The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-23
Local Notes.

The side-tracks of the indianapolis & st. Louis
road, in the month of July, were increased 9,97S
feet, or nearly two miles of car capacity,
H R, Dering, secretary of the Indianapolis
Association of Ticket and Passenger Agents,
gives notice of a meeting of the association at
the DenIson House on Saturday next.
Business of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Tndi-
annapolis road at this point has increased of late
tQ.such all extent that, yesterday, third switch
Ing engine was put into regular service.
One of the new mogul Ell gines on the Bee-ine
Tuesday hauled ferty-two loaded cars from
BrightwoOd to Union, and on its return hauled
fifty-One loaded cars from Union to Bright
wood.
The Wabash. st. Louis & Pacific is gradually
creeping up to its old style of earnings, the
earnlngs of the second week Of August being
1881, 1888. only So, 1867 less than the correspond
ing week last year.
The Bee-line express, which leaves Cincinnati
at P NJ, and is known as the "Flyer." makes
train put on June l. and but once has miss
ed going through on schedule time.
The last few months the west-bound through
traffic of the Cincinnati Hamilton & IndIanapo-
lis road has increased handsomely. Yesterday
sixty-two cars came west over the road, most of
them loaded with through business.
There are on the Bee-line system 212 stations,
at which there are regular agents. 14s are on
the Decline proper and sixtY-fOur on the |. & st.
L. division; on the Bee-line proDer, eighty-seven
are telegraph stations, on the l. e. St. L., forty
three.
An official of the Louisville. New Albany e.
Chicago road, last evening. stated that the com
pany could use to advantage 800 more cars at
the present time. could they be had, and the
business moving is OF q local character and car
ried at good rates
McHenry is blamed for the recent weakness
OF the Bee-l line stock The Wall Street News
SAYS: "The O., c., G. & I. stock has already tum-
bled enough III market value within month to
wipe out the fifteen points of excess in market
value over the bonds held by the Erie people,"
The Lake Erie & Wheeling road. which steers
clear of pools, is giving the Decline, the Indi-
ana, Bloomington IL Western, and other roads
in northern Ohio much trouble by the reckless
manner it Is cutting rates on both freight and
passenger business. the L. Y. & W overshadow-
ing the Lake Erie & Western in its palmiest days
of cutting rates.
here whose ticke's are sold at the Union rail
way Office, yesterday made their periodical ex-
animation of the affairs of General Ticket Agent
DonOugh. There Is no significance whatever in
this examination, the Union railway board,
some months since, passed resolution that such
examinations should be made every few months.
Freight business begins TO boom, and, as
usual, several of the yards are so blockaded
with cars to interfere with the prompt
handling of them. The sooner roads eentering
here extend their systems, by getting out of
the city limits a mile or two where there is
plenty of ground, the sooner can they handle
their business moro economically and comfort
ably.
The arrivals of passenger trains are so numer-
GUS that the Union Depot management fire.
quently obliged to throw passenger trains on to
the tracks north of the depot and IL is suggested
by an old railroad man that IL would be better
to throw local trains onto the outside tracks and
allow through trains making connections with
other roads to run into the depot. Passengers
who travel on local trains better understand the
depot arrangements.