The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-19
Local Notes.

The names of but three railway "spotters' ap.
peared on of the hotel registers last evening.
The Indianapolis st. Louis Company has
this week received 81 carloads of steel rails,
sufficient amount to lay twenty miles of track.
Cars are beginning to accumulate on side
tracks. This is really no cause for alarm, as one
year ago miles of them could be seen idle on size
tracks, so light was business.
A shird steam shovel will be set at work on
the indianapolis & st. Louis road to-day. Two
are loading gravel at the Terre Haute pit and
one dirt AT the Hadley pit to fill up trestles this
side of Terre Haute.
Officials Of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis St.
Louis d Chicago road state that traffic over
their Seneca division is increasing greatly, and
the freight tonnage west-bound is 100 per cent.
heavier than ever before. East bound the i'm
provement is not more than % to 80 per cent.
1t Is hardly possible that the track OF the Wa
bash between Indianapolis and Peru can be in so
bad shape as the Evening News makes it APP
months enling April EOt a wheel has been off
tho track, although twenty trains or more pass
over 1t daily,
The monster passenger engines Nos. 179 and
$50, recently purchased by the Vandala COM
pany, are hauling the express train the Wes-
tern division, and rise fiftyfoot grade, hauling
twelve to fourteen cars, without a Rlackening of
speed. Colonel Hill states that these engines
are performing well that they viii order sew
eral more OF the same class.
The new Lackawanna fast-freight line will OPP
crate over the shortest route from Indianapolis
to New York pennsylvania route excepuedl, and
over "a few miles the shortest route TO New Eng
land points. The company propose TO make a
special feature of carrying lumber, and are hav-
ing all their built thirty-fOur feet long, with
carrying capacity of 10000 pounds.
A change is rumored in the passenger agency of
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Indianapolis road at
this point One of the best passe niger agents in the
West was summoned by telegraph yesterday to
Cincinnati by the management who, it is un-
derstOod, has been offered the position. Should
he accept competitors of the c., II. & 1. will
have some warm competition, the mere rumOr
now annoying them.
Superintendent Peabody, of the Ohio & Misss-
supi road, has written a letter to President
Thomas, of the Bloomfield Bedford road, urg-
ing him to extend the B. & b. to Seymour, and
promising to carry out any reasonable demand
they might make on the o. & NJ. Company IN the
way OF trafnc agreement. colonel Horace
Scott is in the city, and is personally pressing
the B. IL b. people 10 extend their line to Column
bus to connect with the Cincinnati. Indanapo-
lis, st. Louis & Chicago road via Vernon. The
Colonel, who represents President Ingalls,,
doubtless, in the matter not only promises IA
vorable traffic agreement, but aid as well hnan-
cially.
The superntendents of the indianapolis roads
which own the Union railway met yesterday
and were in conference several hours, but really
accomplished nothing. The question of opening
the outside offices was up, yet Definite action
TAKEN The Cincinnati, indianapolis, st.
Louis & Chicago and the Bee Line people strong
ly favor opening them, while the superintend-
ents of the Pennsylvania lines and of the Van
<talia oppose it; but the c. l., st. L. & G. ana the
Bee Line Will naruly pe lOokers-On mucu
longer, and see their business carried by other
lines upon tickets sold by outside agents OF
Rcalpers, who seem now TO be on top. No other
natter of interest to the public was up for dis
cussiOn.
The Lafayette people are so pleased that they
have secured the shops of the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago ROAD that they accept mOdit
cations of the first conditions upon which the
l., N. A & e. company proposed to build there
with considerable grace. PresideI Young tells
them that there must be from four to seven
mora land. the grading OF the land shall Oe
done by the city, and the Shops instead of being
located in perpetuity shall be agreed to be kept
there twenty-five years from Jan. /, 1884. The
donation money for the same shall be subject tC
no contingency. The shops VIII be all the prin
cipal ones, will be twelve in number, and employ
400 men. If the agreement is perfected the
railroad company will build the round house this
year, beginning at once, and build the other:
next year.