The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-20

Passenger travel this week has been heavy
beyond parallel for October, the passenger men
say.
Indiana Day" at the Louisville Exposition is
set down for Wednesday of next week. There
will be excursion rates on all Tie Indiana rail-
ROADS entering Louisville.
Superintendents are taking off construction
trains and cutting down expenses. The road
beds are in excellent shape to enter winter, the
season having been very favorable to improving
rOadbeds.
The receipts OF the New Albany station IF tho
Louisville, New Albany IL Chicago road for Sep
TENDER, 1888. exceeded those of the CORE pond-
ing month OF 1882 over 50, 900, and were the
largest Of any September in the history of the
road.
Joyce, the conductor, and Moore the brake
man, on the indianapolis q St. Louis road, who
neglected to place flag on their rear car, have
been discharged, as through their cArelessness
the second section ran into the rear OF the train
under their charge.
The executive committee OF the Chicago &
Ohio River PnOl have not yet got all the L., N A,
81 &. tickets ont of the hands of the scalpers. A
parry came through yesterday from Chicago on
Chicago & Indianapolis Airline ticket on
which he drew IA rebate of 81 from an Indianap-
oils sealper.
The wrecking Of train No 6, better known as
the cyclone express, over the Vandalia, on
Wednesd ay last, was the first accident of a ser-
ons character which has ever befallen this train,
although 1t has been on some two years and has
become one of the most popular trains on the
road with the travelling public. and will be more
popular when chair-cars are hauled omit.
AS il has heen telegraphed over the country
that the switchmen at the Indianapolis yards
were contemplating a strike, the railroad re-
porter of the Journal took special pains yester-
day to learn the facts in the case, and found that
almost TO q man all are satisfied with their pres
ent pay, and that were they net, they would not
attempt to force an advance in their pay by
striking
General Manaper Richardson of tha Chico 90
and Ohio river pool has instructed ticket agents
at Indianapolis and Chicago to sell shippers
tickets round d. trip between Chicago aud Indian
apois at $3.50, Instead of ST 80, as heretofore. a
reduction of fifty cents, and TO sell shippers
trip tickets one way at 800, instead of $4, as
heretofore, reduction or thirty-hve cents.
Limit of tickets, thirty days.
General Passenger Agent Murray Keller, of the
L., N. A. q {. system, states that within short
time they will have through parlOr cars and
sleeping coaches running between Chicago and
Cincinnati over the Chicago & indianapolis Air
line and the Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Indtanapo-
lis, which will be as good as the best, and that
they propose to make one hour better time be-
tween the Two cities than do their competitors.
superintendent Evan, of the Indianapolis d.
vision of the Decline, is urging the management
to, con tTary to their usual custom, continue the
running of through coaches between st. Louis
and Boston, through the winter months, so pop
ular has this line of coaches become 1t liz done
to make the trains lighter. When coaches haul
harder he proposes to overcome this by using
the heavier passenger engines on the trains
hauling these coaches.
The immense business which the Chicago, st.
Louis q Pittsburg road has done since the com
pany was rrOrganiZed is remarkable, and has
favOraby affected the stock aud securities The
company now announces that holders OF prior
lien bonds of the Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg
road can exchange the same at par for first
mortgage bonds rated at 95 per cent. of princi-
pal, and cash for remaining per cent, with adj
justment of interest thereon, II presented in
sums of ST. 900 or multiples thereof ut Union
Trust Company, New York, on or before Nov. 10.