The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Per.onaL. Local and GeneraI Notes.


terday.
On Sunday next the Order of Railway
Conductors will have a grand State reunion
at Terre Haute. and an enthusiastic gath
ering is anticipated
The earnings of the Chicago 81 Atlantic
road continue TO be large. reaching in jan
uary S221. 6o4; increase over the correspond
ing month of 1889. s41.264.
+. w. Green has been appointed ticket
agent of the Wabash road at Decatur. Ill.
For some years he was a travelling passen-
ger agent for the company.
Anumber of passenger men are arrang.
ing TO leave on Sunday next for the annual
meeting of the Travelling Passenger Agents
Association next week at Jacksonville, ria.
j.. Il. Carson. general manager. and James
Barker, general passenger and ticker agent
of the Louisville, New Albany IL Chicago
road. are both SO Ill as to confine them to
their rooms.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois directory
announces that the dividends on the pre-
ferred stock of the road will be dlscontlIl-
ned, assigning as a reason the expendlng or
the company's resources In the strlke trouD-
les.
General Manager Beckley, of the CincIn-
natl, Wabash d Michigan, enjOins upon all
brakemen and switchmen the use of sticks
In coupling cars, and men who are injured
in coupling by hand must themselves bear
the responsibility.
j. L. Paul, formerly a passenger COLI
ductOr ON the Indianapolis IL st. Louis
road. was in the city yesterday calling on
Old-time friends. He IS now master or
transportation on the T~exarkana division
of the Texas Pacific road.
English mathematicians figure out that
the Pennsylvania railroad earned a o per
cent. dividend last year, and are loud in
their demands that the dividend be in
creased. President Roberts takes the situa-
tion coOlly. but makes no promises as to
future dividends.
A company has been organized to build a
belt road at Louisville, Ky. A committee
appointed by the stockholders was in the
city yesterday examining the Belt road
here, and into the manner OF operating 1t.
They spent a considerable portion of the
day with superintendent Whitcomb.
The Jacksonville. Madison & Indianapo-
lis and the Louisville * Nashville yester-
day announced a S~10rOund-trip rate to New
Orleans to the SRngerfest. being - below
that offered by the Cincinnati. Hamilton
~ Dayton and the Queen * Crescent route.
nOunce an s. round-trip rate.
Receiver Marshall, of the Dayton, Fort
Wayne * Chicago road, is in the city. He
states hat this road has suffered less
through the falling off of it's coal traffic
than have most other roads. 1t Is earning
operating expenses, liked charges, and from
5000 to SIS. 600 net, which is being applied
to improvement of the property.
1t would save much trouble if the Car
service Association was more liberal in the
distribution OF the rules and regulations of
the association. About all the shippers
and consignees know now Is that, 1T n car is
not loaded or unloaded within f0rty-eight
hours after being placed in position to load
or unload, they are charged 81 a day de-
murrage.
General ManagerFurber. of the Boston &
Maine railroad. has issued an order for
bidding signs or advertisements being
placed or painted on the fences of the road.
There are about 800 signs between Boston
and Portland. which cost advertisers over
$4,000. and which the company will have
painted out.
C.. c. Waite, president of the Columbus
IL Hooking Valley road, seems to have
taken hold of that property at the wrong
time to make a good record. It's largest
earnings come from its coal traffic, which
is so per cent. lighter than last year. To
earn the operating xpense and fixed
charges. under the circumstances, is almost
impossible.
TIE new management of the Atchison,
Topeka * Santa Fe is not disposed to give
their district and travelling passenger
agents much recreation. The applications
of several of them to go to Jacksonville,
Fla, was refused. the general manager
stating that the business of the system
needed the best and continuous efforts of
every man in the service.
The directors of the Lake Erie & West
ern road are highly pleased with the work
of the year 1859, and have instructed Gen.
eral Manager Bradbury to expend all mon
eys received above paying operating ex-
penses, hXed charges and the sum needed
To pay q 4 per cent. dividend on the pre-
ferred stock In improving the physical con-
dition of the road-bed and its equipments.
A railroad man of large experience in
railroad building and well posted as to the
West. says that the Indianapolis. Decatur
* Western cannot do better than to go
back to the original plan and extend the
road to Roodhouse. where connection would
which would give the l., ID. & w. a valu-
able outlet to the West, and a short line rs
well.
The Steam-railroad Mems Protective
Union of North America claims to have a
membership of $1,000. All railroad EN-
tive Engineers are included in. its ranks.
In New England and on the Vanderbilt
lines the organization has secured a firm
foothold. On the Pennsylvania and the
Erie systems it has not made much head.
way.
The st. Paul roads are already in the
field working up the business of the Ma
tional Education Association, which con-
venes in st. Pau next July. The Chicago,
Burlington d Quincy has thrown a bomb
shell into the camp by securing a notice
from the State transportation committee OF
Illinois 10 the effect that the 20" had been
made the Official route for the Illinois asso.
citation on that occasion.
All Indianapolis railroad official yester
day received a letter from New York in
which it was stated that j. Il. Harahan
who has just resigned as general manager
of the Chesapeake AZ Ohio road, is to return
TO the Lake Shore road. President Newell,
before sailing for Europe, on Saturday last
had a lengthy conference with Harahan
and il is believed that he has consented tC
take the general managership of that prop
erty.
Business men are complaining of the nu.
merOus descriptions of mileage books re.
qulred In travelling on some of the Indiana
roads. Between some points a mileage
book costing S25 must be used. and between
others a $50 per 1000 book. One cannot &c
from Indianapolis to Chicago. or to Cinein.
natl or Louisville, without carrying two
kinds of mileage books. and in going over
the Big Four system it requires three de-
scriptiOns of mileage tickets. What is
wanted by the business men is a more sim
pie and ea~sily-understood arrangement.
James Mitchell. who. on the first of the
month. retired from the position of super.
intendent of bridges on the Wabash road
had held that position for TWENTY-FIVE
years. and during that period there were
no bridge accidents on his divisions. He
had always been considered rather ex.
travagant in his ideas of how bridges
should be built, and would never run any
risk If a bridge showed weakness in any
point. His strong point was that he ex.
amined ridges himself. never asking o
subordinate or expert TO do such work.