The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-24
Local Notes.


Richmond, Ind, has been made point on the
PtIsnurg, Cincinnati & ST. Louis road where
skeleton tickets will be sold. Heretofore they
have been sold only at Pitlsburg, Columbus &
Inda Rapols.
Tao Wabash Is a road on which train dispatch
overworked This may account for the
frequency of accidents on the line. The recent
fatal collision at Carpenter is said to have been
caused through an order given by drowsy,
OVerwnrked operator.
Superintendent of Indianapolis roads have In
struCie their section bOsses to that their
men are dilgent in watching closely for broken
raii-. that accidents may be prevented. How
ever, the greatest danger Is when the frost is
coming out Of the ground, and 1t thaws unequal
ly.Hnder different ties-becomes soft under the
ioi't tie but not under the next one, and a shout
der 10 formed which makes tho rail liable TO
break of when "A train runs over it.
Tho Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific railway will
bnilt; an additional side-traek switch on the
west side of the main track, ID Ltchfeld, ILL.,,
ami extending nearly mile In length. 1t will
he used a passing track for freight trains.
The heavy traffic on this division of the wabash
rend approach to douDle-track facilities
an imperative necessity. Additional facilities
are also required at Cairo, and the survey having
been completed, and the iron and ties ready, the
contrary, as soon as the weather Settles will be-
giu laying their belt track around the city, on
the Mississippi side.
Mr.. G. d. Folsom, the engineer who went down
win ais engine, columbia, in that awful ehasm
at A >htaDula and was one of the few who came
ont alive has just published aud put on sale AN
elegant pictpre, % by 80, representing in C.
group nine different scenes connected with that
lfeari III disaster. II will be remembered that p.
p. Bliss, the ''Sweet Gospel Singer" and his wife
,were among the victims, and lifeike picture OF
him - in the group. II is one of the finest
fistir works ever published All railroad men
eh9uid have oae of these pictures. Mr. George
". Cobb has them on sale at the Railroad Bead
1ug Room, and invites railroad men to call and
see them.
wHE.E INDIANA SHIPPERS HAVE The ADYAE-
TAGE.
Comparison OF tariff sheets will show that
freight rates west of the Missouri river, in the
most favored States, 40 per cent. higher
shan rates on which shippers in Indiana move
their property and that in Nebraska and Colo
RADIO they are 60 per cent. higher, while in the
Southern States, Georgia, for Instance, which
mas IA railroad commissioner, rates are 20 per
cent, higher tha1 in Indiana.
WHAT Is THE NEXT MOVE?
Judge Gresham, of the United States DISTRICT
Court, yesterday received for entry the decree
OF the United States Supreme Court in the case
OF Turner and others, who sued to set aside the
sale of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western
road. This leaves the matter OF the old T.. B. s.
W. back pay claims where it stood two years
elaims iess than $4,000. The next move
will he that Judge Gresham shall order the
money paid; and unless paid, the deed provides
indianapolis, Bloomington Western company,
however, tntimatsd last evening that the com
pany would possibly take another tack, and that
&C would be long time yet before the back-pay
claimants would receive their money.
GONE BACK TO TELL THE STORY.
f. y. Phillips, president of the Toledo, Cinoin-
natl h st. Louie road, has given the property a
careful Inspection, and Monday night left for
Boston. where he will to-day meet the capital
lists Interested in the property. and inform them
Of ITS real condition. A Western railroad man of
large experience has written the Boston parties
Interested in this property that there was no
reason that the stock and securities of the road
should remain at the present low figures. aud
that good management would send the bonds to
par He wrote: ~ am speaking from the
knowledge have of the property, and my own
. experience in railway management. / know
could send them To par. The business is here on
tho road awaiting manager 1 hope Mr.. Phil
lips, the president, Will secure good one, as the
present manager would soon wreck the road"
WHO OWNS THE L., N. A.&o.
There is excellent authority for stating that
the probabilities are that the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago road will, within the next
sixty days, come under the control of an en-
t,rely new party, party over which the Craw-
ford syndicate, which built the Chicago & In-
1iaRapolis Air Line, has considerable influence,
and it 10 intimated that Col Harry Crawford
has been playing two-handed game with the
present management of the L., N. A. & c.,
4nlbbling as regards transferring the Air Line
10 the former, that the parties who are working
TO secure control Of both interests might gain
ftme. Tho reports of the business of the road.
which some parties say have beeu considerably
"doctOred," has brought the property into
spr0mineuoe with Eastern capitalists, ana that
they should have looked upon it MS good in
Teslment Is NOT surprising. As an lodi,
Pveruarning on this road. the fact