The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-27

Sales at the uptown Union ticket office are
averaging $500 per day.
1t cost the Plttsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis
company So 40 to uniform the conductors, bag
gagemen and brakemen which run on trains
coming into indianapolis alone there being sew
enty o uniform.
Union railway official remarked, yesterday,
now that harmony had been restored between
the managemeHts of the roads centering here,
ne vas cophdeDt that in less than sixty days
-tce--A We AID b commenced on the new union
depot.
In the year 1882 the locomotives on the Gin
cinnati, Indianap0lis, st. Louis & Chicago road
consumed 1.773.583 bushels of COAL the aver
age cost of which was 9.34 cents per busheL
THIS company uses Pittsburg coal for steamirg
purposes.
The Pennsylvania Company announces that
the opening of the Alliance, Niles d Ashtabula
railroad, operated by that company, gives it a
through line from Chicago via Alliance to
Niles, O.; Warren, o.; youngstown, o.; New
Castle, Pa, and Sharon, Pa.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago and the
Chicago and Atlantic roads have agreed upon
terms whereby the former road will use the
tracks of the latter from its terminal point at
Haumond to the Western Indiana connection, a
distance of a mile and half.
Officials of the Louisville New Albany & Chi
cago road deny that any change is to be made in
the management. They say the fact that a con-
siderable amount of the stock has recently
changed hands Is no indication that the proper
ty is to pass under control Of other parties
The Steel-rail Mill Company are rapidly get
ting their machinery in order, and will be ready
TO start up when the price of rails will Justify
them 40 to de- Fortunately, the company can be
quite Independent, as in the building OF the fine
and extensive mill, and the putting of the ma
chinery in, their rule has been to 'pay as you
CO." and they have no ugly debts hanging over
the property.
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis man.
agement notify employees that thereafter, GU the
weekday preceding the one upon which the pay.
car will pass over the road there will he carried
on the engine of come regular train two green
flags with white balls in the centers. These flags
Will be carried one on each side on the bumper
II the engine is moving ahead, and one each
side on the tank if the engine is moving back
ward"
box of stamped ware, billed as tin plate, was
brought through from New York to an Indianap-
ellis merchant this week, bill of ladng subject to
discovered to be stamped ware and forwarded as
anch. Yesterday the party who received the
goods presented n bill claiming overcharges of
10 cents per 100 pounds, that being the differ
ence between the rates on tin plate and stamped
ware. The receiver also had the cheek to pre-
sent bill for So 80 for Spoons lost out of the
same box.
The Vandaa civil engineers, this week com
pleted the survey of the northern extension, from
MaFment to Plymouth. Here the old survey
from Ply mouth to South Bend is reached. UI..
dountetly South Bend is the objective point of
the McKeen syndicate, who are building the ex-
tension north from LoganspOrt. The parties
who are securing the right of way are expert
ehclnS good deal of trouble about Lake Maxim
kuckee, where the owners of the land put as
great valuation upon their property as though
1t was gold or silver mining lands containing an
exhaustlsss supply of the precious metals, and
are now taking steps to condemn several pieces
of property.