The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-27

Local Notes.
All Of the engines on the Jeffersonville Madi-
son & indianapolis road are being remembered,
commencing with 600 and ranging upward.
Pleasant Valley Station, on the first division
OF the Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg road, Is
hereafter to be known as Plain City Station.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western last
night brought in sixty United States troops en-
route from Columbus to Council Bluffs. The L.
b. & W. get q 39S-mie haul out of the bust
ness.
The boys are at their old habits again of jump
ing onto moving trains on the Union tracks, The
needed check will he to run over one. A few ar
rests of these careless boys would doubtless have
excellent effect.
Chief Engineer Becker, of the Pennsylvania
Company, has prepared plans for a new depot at
Columbus, on the j., NJ: q l. road. The entire
building will be 81 by 1877 feet, made Of brick,
with the best Of slate roofing
There is some prospect that The Bloomfield &
Bedford people will sell their road. Parties
who have been nibbing TO get hold of it have
advanced their bid $50, 900 of late, Offering
e325.000 for the road The company want $780,
600 for it,
As the Empire Line ia not allowed to do bust
ness on the p, D. & l.. road pending the investi-
CATION OF the alleged cutting in rates, the bust
ness OF the line has been turned over to the
Union Line, and is now passing through hera in
Union Line
Freight rates never were firmer east-houud
than now The shutting off of the Peoria, Decatur
Chicago roads in their pro rating with the trunk
Tires was a healthy move, and had the effect to
place line agents on their good behavior.
The Wabash people are making extensive i'm
provements in the surroundings of their new
city freight depot. On the south side four tracks
are being laid; on the north side the street is
being powdered ana extensive platforms are in
process Of construction on the east end of the
depot
The Boston Herald copies an item from the
indianapolis Journal regarding the discharged
f9hiOnUO Lon e. u fTrpr
road going onto the New York e. New England
rOan, and then adds that Division Superintend-
emit G. @. f. Bent says he doesn't know anything
ahont IL. Mr. Bent should subscribe for the
Journal.
There is a racket up now between the drivers
OF the hacks which run to the Union Depot. The
police commissioners have permitted Frank
Bird TO let his husses aud hacks stand the
north side of McNahD street, while there is city
ordinance that they must stand on the south
side of the street. Now che other hack drivers
are occupying the north side as well.
belief prevails among freight men that east
bound grain rates will be reduced another five
cents per 90 pounds early in May. This belief
ia based upon expectation that shipments will
be light during the summer; that the abolish
ing of canal tolls will have tendency to in
crease water transportation, while railroad bust
ness will be DIVIDED among more roads than
formerly.
The Bee Line people have just put in service at
their gravel-pit at rerre Haute steam shovel
which with ease Is loading 200 carloads of
gravel every twenty-fOur hours. This company
mas Iuftt stream snOVelS at WOfk QhY anu night
on the L. 81 ST. L. division-twO loading gravel
and one dirt for filling trestles, Crawling the
roadhed between Terre Haute and MattUOn is
going on at lively rate.
Assistant Chief Engineer Johnson of the
Chicago st. Louis ana Pittsburg road yesterday
commenced driving the stakes for the location
of their new shops, east OF the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum. The dimensions of the eight buildings,
which Will include a rOnndhOuse with n capacity
TO hold forty-fOur en- = ines, was given some six
weeks ago. when the directors appropriated
Sl5O,OOO for the Improvement.
The smaller creditors of the indianapolis &
Evansville Straight Line are moving to protect
their interests by getting their claims in ahead
of the mortgages, which are to be foreclosed. 1t
is estimated that there $4,000 OF these
small claims, of various sums, for ties furnished,
for labor performed, for hoard of labor ers and
for many orher services performed, and they are
held ny people living along the line of the road
from Evansville to Washington. President Her
vey states that by the terms of the sale certain
portion of these claims are to be paid
The Ohio & Mississippi people and the Sey-
mourites are sangulne that they are to get
feeder to that road and city the Bedford &
Bloomfield road. The good people of Seymour
say that the route from Bedford to Seymour
will be found an unusually good one, and offer
ing of the road while the route to Columbus
will be found full of obstacles. The grading
through the hills near Columbus will alone
quire a greater outlay OF time ana labor than the
building of the whole road by the Seymour route.
They add that Seymour VIII, when the proper
time comes, offer us much financial aid Co
lumbus
The new yards of the Cincinnati, indianapolis
st. Louis g. Chicago road, in the eastern part of
the city, are now nearing completion, and con-
nections with the Belt road can readily be
made. and it is TO be hoped that President In
gals, should he be here to-day, will
S;ree uDOn some terms by which he can
move his long freight trans over the Belt
road, instead of through the city over the Union
tracks. The fact is the Belt road should give IA
transfer rate so low that all roads could afford
to move their through business over it, aud roads
which choOsr so to do should have the privilege
OF hauling their trains with their own looomO-
tives. The movement of passenger trains over
the Union tracks is too frequently delayed by
long freighS trains, which would make better
time IL moved the Belt road, as well as
greatly relieve the Union tracks.