The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-03

Local Notes.
The Vandalla people will next week open to
the public a new depot at Logansport. The
building is said to be a very neat and convenient
structure.
The Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland Rail-
road Company has declared dividend of per
cent. on the preferred stock. The road Is leased
to the l., B. Nv.
The COnsol engines on the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton are making big record in pulling
heavy trains. Two or three times of late they
have hauled ninety-two to ninety five cars from
Hamilton to Dayton. where there is a light up
grade.
The draymen who are not in the transfer COM
pany "ring" are complaining loudly that at Ger
tain depots the freight of these transfer COM
pan1es is received up to P. NJ, and even later,
while they (the outside draymen) are shut out
after o'clock.
The new rules are in force on the roads owned
and controlled by the Pennsylvania company
west of Plttsburg The locomotives, even TO
switching engines, carry flags, and they are used
on the rear end of trains, and while new will at
tract attention.
cago company yesterday got tile trestle at White
water, washed out last Sunday night, in posi-
tiou again, and, last night, trains to
Cincinnati. The new bridge, 300 feet or more
in length, will be put in position within two
weeks
NJ Mounts, master of transportation of the c.,
IL. u l. division of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton system, has fitted up rooms for himself
and tram dispatcher in the second story OF the
e., H. ~ L. freight depot. This division, far
as the moving OF trains Is concerned, is operated
as independent OF the c., Fl. & d. main line.
The Indianapolis car-works yesterday deiv
cred to the Great Western Dispatch tOrty-tve-
new cars, completing the contract for 400 cars.
They will at once commence building $50 more
of the same pattern under a second contract.
Railroad men pronounce them the best box
in every respect that have ever beer built in
this country for any road or fast-frelght line.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western people
are making extensive improvements at their
city freight depot Fifty or more carloads of
powders are being shipped in there, and the
grounds about the depot are to be bOwldered;
also between the tracks where teams load and
unload freights Additional tracks to hold
some seventy cars have been laid which are
easily accessible to teams hauling freights to be
shipped or delivered in the city.
The Vandaia company has large force of
men engaged in remOdeling the yards this side
of White river, and when the system of tracks
is complete there will be room for 240 more cars
On this side OF the river new tracks are being
laid where the elevated tracks stood, and west
of the Belt road the Vandalia is putting in addi-
tiOnal side-tracks which will hold 800 or more
cars. The latter will be part of the new yards
the company proposes to establish on the west
SIDE
pany has. been considering the matter of an
pointing an agent mere and paying a respecta-
BILE salary for looking after their business,
but nothing is yet done, and business men in
this city and the travelling public have become
heartily disguised with this "p. g." method of
doing business With twenty-six sleeping
coaches running in and out of indianapolis, it
would seem necessary that the Pullman COM
pany should have wel-paid representative here
and an office which would be creditable to such
an institution as the Pullman Car Company
Paymasters report that iT is more trouble to
them to pay boarding-hOuse keepers than the
whole payroll of employees, ana the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago people, to relieve their
paymasters OF the annoyance. have issued the
following notice to all boarding house keepers
si " all nj N fa Of arol Il
visions: "This is TO notify all boarding house
KEEPERS that from and after Wednesday, Oct. 81,
8S3, no bOard-biils of any kind will be stopped
out of the pay of any employ of the transporta-
tion department, and boarding house keepers
will have to look out for their own protection
Board-bills up to Oct 81 will be protected as
usual. But after that date they will not he hon
Ored even II they should be signed by the en-
ploye himself"
A South Merdan-street merchant complains
that he has, in the last day or two, made a num-
bdr of shipments the Indianapolis & St.
Louis road and he does not notice that the tariff
spoken of to take effect Nov. L, in the least ben
Gifted their house. II SAID merchant will make
a shipment of glass to Nation, ILL.,, he will find
the rate is now but twenty-five cents per 100
pounds The old rate was forty-six cents An
agent of the /. IL st. l.. says this is of
number of reductions in rates. which are made
through change in classification AS there
seems to be but three of these new tariff sheets
issued-one for st. Louis, one for Indianapolis,
and third for Cieveland-the railroad reporter
of the Journal Is unable TO name any articles
but glass and wrapping paper which are carried
at a lower rate under the new tariff
L. D. Richardson, general manager of the
Chicago and Ohio river pool, yesterday leased
rooms In the Vance block for offices. This pool
is not of the same character as the old Indian
apolis east-bound freight pool, hence hIr. Rich
ardson has nothing to do directly with the pub
lie. His work is to keep ton
mage statistics, number OF passengers
carried by such road, see that proper division of
business is made. that rates are maintained
and penalties enforced where a passenger or
freight agent cuts a rate. The latterhe will give
his personal attention to- and Ill his efforts to
strictly maintain rates he is upheld by
President ingalls,, of the c., l.. St. l.. & c.;
E. B. Stahlman, viee-presldent and traffic man
ager of the L., N. A. q G.; G. e. Henderson,
general manager of the T., b. & W.; G. G. Waite
vice-president and general manager of the c.,
FL. q D., and j. N. Mccullough, vice-presdent of
the Pennsylvania lines, and with such men to
back him, Mr.. Richard on says the agent who
cuts a rate may he sure of losing his job While
he Is general manager he says he proposes
THAT the pooling arran cement shall he lived up
to by all roads which are members of the pool.
The COuufarfeiTars