The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-01-30
Local Notes,

The Vandalia road will commence running par
sor cars 10 Evansville and return to-day, leaving
here at 1885 p. NJ, and returning at 3 o'clock in
the evening.
The earnings of the Wabash for the third
week in January, 1888, were $315.l29, which,
compared with the corresponding week of last
year. shows an increase Of $28, 163.
The wrought iron and steel cuttings which a
few years age were used in grading streets are
now cared for by the companies which run their
roads economically, and are sold for SO per ton.
Ope OF the executive committee of the Union
Railway Company confirms the statement OF the
journal, Saturday last, to the effect that Presi-
dent Jewett, of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton line, had agreed to close the c., FL. & 1. out
side office at this point.
The fact that H. W. Gays, general freight
agent of the Indianapolis & st. Louis. is in
Cleveland talking rate matters with the freight
officials of the Nickel-plate, is still further evil
dence that there Is ia be a close traffic arrange
nent between the N~ickelplate Bee Lin and the
/. Il st. L. r0ads.
A new pony engine. TO be used at Gallon, will
be turned out of the Bee Line shops at Bright
wood this week. At these shops they are, az
well, building a handsome and very convenient
private car for GAYLORD Beach, chief engineer
or the Bee Line system, to travel in. Two COM
Dlnation cars, OF the most improved pattern,
are also III course OF construction at these shops;
A company known as the United States Insu.
lator and Iron Fence Company, has taken hold
of the insulator Invented by Mckay, the 2. c. &
-" L. HS'htOi W nv Purposes 10 DrluR ~ Do
lore me pno.le IN a manner which assures sue
cess. General George B. Wright has been elected
president, j. F. Wailick vice-president, George
Carter secretary, and I. A. Morris, treasurer of
tie company.
A railroad man who Is we'll posted expresses
the "pinion that the report that the Illinois Cen
urai ptnple Will this year build an independent
line into st. Louis has some foundation. The route
which has been surveyed for the line Is through
a country which will give them liberal patron
age; The Illinois Central now does its st, Louis
business over the VandAIia, but should they
built the proposed line the Illinois Central will
nave n route several miles shorter than the Van
dalia. THIS road is the project that K. b.
Mcclure, former superintendent of the Indian
apolis & st. Louis road, would have pushed 10
complexion had he lived.
That train direc tors at the Union Depot shopld
fully understand the system of roads centering
here Is fully as important as that there should
che ticket OF a passenger, tell which train he
should take are needed. Reports that passen-
gers are directed to the wrong trains at the
Union Depot are much too frequent. 1t is very
annoying and sometimes serious in its results
where q passenger who has a ticket to Louis
VILE. Cincinnati, st. Louis or points on some of
these lines is directed to the wrong train. The
conductor of such train. who naturally has an Ill
feeling toward the competing line over which
fare or get of his train. When a dozen or more
trains are standing in and about the depot it ia
hardly fair TO expect a passenger never before in
tne depot wiiinot get greatly confused.
The savage attacks Of the papers published at
the county seats on the tine of the proposed Fort
wayne, Lafayette q st. Louis, in which they
seek TO belittle the indianapolis parties who
nave taken an interest in the proiect, has lulled
the Wabash, st, Louis & Pacific management
into The belief that the enterprise is aban-
doned. These enemies of the project, how
ever, will wake up one of these fine mornings
IN the early spring, and lind hundreds of men
ana teams scattered along the line, grading and
distributing ties and rails. The bonds on which
the money will be raised to bnild the road have
eeeh prepared, and parties who never go back on
a proposition have agreed to take them at a very
handsome figure. Expert engineers guarantee
that it Will not cost over S15, 900 per mile to
build and equip the road. Tine canal bank on
which the road is to he built needs but light work
20 put IL in shape TO lay the track.