The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-30
General News.

General news.
The Railroad Car AccountaIts' Association of
the United States will meet IN Cleveland. May
e.
The Missouri Pacific has just opened twenty
one new stations in Missouri, Texas and Louis
lana.
Five new locomotives built for the Toledo, Gin
way 60 Toledo.
Atlantic & Pacific tracl-laying last week aggre
gated eleven miles, bringing the end to a point
5l3. d miles west from Albuquerque.
The Topeka, Seneca & Northern Railroad Com
psny proposes TO constrncI "A line of railroad
! from Topeka TO the Nebraska State line via
Seneca.
Wagner sleepingcars will be put on the Fits
burg b Lake Erie road next Monday, to run be-
tween PittsbHrg q Buffalo. This Is good evil
denoe that it is Vanderbilt line.
The Northern Pacific general passenger de-
Dartment has issued a very neat and beautifully
Illustrated pamphlet, setting forth the beauties
of the Yellowstone National Park, to be reached
by this road the coming summer.
1t Is stated that the Central Pacific eomnany
has bought several millions of Atlantic & Pacific
securities. and in a few days negotiations will
be opened with reference to the amount of Cali
f0rDia business to be allotted this new California
line.
Strangers who visit Binghampton, N. Y, are
much annoyed by the constant footing OF locomo-
tive whistles, and reporter of the BinghampGOn
News has investigated the matter, and finds
tha5 the practice is INDUCED in by engineers as
means by which to salute their wives and
sveethearts along the line of railroad at which
they reside. or to wake up a sleeping "chum"
and that these signals and their meaning are
we'll understood by the parties for whom they
Intended.
WHAT WILL LAFAYETTE DO Eow2
telegram from Monon, Ind, says that the
louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway
Company has located their general machine
shops at Monon, it being at the crossing of
their lines from Louisville to Michigan City and
Chicago to Indianapolis. Monon is beautifully
situated upon the banks of the stream which
bears the name of the town. The town will tur-
shis ana other enterprises that will follow, it
will be one of the most tiourishiDg places in
northern Indiana.
RATHER ROUGH ON JOHNNY"
Cyrus Butterfeld, clerk in the Cincinnati
Hamilton & indianapolis local office, has named
Johnny Ferguson, one of the most efficient and
careful agents in the Union Depot ticket office
"a the agent who, when he asked for ticket to
Cincinnati, threw out one over the c., l., st. L.
&c. and President McCrea, of the Union Rail-
way Company, has ordered that be be dis
charged. Mr.. Ferguson states that he asked
Mr.. Butterfeld by which road, and he answered,
"Ry the big Four" but as President McCrea
has said to the O., II. & I. people that If they
would youeh for the veracity of said Butterfeld
TO his statement, Mr., Ferguson is not allowed to
defend himself 1t is not questioning the truth
funess of Mr. ButterfeId's statement TO say
that, with as much noise as there Is at the Union
Depot when trains constantly arriving and
departing, Mr.. Ferguson answered him prop
erly, but Mr.. Butterfeld did not hear it.
WILL THEY LIVE Up TO THE AGREEMENT
II. M. Bronson, general ticket and passenger
agent Of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western
road. returned yesterday from Toledo where tine
restore rates, The Pennsylvania lines were not
represented, and this created suspicion. A
resolution to the effect that all tickets sold at
cut rate should be redeemed by the road making
the cut after considerable discussion was
agreed to by majority of the
representatives who signed it for their respective
Zines. The representative of one road refused to
sign such an agreement until the Pennsylvania
line did so. and all roads then withdrew from he
agreement. To the credit of George W. Smith.