The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Management of Emigration Business.

with President Sloan, of the Delaware IL
Lackawanna road. on the proposition to
put the emigrant business into the hands of
the clearinghouse. Mr.. Depew reported
that Mr.. Sloan refused to accede to such a
proposition. According to the rules of the
association. and a special resolution passed
at a previous meeting. the matter became a
subject for arbitration. COMMISSIONS
Lucius Tuttle would, under Ordinary cir
cumstances. constitute the board of arbi-
tration on the subject. but his views favor.
ing the clearinghouse plan were so well
known that it was deemed proper to en-
power Chairman Roberts, of the Pennsyl-
vania, to appoint some one to act as arbi-
traitor. Who the arbitrator will be is not
yet known, but his action is made final by
Section 4 of Article Is of the articles of
the association. If he decides that the emf
grant business should be managed by the
clearinghouse. MIR. Sloan will have to SUBJ
init or withdraw from the association.
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Personal. Local and General Notes.
NJ. NJ. Landis. general agent of the Nickel
plate fast-freight line, is SO i'll as to c0ntine
him to his room.
gals, is to be in the city to-day for a further
conference regarding the tunnel question.
The Fort Wayne, Cincinnati g. Louisville
Railroad Company is to build a new depot
at Muncie, which will be q credit to that
city.
1 several Omc11l changes on ROADS con-
trOlled by the Mackey syndicate are only
awaiting the acceptance of such positions
by the persons to whom they have been of
fered.
II. C. Tucker has been appointed West
ern agent of the Philadelphia d Reading
road, with headquarters at Chicago, vice
II. A. Snyder, resigned.
Daniel Donough, general ticket agent at
the Union Railway Station, who, six weeks
ago. suffered an attack of pneumonia, is
still quite ill and confined to his room.
A regular surgical staff has been created
for the Evansville d Terre Haute and
other Mackey lines. G. NJ. Young. NJ. D..
of Evansville, has been appointed chief
surgeon.
IL is stated that the new bridge over the
Mississippi river at st. Louis will be in
readiness to run trains over before the
stipulated time for the completion of the
bridge. which Is June 1. 1890.
The belief strengthens that George
Stevens will be made general manager of
the Chesapeake Il Ohio road. a position
which he is fully competent to fill and q
promotion of which he is deserving.
Division superintendent Black, Mans-
field and Bennett, of the Pennsylvania
lines, left last night for Columbus, where
they. to-day, are to have a general con-
ference with j. 4. Miller, general superin.
tendent.
The Big Four has now in service six
Hinckley engines which were purchased
for the road in 1858. The old numbers of
these engines were so, "a. 50. 80. SO and 80.
Two OF these engines are in service hauling
passenger trains.
At the Chicago conference of the Nebras-
ka Board of Transportation and the man.
ayers of railroads interested in Western
traffic, it was agreed to reduce freight rates
on corn from points west of the Missouri
river 10 per cent.
Clay Rockwell. now auditor of the Chat
taroi road. has decided to accept the posi-
ton of auditor. general freight and passen-
ger agent of the Cincinnati, Lebanon IL
Northern road. He Will take hold on the
18th of this month.
The Big Four people. after the cream of
the business has been secured for it's conf
p%etitors. fail into line and. in cOnnec-
ton with the Queen and Crescent. offer aSlO
~rOund-trip rate to New Orleans, for the
coming s8ngerfest.
The Big Four people have renewed their
offer to other roads to close the ticket
Offices near the Union Station, providing
the movement be made by all companies
now having offices on South Illinois street
and jackson square.
w. H.. Fisher, general passenger and
ticket agent of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati
q Louisville road. is in the city. He states
that the passenger earnings OF the line for
January exceeded those of the correspond
ing month in 1889 by SIT ,260.
The consolidation of the Fort Wayne.
Cincinnati IL Louisville road with the
Whitewater road has been postponed for
the present 1t is more than probable that
there will be none, the former leasing for
ninety-nine years the Whitewater road.
The snit of w. w. Worthingtou. late SUI
perintendent of the Whitewater road,
where be seeks to recover 1900 which he
claims as his salary, and which was to have
come mp on the 10th of this month at Rich
mOnd. Ind, has been postponed until the
10th of next month.
The pressure to have trains Nos. s and 9,
Oh the Cleveland division of the Big Four,
restored. is SO great quite lately that with
IN a few weeks they will again be put on.
They were the best known and most popu-
lar trains run over the road during the
years that they were run.
The coming Sangerfest at New Orleans
seems to be disturbing rates all round.
The round-trIp rate from Chicago has been
dropped to $40, from ST. Louis to So, and
from Kansas City TO SIS. In most cases it
is less than three-fifths of u cent a mile for
carrying the ex~cursiOnists.
Applications of car-builders who. a few
months ago. went South to take positions,
are quite numerous of late at Northern car
works. Most of them give as reason for
returning that all things considered they
can make better pay in the North aud the
surroundings are more pleasant.
Official notice is given of the appoint
ment of j. ID. Williams as auditor of the
Fort Wayne. Cincinnati & Louisville road,
vice j. NJ. Evans. resigned, and of A. Wales.
car dCcOIntdUt. VICE n. -. Johnson, re-
signed. Mr.. Wales will continue to fill the
position of cashier of the company.
The Jacksonville, Madison 4 Indianap-
oils road will. within a short time. receive
two more passenger engines of the class
o type. and three of the old engines are
being rebuilt after the same pattern. These
engines weigh $4,000 pounds without the
tank and are high-spced locomotives.
There were handled at the city freight
depOts of the Pennsylvania Company, in
January. 22.S63. 1893 pounds of freight, repre-
senting 2.59S ears. against 20, 975, 63S pounds
in January, 1880. representing 2,261 cars;
increase in tonnage this year. 1857. sos
pounds; in number of cars handled, 337.
NJ. f. ingalls,. president of the Union Rail-
way Company. has instructed Superintend-
ent Whitcomb TO complete the Belt road
double track through to BrightwOOd. Ten
miles OF the Belt road will then be double
track, and two miles on the eastern and the
same number of miles on tho western end,
single track.
Complaints are still heard of roads
punching" ~cars-that is, holding back cars
LOADED for some private switch to save ex-
pense, and then running them in on the
cOnsignee in such numbers that he is un-
able to unload them before the forty
hours limit expires. This is unfair. and
should be brought to the attention of the
general managers.