Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1886 — Page 7

ftFFAIES OF TIIE RAILWAYS. Personal and Lncal President Deveroux, of the Bee-line, arrived in New York Tuesday on the steamship Gallia. T. A. Lewis, late general manager of the Erie fast- freight lines, ia expected home from New ‘Tfork to day. T. C. Moore, joint agent at Chicago, is a cannfidate for the office of commissioner of the prosposed trunk line Western organization. Since R. B. Thomas resigned the Dayton & Vnion road has been without a general manager, and now practically has no superintendent. Superintendents Woodard, of the L., N. A. & CJL, and Stevens, of the Wabash, and E. T. Scott, (general agent of the 1., P. & C. bondholders, mre in the city. Yesterday there was a largely increased order tfor cars, and indications are, now that the country roads are solid, freight traffic is again to be heavy, and limited only by cars which can be .commanded. John King, foreman of the L, B. & W. shops *t Springfield, 0., has'rebuilt two of the passenger engines on that road in a manner which '•scald be creditable to the best master mechanic. Both were converted from freight engines into heavy passenger locomotives. Jan. 5 Pullman combination sleeping and chair-cars wcie substituted for the palace sleep-ing-cars. in service between Pittsburg and Toledo, by the Pennsylvania Company. Except on their more prominent through liues these cars are to be generally introduced. Three roads—the Toledo, Columbus & Southarc, the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland, and the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore--have become members of the Middle lumber pool. *' , There are now twelve roads in this pool, and it ,-i* stated the members are behaving very well. The Bee-line company is adopting a standard marking for freight cars for the entire line. The word “limit’’ will be used in place of the usual word “capacity.” It is expected that this will jrevent the overloading of cars in every case, and a “limit” is placed upon each car which must not be overreached.

The officials of tneL., N. A. & C. and Wabash and their attorneys will to day continue the work commenced yesterday of adjusting their differences regarding terminal facilities at Indianapolis. Both parties show a disposition to act fairly, hut there is a good deal of statistical work to do, and much of it is of a complicated character. At the monthly meeting for auditing accounts of New* York Central fast-freight lines, held in Baitalo Wednesday, it was decided to make Buffalo the permanent place of meeting. The only change from the old system of line meetings is tbe substitution of the auditors for the general freight agents as the representatives of the roads. Freight men consider tho new method a failure. General Manager Beach will at once impress ’hpon the mind of President Devereux, on his return,the great need of more locomotive power on the Bee-line system, and will advise the put chase of ten heavy freight engines and four heavy passenger engines for the Indianapolis division of tho Bee-line proper, and ten heavy freight engines for the eastern division, making twentyfour in all. In the year 1885 there were, over both divisions f the C., 1., St. L. & 0., 2.G80 trains run into the Union Depot. After deducting four days in which Bo express trains came through from Chicago, owing to the snow blockades, but thirteen times during the year were the through express trains, which numbered 1.340, late in reaching Indianapolis, and but twice was the Cincinnati express, due at Indianapolis at 11:55 a. m , late. No one will question that President Ingalls has a right to be proud of the time record trains on the Big Four make. Chicago Business says: “Agents state in emphatic terms that grain rates to the seaboard are firmly held, and that there is no such thing obtainable as favors. Howard, of the National line (Pennsylvania), savs that the Baltimore & Ohio is not cutting rates, as many claim, and that a searching investigation proves that rates are solidiy maintained at Indianapolis, which has been the suspected point, and at all other Jtowns in that vicinity; and, furthermore, that 'tKeTnpk'napolis lines are from thirty to sixty •lays behind with their business.” Mr. F. P. Abercrombie, chief engineer of the West Jersey railroad, has just perfected .an interlocking switch and signal connection, to Which a signal throwing lever is attached. The motions of the lever for opening and closing the iswitch, are so arranged that the first half of each acts solely upon the signal without disturbing the switch itself, while tno remainder of the motion opens or closes the switch. The danger signal in this way is moved entirely independent of the ' itch, and is displayed as in the interlocking lystem. it i s said to bo very simple and effective. The Pennsylvania and Lehigh Valley Railroad Companies have both closed contracts with the Bastman Freight Car Heater Company for the ■use of their automatic heating and ventilating appliances and box freight cars. The system bas been tested thoroughly in the Eastern States, where 300 cars aie used in the transportation of first-class and perishable freights between Nova Beotia and Boston. The Pennsylvania road is to use the cars fitted with this appliance principally for the transportation of fruits and such other materials as are particularly sensitive to changes in temperature. The members of the Chicago and Ohio River pool will meet at the commissioner’s office today to hear the report of the committee on percentages and discuss and agree or disagree upon any ebangos that may be recommended. There are several other subjects to consider, among them the Wabash and the Eastern Illinois percentages to be allowed in the sixth pool, and the 2nestion of the admission of the Chicago & Alantic to the pool on passenger business. President Ingails. of the 0., 1., St L. & C.; General Manager Henderson, of the L, B. & W., and Vice-president Waite, of the C.. H. & D., yesterday left for Chicago to attend this meeting. Several roads in this country, two of them trank lines, are placing restrictions on commutation tickets, and hereafter the conditions under which commutation tickets will be issued are of iron clad order, and are the subject of considerable comment. By the terms of tbe contract, which are printed on the back of the ticket, to be signed by the purchaser, no baggage cun be checked free: no duplicate will bo issued, and no Btop offs granted; passage is allowed only on the trains which stop at the stations designated on the ticket, and commuters have no ground to object it seats are not provided. A coupon is attached to each ticket, and is to be taken up bv the conductor on the first trip. The position of commissioner of the Southern Traffic Association still goes begging, although it is a $5,000 a-year position. The Chicago Times says that up to the present time the place has been offered to Messrs. E. P. Ripley, of the Burlington; 11. C. Wicker, of the Northwestern; I). B. Morev, of the Illinois Central, and Seth Frink. Messrs. E. B. Stahlman, E. P. Wilaon, and J. R. Ogden were considered, but were ineligible under an adopted rule that no one at any time intimately identified with any of the lines members of the association shouid be selected tor the place. Since Mr, Smith has been in Chicago various names have been mentioned and the gentlemen's qualifications canvassed. Indications are that the code of uniform sig* uals recommended by the general time convention in October, 1884, are to be quite generallv adapted. On Jan. 1 the New York, Lake Erie A Western railroad adopted the code for their entire line, it having been previously adopted on the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio division. On tho same date the Lehigh Valley railroad and Its dependent lines likewise adopted the code. The Louisville & Nashville railroad, it is expected. will also adopt the same at an early date. The code having successfully stood the test of a year’s experience on the roads which adopted it in the fall of 1884, there is no good reason why othernon-conforming roads should not follow the example of those named above. J. H. Barrett, late superintendent of the Dayton a; Union road, Jan. 27 takes the position of superintendent of the eastern division of the made vacant by the resignation of 3S. O. Hill. Mr. Barrett was, on Wednesday evening, given a testimonial banquet at Dayton. 0., of which the Dayton Journal says: “The testimonial banquet given, last night, at tbe Beckel ilonse, to Mr. J. H. Barrett, late superintendent ©f tho &L. railroad, and joint tracks of Dayton, was a fitting tribute to an efficient railroad PM and a worthy citizen. There was a general trpression, not only of regret hut of grief, that

Dayton and Dayton railroads were to lose Mr. Barrett He leaves tho D. &U. and Dayton for his new field of labor with tbe blessing from all, ‘God speed you.’ For a number of years he was superintendent of the C., H. & D., and, for the last three years, of the D. & U., and all railroad men who knew him hold him in the highest esteem.” Trustee Davis, of the bondholders of the C., L. C. division of the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago road, is in the city, and, with his attorneys, is already taking steps to prepare a decree for a foreclosure sale of this division, which extends from Peru to LaPorte. Proceedings looking to the foreclosure sale of the divisions of the L P. & C. lying between Indianapolis and Peru, and LaPorte and Michigan City, will necessarily be a little slower, as the situation between the bondholders of this division and the Wabash are more complicated, but the three divisions are practically out of the hands of the Wabash Railroad Company, wh\ph now operates only upon terms agred upon between the trustees of the bondholders and managers of the Wabash road. The latter to again secure control of the property will need purchase it at the coming sale-n the same conditions that any other foreign railroad company would. Trustee Davis will at once purchase several hundred tons of steel rails and begin a general improvement of the portion of the 1., P. & C. road lying between Peru and LaPorte. The movement of the Pennsylvania people toward better educating men in service in tbe various departments of the company promises to become more general. As yet very little has been clone to place within the reach of the railroad mechanic the proper means for practical instruction which will fit him for his life-work. There are very few text-books written in an attractive style and nothing like the facilities afforded for self-instruction that are offered in the direction of general education. With very few exceptions, like Forney's “Catechism of tho Locomotive,” and Sinclair’s “Locomotive Running and Management,” technical works are dry and unget-at-able for the young man of average education in the shops. The evening school recently established by the Illinois Central railroad is a move in the right direction, and there is no reason why such schools could not be practicable in all the ieading railroad centers of the country. Mr. Lauder, of the Old Colony, recently suggested frequent evening lectures to young engineers by one older in the craft. Any move in this direction can but be of real benefit to the employe, and, in turn, the railroad companies. The Future Promises Better Things. In the exhibit of dividends of leading railroads for the year just closing, and for several previous years, published in the Investors’ Supplement of the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, the feature to which especial attention is called is that the descent from the high level of dividends noticeable a year or two ago has now become pronounced. The Chronicle says: “If one would know the extent to which the downward movement has progressed, he need only bo told that the Pennsylvania, which in both 1882 and 1883 paid 8£ per cent., has now comedown to 2 percent, semi annual.” So far as the unfavorable statement of the Pennsylvania is concerned, it cannot, be said to be very pronouned, as in another column the Chronicle says: “The 2 per cent, semi-annual dividend is the first practical evidence of that improvement iu trunk-line business of which so much has been said, and whicb has been awaited with no little anxiety.” The gain in gross earnings for the month of November was $20,602. and the decrease in expenses. $119,972, or $140,574 net —a very neat little start toward getting out of the 2 per cent.-semi-annual way into which the company incidentally got the last half of the year. It should be understood that the advanced tariff did not go into effect until toward the close of the month. Another point is in the passenger traffic, the present rate on this dating only from the Ist ult., and new rates on immigrant travel do not go into effect until the Ist prox. On the whole, the semi-an-nual dividend may be regarded as certain to be a material increase on the last." The fact is, that the 2 per cent, semi-annual was the outcome of tho substantial management which prefers truth and the plant maintained at a firstclass standard, to larger dividends and reduction of this standard.

To Be Made a First-Class Railroad. From a party who is well posted as to the affairs of the Toledo, Cincinnati & St. Louis road, and as to the intentions of the Quigloy syndicate, who purchased it at the recent foreclosure sale, it is learned that the new company will be reorganized within sixty days, and that the work of converting the road into a standardgauge road will be commenced at once. Already negotiations have been opened for the purchase of steel rails weighing sixty pounds to the yard for the whole length of the road—4so miles. Ic is proposed, as well, to purchase ninety first-class locomotives, 3.000 box-car*, and the needed passenger equipments as soon as the matter can be reached. It is stated that 300 miles of the road-bed is now sufficient in the width of grade for standardgauge track. The bridges are all wide enough, but most of them will need strengthening. An effort will be made to get the work so far advanced as to run standard-gauge trains over the road by November of this year. Regarding the talk that the L, B. & W. has any advantage over other road3 in securing a portion of the road or a traffic agreement, the informant says it is ail "bosh.” It is highly probable that the 1., B. & W. will make a traffic arrangement to work over the TANARUS., C. & St. L. to St Louis. So it is expected that the Lake Erie & Western road will make a similar traffic agreement,and that the Chicagb & Grand Trunk will make the TANARUS., C. & St. L. their St. Louis line. Their terminal facilities at St Louis were equal to those of the Wabash, or any other Eastern line into St. Louis, and they could handle the business of a half dozen roads when the TANARUS., C. & St L. completed the proposed improvements at St. Louis. Over the Hard Sledding. Seemingly since the New York Central-West Shore-South Pennsylvania settlement, a complete transformation has taken place in railroad matters. Rates have not only been raised to a living basis, thus insuring larger earnings and improving the prospects of the holders of railroad property, but with this assurance of larger earpings many roads have entered upon a more liberal policy in the matter of renewals, improvements and extensions. The single item of repairs counts a great deal when all roads start up together. Work of this character was very extensively deferred duriug the years of depression—deferred because, there being no earnings, the roads were without convenient means with which to make the repairs. With some lines a stage had been reached where it was absolutely necessary no further delay be incurred, and the restoration of rates, revival of business, and generally good prospects of larger earnings have afforded the opportnnity of beginning the muchneeded work, of which so many companies are now availing themselves. It is this that has given the iron and steel industries such a pronounced start, and this in turn is to improve all other industries. _____ The Crossing War at Howell, Mich. Detuoit, Mich., Jan. 7.—The last movement in the railroad war, the center of which Is at Howell, is in the shape of an action for damages brought by General Manager Mulliken, of the Detroit, Lansing & Northern, against H. W. Ashley, superintendent of the Toledo road. The proceedings are brought before United States Commissioner Graves, and damages in the sum of $50,000 are claimed be cause of the action of the defendant and his men, in having torn up the track and cut the wires of the Lansing road, thus interrupting the business of the company. Mr. Mulliken says his road does not want to prevent the Toledo read from crossing the tracks of the Lansing road. All that was asked was that the crossing should be made safe and the track replaced in good condition. Warrauts were also issued yesterday, at Pontiac, against Ashley and others, charging them with riotous proceedings. If bilious, or suffering from impurity of blood, or weak lungs, and fear of consumption (scrofulous disease of the longs), take Dr. Pierce’s * Golden Medical and it will core you. By druggists.

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f Invaluable to Every Lady! J The Ladies’ Manual Os Fancy Work. Anew book, giving plain directions for Artfitl* —• Kn.t.r.iidcrv, I„:ice Work, Knitting, Tatting, Crochet Work, Eet Work and all kind* of fane.v Need!* Work, f xuia valuable book i* beautifully printed on tine tinted paper, bas a handsome cover, and contains over v 500 Illustrations, Price only 50 cents! Comprising designs for Monogram*, Initials, Knit Edgings, Cross Stitch Pattern j, Point Rusre, Bcrlltti and Shetland Wool designs. Applique designs, Kate Greenawav design* for lJojltj-s, etc., Handkerchief Borders, Macrame Lacs work, Holbeim work, Java Canvas work, Worsted Fringes, Turkish Bogs, Toilet Cnshious, Footstools, Hat Backs, Pin Cushious, Ottomans, Work Baskets, Pen Vipers, Bed-Quilts, Lambrequins, Work Bags, Book Covers, Wood Boxes, Door Panels, Scrap Baskets, Sofa Coverlets, Toilet Rottla Cases, Table Top Patterns, Folding Screens, Church Font Decorations, Sofa Cushions, Music Portfolios. Slipper Patterns, Persian Bugs, Wall Pockets, Carriage Bugs, Chair back Covers, Towel Back*. Perfuni® Sachets, Tidy Designs, Flower Pot Covers, Lamp Shades, Needle Cases, Watch Cases, Fancy Work Bag*. Catch-alis, Match Safes, Eye Glass Pockets, Collar Boxes, Chair Bolsters, Umbrella Cases, School Bags. Patch-work Desigus, Coin’Purse*, Designs for Tricot and Burlaps, Wood Baskets, Commodes, Bibs, Glow Cases, Air Castles, Gypscy Tables, Ilair Receivers, Paper Weights, Table Mat*. Night-dress Cases, Shoo Bags, Needle Bocks, jewel Boxes, Door Mats, Knitted Jackets, Bottle Cases, Paper Racks Pillow Shansi--Hair Pin Holders, Floss Winders, Mosaic Window Shades, Book Marks, and every, design in fancy work . a lady can desire, to the number of over 400, l Every lady will And this book a useful companion and invaluable to all who lore fancy work. Plata directions with each design. Jenny Jane in her prefare to this book, say*: “ The present volnme doe* not pretend to furnish fhg theory or pruefire of Hie highest Needle work art, but It does aim to supply within IU eompßsa a grente* variety of eieellent dtwtgns—every one of whirh Is useful for dross or household decoration—than hart ever before been gathered within the leaves of one manual." Paper cover; price, 50c; with The Weekly Journal one year, $1.23.

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Burt’s Selected Gems if Song. ‘ ■Aft e 9 ro ' _ A choice collection of SIXTY-TWO FAVORITE — _ 0 f SONGS, from the works of the BEST COMPOSERS, —| —with accompaniments for PIANO and ORGAN. The p~ t kles of the songs in this book are : < 3_[_ ~ ~ All on Account of Eliza—Kailiff’s Daughter—Ranbury Cross— A Bij and in Hand—Blue Alsatian Mountains-Bob up Serenely— Boogie Man—The Bridge—Chorus of Charity Girls—Come Back t > Erin—Danube River—Dougias, lender and True—Down by tho Old Mill Stream -Dream Song—Every Inch a Sailor—The Fairy Jane Five O’clock in the Morning—Flee as a Bird-Good by, Sweetheart, Good-by~Homo, Sweet H me-I’m Called. Little Buttercup-In the Gloaming-It Was a Dream—Jobnny Morgan-Katy’s Letter—Kerry Dance-Kite larney—Lardy Dab-Let Mo Dream Again—Letter in the Candle (Quaitette Chorus)—The Lost Chord— Lover and the Bird—Lullaby (Fritz)-Maggie’s Secret—Man In the Moon -Mv Love Beyond tbe Sea—Nancy Lee-Naughty Clara-No Place Like Home-0 Fair Dove. O Fond Dove-O Fred, Tell Them to Stop-Old Timbertoes-over tbe Garden Wail-Robin Adair-Rooked In the Cradle of the Deep-Smiles May End In tears-Some Day-Spenk to Me—Speed Well-Still Love’s Dream I Cherish-Take back the Heart—Tar’ FareweU -Thirteen, i ifteeti, bourteen-Torpedo and the Whale—True Blue—Tarnham Toil—Twickenham berry-Two’s Company, Three’s Noue-A Warrior Bold-The WatevmlU-We’d Better Bide A’wce—Whoa. Emma—You Never Miss the Water. REMEMBER! THis M Contains 68 POPULAR VOCAL SONGS, with music, full sheet-music size, and bound with a- handsome engraved cover. This is the best collection of bongs and Ballads ever offered in one book, • Paper cover; pric-% 6O0; with Tlie Weekly Journal one vear. $1.33. BURL'S SELECTED GEVT3 Ob' MELODY— Consisting of 80 Popular Compositions of Instrumental Music for the Piano or Orgran. Same size and price as Gem’s of Son<*. BURTS SELECTED GEMS 01 DANCE MUSIC—*A Collection of 78 Pieces of Stand* ard Dance Music. Same size and price as Gems of Song.

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