The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-12

Come Ell Ine new England ROADS are up TO bHelf
old tricks-again stealing cars off the Western
roads and using them In their local traffic.
Now the rumor comes that the Vanderbilt boys
arc buying heavy blocks of the Cleveland. Colun,-
bus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis stock, and the
advance in price is due to this fact.
The party of Pennsylvania railroad officials
who went West on Tuesday, return to-day, and
will arrive in this city at $40 p. M, the ICY
clone" express train time, over the vandaia.
Hnckley engine No. z, of the vandalia, has just
come out of the Terre Haute shops rebuilt in No.
i style; straight smoke-stack, extension boiler.
automatic air-brakes TO act upon the drivers,
and several other improvements.
The stockholders of the Indiana Bloomin gton
& Western road hold their annual meeting in this
city May 8. The animal meeting of the stock
holders of the Ohio Southern division will be
held In Springfield Ohio, April 16.
The Great Eastern Fast-freight Line manage
ment are Negotiating with the Chicago & In
dianapOlis Air Line management to get into In /.
dianapolis over this route. Haskell will be the
point where the Great Eastern Line will COLI
neot with the Chicago Grand Trunk road.
Work Is progressing rapidly on the new build
ing the Wabash company is erecting at Peru
to he occupied as offices by Superintendent
Murphy, of the Detroit & indianapolis and his
several subordinate officers. The building is
two stories high, sixty feet square and neat in
style OF architecture.
leading rail manufacturer yesterday re-
marked that no improvement need be looked for
In the iron rail market until the price of old rails
Iumbes fully So per ton. They were now held
at S2I, and 1856 to S37 was the highest bid that
could be obtained for new iron rails and they
could not be rerolled for S14 to SIS per ton.
The picayunish manner in which the business
of the indianapolis East-bound Freight Associa-
ton is conducted. is a subject for ridicule. The
secretary gets only $40 per month, and is al
lowed to hire only desk room in an office which
Is occupied by shippers, who, II they choose, can
get any desired information by scanning the u.s.
aues OF billing.
The management of the Traders Fast-freight
Line. which operates over the Nickelplate road,
have made ARRANGEMENTS to reach Cincinnati and
indianapolis over the Cincinnati, Hamilton e.
Dayton Lines. Leipsie. on the d. & NJ. division,
ia the point where the Niekelplate crosses the
Dayton g. Michigan. 1t is expected that an agent
OF the Traders Line will be appointed at Indian
apolis as early as May 1.
paper is being circulated among employees
on the line of the Wabash road for signatures
demanding a reform in the matter of pay. They
demand that hereafter the pay ear shall be
started early enough each month to enable it to
pay every emnloye of the road not later than the
10th The movers 10 the matter are quite de-
termined- and trouble seems imminent unless
their grievances are adjusted.
vestigation, says Vandalia official, shows
that the racket at Logansport, in which the Wa
bash people were supposed to oppose the Wanda
ia company connecting their T. II. & L. tracks
with the northern extension, proves to have
been trumped up by Logansport lawyer, and
the hlgher onlrlas or the WABASH ana not even
know legal fight had been inaugnrated, and
the matter is to be adjusted without further
trouble. The Vandalia asked only to lay track
over the ground of the Wabash about two car
2engths.
Joseph W. Marsee, NJ D.. local surgeon of the
Chicago St. Louis d Pittsburg road, has been
engaged by the company to give o series of lee
lures and general Instructions to employees as
regards dressing wounds or the treatment of a
party W hO breaks limA when in the service of
the company. The first of these lectures was
delivered on Sunday last, at the Medical College,
in the presence of $50 more employees. A
"cadaver" was on the table, and by it he illus
tad fkx1 ~ a.
etc. Next Sunday afternoon he delivers another
lecture, and employees of other roads who are
DESTROYS OF such Information have the privilege
of attending free of charge.
Passenger officials OF the Bee Line system are
becoming somewhat bellgerent. For some
months past they have been adhering much
more strictly to rates than have their competi-
tors. More especially will this remark apply to
points east of Indianapolis. They allege that
the Indiana, Bloomington 4 Western and the
Lake Erie & western are daily running in onto
their territory, augEterlng rates and scOoping
in the business which rightfuly belongs to the
Bee Line, and not only are these lines worrying
them, but the Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg fire.
quently steps In their territory. Only
Wednesday last, Cartwright, agent of the c., st.
J.. & P. at Richmond, dropped in at Winchester,
cut the rate %3. 20 gu seven passengers ticketed
10 Holden Mo, taking said passengers over the
Grand Rapids u Indiana TO Richmond. then
sending them west over the c., st. L. & p. aud
Nandalia.
General News.
The Northern Pacific laid nine miles of track
last week. which carries the road twenty-five
miles west of Bozeman and within seventy-five
miles OF Helena, NJ. T.