The Indianapolis journal., 1883-10-31

The Indianapolis & st. Louis road will run an
excursion to Kansas aud Nebraska tomorrow at
very low rates.
Passenger conductors on the Indianapolis &
St. Louis road paid on the mileage basis, and
on the through runs earn from $118 to S13O per
month.
1t is officially stated that the passenger earn
ngs of the c., l., ST. l.. & C. for October will ex-
eeed those of the corresponding month, 1882,
$1,000 or more.
A passenger man, who well understands the
amount of business the scalpers are doing at this
point, states that one of them has managed to
make 800 per month profits on sales of tickets
thus far this year.
The officials of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg have postponed for a few days the in
spection of the indianapolis division. bad
weather and the fact that their new rules and
change in the programme.
Passenger conductors, brakemen and agents
on the Chicago st. Louis & Pittsburg road are
instructed to see that at all stations n passenger
has ticket before taking passage their
trains. and conductors go SO far as to even hold
a train at station that dilatory passenger
may purchase Ticket
d. J. Mackev, general manager of the Evans
vile q Terre Haute road, has dropped his hobby
of cutting down operating expenses to the low
est minimum, it is stated, at the expense of the
road-bed ana equipments and has now put on a
strong force of section men and increased the
force IN the shops, and is putting the road bed
]. Fl. Devereux, of the Bee-line system is re-
ported by prominent Eastern railroad man as
urging the Vanderbits to gather under their CON
trol The Peoria, Decatur d Evansville road and
make it feeder both from the north and the
south to the Indianapolis q st. Louis road. He
is said tO think this would be more valuable
acquisition to the l. & ST. L than would the Tl-
noiS Midland be, so important a point is Evans.
Vile
The local passenger men are considerably rat.
tied over the movement to shut up the ticket
1t- Arrrft
Union railway Office the tickets OF any road
which deals with the scalpers. 1t is a more Sc
rious matter TO the local passenger men than
may be supposed, through the scalpers sew
eral of them have been enabled to show that
they were doing large business at Indiana pO-
lis, and then, indirectly it will be stab at the
commission of several OF the passenger men.
The special train carrying President ingalls,
and the stockholders OF the c., L. ST. L. & c.,
made the run from Cincinnati TO indianapolis
in two hours and fifty five minutes, deducting
twenty minutes lost by the delay in running
over the OHIO Mississippi tracks from North
Bend to Lawrenceburg. Several of the stock
holders expressed themselves being highly
pleased with the smOOthness and sOdtv of
the track. The seventy miles from Sunman to
Indianapolis was run in elghty-tive minutes.
The special train over the c., l., ST. /. & c.
yesterday was made up of new cars. Among the
number one of the elegant coaches Just re-
ceived from the Barney & Smith car works These
coaches are sixty feet long, have a smoking room
at each end of the coach, a gentlemens and
ladies' saloon, wash-rOom and all other mod
ern improvements; are finished with light
woods. have large windows and are cheerful,
light and elegant in every respect.
That grain rates will advance on Nov. is no
longer probable. The open fall is enabling the
lake craft to continue TO carry grain, and
long as the present conditions exist no advance
will be likely to occur. But the belief is general
with freight men that with the coming of win
terlike weather advance of five cents per
90 pounds Will be ordered from ChIca go to New
York, with the usual prOportiOnate advance
from indianapolis and other points. The Opin-
mi q fhoF nah lin In
forwarded on an advanced rate AS at the present
rate.