The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-30

LOCAL NOGeSs
Undertaking., it is intimated, islikely to catch
another Indianapolis road in Commissioner
Fink's drag-net.
AT the city freight depots no freights will be
received to-day, the railroad men showing a
disposition to make Decoration Day holiday.
The yardmasters of the Indianapolis division
meet this evening to select delegates to the an
nuai meeting of the Yardmaslers' Mutual Benefit
Association.
The Lafayette Daily Courier says the freight
pool at that point must go. Possibly the man
agements of the four railroads which compose
the pool will have something to say In the mat
ter
The excursion yesterday to Dayton, o., via
the Indiana, Bloomington & Western, middle
division, was a grand success, the train gather
ing up between indianapolis and Aroauum over
400 passengers.
The Cincinnati Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chi
cago Company Is relaying the track of its
Harrison branch with the 56-pounds to the yard
steel rails which were taken up the main
line to give place to 67-peunds to the yard steel.
The citizens of Logansport are boasting loudly
that the reorganization of the Chicago st.
Louis &c Pittsburg locates them on genuine
through line to the seabOard. They now have
through Pullman coaches to New York, ana
through day coaches without change 10 Pitts
burg.
An Indianapolis ticket-scalper, or "broker,"
as they now wish to be called, claims to be SELL
ing more tickets reading over the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & Day ton lines than are sold az the
local office of the Cincinnati, Hamilton IL Indi=
annapolis lines. Where he gets the tickets is
shrOuded in mystery.
An arrangement has been made by the Con
notion Valley and Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st.
Louis Companies for transferring passen gers
and freight at Coshocton. This will give direct
route to Cleveland for passengers and freight
from all points on the Panhandle and Mus
kiugum Valley railroads.
Charles Greenleaf Of this city, has received
an order from the Boston q Albany Railroad
Company for a Greenleaf wroughtron turn-ta-
bic sixty feet in length, to be placed in that COM
pany's ronnd-house at Boston This is the same
size as those put in on the Atchison, Topeka &
Sante Fe road on which to turn CcnsOl engines
The citizens of Lafayette are waking up to
the fact that road east on the old canal bank,
connecting them by rail with Peru and Legaus-
port direct, would be a good thing and parties
who have been throwing cold water on the ep-
terprise are now its most earnest friends. A
Logansport connection would be made with the
Pennsylvania lines, which are very obllging to
roads which are their feeders.
An impression is abroad that ill feeling exists
between the railroad companies and the whole
sale men OF Indianapolis, result of the agi-
tatiOn of the holding of the city freight depots
open until p. NJ. to receive freights. Such is
not the case, stated in the Journal few days
since. The business men modestly ask that such
an arrangement be made, and viii be disap-
pointed if the request is not granted.
The Union Depot is now one of tho most
clearly institutions in the city. Under recent
orders from President McCrea, OF the Union
Railway Company, the depot is swept clean
three times day and all grease along side the
tracks which drops from engines they pass
through is scraped up. The old chesgs and boxes
in the interior of the depot have been moved
out and really the interior of the old structure
looks quite respectable.
1t is stated that Vice President Hoxie is
about to issue very strict rules as regards the
hours clerks shall be at their Offices In fact al
ready all order has been given on the Missouri
Pacific divisions that hencefOrth the doors will
be closed on all clerks at $50 A. NJ, aud such az
have not arrived will be locked out. Those at
work will be locked in until 1890, when the
doors will be thrown open until 1870 At 1870
the doors are to be looked again and not opened
Until $50 This Is all very we'll, nut how is it
about over-time2 Does President Hoxie propose
to LAY the boys when they work several hours
longer than the prescribed timel