The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-30
Local Notes.

The earnings of the Chicago, st. Louis e.
Pittsburg for May were $4,000 ahead of the
same month last year.
Since January 1. 273 car loads OF live poultry
have been shipped East from this point over tho
Bee Line, an average of over 1000 ooOps per
month.
jackson g. Holmes, the contractors who are to
build the Belt road extension, will begin the
work in earnest on Monday. They have about
100 men and forty teams engaged for the work.
1t would seem that the management of the
Lackawanna fast-freight line have abandoned
the field. They advertise the room, which they
had leased for an office for two years, to be tor
rent,
st. l.. d c., between Cincinnati aud Davenport,
la, are literally patronized between Indianapo-
lis and Cincinnati, as they are hauled on the day
trains, ana furnish pleasant accommodations for
the trip at small cost.
The middle division of the Indiana, Blooming
ton Il Western road is rapidly becoming smooth
and solid, and some fast running is done fire.
quently over it. On Wednesday a beated ex-
press train ran from New Castle to the Indi-
annapolis city limits in tity-One minutes, making
two stops; distance, fOrty-three miles.
The Grant Locomotive. works in Paterson, N.
j., are now filling the order for forty cOnsoli-
dated engines for the Pennsylvania railroad, and
fifteen have been delivered. Twenty OF these
engines are to he put IN service the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati & st. Louis line and the same
number on the Chicago, st. Louis e. Pittsburg
divisions.
To-day is the last day Tor receiving bids Tor
the erection of the new shops OF the Chicago, St.
Louis & Plttsburg road in the eastern part OF
the city. A haif-d0zen indianapolis men have
put in bids, and several Columbus. o., parties.
The Pennsylvania Company will this year ex-
pend some SS0o,0 600 west of Pittsburg in the
way of improving old and erecting new shODs.
The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington &,
Western for the week ending June % were
1855 OF, an increase of $7,S6048 over CORE
spending week OF 1882. the OHIO Southern di-
vision is not included in this statement. The Eve
DIVISIONS all show increase passenger
earnings for this week, the increase on the mid
die and Peoria divisions being the most marked.
The announcement in Wednesdays Journal
that the indianapolis d sullivan coal road, now
the st. Louis, Indianapolis & Eastern, would be
built, has created new enthusiasm all along the
line. The directors are receiving letters from
towns on the proposed line, urging that they COM
mence the work as early as possible and push it
with vigOr, and financial aid Is promised if
needed to encourage the enterprise.
superintendent Macleod. of the L., N A. & c.,
says the company is getting well over the no.
ti0n of leasing depot privileges of the Union Bail
way Company: They are getting along nicely
rangements with Frank Bird TO convey the
mails between the pOstoffice and their depot, and
to have hacks there to carry passengers, who
may need their services, to any part OF the city
or to the Union depot.
John Egan, general passenger agent of the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago
after July l, as heretofore. Ford. of the Penn
sylvanta lines, instructs his agents to restore
rates and strictly adhere to them on and after
July l. Bronson, of the l., B. & W, words his
circular in much the same manner, while Smith,
OF the Lake Erie & Western, says we will give
competitors another chance.
Some two years ago M. E. ingalls, remarked to
the railroad reporter OF the journal that il built
the Indianapolis & Evansville straight lire
would be Indianapolis most valuable road
That remark was quoted in she Journal, and at
that time had the business men of indianapolis
taken any interest in the enterprise the road
which now goes to Chicago would have been
built, and its trains would have been running
into indianapolis before this time.
John Witty, roadmaster of the Indiana polls
Belt road. has been awarded the first premium
on his switch stand, which on exhibition
at the Chicago Railway Exposition. This is
highly complimentary to Mr.. Witty's invention
as there were sixteen other switch stands of
different pattern exhibited. The points on
which the premium was awarded was the firm
ness with which the stand holds the mOveable
tracks, the ease with which lis operated. and its
reliability, as In % case does the stand settle into
its proper position until the track placed in
its proper position, and lastly, the small cost of
construction of the switch stand.