The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-22
Local Notes.

The May number OF the Bee Line Gazette is
out, and is decidedly the most newsy and bright
est of this monthly yet issued.
The passenger agents, both general and local,
of Indianapolis roads meet at the Denison
House en- the 25th, to talk over rate matters.
Thursday next the presidents and general
managers of Indianapolis roads meet at the of
flee of Treasurer Jackson, of the Union Railway
Company, for conference regarding several mat
tiers OF importance.
The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western Railway Company for the week ending
May Is. 1888, S51, 436,46; 1882, $37, 4S0.82; in
1888 81 043, 262. 89; 1882, 1865 % 60; increase
this year, $l78, 03l29.
What purport to be extracts from the annual
report of the ST. Louis, Alton &c Terre Haute
Railroad Company have appeared in some East
ern papers AS this report has not yet been sub
mitted to the directors and will nOtioe until next
June, tits evidently guess work on the part of
the financial men OF the Eastern press
The Cincinnati, Indianapolis ST. Louis e. Chi
cago Railroad Company and the citizens of Law
renceburg are at once TO begin the construction
of Il levee between Lawrenceburg and Law
renceburg Junction, which will be five feet
higher than the one washed out by the flood,
and TO be one foot above the high-Water mark
Of the food of 1882
The earnings of the Wabash road proper, the
second week in May were 1896 40 less than
in the corresponding week OF 1892 The falling
off of the earnings OF this road is explained by
Captain Hayes, the vice. president in charge OF
the Gould sys tem OF roads, by statement that
the loss In Wabash is due to the strike of the
cOal-miners, which has stopped the production
One OF the best evidences that freight rates
are now being better maintained than at any
time for some years past Is the closeness with
which freight agents are watching each other,
and the prOmptness with which they call each
other to an account whenever the slightest irreg
ularity is reported. The greatest enemy of
pools must acknowledge that pooling agree
ments at the present aid in the maintenance OF
fair rates II not full rates.
President Jones and Treasurer Thomas, of the
indianapolis rOllng-nllll, who went to St. Louis
last week to take some action in the way of ad-
justing the bends they hold against the city of
Helena, Ark, and In which settlement the st.
Louis & Iron Mountain company are interested,
were completely ignored by all parties, conse
quently they preparing to push their suit
against the city of Helena and the Helena &
Iron Mountain Railroad Company, which is made
a co-defendent.
Gaylord Beach, chief engineer of the Bee Line
system, last evening returned from NEWEST. He
reports trains running again nicely on the l. &
st. L. division, temporary but substantial
trestle having been put over the stream near
Litchfeld, where the bridge was blown out by
the cyclone of Friday night. The bridge that is
gone constructed entirely OF iron, and
weighed sixty tons, and is so warped and
twisted that little can be used in another bridge
Mr.. Beach reports the country in that vicinity as
having suffered severely by the terrific wind and
rain storm of that night.