The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-28


The Bee Line company expect next week to
receive SIX of the twelve passenger coaches
Barney & Smith, Dayton, o., are building for
their system of roads.
Engine No. 90 of the Wabash road on Thursday
over and killed two men at Lafayette,
making even twenty which have been killed
by this locomotive. 1t would seem about time
that this demon of slaughter was consigned to
the scrap heap.
The American Express Company, on May L.
viii put messengers on the trains of the Chicago
* indianapolis Airline, to stay. They were
put on April 2, but there order in the
movement of trains or about the stations along
the line, and they were temporarily taken off.
Lunch-cars, which carry cold ham, turkey
canned goods, Wines etc, are becoming fully as
popular as dnin gears with the travelling pub
lie; TheY furnish much better meals than the
railroad eating-houses, and twenty minutes for
dinner" is saved with which to shorten the time
schedule.
By order Of Commissioner Fink, neither the
Yandalia, the Indianapolis & ST. Louis nor the
Ohio Il Mississippi roads allowed to take
any live stock out Of East st. LOUIS until the
wabash and Chicago d Alton bring up their
hrrearages in per cents. under the East St. Louis
live stock pool. The Vandala il $50 cars ahe cad
IN its per cent, the l. & st. l.. 40 cars, the o. &
Nj. l45 cars.
General Manager Thomas, of the Bee Line
has ordered the Belt-road company paid for
transfers over their road since December l.
1882 on the basis of 80 cents per car and when
over the matter of price of transfer OF cars when
hanled by the locomotives of the I. St. L.
and Bee Line is adjusted, then the Belt-road
company Will rebate to the Bee Line people any
Overcharges.
Debts incurred during the time ]. II. Dever-
enK was receiver nf the indianapolis 81 st. Louis
road have all been paid. but debts contracted
prior TO the roads passing into the hands of
receiver, footing up several hundred thousand
uoliArs are SUN unpaid. Some $4,000 is due
the Belt road company for transfer of cars, and
several Indianapolis parties have claims for sup
plies furnished.
will be put on, May 13, to run between Cneu-
natl ana ST. Louis over the c.. l., st. I. d c. and
Vandalia. Travel by this route Is steadily in
creasing, and seldom day passes that there are
not from forty to sixty passengers over their
line. and with entirely new equipments and
solid trains between the two cities traffic will
doubtless be still heavier.
One of the officials of the Pennsylvania com
pany states thar 1t is as good as decided that
limited express train, like the Chicago limited,
will be nut ON May Is, to run between Indlanap-
oils and Pttsburg, over the Chicago, st. Louis &
Plttsburg road, connecting with the limited ex-
press run over the Pennsylvania proper, at Pitts
burg. The run from this CITY to Pittsburg will
be made in ten hours. The Vandalia will.
doubtless, arrange to lun their cyclone express
in connection with this train. hauling a through
car between ST. Louis and New York.
General Traffic Manager Stahlman, OF the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, has
gone To New York to straighten ont matters.
The action OF the L., N. A. & c. road In cutting
rates whereby the railroad commissioner refuses
them any east-DOund connection is strenuOusly
denied by the company. They insist that the sus-
pension was made upon representations only,
and without any Investigation whatever as to
whether they well founded. The east
bound connections of the road from which it has
been cut off by suspension are the Blue Line,
and the Commercial Express and the Great
Eastern lines, at HaskilPs, at the junction with
the Grand Trunk railway. These lines will not
be permitted TO receive any east-bound traffic
from the Suspended road until the matter Is adj
justed, which will be within few days. 1t is
hardly possible, however, that Commissioner
Fink would take 80 bold step he has taken
IN this case unless he had ample evidence that
rates had been cut