The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



ity of erecting q union station there.
Oscar Murray, traffic manager of the Big
Four lines. was In the city yesterday, and
spent an hour at the Ohio. Indiana AZ
Western Offices.
Unless the Big Four, on its Cincinnati
& Chicago division. makes better time han
of late. it will lose its prestige for reaching
terminals on time
In the month of September there were
transferred over the Belt road 1850 cars,
against 5O,972 in the corresponding month
last year; increase this year, 6,SSS.
The Mackey syndicate is paying the in
terest on the second mortgage bonds of the
louisville, Evansville & st. Louis road,
which fell in default on April !. 1889.
Mr.. Ford. general freight agent of the o.,
j. 81 w. lines. was told to go on as usual
and look after the business of the road, re-
porting TO the traffic manager of the Big
Four lines.
In the month of September Belt road en-
eines handled at the stock-yards $3.50 car
loads of live stock. against 2,6s3 carloads
in the corresponding month, 1883; Increase
this year, 1.036 cars.
General Manager Walker, of the Kanawha
Dispatch, was in the city yesterday. and as
a result of his visit the Kanawha Dispatch
will probably go on to the Ohio. Indiana d
Western road Nov. 1.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas road daily
turns over to the Wabash road from sixty
to seventy carloads of live stock, about 70
per cent of which goes to the Chicago mar
ket over the Wabash line.
William r.. McKeen. president of the
Terre Haute * indianapolis road and gen.
eral manager of the yandalia. was in the
city, yesterday, to talk over viaduct and
other Union railway matters.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania
lines, says that the trunk lines are doing
entirely too well to mix up In the squabbles
of Western lines, where it could be of no
possible advantage to the trunk lines.
The general Offices of the Louisville.
Evansville q st. Louis road have been re-
moved from Boston to Evansville. Inter
est on the company's bonds VIII hereafter
be paid in New York, instead of Boston.
The pay-rolls of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg show that 81, 900 is
disbursed monthly by the paymasters of
the North and Southwestern systems. The
amount to each system is about the same.
The New York Central now has in service
ten new engines. which are scheduled to
pull fifteen passenger cars forty miles an
hour. These engines lave 20x24-inch cyl
inders and tive-feet-nine-inch driving
wheels.
Wednesday was the biggest day of the
year ON the Belt road, over which there
were transferred 2,410 cars. Belt road en-
gines handled 120 carloads of stock for the
yards and sixty cars on private switches on
the line.
The vandalia management is doing a
kOOtl oCal W GAaLAO
over its line. At several points it is
building new and more extensive shipping
yards and lettering the arrangements for
shipping stock.
On Saturday the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
81 Chicago Will take out or Chicago the
most gorgeous train ever run east from that
city. 1t will be run in ten sections. carry
ing Knights Templars through to Washing
ton without change.
One of the most important railroad enter
~rtCo nf lnfn " tho nxfonOinn Of thu Damn
sular line of the Milwaukee & Northern
from Iron mountain to Escanaba. The Du-
luth, South Shore q Atlantic Company is
said to be behind the scheme.
The monthly report of J. b. Eckman, sec
rotary of the Indianapolis Joint Weighing
Association, shows gains in September in
carloads freights of II ,513, 3S3 pounds and
in platform freights of 1855 pounds. MAX
ing a total of IL .937. 043 pounds.
Superintendent Bennett, of the first d.
vision of the c.. st. l.. & p. extending from
Indianapolis to Columbus. has received
notice that fi~fty-three Pullman sleeping
coaches. in addition to the ordinary runs,
will be sent east over this division on Sat
urday and Sunday.
The Pennsylvania, ~Poughkeepsie & Bos-
ton road is nearing completion and on Nov.
1 through trains will be put On to run be-
tween Philadelphia and Boston over the
Poughkeepsie bridge and this new road.
This will also open q new line between
Boston and the West.
North-and-south roads never were doing
a heavier business than now The Jeffer-
sonvile,, Madison & Indianapolis. the
Louisville, New Albany d Chicago, the
Illinois Central and the Chicago 81 Alton
are all moving a large tonnage of grain,
provisions and live stock.
Engine No.. 90 on the Vandalia made a
great run yesterday afternoon. hauling
train No. 20, consisting of seven cars, from
Terre Haute to indianapolis, seventy-three
miles, in ninety minutes, time for making
stops at Brazil, Greencastle Junction and
Greeneastle to be deducted.
The Railroad Gazette, in its last issue,
publishes cuts of the ten-thousandth engine
turned out at the Baldwin locomotive
works. Very appropriately, it is one of the
heaviest consolidated engines, weighing
seventy-fve tons without the tender. The
weight on the driving-wheels is 1850 0
pounds.
The passenger business last month was
the largest of any September in years. At
all of the outside ticket offices large in
creases in receipts for sales of tickets are
shown. and General Ticket Agent Donough.
of the Union Station. says that the receipts
there were considerably in excess of Sep
tember, 1855.
o. p. McCarty, formerly with the Indi-
ana, Bloomington * Western, has been
appointed. general passenger and ticket
agent Of the Columbus q Cincinnati Mid
land road. In addition to his duties as as
sistant general passenger agent of the Bal
timore & Ohio road. His headquarters will
be at Columbus, o.
Trouble seems to be brewing again be-
tween the nor~th-and-south lines. One of
of the scalpers are selling large numbers of
tickets at S4.25 for Chicago, the regular
fare being g. and the competitors of the
line are wondering how the scalper gets
hold of so many tickets unless it is known
TO the general passenger agent Of the line.
The work of making matters move
smoothly with the Pennsylvania Voluntary
Relief Association is proving to be more of
task than was at first anticipated, and
will end in the employment of men espe-
cially to look after this organization. lt is
thought. Independent of the superintend-
ents of the respective divisions and their
forces.
This month the Jacksonville, Madison
& Indianapolis will receive from the Al
toona shops of the Pennsylvania compan
q large new passenger engine. class 90"
and three of the same class will be received
this month for the Chicago division of the
c., st. l.. & Il. road. They weigh 5000
pounds. and have a five-foot-six-inch driv-
ing wheel.
The Railway Age. in its next issue, will
publish statistics of the railway building
In the United States during the first nine
months of the current year. 1t finds that
over 3.400 miles of mainline track have
been laid since the year began. and that
the probabilities are that fully 5000 miles,