The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


CONDUCTOR VII tut DIX lOaAf
Chesapeake * Ohio road. is spending aIew
days with relatives In this city.
The earnings of the Lake Erie IL Western
road the third week IN November were
S4S.414: increase over earnings TOT the COT
responding week of 1855. S6,6l2.
Donald Allen. superintendent of the st.
Louis a. Henderson division of the Louis
Vile & Nashville road. has rendered his
resignation, to take effect Jan. l.
G.. j. Aycock has been appointed master
of transportation of the Illinois Central
road. He is also given charge OF the ma
chinery department of the main line.
W.. +. Connor, who has been with the Erie
road for some years, has been appointed
Southwestern passenger agent of the Wa
bash, with headquarters at Dallas, Tex.
v. T. Malott. receiver of the Chicago &
Atlantic. who has been detained at home
a couple of weeks with a ~carbuncle, was so
far relieved of his affliction that he went to
Chicago last night.
All the railroad shops on Indianapolis
lines are so busy making repairs and build
ing new cars that they have abolished, at
least for the present. the ~half-holiday ar
rangement on Saturday afternoon.
Conductor Bell, one of the Oldest passen-
ger men on the Pennsylvania road. has re-
signed to go TO California. He was in
charge of the express train on which so
nan lives were lost ON the day of the
Johnstown flood.
Hunter Gunnell. late purchasing agent
for the Ohio, Indiana * Western road,
takes an important position on the Phila-
delphia& Reading road Dec. l. with a hand-
some increase in salary over that he re-
ceived on the o.. L. & w.
On Saturday last the vestibule train over
the Louisville, New Albany a. Chicago left
indianapolis one hour and eleven minutes
late. and went into Chicago on time. max
ing the run from Indianapolis to Chicago
In four hours n twenty-nine minutes
Within the last eighteen months the Chi
cage Eastern Illinois has added forty-one
engines to its equipment, and will In the next
few months add ten more. The company is
disposing of a number of its light engines
and replacing them with heavier ones which
their heavy traffic requires.
Benjaman Norton, who has just been
elected vice-president and general manager
of the Long Island road. is a brother of
Harry Norton, who was formerly purchas-
ing agent of the Ohio. Indiana q Western.
and who now holds a similar position on
the Philadelphia d Reading.
Next spring, it is stated, the Big Four
people will build a line independent of the
Lake Erie q Western between Lafayette
and Templeton. The distance is nineteen
miles, and the Il Il. & W. and the Big -Four
have used this piece of track Jointly for
years. 1t belongs to the l.. Z. a. w. CON-
pany.
M. Z. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake * Ohio roads. will
leave for the East on Thursday evening, to
be absent two weeks. While East it is
stated that further deals are to be made in
connection with the Chesapeake Il Ohio.
The affairs of the Big Four will be allowed
to rest, at least for the present.
G. w. Fairbanks states that no receiver
will be appointed for the Ohio. Indiana ~
Western road. The procedure last Satur-
day is in the line proposed under the new
deal with the Big Four people. The road
will be sold at foreclosure sale and the
company reorganized on a basis which will
be satisfactory to parties in interest.
Acting General Passenger Agent DAILY. of
the Lake Erie * Western road, yesterday
received a letter from Wilbur +. Lee, FORM
erly general passenger agent of the l.. +. IL
W.. stating that the outlook for him on
the Union Pacific was promising. He takes
his new position as general passenger agent
with headquarters at Portland, Ore, Dec. /.
The Big Four people have notified the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton that they
will not haul the through sleeping coach
between Cincinnati and Peoria over sthe
Ohio. Indiana & Western after Dec. 1, and
the c., III. * ID. people have made arrange
ments with the Lake Erie & Western to
establish q new line between the cities
named over the c.. III. & ID. and the l.. +.
& w.
John r.. Elder. president of the Shell
Beach road, returned from New Orleans
AAO CpO4Io lhaU uhACl UhO
su-perintendency of Mr.. Spellman the road
is doing a good business at paying rates.
The shipments of sugar and rice into New
Orleans over the road are large, the line
for a greater part of the distance passing
through some of the largest sugar and rice
plantations in Louisiana.
The purchase of the st. Louis, Des Moines
d Northern railway by the Des MOines q
Northern Railway Company is an important
move in railroad consultations. The lat
tor will M Onea POnUarf IL into q ofan1ort
gauge road. and it will at once be made a
connecting link between the st. Paul and
Wabash systems. In fact it will open up a
new route from Des Moines to Chicago, and
to Council Bluffs and Sioux City.
Superintendent Van Tassell, of the Ohio
Southern road. was in the city yesterday
for q conference with T.. T.. Henderson,
general manager. This road is now max
ing the largest net earnings in its history,
and Its coal traffic is becoming immense
The Jackson coal is being shipped to the
extreme West. much of it to Nebraska. To
ship that distance it must be loaded in box
cars and locked. else one-half of the coal
:. would be stolen before it reached It's desti.
nation.
There is good authority for stating that
should've programme asregaIds the reorgan
iZation of the Ohio. Indiana IL Western be
carried out, the portion of the o., L. X w.
west of lndianapOlis-that is, the 202 miles
from indianapolis to Pekin-will be oper
w LAlta1 " - tAo Alk ~ AtC
that it will be controlled by muoh the same
management, while the eastern division
which extends from Indianapolis to Spring
o.. will be consolidated as q part of the
Big Four system:
eshipments of -four, grain and provis.
ions from Chicago to the seaboard by the
lines in the Central Traffic Association last
week aggregated 81, iS3 tons, against g, 0S.
for the preceding week. a decrease of 30
tons, and against IS, 94 for the correspond
ing week last year., % decrease of 1,742 tons
The Vanderbilt lines carried 50.3 per cent.
of the business; the Pennsylvania lines,
23.2; the Chicago * Grand Trunk $50, and
the Baltimore & Ohio, 1876.
The five roads %running into Omaha have
each contributed a handsome sum toward
establishing library, reading and bath.
rooms for the railroad men who make
Omaha their headquarters. Indianapoli:
has fifteen roads, but not among them al
is there enterprise enough TO undertake
such an enterprise. President McKeen. oil
the andalia, has expressed a willingness:
10 do his share in such a good work, and
probably President ingalls, would If the
matter were properly presented to him.
A great change has come over the man.
agemen OF the Cincinnati. Sandusky ~
cleveland road since M. T.. Ingalls,. took a
nand III the affairs of the Ohio. Indiana n
western. and proposed to parable the line
between Springfield and Columbus, o. The
e., :. * L. will work with the o. j. 81 W..
the ONO Southern. or any other roads
which President ingalls, indicates it would
be wise for them to work with. as is evl.
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