The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-13

Local Notes.
The eastern lines forwarded to the seaboard
are'n Indianapolis proper in the month of Feb
Tuary. 1867 tons Of freight.
A director of the Indiana. Bloomington &
Western road says the road earned 1 per cent.
on their stock last year, and is now earning at
the rate of per cent. He says the interest on
the income will be paid this year.
An old passenger man yesterday remarked
that unless the Union Railway Board did some
thing to head off the scalpers here they would
within thirty days he selling 80 per cent. of the
ooupon-tickets reading to Western points.
Ticket-scalpers are now purchasing large
per cent OF their tickets at the uptown Union
railway tioket-ofiice, and this has swelled the
sale OF coupon tickets at this Office until they are
said to be in excess of sales at the Union depot.
The Wabash, the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & ST.
Louis. and the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Indian
Rpolis homogeneous were yesterday notified by
the city thar they must at once clear Pogue s
Run OF all obstruction. This will necessitate
each road substituting truss bridges of one span
in the place CT the present structures, which rest
on plies
Somebody is lifting the White Water Valley
road cut OF the mud. Last week construction
train was put on, crOss-ties are being dis
tributed by the thousands along the line and a
large lot of new rails have been ordered The
impression prevails that the Indiana, Blooming
ton 81 western is aiding in this Improvement
yet the officers allege that they are ignorant of
such being the case,
The Wabash, st. Louis & Poetic earned In Feb
ruary $1,670,75S, decrease of $4,000, as
compared with the corresponding month of
1882; the Lake Erie & Western earned S1OS O67,
an increase OF S7,997; the Evansville & Terre
Haute, $50, d27 a decrease of S6,910: the Indi-
ana, Bloomington & Western, 1902 SO |, increase
S27, re; Ohio Southern, S33,ss3, increase of
IS, 432, St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute main
line, $115,474, increase $I3,3i6; branches
So, 246, increase Sc, 1874.
Presidents McKeen, of tho Vaudalia line, and
ingalls,, of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis St Louis
IL Chicago, have under consideration the order
ing of Two new Pullman trains complete, to be
put on their Cincinnati u St. Louis line. 1t is
proposed TO make this route popular by running
the handsomest trains run on any western road.
The trains are TO leave the respective cities at Z
p. NJ, and reach the terminals at z A. NJ, and
are TO be run solid through and independent Of
all other trains on the Vandalia and the c., I,
St. l. & G.
The new passenger station, freight depot and
elevator OF the Wabash company at Detroit, with
capacity of 100000 bushels. are COM
pleted ami will be occupied on and after Sunday
next The completion of these new terminal
facilities effects a saving of sever miles in dis
tance and twenty minutes OF time to passengers
AT Detroit. The fright yards contain nearly SIX
miles OF track, and the depot is 600 feet long
Toledo divisions, andJ. n. McEvOy, chief train
ing the new time-card between Indianapolis and
Detroit, which will go into effect on Sunday
evening next, the first train leaving the new
station at $40 p. NJ. The alteration will not af-
rect the arriving or departing time of trains at
TIM, station.