The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-12

Stockholders of the Eel River division of the
Wabash system are this week receiving l per
cent. dividend on their stock.
The Indianapolis & ST. Louis Railroad Company
is building water tanks of 10000 gallons ca
pacity af Danville, Ind, and at Pana, III.
The passenger earnings of the Jacksonville,
Madison and Indianapolis road for August show
an increase of S12, 142 40 over the correspond
ing month of 1882.
Passenger conductors on the Louisville, New
Albany q Chicago road are said to run more
miles daily than conductors of this class on any
other road in this State.
General Devereux tells the New York Finan-
cial Record that the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnar d indianapolis meeting last week result
ed in nothing of public interest.
Paymaster Sullivan, of the Cincinnati, Indian
apos, ST. Louis & Chicago road, pays t0-mor-
row on the eastern division for August service,
and on Friday on the western division.
SleepinG-coaches on the through east and west
lines are now crowded nightly, and it is difficult
to secure berths unless application is made two
or three days in advance. More especially is
West-bOund travel heavy.
A railroad man, who knows what good road
bed is, this week passed over the Logansport
extension OF the Vandalia. and he states that it
is he best new track he ever rode over 1t is "a
sixty pound to the yard steel rail, thicky cross
tied four-bolG tsh;ioints, the rails held firm by
Deeds's patent lOck-nut.
Wabash trainmen are now in clover. They are
paid on the mileage basis or by the trip. One
engineer earned last month 1882, and the wages
vary from that sum down to 500. They are
paid at the rate of cents mile for the distance
run, and something extra for rhine. Fire
men receive half that sum-
Paymaster Shepherd, OF the Wabash, st. Louis
Pacific road, pays to-day on the indianapolis
division for July service. He makes his rounds
this month four days earlier than last month";
and he hopes, 1t Is stated, to continue to come
earlier each month until the boys are PAID as
promptly as on other roads.
Engine No. rs on the Cincinnati, Indiana polls,
St Louis 81 Chicago road on Monday hauled the
noon express or SIX cars from the city limit of
Indianapolis to Lafayette, siXtY-sIx miles. in
one hour and twenty-five minutes-the time
consumed in making four stops at stations and
railroad crossings TO he allowed.
Mail service over the Cincinnati, INDIANAPOLIS
ST. Louis & Chicago road has Increased to such
an extent tnat 1t requires seven men to each car
on the night line, and four men each on the day
line cars. Two crews are necessary, and the
whole number of men required to distribute the
mail, which averages fourteen tons day over
this route, is fOrty-fOur.
The Circuit Court of Bartholomew county
gave the Jacksonville, Madison & Indianapolis
car thieves, Sanford Osborne and John Bradley,
two years in the Southern penitentiary on plea
of guilty for rohbng "A freight car. Theodore
Bradley was given eighteen months, by Jury,
for conceallng the goods from said car, and John
Carver was sent Tor year for stealing u pair of
boots.
Samuel Stevenson, general passenger agent of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton Il Dayton lines, was in
the city yesterday looking matters over He
reports travel on these lines excellent Pas
senger earnings of the system for August run
$1,000 ahead of those for the corresponding
month last year, which is a favorable exhibit,
as August, 1882, was one of the heaviest months
travel of the year.
The Wabash company on Monday commenced
running their shops full time and full handed.
Their yards are said to be full of demoraized
and their shops of engines out of repairs.
This work has accumulated them since the
unw wise policy was inaugurated of discharging
hundreds of mechanics and working the remain
ing men but three days in the week. Now bust
ness is brisk with them. This crippled rolling
stock is greatly needed.