The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-05
Personal ard Local Notes.


1t is stated that .he Pennsylvania people
are seriously considering the building of an
extension TO Detroit. Mich.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton peo-
pie will eXpend II the present year nearly
10000 in improving their terminal facili-
ties to Toledo. o.
Freight traffic this week is improving
handsomely. There were transferred over
the Belt road on Thursday =, 40 cars and
yesterday ,, 100 ears.
I, In the year 1888 there was handled at the
city freight depots of the Pennsylvania
Company 2g3,107,S7S pounds of freight, rep
resenting 30,3SO cars
1t is predicted that in 1889 there will be
less rate troubles than for twenty years
past. One thing is certain at the present
tine, and that Is that rates are held very
firmly.
The watch inspectors of the Decline have
Il meeting next Tuesday, in this city, to
compare notes and make suggestions as to
the mode of inspecting the watches of train
men in the future.
The receipts fsom the sales of tickets at
the uptown office of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton II Dayton company In the gear 1888
amounted TO S36,0l1.29, an increase over
those Of 1857 of 50, 056.49, or 81 1-2 per cent.
An impression prevails in railroad circles
that ID. Miller will be appointed the sue
cessor of Il. T.. Hand rs division freight
agent of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st.
Louis * Chicago road, with headquarters
at Chicago.
The trunk-line associations in the year
just closed were little else than statistical
bureaus. Commissioner Fink was in Europe
six months of the year, and Commissioner
Blanchard got "huffy,n and let his assOcia-
ton run in go-as-you-rlease manner.
The Local Ticket and Passenger Agents
Association has special meeting, to-day,
and turbulent time is looked for, Several
of the members have done things which,
under the bylaws of the association, are
Enable, but they refuse to pay the fines
assessed.
IL the Lake Shore and New York Central
arrangements will do their part the Bee
line can make the time of its through pas
eenger trains from ST. Louis to New York
thirty-one hours and from Indianapolis to
New York, twenty-fOur hours, as well as
can any OF their competitors.
Mr.. Charles NJ Heald, general freight
agent of the Philadelphia 81 Reading Rail-
road Company, has resigned to accept the
presidency of the New York Susquehanna
d Western company. Mr.. b. III. Bail,
assistant general freight agent, has been
appointed acting general freight agent.
Under the rules of the Belt Road Com
pany freight Trains cannot be run over the
road az a greater speed than twenty miles
per hour. Some OF the superintendents are
complaining that they are held down to
that speed, and are asking that twenty five
speed.
The Cincinnati Superintendents' Associa-
ton meets here on Tuesday next, when it
VIII be reorganizad under the name
of the Superintendents Central Asso-
cl&ton, and superintendent of all the
roads centering in indianapolis are to be-
come members. Some of them already have
a membership in the association.
Packers at the stockyards, Chicago, are
paying freight on eonsignments of hogs I'M
der protest. They claim that the action of
the railroads IN charging p 1-2 cents per
100 on live hogs from the Missouri river tn
Chicago, and only 70 cents. per 100 on hog
product, is IN unfair discrimination in
favor of packers in Western cities.
The adjustment of the troubles of the
striking engineers az the C.. Il. IL Q. road
and the c.. Is. n q. company. IL is thought
by railroad men, Will put an end 10 railroad
strikes. Both parties got wOrsted in the
tight, and 1t has been a heavy expense to
all concerned Hereafter. 10 Is believed,
each party viii be willing to settle by
arbitration.
George VI. Kimball. superintendent of the
eastern division of the Nickel-plate. with
headquarters ut Cleveland, has rendered his
resignation. taking effect at once. 1t is said
that Mr.. kinball contemplates entering
other business. 1t is rumored that VIM l..
Blair. the chief clerk of General Superin-
feudent Williams, will receive the appoint
ment.
There is feeling among freight officials
that IL is nm outrage if A. w. Street. assist
ant general freight agent of the Michigan
Central road, is made the scapegOat OF the
company ia the rate-cutting case. and re-
signs a. a consequence. 1t is said there is
not y more conservative freight man in the
service than Mr. Street, and if he cut rate
IL was done with the consent of officials
IN higher position than himself.
The special train carrying the Hunting
ton party, over the Cincinnati. Indianapo-
lis, st. Louis * Chicago road, on Sunday
last, made the run from Chicago to Cincin-
natl, stopping seventeen minutes at Indian
apolis. IN eight hours and thirty minutes
zAis run has convinced President Ingalls,