The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-04

The Belt road directors have a meeting to-
day.
On Sep. there is to be an excursion from
points on the Indianapolis & ST. Louis road to
Cincinnati, tickets to be good three days to re-
turn on.
The management of the Traders Despatch
have perfected arrangements to operate over
the Indiana. Bloomington 81 Western lines west
of Indianapolis.
Que of the cousol engines recently received to
run on the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsnurg road,
east end. when ready for service, with the tank,
weighs elghty-one and a half tons.
Secretary Sanger reports that the member
ship of the Hardmasters' Mutual Benefit AssO-
citation of the United States and Canada has
increased 13l since the annual meeting in June.
The Chicago st. Louis e. PIttsburg Yesterday
put on a special train run daily on fast
schedule time between Chicago and New York
The run from Chicago to Urbana is made in
twenty-fO hours. This train is specially made
up OF the Erie Line refrigerator cars, carrying
perishable freight.
General Manager Malott hopes, to-day or to-
morrow, to perfect arran gements with the Indi-
ana, Bloomington & Western by which their
trains will be moved over the Belt road. There
Will be only the Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Indian
apOs left then to blockade the Union tracks
and the streets with trains of forty to fifty
The Cincinnati Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chi
cago people are putting the owen patent self
car coupler on several of their cars, proposing
to adopt the coupler if 1t gives
satisfaction. So much of the business of
this road is Of a local character that self car
coupler would be valuable acquisition to the
road.
The Cincinnati, Indianapolis st. Louis &
Chicago, the Cincinnati, Washington & Balti-
more and the Baltimore IL Ohio roads offer a
round-trip excursion rate from Indianapolis to
Baltimore at S25.2A. That rate will be given on
the 9Th, tickets good TO return until Sep. 10.
The National Druggists' Association conVenes at
Baltimore next week.
IudiaDaDOlis roads will he we'll ranraaaDted IN,
the coming annual convention of the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen, which is to be
held in Denver Col There will he about IT'S
delegates in attendance, and 85 least 1000
members of the Brotherhood will visit Denver
during the convention The Brotherhood is in
q fOurishlng condition. Last year it had 5000
members; this year 1t has 5000.
One Indianapolis scalper on Friday last pur-
chased eighty tickets from Indianapolis to Kan
sas City, reading over the Vandaia and Chicago
& Alton. The rate between these points was
advanced, on September l, from $l5 25 to
$l6.5O. While passenger agents had not been
apprlsed of this advance, the scalper had been
posted, and will be ahead 1928, besides the
commission he is said TO get from the Chicago &
Alton.
Freight engines Nos. 80 and 1873 on the Gin
cinnatl, Hamilton & Indianapolis road, which
collided near Brownsville Saturday night,
SO badly broken up to be hardly worth re-
building. Fortunately, both were old engines
The escape OF the engineers and firemen with so
slight injuries is one of the mysteries in rairoad
service. The operator at COnnersville, who is
charged.
Geerge W. Cobb, secretary of the indianapolis
Railroad Christian Association, in the month of
August made fifteen visits to the homes OF sick
ana injured railroad men, Offices shops. etc. and
distributed 268 books and pamphlets of a religi-
Gus and highly moral character. During the
month there were 270 visitors at the room.
We're there pleasant attractive room opened
for the association its field of usefulness could
be greatly extended.
The Chicago, ST. Louis & Pittsburg were hold
inn facf tffr
Side of UrbaDa, $50 loaded cars of the Erie and
Pacific Dispatch traffic over the New York,
OHIO Pennsylvania being heavier than they
have power TO haul II. Last night the Erie lines
were 1900 cars behind filling their orders
on four roads west of here. The Evansville &
Terre Haute called for 200, the Vandaa for
300 and the Indiana, Bloomington IL Western
for several hundred. New of the Chicago 81
Atlantic road are coming into this section daily
in large numbers to be loaded In the interest of
the Erie lines and other than Erie lines report
an increasing demand for cars.