The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-02
Local Notes.

The Wabash conductors and brakemen have
received an advance. The conductors get three
cents mile and the brakemen two cents.
The earnings of the Wabash Railroad Com
pany for the third week in March aggregated
$415,476 or SS7, Sl6 more than the correspond
ing period last year.
The Cincinnati, Indianapolis. st. Louis &
Chicago delivered at Cincinnati last week off
of the main line 972 loaded cars, and forwarded
from that point 1,131 loaded cars
In the week ending March 81, the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati IL st. Louis forwarded east from this
point 1,107; the Bee Line, 97S; the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western, 619 loaded cars
The Louisville New Albany & Chicago to-day
open the Chicago & Indianapolis division for
through freight traffic. Last week only local
business, between Indianapolis and Delphi, was
handled.
Saturday received Invitation to attend the gen.
eral time convention at St Louis, April IL, when
the subject of adopting aunif0rm standard time
1s TO come up for consideration.
1T is stared that the Wabash man agement have
decided to make general repairs TO their Cairo e.
Yincennes division, the roadbed of which has so
deteriorated as to be unsafe to run trains over.
Crossties and steel rails being distributed,
preparatory to commencing the work.
The five Western roads brought into this sta
tion last week 3, 6S5 loaded cars, as follows: T.,
B. & W, St. Louis division. lab; Peoria division,
500; G., l., st. H. & c., 797; l. & st. L., 1,023;
yandalia, 1893. This is decrease of 497 cars
week ending March "a
Although there was something OF decrease
in the.car movement over the middle division of
the Indiana, Bloomington & Western road vet
for road it is doing good business, for
warding east last week from indianapolis 6I9
loaded and 90 empty cars; bringing. in from the
east 2S7 loaded and 342 empty cars.
H. p, cambridge, Ind: The Southern ter
minus of the Chicago e. Great Southern road
now is Yeddo, and the scheme is to build it to
the Ohio river via Rockville and Brazil and it
will likely he huilt there il the Crawford aVndi-
cate raise the funds to do it. On the north
end construction work - being pushed vigor-
ously between Attica and Oxford, Ind.
The Wabash people will have to look to their
]aurels on Michigan City business, the
Chicago, 81 Indianapolis Airline has six miles
the advantage in distance between Michigan
City and Indianapolis Then the L., N. A. & C..
which controls the Airline, is not exempt from
the charge of being loose In rate matters. and
are liberal pass disbursers where business can
be secured by so doing.
indianapolis now has five direct lines to
Chicago Below is given the routes and the
mileage as officially reported: Chicago g. Indi-
annapolis Air Line. 1s3 miles Chicago, St. Louis
& PIttsburg, 1913 miles Cincinnati. Indianapolis,
st. Louis & Chicago, 195 miles, Indiana, Bloom
bash. st. Louis & Pacific, via Michigan City, 2lS
miles. The Air Line is not yet opened through
for passenger business, but will be within the
next twenty days.
0Bel Bennett II. Young, president of the Louis
willie, New Albany & Chicago road, tells them by
letter tnat the question OF location or the shops
will be brought before the board of directors at
meeting, in New York, on the 9th of April next,
when 1t will be definitely determined Possibly
Indianapolis will be the dark horse" vet for
these shops. The L., N. A. & c. people should
do something in Indianapolis to impress Indian
npoitans that they are interested directly in the
city's welfare
For a second time Colonel Joseph HILL SUPER
4ntendent of the Vandalia, issued an order that
traiBmen when coupling cars should use a stick.
A similar order has been issued by the Bee Line
and the j., NJ. a. L., but in neither case la the
order given any attention, trainmen taking the
position that it is troublesome to carry a stick
and that time is lost in coupling cars Now the
Question becomes OF interest whether the
railroad companies in case of accident from this
neglect should be liable for damages or even
Qay an injured party's surgeons bill.