The Indianapolis journal., 1883-07-06
Local Notes.

superintendent Evan reports that on July
there were 1874 passengers carried on the In
dianapolis division of the Bee Line.
Paymaster Shepherd, of the Wabash, is way
behind again. The boys won't be comforted
with the intimation that he is to pay for both
May and June on this trip.
Within the last forty-eight hours the Erie &
Pacific Dispatch has sent $50 empty cars to
Evansville 10 be loaded wi tn tobacco, whi3h Is
now beginning to come north in large quanti-
ties.
Within the last ten days some 600 White line
empty cars have been distributed on the l, & St.
L. division of the Bee-line and its immediate
connections, preparatory to moving the wheat
crop.
The railroads this year are bring ging anthracite
coal from Buffalo to Indianapolis at 81 per ton,
twenty five cents below last years rates. Three
mills per ton per mile, which this is, gives deal
ers no chance for complaint.
The Erie & North Shore Dispatch, which has
been shut out OF Chicago for several months, en-
July Is commences handling Chicago business,
transporting 1t between Detroit and Chicago
over the Wabash aud the Baltimore IL Ohio
roads.
Colonel Oran Perry, agent of the Chicago, st..
Louis IL PIttsburg and the indianapolis Il Vim
cennes road, reports the local business or these
lines as 15 per cent. heavier in June, 1888, than
in any preceding year, and for the first half of
1883 the receipts foot up considerably ahead OF
those of the first six months of 1882.
The rate for the Yellowstone Park excursion,
July %, has been fixed at S62 round trip, from
Burlington, Ia, to Livingston, d. Z. The7North-
ern Pacific people are arranging for "a large
party. 1t is iutimated that in connection with
the l., B. & w. the Northern Pacific will give a
S74 round-trip rate from Indianapolis 10 Liv-
ipgstOn. tect
Col George Brecount, general agent of the
Chicago IL indianapolis Airline. has made ar
.rangements for coach to be held at lndfanapo-
lis especially to accommodate parties of twenty
five or more who may wish to run up to Broad
Ripple and remain for few hours, using q
switch engine TO haul the coach when no road
engine is here
officers of the Adams, the American and the
United States Express Companies located here
heaviest of any June for years Since 1878 eX-
press business has steadily improved, and not
wlLhstandlng the reduction in rates. the increase
in number of packages has much more than made
up the difference.
Fruits and vegetables are being shipped from
the South to Northern markets by the train
loads and competition between the railroads has
reduced rates fully 80 per cent, yet neither the
producer, the consumer, nor the railroads are
benefited by the reduction, prices varying as
high as in former years at this season; only the
middle man is benefited seemingly. There
should be some scheme got up TO divide this
SO per cent. between the middle man end the
consumer
Week after next the new and very complete
freight depot OF the Chicago, St. Louis IL Pitts
burg, at this point, will be occupied TO handle
the freights of the Indianapolis IL Vincennes
road, thus giving the old depot entirely up to the
c. ST. L. & P. 1t Is stated that the transferring
of the business of the JeffersOnvile, Madison g.
Indianapolis road to the new depot has been
dropped for the time being, probably until t he
new shops, round-house and yards of the c., st.
L. d. P, are completed. Then the J., NJ & L.,
depot and round-house will be abandoned and
torn down and the yards used for cars TO
stand in, which are TO be unloaded or loaded
with city business.