The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and General Notes.


General Manager Beach. of the Atlantic
81 Pacific, has removed his family from
Cleveland TO Chicago.
The Terre Hante & indianapolis direct
ors have declared semi-annual dividend
of per cent, payable to stockholders OF
register on the books of the company at the
close of business the 18th.
The l.. b. * w. has put on a through
car between Indianapolis and Lincoln,
Neb., leaving here at 7:45 A. NJ, and arriv-
ing at Lincoln at 10 A. VI. next DAY. ms
will be great convenience TO travellers TO
Nebraska points.
Henry Hartman. Pittsburg steel manu-
facturer, has purchased the Beaver Falls
road, with all It's franchises. anu 1T has been
Incorporated with the Rochester, Beaver
Falls & Western, and will be extended to
Wurtemburg on the Pittsburg II Western,
thus securing a connection with the b. 81 y.
Work has been going on at Brightwood
during all the past week in the way of pre-
pairing the foundations for the lathes and
other heavy machinery that is TO be re-
moved TO the shops there from the Big Four
shops at Cincinnati. Just how much the
working force there will be increased has
not been determined, but it will be suffi-
Gent increase to put additional life into
that thriving suburb.
The Railroad Gazette Is of the opinion
that the action of the Indian government,
in rejecting the WESTINGHOUSE air-brake
for the automatic vacuum, was prOdl-
BlOuS LII tuab as dSdlnSO
the recent severe tests at Carlsruhe and
the continuous years of actual use In this
country, under all conceivable c1Tcum-
stances and conditions, the Indian exper-
1ments were thrilling and the result absurd
Mention was made in the Journal of the
18th of the number of trains arriving daily
at the principal stations in the country, IN
which it was shown that the Union Station
at indianapolis led, with 134 trains, fol-
lowed next by the Grand Central, at New
rxvsth 1.,l. Int hfos of
ment the Jersey City station of the Erie
railroad was overlooked. From this sta
ton 1873 trains arrive and depart daily, only
one less than the number at the Indian
apois Union Station.
The prospects for the success of the sew
eral Niagara Falls excursions are very flat
tering, inquiries by letter and personally
being made by the hundreds. NOtwith-
standing this fact, however, there is an i'm
preston in the minds of some of the city
ticket agents that this season will witness
the last of these cheap excursions. There
Is no profit in them to the railroad COM
panies. even as an advertisement and the
better class of travel is beginning to avoid
them, preferrIng to pay full fare and avoid
the crowd.
A summary of the train accidents during
June shows that there were thirty
three collisions. forty-twO derailments and
four other accidents-a total of seventy
nine-in which thlrty-five persons were
killed and one hundred and two injured.
There were fifteen rear collisions, eleven
butting and three crossing. OF the derail-
ments, four were on account of broken
bridge or trestle, four on account of mis-
placed switch, six from cattle on track
and twenty unexplained. But one was
from malicious obstruction.
The Philadelphia d Reading continues
its struggle for an elevated way into the
heart of Philadelphia. The latest phase is
shown by its having secured building per
mlts for the erection of viaduct between
Willow. Division. CallOwhill and Carlton
and Eleventh streets. These permits do
not allow bridging of the streets, 1t is not
thought that the company will be per-
mitted to cross the streets without further
authority. The latest information concern
ing the matter is that the Reading IRON
works will be put to work on the structural
material for this Improvement.
The Baltimore & Ohio has organized a
storekeeper's department, to include the
care of all materials and stores on the en-
tire system, and G.. w. Valiant, formerly
chief clerk of the machinery department.,
has been appointed general storekeeper, re-
3 porting to the general manager. The ma
terials and stores of the company have
heretofore been in charge of the machinery
department, but the new department will
be distinct from all others. A new system
of accounts for the operating departments
IS also being introduced by this company,
with the advice and under direction of Mai.
III. ID. Buckley, an expert accountant, who
udS Dccu ny Tue OOdTu OI ulTecUoTS
for over a year in going over the entire
records of the company and adjusting the
accounts.
The rumOrs about an issue of a 100-year
consolidated mortgage 4-per-cent. bond, TO
take up the higher rate bonds of the Chica-
go, Milwaukee IL st. Paul Railway Com
pany, continue to circulate, without any
apparent authority. 1t is said the plan
originated among English security holders,
and was suggested as q refunding measure
i'll h<.x. IL @l.<
mature. The bonds of the road maturing,
up to and including 1880. aggregate S12-
$4,000. of which S275,0O0 bear per
cent, 100000 6 per cent, s., S6S,OO0
This out of a total bonded indebtaess of
Slls,9S4, 600. But there are S23,5l4.000 of the
sevens of 1905 yet unissued, and the mort
gage not only provides for the issue of these
bonds, but eompelsit. Vice-president Bond,
of the st. Paul company. who was inter
viewed on the subject, went no further
than to declare that the company had not
issued the observation-disclosures four-per-cent.
mortgage.
The following-extracta and comment-we
clip from the Railroad Gazette of the 10th:
superintendent says the employees who
are the most interest do not ask for any i'm
proved car-couplers. This seems to be
about correct. The brakemen who are
killed should be the ones the most inter-
ested- No one ever heard of dead brake
man asking for an improved coupler! The
logic of this superintendent is very con-
vincing.-Railway Service Gazette THE
application of the above lies in the truth of
it. That superintendent is, unfortunately.
numerous. Nothing is more familiar among
railroad men than that such and
such men who made q false motion
or a misstep, and lost hands or legs,
were old and experienced, and reputed to
be the best men in the service; and yet
these mems opinions, before they are hurt,
are accepted as incontrovertible truth.
They know that they have become very
dextrous In the use of link and pin COUP
lers, and they, therefore, compare such
couplers with those which require no man
lpuIatlon whatever. and their decisions are
accepted by the superintendent. In point
OF fact there can be no real comparison
whatever on the lines adopted by the
brakeman. 1t is just as senseless as the
stand taken by the hand laborer who COM
Dimes with his fellows to destroy labor
saving m"chine and the actual grounds of
coInparl on are about as fallaCiOus in one
case as the other.
For some time past the management of
the Atchison, Topeka q Santa Fe has been
conspicuous for inefficiency. but il is
claimed for the new directorate that it
combines q great deal of experiences good
judgment: and administrative skill. which
viii enable the company to pull out of the
rut in which 1t has been running, and get
upon a good, paying basis A prominent
member of the house of kidder. Peabody
IL Co, in recent interview said If all the
capital of the country were back of the A.