The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-09
Local Notes.

Last month eleven miles of new steel rails
were laid on the Indianapolis & St. Louis road,
making slxty-four miles of steel track laid this
season thus far.
The freight receipts of the vandalia at the Tr.
dianapolis station for September were S11O,-
7o3 50, against S97,1l6 SIS in September, 1882;
Increase this year $l3, 5S7.O7.
ROadmaster Henrv's report shows that there
apolis & 81. Louis read, 3.276 car loads Of
gravel and 2, 129 car loads of dirt.
The earnings OF the Indiana, Bloomington &
Sept. 80 We're $2,217, S97l6, an increase over
earnings corresponding month, 1882, of $780,
O45.20.
An engine on the Belt road has been eouipped
with the Wo0ley electric light, which will he
tested this evening The engine will ne run over
the Belt road, and also over the Union tracks
ana into tie depot.
Special coaches will pass through Indianapo-
lis today over the Vandalia and C., l., St. L. &
C., carrying delegates from ST. Louis and ChIca-
go to the annual meeting of the Conductors
Railway Association, which cOnveues in CInclu-
nati tomorrow.
FirSmen on the Decline and I. & St. L., are
on the whole sorry that the strikers in Clay
county Carbon mines have returned TO their
work, so much easier is it TO fire an engine with
the Jackson. Ohio coal they have been using
since the strike was on.
John Witty, roadmaster of the Belt road, has
made further improvements TO his patent
swltch-stHnd which makes it seemingly perfect,
s neither snow. Ice nor water can interfere with
Its operation. The Union Railway Company is
putting in several switch-sLa lands of the new pat
tern.
Florida tourists tickets have been ordered on
sale Oct. 10. The round-trip rate will be S44.65,
tickets good until June /, 1884. Parties who
are In the habit OF spending their winters in
Florida VIII notice that there Is an advance this
year in rates of $4.l5, the rate last year being
$4,000.
The New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio road is
blockaded again and Indianapolis roads have
been asked TO slow up again. While business in
this section has been going forward, over 900
loaded cars have accumulated the Chicago
q Atlantic road and the n. ", z. & o. is now
clearing that up.
Chief Engineer Jackson, in charge of con-
structicn work on the Belt road states that,
without doubt, the work will he so far COM
pletfd by Nov. l, that the Wabash and Chicago
IL Indianapolis Airline can transfer their
through business over the Belt road. IL will he
quite convenient for the Airline and c., H. 81 l.
In Transferring their cars, which now hauled
over city tracks.
1t is understood that tho Pennsylvania Com
pany will, on the completion OF their extensive
shops in the eastern part of the city, remove the
j., NJ. 81 l. shops AT Jetfersouvle TO this point
ana only small repair work, after the removal
Will be nOne at JetfrrsOnVille. This will be
rather rough on the employees at Jacksonville,
many OF whom have worked in these shops
thirty to tblrty-tve years, and own property in
that city.
The Cincinnati Indianapolis st. Louis g. Chi
cago road yesterday withdrew trains No. 2 and
3, which ran between Indianapolis and Cincin-
natl, leaving for the East at 4:30 A. NJ. and arTiv
ing here at 1910 p. NJ. The st. Louis coaches
M, and arriving at l l:45 p M. at indianapolis.
Travel during the fall ana winter months does
not Justify running these trains practically in
two sections.