The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-08-11

war. The Toledo & Indianapolis is working, it
il stated, with the Lake Erie & Western and the
Indiana, Bloomington d. Western roads.
Passenger men report travel good. In fact,
summer travel this year has been heavier than
for years previous. and promises to be heavy
through the fall months.
The Kentucky Central road has ordered two
wrought-iron Greenleaf turntables, ~tifty-five feet
In length, one OF which is being built by the In-
dianapolis Bridge Company.
The earnings of the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnati Il indianapolis road for July were $329,-
l56. a decrease of Sal ,951 as compared with
earnings OF corresponding month of 1882.
All indianapolis lines will sell round-trip
tickets to Indianapolis during. the military
encampment at one and one-third fare, from
Monday, 18th, to the 10th, inclusive, good TO
return until the 18th. Indications now are that
none OF the roads centering here will drop be-
low that rate.
the last two weeks out of Indianapolis than in
any three months preceding for a year past. The
property forwarded is for export, and consists OF
lumoer, starch and glass just now Baltimore
seems to have the pulge on export business not
only at Indianapolis but Chicago as well.
With NJ. Z. Ingalls, at the head of the affairs of
the Kentucky Central road, and George Bender,
once an indianapolis boy. to carry out his orders
as superintendent of the road, both through and
local business is increasing steadily. fhe earn
mgs OF the road for the six months ending June
80 were S345,S30, an increase of S32,473, and
for the mouth of July $Sl ,o39, an increase OF
$10,011.
MASTER mecnanlc Iurren, or the Bee-ilne, states
that the price of material used III the c0nstruc-
ton or locomotives is so much below that OF
o year ago that in their shops they are building
Mogul engines at $500 less cost than they could
one year ago, and 81 900 less than two years
ago. In labor the cost is about the same as one
year ago. but about 10 per cent. lower than two
years ago.
The earnings of the Indiana. Bloomington &
Western Railway Company for the month ending
July 81, were: 1888, l 7,6lS.32; 1882, $685.
O72.43; increase, $i2,545.S9. From January l
to July 81, 1888, 81, sos, 1913. 10; 1882, 81 1885,
7S4 81; increase, 249,343.9 81. The OHIO South
ern, the business of which division is kept sep
arate from the l., B. g. w. proper, and not in
cludcd above, also shows an increase in earn
ings.
Trains No. 2 and 5, run b etween Chicago and
Cincinnati, over the c., l., st. L. & c., are now
the heaviest trains run over Indianapolis roads.
The train is made up of a postal car, a baggage
car, ar express car, and two day coaches, a chair
car, run between Cincinnati and Burlington. Ia,
a chair car run between Louisville and Chicago,
a sleeping coach run between Cincinnati and ST.
Louis, a sleeping coach run between Cincinnati
and Chicago, and o hotel car which runs between
Jacksonville, Fla, and Chicago. At Indian
apolis, the st. Louis coach is turned over to the
Vandalia, but the Pullman sleeping coach, which
runs nightly between indianapolis and Chicago,
is attached to the train instead, making a regu-
lar train run nightly each way over the Big Four
OF eleven cars.