The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-08
Local Notes.

There are in the track of the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis road, Edgar Thomson steel rails
which were laid in $40. and are still good rails.
E. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
line system. said in conversation on Tuesday
that the Bee-line has, since January 1. strictly
maintained east-bOund rates. and that so dong
Mad cost the C., g, c. Il |. road 100000.
The travelling public would highly appreciate
u were the Vandafia TO haul n chair-car the
cyclone express between st. Louis and Indian
apohs, and run it In the opposite direction on
the DAY train, leaving Indianapolis at 1880 A. NJ
Paymaster Allen, of the T., B. & W. SYSTEM
pays at the Indianapolis shops to-day; on the st.
Louis division on Friday, the Peoria division on
saturday, the middle division on Monday next,
ONO division on Tuesday. and Ohio Southern
road on Wednesday.
The slOwness with which construction work
proceeds on the Belt-road extension is a matter
or comment IL was TO have been completed
September I, and ia now far from being COM
piefed, and what is worse, the civil engineer in
charge of the work doesn't know whether it will
be CONNECTED this year or next. Every heavy
dew, 1t is said. scares the construction company
from the work.
Two elegant passenger coaches. numbered So
ana 3D. have been turned out of the Vandalia
shops at Terre Haute, this week, which are in
every respect number one. All modern i'm
Drovements have been used IN their cOnstruc-
ton The most noticeable feature Ia new pat
tern seats, higher than ordinary seats, and really
more comfortable TO sit in than the ordinary pas
senger-cOach chairs.
day that there was 90 be important changes in
the Union railway ticket-offices is not confirmed
by General Manager Malott, of the Union Rail-
way Company. Mr.. MaloJJ states that no i'm
mediate changes are contemplated. There
seems to be a disposition 10 let matters drift
along as now until the new Union depot is com
pieted, then necessarily there Will be a reorgan-
ization of each department and an increase Of
force.
d. Fl. Lentz, inventor of the Lentz hooking
muchine, which is much of q success, states
al at ed
in Tuesdays Journai; that So, 800 Will build the
machine complete. The other new devise of this
character then mentioned is still in unfinished
stage, and should IL perform the work of passing
the bloom to the rolls and receive the rails not
until a test Is made, and the improvements
which will be needed are known, is ii safe to say
what the actual cost will be.
A Boston paper sneeringy says indianapolis
has a railroad on which a train which runs TWEEN
ty-eight miles per hour is known as the Cyclone
express" II the young man who wrote the
item will come West, any day he can ride on
that train out OF st. Louis the first sixty miles
in eighty -four minutes and the last thirty -eIgh
miles, from Greencastle to Indianapolis is re GU
larly run in forty-six minutes and often the
thirty-eight miles is run in forty-twO minutes
On the middle division of the road the train
does local work.
MOnOn people are more sanguine now than
ever that they are to secure the new shops of
the Louisville, New Albany e. Chicago and
Chicago Indianapolis Airline, the city
council of Lafayette having voted back to the
taxpayers OF the city the $21,500 collected by
New Albany & Chicago railroad IN consideration
of the latter locating its PRINCIPAL machine
shops in that city. In October, 1882, the council
accepted the offer of the road, agreeing to
donate $4,000 for the shops.
The Bee-line people are considering favorahly
the opening of JOINT passenger and freight
Office on Washin Gton street, of the same charac-
ter az the one recently opened by the Pennsyi-
wanna lines, making Albert S. White the general
agent of both branches OF service, and giving him
a wlde-awake passenger an assistant.
The Bee-line management admit that they have
been giving competitors loose rope at this
point, and have allowed them, by rate cutting,
to get the lions share of the PASSENGER business
and they now propose to arrange to take a hand.
The ''Y" connecting the Belt road with the
Eastern division of the l., B. & W. will
be completed tomorrow, and Snperin-
tendent Whitcomb, OF the Belt road, hopes
to get the long through trains of the l., B. e. W.
Oft of the Union tracks onto the Belt road next
week. 1t will be better for the L B. d w. to use
the Belt road, as their trains now an hour
often getting through the city over the Union
tracks, not only bOckadIng passenger trains
hut the street crossings. The G., H. & L should,
as well, be crowded onto the BoiJ road with
their long transfer trains.