The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-18

The Indiana, Bloomington & Western Railroad
Company is this week receiving from the Pitts
burg steel works 1000 tons of steel rails, weigh
ing sixty pounds to the yard.
The Vandalia extension construction COM
pany on Monday resumed laying track and are
rapidly pushing to Plymouth.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has
notified Western connections that hereafter 8
cents per 100 pounds would be the minimum
rate for any freight carried.
The earnings of the Ohio Southern railroad,
operated by the I. B & W, for the week ending
October 8, were: 1888, $10,891.13; 1882, &c.
549.20; increase, 81, 341,93
Six men from the Indianapolis yards have
gone TO st. Louis to help the Vandalla out of the
strike troubles. and several men from other
yards of theVandalia system.
Receiver Howard, of the Danvile, Olney &
ONO road, was in the city yesterday, and pur-
chased several hundred tons of rails of the Indt-
annapolis rolllng-mlll, paying cash down.
The Traders Dispatch is rather surprising its
competitors with the amount of west-bound
business they are carrying. Evidently this line
mas Wide awake agents east as well as west.
General freight SCENTS at this point yesterday
received notice that the Camden Station eleVa-
tor of the Baltimore d Ohio road, $50, 900 bush
els capacity, had been reopened for business.
In the last ten days the Indian apolis car
works have turned out lat new box-cars for the
Great Western Dispatch and expect TO turn out
| fifteen day hereafter until the order for 900
cars Is filed.
Dealers in railway supplies report business
quite active BY the by, 1t is reported that
large railway supply house, backed by ample
capital is TO be established in this CITY, There
certainly is no better point.
Local passenger agents at this point seem to
be spasmOdic in the matter of cutting rates.
On Monday and Tuesday the Western roads were
apparently living strictly up to the rates Yes
| terday they were badly off again, and some
sharp cutting was done to Missouri and Kansas
points by two Of the roads and one of the scalp
ers.
An INDIANAPOLIS man, who has just returned
from New York, where he went TO sell some
first mortgage bonds on one of the best Western
roads, has returned disappointed He says
neither glt-edged nor bonds OF a doubtful char
acter will sell, except at very heavy discount.
While money is plenty he says it Will be months
probably before anybody's bonds will sell.
The Arcade Hotel, Springfield, o. in which
elegant waiting rooms for Decline passengers
have been fitted up, is to be opened in grand
style on the Oath of this month. The Spring
field Athletic Club, with its membership Of
three hundred-representi ting the best social ele-
ment In that city-are to dedicate the new hotel
and the new passenger rooms of the c., c., c. 81
L. railroad.
T. A. Lewis, western manager of the Erie fast
freight lines returned from Chicago Yesterday.
He states that the blockade the New YORK,
Pennsylvania q Ohio road is being rapidly lift
ed. number of Erie engines have been trans
ferred to the N. Y, p q O. and the road is hand
ling fully 500 loaded cars per day. President
Jewett has just ordered twenty-h heavy
freight engines built for the n. Y, p. & o. road.
V. T. Malott, vice president and general man
ager of the Union Railway Company, last even
ing remarked that none should be more inter
ested in the harmony of the railroad interests
here than indianapolis, as any i'll feeling, cut
ting rates. etc., only delayed the reorganization
of the Union Railway Company, which reOrgani-
cation meant elegant, cOmmodious
Union Depot at this point within the next four
teen months.
There seems to be a disposition on the part of
certain grain dealers to exaggerafe the troubles
in the West-side yards of the Indiana, Blooming
ton e. Western road. 1t is true that they have
not yard tracks enough, and General Manager
Henderson is arranging to largely increase their
yard tracks. But at the present time they have
five switching engines and ten crews in service
five crews by day and five by night-whieh is one
more engine and two more crews than ever had
before, and Superintendent Wilson is doing his
best to keep business moving, but can hardly do
better until there is more room for switching
trains; but it only aggravates matters to exag-
gerate the temporary troubles.