The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-21
Local Notes.

Freight men report east-bound business i'm
proving. Shipments of grain, flour and lumber
are increasing daily.
F. A. Palmer, district passenger agent of the
Wabash system, has several Thousand Pie asure-
seekers Guides to Hot Springs for free distribu-
ton.
The Vandalia is again shut ont or st. Louis to
allow competitors to bring up their averages IN
The east-DOund dead freight pool. The Vandalia
is several thousand tons ahead Of its per cents.
Passenger men are blue, so light thus far has
been suI6mer-resort travel. The light business
Is doubtless due to the cool weather In this To-
callty and the still cooler atmosphere Of the
northern pleasure resorts.
The lumber men seem to have concluded that
1t ls useless TO fight the east-bOund freight pool.
aud have commenced shipping lumber again. 1t
Ia not the rates that they object to, but the fact
that staves are carried at a fiVe-cents lees rate
than lumber.
Engine No. rs, on the Cincinnati, Tndianapo-
lis, ST. Lnnis q Chicago is getting limbered np,
and on Tuesday made a fine run, hauling six
cars forty eight miles in sixty-one minutes,
making two stops. The tour new engines re-
Gently received are all making an excellent run
ming record.
One of the elegant new reclining-chair cars
now running between Cincinnati and Davrn-
port, Iowa. over the G.. L., ST. L. q c., and the
chicago d Rock Island. was photographed yes
t~erday-both Its exterior and interior. They are,
without question, the finest coaches Of that
character now on Western roads.
~ IS SbdtCu tudb u NUlCdgO % AIld0LlC DeO-
pie are giving the Vandalia trouble in crossing
their track near Kewanna only to force the LAT
ter to agree to keep the crossing in good repair.
The G. d. A. management admit that the day
has gone by when one railroad company can
prevent another road crossing its track.
Fern Bank, on the Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
st. Louis q Chicago road, promises to become a
thriving suburb OF Cincinnati. Several railroad
men have recently bought property at this point
and moved out there. Among the number are
John Egan, general passenger agent. and John
Osborn. treqRurer of the T. ST I, q n
President NJ. E. Ingalls,, of the Cincinnati. In
dianapolis, st. LOUIS & Chicago road, has this
week contracted for ten miles more of steel rails,
weighing sixty-seven pounds to the yard, which
will be substituted for the fifty-six-pOnnd rails
in the track east of Lawrenceburg Junction.
With this ten miles in the track, thirty-seven
miles OF the Eastern division will be laid with a
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rail.
Superintendent Moshier, of the Atlanta fGa.)
Belt road, was in the city yesterday, examining
the Indianapolis Belt road and the methods
transfer over the indianapolis Belt road teighty
cents per carr greatly surprised him. The At
lanta Belt road Is but three miles long, and a
cent and a half per 100 pounds is charged for
transferring freight over it, or SO per car carry
ing 10000 pounds.
There is a lurking suspicion that the Indian
apolis, Eel River Il road will not
he built. The fact that certain officials of the
PennsyIvania Company, one OF whose lines will
be paraileled, TO some extent, by the building of
the road, are offering to bet money that the road
will not be built, does much to give a basis for
such suspicion. Officials of the l., E. R. d S. W.,
however, still state with apparent confidence
that the time for defeating the enterprise has
been passed.
New parties are said to have taken hold of the
Yeoman railroad scheme, which was to build a
road direct from Indianapolis to LOgansport,
giving a twelve-milo shorter route between the
two cities than any now existing. 1t Is init
mated that certain officers of the Pennsylvania
company are encouraging the parties to proceed
with the enterprise, which would indicate that
the PennsylvaDia people would make 10 their
route to connect their Chicago division with the
JeftereOnville, Madison & indianapolis. I'm
doubtedly the Pennsylvania people will, at no
distant day, have a road of their own between
Logansport and indianapolis, nut they win
hardly ask outsiders to build IL for them. Yet
the friends of the Yeoman enterprise seem con-
fident that the Pennsylvania Company will use
the road should they build ~.