The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

franc Manager Parker, OF the LAKE Eue
q Western, was so sick yesterday that ne
was confined to his bed
In the month Of September there were
handled at Neutrality-suspicious. of the Union
Station 40,206 pieces of baggage.
The annual inspection of the Big Four
system will be commenced on the 21st of
this month. the inspection party starting
from Cleveland
Al Spur. Eastern. passenger agent OF
the Burlington route, is stopping a day or
two in the city. His headquarters are now
at Columbus. q.
ID. I. Whitcomb, general superintendent
of the Union Railway Company and belt
his aged mother.
Charles Watts. superintendent of the
Logansport division Of the Pennsylvania
lines, left last night for the East, to be abb
sent several days.
September railroad earnings are begin
ming TO come in, and are not falling behind
those of August. In fact. il is believed
thatincreases will be shown more generally.
In the month of September an average of
twenty-four cars were loaded with freight
at the city freight depot of the Nandalia,
being tae best months local business In the
history of the road.
A. Barnard. general manager of the Ohio,
Indiana 81 Western road, returned, last
evening. from an inspection trip over the
line. He was accompanied by Superintepd-
ent Wilson and Roadmaster Sloan.
The private car Kankakee. in which
the New York Central road, will not be re-
built. Barney d Smith, however. will
build a new private coach for Mr. ingalls,.
With the taking effect of the winter time
table. the Queen 81 Crescent route viii
make the run from Cincinnati to Chatta-
nooga in ten hours. and the run from Gin
cinnati to Jacksonville will be made III less
than forty hours.
Conductor Wise yesterday brought in, on
No. &C. over the Yandalia, 119 through pass
sengers from st. Louis. of which number he
turned 101 over to the fennsylvania line
east. On the trip, in addition, he handled
15 local passengers.
The inspection party of the Pennsylvania
lines will arrive in this city from Chicago
on the afternoon of the 18th, stop over
following day inspect the Jacksonville,
Madison d Indianapolis road.
The first mortgage b0ndholders of the st.
Louis & Chicago road yesterday. at the
foreclosure sale. bid in the property, The
equipped. c. w. Fairbanks. of this city,
is holder Of a large number of the bond
The Baltimore & Ohio has a partial
freight blockade for a want of power. At
Martinsburg. on Monday last. there were
1,40O more loaded cars than the company
had engines to haul. and this is but q sam
pie of the condition of affairs at many other
points on the lines.
Rates on oil, both when carried in barrels
or in tanks, have been advanced from the
oi~l-producing points to the Southwest.
and other Northwestern points were paying
higher rates than Indianapolis, st. Louis
and other Southwestern points.
The party of bankers from the East,
which Mr.. Blanchard brought through here
q few days ago to go West to look after in
uQafnnonfa rpfurnad UaafPrdaV- and Mt tho
expense of Mr.. Hutchinson. who left them
here, they were given q grand dinner at
Taggarts dinning-rooms In the Union Sta
> tion.
A. Stewart, general live stock agent of
the Big Four, states that the Cleveland di-
vision has. in the last ninety days, turned
over to the Eastern lines at Cleveland,
fully 1.5O0 more carloads of live stock than
in the corresponding period of 1888, and this
stock has been carried at 80 per cent. better
rates than last year.
Now that the bondholders have ratified
the reorganization plan suggested. it is be-
Ieved that the affairSof the indianapolis.
Decatur & Western road will move along
more smoothly, The reorganization COM
mittee have been instructed to at once pay
off $4,000 incurred as indebtedness in i'm
proving the road by the old company.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton g. Dayton peo-
pie have deferred putting in erect their
new timetable until Sunday. the 18th.
Under this new schedule there will be
five through trains each way between In
dianapOlis and Cincinnati, four of which
will be three-hour trains. The Corners
vile accommodation will be taken of.
A statute of Ohio provides that no rail-
road company operating in that State
under an Ohio charter shall increase the
amount of its stock outstanding beyond a
certain percentage understood to be IS per
cent? of its bonded Indebtedness. The
board Of directors of the Ohio Southern
road will, therefore. complete their reor-
ganization with q bond issue.
The passenger business of the Ohio South
ern road is developing IN a manner which
surprises the friends of the road. It Is be-
coming a good passenger line, as well as
coal road. Some of the coaches of the road
have been rebuilt at the shops of the Indi-
the road will. in a few weeks, be we'll pro-
vided with passenger equipment.
Said a Louisville, New Albany q Chicago
official yesterday: Our competitors have
compelled us to stop cutting rates to secure
business. and now we shall resort to the
English methods to Guido our competitors
In time. Six hours is talked of now for two
of the L., N. A & G.. trains between Indi-
annapolis and Chicago. Most of the trains
are now eight hours making the run.
The new vestibule trains which the Pull
man company is building to run between
Chicago and Cincinnati, over the Louisville,
New Albany 81 Chicago and the CIncin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton, will be ready for
service Dy wednesday next, and they Will
be exhibited at Chicago and at Cincinnati
the latter part of next week, going on to
their regular run Gil Sunday, the 18th.
The three California lines owned by the
Atchison. Topeka 81 Santa Fe company
will, after the 10th of this mouth, be OPP
Grated as one under the reorganization
scheme voted on this week by the directors
of the road. A. A. GlaZier, transfer agent
of the company. has resigned. and the Bos-
ton Safe Deposit and Trust Company has
been appointed the transfer agent of the
company.
The Wagner Car Company is to adopt the
plan of the Pullman Car Company on their
through New York and Boston trains, that
of gathering up the tickets so that the pas
sengers need not be disturbed by a conduc-
tor during their trip. This plan has been
operating very satisfactorily for some years
on the Pennsylvania lines, but met with
some opposition until its features became
we'll understood.
Three of the roads now place their sleep
ing coaches under tire shed of the Union
station on different tracks. and the others
are still placed on the spur tracks west of
the street-car stables. 1t would be much
more convenient if all the roads would
place the local sleeping coaches which go
out at IL p NJ. on the ninth track, under
the sheds, where they could be readily
found and occupied after 2 p. NJ.
Eastern papers are not disposed to give
much credence to the rumors that the Big
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