The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-22


Efforts are being made to establish the East
bound pool at Lafayette.
superintendent report a scarcity of No. L tele-
graph operators possessing the qualifications TO
take important offices on their roads,
Expressmen and postal clerks are now having
plenty OF work. Delayed express matter and
mali is coming forward from all directions.
There is a great demand for cars on the West
ern lines. The movement has necessarily been
slow for a month past, and the supply is now
far short of the demand.
The ten roads running out of Peoria were all
more or less damaged by the floods, the Peoria
& Pekin, the L., B. &W and C., B & q. having
the most serious troubles.
The Indianapolis iron railrolling mill, which
has been idle since the new year, resumed
operations yesterday, and is rolling a few humid
red tons for the Wabash company.
A railroad official who returned from New
York yesterday states that the Vanderbilt man
agement is arranging to operate the Red and
White lines over the Canada roads, as we'll as the
Lake Shore road.
The decrease in earnings this month will be
the more striking owing to the fact that COM
par1sOns will be made with a time last year
when the tonnage was heavy, owing to the i'm
pending settlement of the trunk-line war.
The passenger and freight traffic of the Ohio
d Mississippi road for St. Louis is coming for
ward over the Cincinnati, indianapolis, ST. Louis
x Chicago road, which yesterday delivered to the
Vandalia fifty-seven passengers for that point.
George Breeount, agent of the Louisville, New
ALndhJ N SulIdkO M lblo Bbllts Lar ONOulb To-
eeived a telegram from their headquarters which
read as follows: 1--WE can receive freight of all
classes for all points on cur line after Thursday
the ed"
The big engine at the new Indianapolis steel
rail mills was yesterday set in motion for the
first time and performed very satisfactorily. The
engine is 1,000-horse power, cylinder 40 by AZ
inches, the fy-wheel So feet in diameter and
weighs 40 tons.
Fears are entertained that the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago and other roads
rrIunipU rnrn thar dQnOf will ha ObliUnA Tn ahan.
don using 1t, so damaged is the north wall by
the flood. This wall has caused some anxiety
before, but was pronounced safe by expert
engineers.
An Investigation is pending, before the New
York Assembly,'0 f a charge that Austin Corbin,
PRESIDENT r. A. Maxwell. vice-presldent, and s.
D.gBarton, superintendent, of The Long Island
railroad, had severally been approached with n
proposition to "fx" with moneys a certain bill
before the railway committee, affecting their
railroad.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western people
seem in earnest as regards the extension of the
old l., ID. Il 8. to So. Louis. The company has
engineer OF the l., d. & s., to survey Two routes
TO st; Louis. He will begin operations at once
from Tuscola, III, and has his preliminary WORK
already done. The survey will be on an air line
from Tuscola to %Sullivan, III.
Commissioner Fink and the Joint executive
committee of the trunk lines have been earnestly
urging the Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton peO-
pie to become a member OF the passenger and
freight pools, and it is said Viee-presideat and
General Manager Waite is rather inclined to
take such a step. A. ii. Mcleod, general freight
agent, is now in New York, taking soundings.
and should his report be favorable, the C., II. il
d. will likely come into the arrangement.
Colonel VIM. B. Tuel, of Terre Haute, is max
ing a bitter fight against the building of the so.
called belt road at Terre Haute. Undoubtedly
IL is rather encrOaching on the business of the
Terre Haute i Southeastern road, and would
possibly interfere with the sale OF the i. H. &
s. Z. road to the Indianapolis & st. Louis, as one
of the objects of the 1. Il ST. l.. purchasing the
~ TT A. g r. wQa that thew may control fha
switches leading TO the manufactures of Terre
Haute.