The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-13

spending week, 1882, the Bee-liHe forwarded l.
479, the G., st. L. L P. Chen the p, C. st. Ii
1886 loaded cars.
The special train which carried the Knights
Templars westward last Saturday made the 81
miles from indianapolis to Seneca in four hours
and forty minutes.
The Cincinnati, Indiana polls, St. LOUIS & Chi
cago road on their western division yesterday
gathered up nineteen coach-lOads of visitors to
the Acton camp meeting.
The freight men, for once, are ahead of the
shippers as regards overlooking cars: The oats
crop begins TO move, but shippers cannot Load
10000 pounds into tho bOxcars that have that
carrying capacity.
The five Western roads last week brought into
this station 3,794 loaded cars, follows:
indiana. Bloomington & Western, St. Louis di-
vision, 381 Peoria division. 426. Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago, 500; Indianapo-
lis d st. Louis, l,19S; Vandalia, POO. Gain over
number received in the week ending Aug. 4,
274 cars.
Colonel Bennett Young president OF the Louis
VILE. New Albany & Chicago road, has drawn
the lines tighter in his efforts to have the EN-
ployes on the system properly observe the sab
bath. He now orders that offices shall be closed
II the present clerical force is not suhclent TO DO
the business in six days, 1t must be increased
TO such an extent that 1t can.
Rushville, Ind. is loading twenty five to thirty
cars with grain daily, large per cent of it
going 70 Cincinnati, and the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton e. Indianapolis and the Cincinnati, Indian
apolis, st. Louis & Chicago are making sharp
fight for the business. Shipments from that
point to Toledo, as well. have been heavy, and
the c., H. & I. has the Fort Wayne road to fight
for that business.
The Wabash people give notice that a special
train will leave Peru al 5 A. NJ, on Aug. 10,
reaching indianapolis at An The same train
Will leave Indianapolis at 10 P. NJ. of the same
date, giving all a chance to visit the encatnp
ment, and stay to the parade and see the display
at night. The other roads which do not now
have trains leaving Indianapolis at late hours
VIII doubtless make a similar arrangement.
The Vandalia is coming to the front again,
last week moving total of 1885 cars, as fol
lows: Forwarded west from Indianapolis, l,Oo4
loaded and sos empty cars; brought in from the
west, 200 loaded and 273 empty cars; move
ment westward, 1,5l2 cars; eastward, 1,473
cars. The character of the east-bound business
was, live STOCK, 224 cars; block coal, 312 cars;
grain, 404 cars miscellaneous freight, 26O cars
1t is some what singular that the Chicago, st.
Louis PIttsburg ana the Bee-line carried par
ties VINO wished to witness the recent encamp-
ment at Columbus, o., at one ana one-half cents
per mile, and take off snse because the Indiana,
Bloomington T. Western road propose to make
the same rate TO the indianapolis encampmeDt
What has indianapolis done that visitors to the
while visitors TO the Columbus encampment, the
Chicago and Louisville expeditions, carried
at a one and one-halt cent ratey
The Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Chicago people
are urging the Vandalia to put on in connection
with them solid trains between st, Louis and
Cincinnati The scheme has been agitated be-
fore, and at one time the matter went so far that
q time schedule was made out, but the VandalIa,
for some reason, backed down. The c.. l., ST.
i. & C. people claim that with the better track
they and the Vandalfa have they could not only
easily overcome heseven miles in distance over
that of the ONO Il Mississippi road, but could as
well, II needs be. make better time