The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-03

first-class freight engine was received
this weekfor the Indianapolis division of the
p, C. & st. l.. lines, and IN aday two a couple
more Will arrive.
The Lake Erie & Western road is getting the
cream OF the east bound business ont of Munc lie,
and the Bee Line people are considerably dis
turhed over the matter There are indications
that the former is not strictly adherng to rates.
Court Holiday, agent of the Great Eastern at
this point, is in high glee now that he can take
business for New York directs, The Great East
ern line is operating over thet Nlaware, Laclsa-
VIVA IL Western road between Buffalo and New
York.
Tue general manager of western road this
week applied to the Bald win locomotive works
TO build six locomotives, and was answered
that they were fun Of work to about the LIST of
August, and can only take orders FOR delivery
after thar date
The Vandalia eompanv is laying an independ-
ent track between kuIghtsville and Brazil, 10 bs
used exclusively for their coal traffic, 40 heavy
is the coal movement at times between these
points that the passenger trains are frequently
more or less delayed
Through its new traffic agreement with the
Illinois Central the NHndaha is doing very
handsome Southern business. In the month of
January the latter brought into indianapolis
6l2 carloads of New Orleans freight tie ship
menIs being made up OF sugar, molasses, rice and
fruits.
An official Of the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago road states thar 1t viii require thirty
days Ut good weathertO put the Chicago n IT,
dauapolls Air Line in shape to run trains over
1t M an ordinary speed. Much of tine way. how
ever, only additional gravel is needed and
little surfacing up.
A couple of indianapolis parties are said to
have gOt bitten by the bad break in the Nickel
plate stock. II will be noticed that the stock
yesterday tumhlcd to 0iq These parties are said
70 have paid 81 for this stock, thinking that
Vanderbilt paid that price 1t wOuld be a good
Investment for them.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western manage
mHuU ia considering the Introduction OF "a new
style of coach for their night trains; the coach
a az 10Th hE n 10 ppn Tpp
and eight reclining chairs, two at each end of the
coach Parties who are to ride but part of the
night can do so comfortably in the chairs Ii Ia
thought culubiaed coach of this chara rter
would he very popular with the travelling public.
The Conso engines in service on the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western have one lame point.
The capacity of the tender is not large enough,
more especially the water tank, The engines
are hauling so per cent. more tonnage than the
ordinary freight engine, and consume fuel aud
water in the same proportion that the ordinary
engine does, consequently they are obliged to
dRrs not being ropOrfiOnately large with the in
erehsed number of cars they haul.
There is more IN the talk that the Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, st Louis Il Chicago road would
shoI ten their line Between Indianapolis and Chit
eago than may have been supposed. An official
OF the road yesterday when ia king OF the mat
ter, remarked that by building air line from
Lafayette to Atkinson they cOulu shorten the
line four miles. They now the Lake Erie
81 Western road the fourteen miles between
THESE points, ana really need an independent
ilin". Bat north of IrOqunis the reduction in
mileage c1uld he the most auVautageOllSlT MADE.
A very feasible tine has been surveyed, which If
built on, would shorten the distance sixteen
miles 10 Chicago, leaving Kankakee to the west,
point which the road now makes an elbow to
reach,
Under the new arrangement engineers the
Indianapolis, Bloomington IL Western road are
paid on the mileage basis. Freight engineers
the Peoria e. st. Louis division receive 4 ctnJs
per mile passenger engineers cents per mile.
On the middle division freight engineers VINO
run the ordinary freight engines receive three
amt three-fOurths cents per mile those who run
the Consul en- ginps tOurcents per mile and pas.
senger engineers but two and three-fourJhs cents
per mile On the Ohio division freight engineers
who the ordinary freight engines receive
three and oue-half cents, those who run the Con
sol en- @lies four cents per mile. On this division
passenger engineers receive hut two and three
fOurths cents per mile. Engineers who have the
choice OF engines invariably take those that pay
the smallest mileage, they the lighter
trains and delayed less on be road,