The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-08
Local Notes,

Shipments of grain to interior points OF Canada
are now unusually heavy.
The rates at which the Wabash is gathering up
grain on their lines and hauling it to Toledo IN
dictates that co support the elevators at Toledo
the management would banKrnrt the road.
September l through chair-cars between
Peoria and Cincinnati will be put on the run
over the Wabash to Sheldon, ami the Clneinnat ii,
indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago road to GIN
cinnati.
The Indications are that the fast-fre1ght lines
which carry Baltimore business are to have
more to DO this season than last. Already
freight room for 1000, 900 bushels of grain has
been taken at that port for August.
Paymasrer Alien, Ct the l.. b. & w, pays at
Indianapolis to-day for July service; on the st.
Louis division Thursday. Peoria division Friday,
ONO division Monday, Ohio Southern Tuesday.
and the middle division Wednesday,
Master-mechanic Lape. of the Bee-line shops,
Brightw0od, has Just turned out a new engine,
Weston build entire, Weston boiler, Weston fire
box and Weston improved works. 1t is expected
that this engine will do some good work.
A general freight agent of one of the Indian
apolis western roads. says that within the next
thirty days a half million bushels of oats will he
carried over Indianapolis roads. the new crop
has already commenced to move quite briskly.
Passenger conductors on ali divisions of the
Pennsylvania system west of Pittsburg are now
required, when receiving cash fare. to make
note OF it, and give the passenger. as we'll, a re-
ceipt for it. book with suitable blanks is pro-
vided each conductor
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Rail-
road Company adheres to its resolve not to run
Sunday trains, and as consequence the attend
aDce at the battle-ground camp-meetlng on Sun
day last was decidedly slim. In fact, it has
seemed to he a cold blanket the entire time
the camp-meeting has been held. The attend
ance for years has not been small.
Engine l26 on the Indianapolis division of tn g
Bee-line, which is anew one out of the Bright
wood shops, is making a high speed record
Monday night, it is stated officially, this engine
hauled six cars from Union City to Munce, thirty
seven-tenths miles, in twenty niue minutes. The
engine is very handsomely proportional, and
has AN extension hoiler, straight smoke stack,
spark arrester and several other modern i'm
provements.
Freight traffic on the Wabash is beginning to
improve, the car movement last week on the
main line running fully 80 per cent. above that
of the week preceding. Last August the Wa
bash earned 81 ,oo0, 900, but it will hardly reach
that amount this month. Colonel Hoxie, gem
eral traffic manager, attributes light shipments
so far To the light state of the markets, and
farmers won't sell only in where they are
| compelled by financial necessities
Engineer Sala, of the Chicago & Indianapolis
Airline, explains his uncoupng the engine from
the train last week and running unheralded to
MonOn by stating that a stay-bOlt blew out, his
engine was leaking badly, and the only thing he
could DO was 10 run as quickly as possible to
repair shop After reaching telegraph station
he ran wild under Instrue lions TO The shops In
Lafayette. He expected the head brakeman
would inform his conductor of what the trouble
was, but he seems to have failed so TO do, and
this caused The passengers who were detained
on the main track five hours considerable
anxiety, and this led to the question, was the
engineer lGsanef
The Pennsylvania people at last realize that
indianapolis lie a central point in their system,
and no longer propose TO make it little more
than a way station. The locating OF H. r. Der
ing, one OF the general officers of the company,
was move in the right direction. Indianapolis
is practically the center of the Pennsylvania
company's system west OF Pittsburg, as shown
by neat card just issued by the
passenger department, one road leading to
Chicago and Minneapolis on the north another to
Louisville and New Orleans on the South, a third
TO st. Louis over the Vandaia, and fourth TO
Pittsburg and New York. The running time of
trains between all points above named Is neatly
condensed on the card.