The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-08
Local Notes.

Local Notes.
The Decline is now doing a very handsome
through traffic. Cars coming west, as well as
those going east, are all loaded.
Fastfreight line agents at this point have been
notified that the next line meeting would b.
held III Chicago, Sept. 20 and p.
The earnings Of the Wabash system the fourth
week of August were 1864, 546.2S. Increase
over corresponding week last year. Ss,975.32.
The Chicago, ST. Louis & Pittshurg road, last
month, brought west over the Indianapolis di-
vision 1,2l0 carloads OF anthracite coal and
coke.
The passenger earnings Of the Vandalia last
month showed an increase OF S1l,24O over
August, 1882 Some $1,000 of the gain on
the LOganspOrt division.
While the Eric lines are unable by some l 200
cars to I'LL their orders, competitors are spread
ing the allegation that these lines cutting
rates to secure business.
Emley q Co., yesterday, shipped twenty-four
sWitch-stands and the same number of frogs to
Florida, to be used on the Major Henning sys-
TEN of roads III that State.
Passenger engine SO on the c., l., st. /. & c.
made its first trp over the road yesterday since
rebuilt, and going east last night ran twenty
one miles III twenty-three minutes, hauling six
cars.
The Indiana. Bloomington & Western in con-
nection with the Cleveland, Akron & Columbus
road, on Sept. 49, have an excursion from Indian.
apOIs and points on the middle division TO Ceve-
land, O,-t3 for the round-trip,
Grain shippers are strainng point TO load
10000 pounds of oats into the new thirty-fouT
feet inside grain cars. AT the Rush Il Co. elsya-
to-, Yesterday, three cars were received into
which $4,000 pounds of oats were loaded.
Elevator men are scOlding over the thirty-four
feet grain cars. SpOuts at elevators all over the
country are arranged to load cars thirty feet in
length and il makes it very in venient to set
the cars. Where there are a half-dozen spouts
set to load six ears but four OF the thirty-fOur
feet cars can be set, and they must be detached.
The tardy manner which the Wabash pay-car
moves over the several divisions of the system
Is now said to have been due to the fact that the
paymaster had not the money to pay the EN-
ployes with. Now that the earnings are better
he expects to pay the men more promptly. The
company now owe the men for July and August
service.
Freight men report export business as largely
on the increase. About u month ago the ocean
rate on grain from New York TO Liverpool was sd
per hushel; now, 1t Is only 2l2d. The cause of
the decline Is quiet competition between ship
ping companies How long the low rate will
continue is puzzle which exporters would give
much TO solve.
The Lackawanna has commenced doing bust
ness out OF st. Louis over the Wabash, and is
making it warm already for some of the lines
that nave been DONG business our OF ST. Louis
fora score or more years This line has not
yet opened any office at this point. General
manager Smith, however, wrote some days since
that an agent had been appointed for Indian
apolis.
The baggage agents of the Pennsylvania
lines west or Pittsburg, and of the Faudaa have
been Instructed TO hereafter report daily the eX
cess baggage earnings, giving date and number
OF train The baggage men will he provided
with blanks, which can be filled ont with little
trouble, and at the terminus the reports are TO
be turned over TO the auditors Of conductors
statements
The Wabash seems to be again coming in favor
with indianapolis shippers, who for some days
past have been forwarding thirty to forty car
loads per day of grain to the Toledo markets.
Five ceuts per 100 pounds is said to be the rate
at which the grain is carried, and it is stated
that IA competitor OF the Wabash fox Toledo bust
ness has offered four-and-a-half-cents-p er-10O-
pounds rate,
The prospects are excellent that western coal
dealers will after this month be obliged to pay
higher rates for CranSDO' tatiOn of the anthra-
cite coal INDIANAPOLIS dealers have been spe-
clally favored in the matter of rates this year,
having a ttty-eent -per-ton lower rate than Gin
cinnati IL Louisville. IJlS reported that coke
pool has been formed on easJ-bound traffic by
the Baltimore q ONO, Pennsylvania and Van
derhit lines, and that pool on west-bound
traffic is to be formed after Oct. l. This means
an early advance in rates.
In the month of August tho baggage men at
the Union Depot handled 5l,S46 pieces OF bag
gage OF that number u, 800 were checked out.
The largest number of pieces checked out
over the NAndalla; the Cincinnati, indianapolis,
st. L0uis IL Chicago second, the Chicago, St
Louis 4 Pittsburg third, the Indiana, Blooming
ton Il Western, Peoria division, fourth, and Bee
line fifth In the statement. over the Indlanap-
oils IL st. Louis, Wabash, Jeffersunvllle, Madison
& indianapolis, Cincinnati, Hamilton Il Indian
apOlis, and Indianapolis Il Vlueennes the travel
Is so much of a local character that fewer pieces
OF baggage are carried.
r. NJ. Hawey, master of trains on the districts
controlled by superintendent Stevens was IN
the city yesterday. He reports freight traffic
over the main line S immense One day this
week seventY-siX trains passed Peru east and
west bound over the man line and north and
south over the Detroit ~ indianapolis road. The
trains over seven districts are controlled at the
general office of superintendent Stevens, at Perm,
and IL IS tine busiest point On the Wabash sys-
TEN. superintendent stevens and master of
TRANSPORTATION Hawley put In eighteen hours OF
the twenty four at their office or on the road
and the traiu-dispRtchers are on duty about the
same number of hours.
AS usual whenever trains are wrecked, the
damages by the rear collision on the Clnciu-
natI. indianapolis. ST. Louis & Chicago road were
placed at $50, OOO-treble the actual amount.
SUPERINTENDENT sherwood says the bridge was
the greatest loss. That was IA new structure.
ana cost ~, 800 two years ago. The locomotive
was damaged $500, cars 81, 800. the trucks OF
the latter not being damaged. FOrtu-
uatply the which broken IN were
loaded with soap, four of them, and 50, 300 viii
cover all damages to freIghts in transit, making
IA total of 49, 800. treStle has been built for
trains to run over until the bridge ls rebuilt, and
all trains were running over the Big Four, yester
day, with their usual regularity.
The Wabash people, few weeks siECe, intro
duced the luHch-hasket system two of the
trains running over the main line, and So much
OF u success has it been that all through trains
are to be provided, to accommodate passengers
who do not desire to patToniZe the din
ing-car. Bills of fare, showing seven differ
with prices charged, are distributed through
each train. An attendant passes through the
car and takes the order for lunch, which is
then brought from he dining-car, neatly served
IN n lunch basket Of convenient size and shape,
especially suited to the purpose and takes
charge OF basket and dishes after the meal is
diminished. While in this business, the manage
ment should provide something TO feed passeu-
gers on trains whicn are thirteen and half
hours making the run between Indianapolis and
Detroit,