The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-20
Local Notes.

Local Notes.
A room for passenger conductors ON the Bee
Line system has been fitted up very neatly and
conveniently at the Union Depot.
The Indianapolis oar-wOrKs are building lot
of superior livestock for the Pittsburg. Gin
cinnati & Ut. Louis road. These cars are thirty
four feet In length, aE6 . foot higher than the
ordinary stock car.
The McKeen syndicate. have given business
men in Michigan to understand that the Logans-
port extension will be built to certain prominent
points that State, provided sufficient en-
oOuragement is given.
The honorable Wabash, st. Louis &c Pacific
railway management, 1t is stated Is taking up
steel rails on the Cairo d vincennes road and
laying them on the Wabash main line. Old iron
rails are being substituted on the c. & V. divis-
ion.
of the Indianapolis &c ST.. Louis and the Chicago
d Alton at Venice, Ill.,, less partial TO the c. & A.
the receipts from sales of tickets reached by
bUth lines would foot up more tav0rably TO the
l. & st. L.
Roadmaster Henry, of the indianapolis g. st.
Louis, yesterday completed the work of gravel
ing to a depth of fifteen in ches the portion of
road lying between TerTe Hante and Nation,
and to-day, with six construction trains and two
steam shovels, he Will commence graveling the
road between Nation and Shelbyville, Ill,
General Passenger Agents Ford and Ernst, OF
the Pennsylvania lines, have issued circulars to
their respective agents, stating what action was
lhhSH az Iu6 Chicago meeting laBJ week, anu
advising said agents to at once prepare to live
up to the agreement as regards sales of tickets
from the date Of the agreement, taking effect
July l, 1888.
The pay train OF the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
st. Louis & Chicago Company ran twenty four
miles in twenty-eght minutes on the Seneca di-
vision, on Saturday last This Is said to be of
the best pieces of new track in the Northwest.
While it is laid with fifty-sx pound tO-the-yard
rail. 1t is crosstied with 5000 ties to the mile,
| therefore it rides smoothly, and is very solid.
The regular passenger train on the Chicago &
Indianapolis Airline yesterday maze the run
making three Stops The distance is twenty
miles. The track is rapidly being surfaced up,
and will soon be in shape TO run al high speed
are they run over older roads. Matters about
the stations are also being cleared up and put In
res spectacle order.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis man
agement contemplated making GlenwOOd dl-
vision point this division, putting in addi-
tlonal track and erecting some needed buildings
at that point. Property holders became ap-
prised of the fact and at once advanced the price
of ground in the vicinity of the depot to such
figure that the c., III. & I. management have
abandoned the proposed improvements.
The recent changes made by the Pennsyivania
company In q number of the agencies at import
art stations, in which the freight and ticket
offices have been put under separate manage
ment, have been working to the eminent salts
faction of the officials Of the road; so much so
that other similar changes are contemplated at
stations where there is considerable competition
in both freight and passenger traffic Agents of
this system are not finding it easy TO secure
business for the line as in days past. So sharp is
competition that they, as well as their brethren
other roads, must be the alert,