The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-11


The stockholders of the Indianapolis, Decatur
& Springfield road hold their annual meeting to-
day.
Secretary Sanger, of the Yardmasters' Mutual
Benefit Association, states the association now
has S6S members, the membership having in
creased 1877 since the last annual report was
made.
The Chicago, st. Louis & PitUsburg Company
has forty-lwO acres of ground in the easter IN part
OF the city, where is erecting the shops, aud
when the shops and round-houses are completed
twelve acres of the ground will be under roof.
A representative of the second-mortgage
bondholders, of the Indianapolis. Decatur 81
Springfield road last evening stated that they
had decided to fOrecose on these mortgage
bonds and reorganize the company, this being
the only way they could well get Out of the pres
ent financial middle.
The publishers of the Indiana Railway Guide
would do well TO give their time tables more at
tenUion. Trains are sometimes entirely omitted,
as is the case with the Chicago & Indianapolis
and the Lake Shore road. and in some instances
the hours of arrival and departure of trains at
various pointSis badly OFF.
The sharp break in the stock of the Cleveland,
Columbus, Cincinnati IL Indianapolis road is not
soaring the holders OF it, and none is being
offered The stockholders probably know the
value of the property full well do the
"bears" on the New York Stock Exchange, and
they evidently propose to hold it until it rallies
be it sooner or later.
train of FIVE Pullman coaches will leave Chi
cago over the c., l., st. l.. d c. for Cincinnati
carrying the Commercial Club of Chicago, and
another train OF the same number of Pullman
coaches will leave st. Louis this evening over
the Vandalia, and from Indiana polls to Cincin-
natl the c., l., ST. L. & c., Carrying the Com
mercial CLUB of st. Louis.
The railroad officials who left last evening for
Chicago TO attend the time convention will, at
the meeting to-day, make earnest effort to
have the spring timetable meeting held in this
city The hotels have offered to be very liberal
in case Indianapolis is selected, the proprie-
tors of the Hotel Bates offering the rooms needed
in which to hold their sessions free.
A hurglar-pruOt cOnnectiOu-rOd which con-
meets swtch-sand rods with the side rails, is be-
ing tested ON the Union tracks. In making the
connection neither key, bolt nor nut is used, and
any party who attempts to tamper with the
switch-rOd coud accomplish nothing unless he
used "a. sledge-hammer and chisel and cut the
cold iron IN two. John Witty is the inventor of
the device.
The efforts to organize an east-bound pool at
this point are not meeting with special success.
The Indiana, Bloomington IL Western is not in
ened to go into the pool for few months, uri-
til the tonnage they would naturally carry is
better understood. The management claim that
were the other lines TO pool and allow the l., b.
& W. to remain outside 1t will not get more bust
ness than legitimately belongs to it.
West-bound passenger rates are still demoral
lied, and probably 1t is not saying too much to
state thai either of the western lines would cut
a rate 50 to IS yesterday secure business.
very conservative railroad official yesterday re-
marked that the sooner west-bOund passen ger
pool was organized at Indianapolis and the out
side offices closed the better for all parties This,
he thought, would stop the rate-cuttng.
L. d. Richardson. general manager of the Chi
ca%o and OHIO river pools will be in the city
within few days TO secure rooms for his offices.
He will give employment to some twelve clerks,
the pools, five in number, are operated
separately, and are named as follows: The H.
dianapos and Louisville, the Indianapolis and
Cincinnati the Indianapolis and Chicago, the
Chicago and Louisville and the Chicago and In
dlanapois,