the Louis
vile Southern road with the approval of
the Louisville 81 Nashville Railroad Com
pany, and that the relations between the
two roads viii be maintained, SO far as
traffic is concerned, as heretofore. 1t is
also stated that if the Louisville Southern
should fail to earn its operating expenses
and fixed charges, the l.. g. n. will share
with the L., n. A. 81 G. In making up the
crush out the Louisville Southern as COM
petitor in any way of the Louisville s.
Nashville road.
Thetraffic departments of the Chesapeake
& Ohio and the Cincinnati, indianapolis,
st, Louis & Chicago no roads are being grad,
of Sunday last says: 1T is only a question
of time when the two systems will be one
1t was the generallopinion that such would
be the case when NJ. f. ingalls, was made
president of both companies. In the Sc
lection of officers for this new trunk line
President ingalls, is showing good deal of
wisdom. Oscar Murray, the general traffic
manager, has but few equals and Harry
Fuller who will be at the head of the
through line as its general passenger agent,
ranks among the best"
The Alleged Sugar Refining SwindIers.