The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Per.ona,. LOCAL and Cenerai Note

WABASH, now superintendent OF the eaStcTH
division of the Chesapeake & Ohio system,
is in the city.
The railroad mileage of Michigan has
been increased this year a little over two
hundred miles, and about three hundred
miles more are projected for 1880.
Henry Manly. agent of the Whitewater
Valley road at Connersville, has resigned
to engage in commercial pursuits. He IS
succeeded by ID. Gem. of that city.
Will l.. Divine, chief clerk in the rate de-
partment of the Big Fou at Chicago, was
in the city Yesterday. The Harrison fu-
neral party was under his supervision.
The agent of the Empire line at this
point, last evening. received instructions TO
take no more grain for Baltimore until
further orders, as there is n blockade at
that point.
The threat of the granger roads that they
will boycott the Union Pacific for its ex-
elusive traffic agreement with the Chicago
IL Northwestern Is said to be gradually
taking shape.
C. G.. Campbell. who has been with the
Michigan Central road for some years. has
been appointed commercial agent of the
Chicago 81 West Michigan, with h~eadquar-
tiers at Chicago.
The Big Four people. now that they have
a double track out of Cincinnati to Fern
dale, will put on additional trains and
offer other inducements to build up their
suburban travel.
George Knowlton, passenger conductor
on the Missouri Pacific road. is spending a
day or two in the city. the guest of ID. f.
Whitcomb. superintendent of the Union
Railway Company.
Passenger conductors on the Evansville
az Terre Haute road are somewhat dis
turbedsthat some new men have been put
on to learn the road, expecting to be made
passenger conductors.
1t requires 100 tons of coal q day to sup
ply the engines of the Pennsylvania Com
pany which arrive and depart at Indianap-
oils. The coal all comes off of the Indian
apolis q Vincennes road.
The L%ogansport people are very sanguine
that with the opening of the Vandalia eX-
tension north LOgansport is to become a
division point and the headquarters for q
number of the Vandalia officials.
Recent rains nave made bad work on the
Richmond d Evansville road. One inn
portant bridge. it is stated, is gone, and
land-slides have effectually stopped the
running of trains. at least for a few days.
The Wabash people announce thatclergy-
mems tickets will be issued for 1890 as
usual. The rules prescribe that the clergy
man must have charge of a stated congrega-
ton and follow no other vocation but the
ministry.
The general officers of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg deny fatty the re-
port sent ont yesterday by the Associated
Il 1853 w tAO ChCCb Ludt InO COMPANY II
about to consolidate its lines west of
Pittsburg.
Conductors on the Wabash road are
watching,the order boxes closely, as within
the last ten days sixteen passenger con-
ductors have found in them blue envelopes
notifying them that their discharge had
been ordered.
The question of making 2 cents a mile
the rate for passengers ON all roads in New
York will come before the Legislature of
that State the present session. The move
ment was inaugurated by the residents on
the Long Island road.
The understanding now is that the Big
Four people will take full control of the
Ohio. Indiana IL Western on January l..
The little hitch with some of the first-mort-
gage bondholders who claimed q priority
OF lien has been arranged,
of the Louisville d Nashville road saws
that the understanding now is that in the
early spring they will build a road from
Evansville to Terre Haute. paralleling the
Evansville IL Terre Haute road.
General Manager Barnard, of the Ohio.
appointments until the LIST of January to
Till the positions made vacant through the
deaths of j. III. Wilson. general superintend-
ent, and j. NJ. Cummins, trainmaster.
At a recent trunk-line meeting the New
! York. Ontario & Western was given q diff
Oh PdcbChSCl ldtCo " DI. LOulS
and Chicago; now the Erie and West Shore
come in and want the New York Central
and Pennsylvania to give them a differen-
tial.
The Mackey people announce that they
Will not commence running regular through
trains over their Mount Vernon extension
for st. Louis until March 1, 1890. The heavy
rains of the last month nave seriously in
terfered with pushing the construction
work.
j. III. Wilson. late general superintendent
of the Ohio, Indiana g. Western. carried
companies and $4,000 in regular life insur-
ance companies. Five thousand dollars of
thisa amount was taken within the last six
weeks.
The United States Express Company will
on the LIST of January commence operating
over the Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis
road and its branches. displacing the Adams
express. The latter, however, will have an
entrance into Evansville through an Ohio
IL Mississippi connection.
The suit of the Commercial National
Bank, of Chicago. against the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois for the foreclosure of the
first mortgage bonds. is attracting consid,
cradle attention, as, should the plaintiff
gain the suit, the road will be sold. and
greatly disturb its other financial arrange.
mentS.
The safety plates which the PENNSYLVANIA
Company now uses on its locomotives to
prevent the parallel-rOds injuring the fire
man or engineer in case of breakage are
five-eighths of an inch thick. and since the
company adopted this thickness no man or
the foot-board has been injured when o
parallel-rOd broke.
III. g. Glenn. who has been in the amp oy
of the New York Central road for forty.
eight years, died on Sunday last. On the
18th day of October, 1871. Mr.. Glenn began
on the road as an engineer: after running
nine years he was appointed yardmaster nj
Syracuse. which position he held until
Nov. /, when he resigned on account of i'll
health. the company then pensioning hin
for life.
1t is understood that on the 1st of Janua
~ ID. r.. Thompson, superintendent of the
Burlington & Missouri road, will retire
Alex. Campbell succeeding him. Mr.
Thompson commenced on this road nearly
q quarter of a century ago as brakeman
He has become quite wealthy through Ger
tain land speculatiOns. and proposes here
after. it is stated, to see something of tn,
outside world.
The indianapolis g. Vincennes Railroad
Company has leased several rooms in tn,
Jackson-place Block. ando on the 1st of Jan
zeal force and the neutrality-suspicious. Offices
freight depot, on Virginia avenue. to thi
building. The freight traffic of the c.. ST
L. a Z. has increased so much of late tina
Colonel Perry, general agent, needs all tn,
room in the depot.
The petition of certain commission men t,
the Indiana Car-service Association tina
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