The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-26
Local Notes.

The Wabash evening express will leave the
Union depot, commencing with to-day, at els
T. NJ, instead of 6:25 P. NJ, as heretofore.
The local offices OF the Chicago & Indianapolis
Air Line will be on the south of the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific building, at the head of East Ma
ryland street.
Business over the Greensburg q Vernon divis-
ion OF the c., l., st. L. & c. is steadily growing.
Last week ATT loaded and ia empty cars were
handled on this division.
The Cincinnati. Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chi
cago road delivered at Cincinnati off the main
line, last week, ZIG loaded cars, and forwarded
from that point 914 loaded cars.
For the week ending March "a, the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati d st. Louis forwarded east, from this
point, 1897, the Bee Line 1857 and the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western 500 loaded cars.
Orders have been given to remodel, lay new
floors and generally renoyate the interior of the
building occupied by the Wabash people as their
local office. TIE offices are now the gloomiest
and least attractive rooms in the city,
The March number of the Locomotive Fire
mans Magazine was received Saturday. 1t is
one of the best numbers yet issued. The edition
this month reached 10000 copies. Some 300
copies came TO fremen on indianapolis roads.
Chief Engineer Peck and his surveying party,
who are locating the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western extension toSt. Louis, Saturday reached
Pana. The extension leaves the l., 3. & W, st.
Louis division at Casner, a point nine miles this
side of Decatur.
Two elegant new coaches were added to the
passenger improvements of the Vandalia Line,
Saturday, numbered z and 10, filing old mum.
bers. They are model coaches in every respect;
were built at the Terre Haute shops, under the
supervision OF Master Car-bullder Carter.
The Vandalia Company has renewed work on
the improvements to the II, II. * l.. 4 division.
New cross tres ana steel rails and going into the
Srack-building, and gravel IS being distributed at
the rate of 100 carloads per day, the graveling
train commencing at Terre Haute and moving
nOrthward.
nha -oA1 .l.~1A g. ru--L -.
full Of errors as to be of little service to ticket
agents. Mistakes varying from so cents to $40
are shown in the rates published. Whether these
are typographical or clerical errors, they should
not occur, as the expense attached TO it's Issue
should secure reliable information.
The five Western roads. last week, brought
into Indianapolis 4, 1S2 loaded cars, as follows:
l., B. Il W.-St. Louis division, 40S; Peoria di-
vision, 1922; c., T., St. l.. & c., 94S; Vandalia,
1880; |. & st. L., 1854. This is a decrease OF
1877 as compared with the number received at
this point in the week ending March II.
So much importance is the middle division Of
che the L., b. & w, System assuming as an east
and west-bound through line that below is given
the actual movement in the week ending March
"A. as reported to the general manager: East
ward, 500 loaded and 80 empty cars; westward
800 loaded and 4S9 empty cars, total, 1,103 cars.
A clerk who left the Vandalia offices In st.
Louis a few days since quite unexpectedly is re-
ported to have embezzled a handsome sum of
money belonging to the company and skipped
eastward. The party has wealthy friends in st.
Louis, 1t is stated, and the company will not ex-
pose him if they (his friends) make good his
shortage.
Roadmaster Henry, of the I. & st. L., reports
that by Monday, next, a third steam shovel will
be placed in position at the Terre Haute gravel
bank and eight construction trains will be EN-
ployed in distributing gravel along the line.
His orders are to grade 100 miles of road-bed
this season, to an average depth of twelve
Inches. The greater portion of the work will be
done between Terre Haute and Alton functions.
Col. Joseph Hill, superintendent of the Van
dalia, who is a close observer of minor affairs in
the operation of railways, as we'll as of the more
important matters, says that two years agoathe
order prohibiting trainmen from coupling cars
by hand, requiring them to use thu coupler was
issued, and since that time not one man who
obeyed 1t to the letter has been injured while
making couplings. In every instance where a
man has had his hand crushed 1t was done
while disobeying this order. The order issued
last states that men disobeying are made liable
to dismissal from employ, and if hurt while
coupling by hand they need expect no help from
the company.