The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-17
Local Notes.

The Cincinnati Southern will need look to its
Iaurels in this section. The Louisville g. Nash
vile is working here vigorously through the
scaipers, who are cutting the rate to Southern
points 50 or more.
The fastest time made on any portion Of the
Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road is made on
the Galesburg and Peoria division. express trains
of which run in connection with the Indiana
Bloomington Western.
A. J. Smith, general passenger agent of the
Bee Line system has just issued the March num-
Der Of the Bee Line Gazette. Besides giving
valuable information as regards their lines and
connections, there is much other interesting
reading matter.
Barney & Smith Manufacturing Company, of
Dayton, have contracted to deliver about May 1
ten new first-class coaches to the Bee Line COM
pnnY. They are constructed on the same plan as
the new cars now being run on the Cincinnati &
Columbus division.
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati & st. Louis, the In
diana, Bloomington q Western, the Cincinnati,
Indianapolis, st. Louis Il Chicago have each put
sale at the Union Railway Ticket Office new
forms of tickets covering many new points on
the extension of western and northwestern
lines.
The Cleveland shops of the Bee Line will
in short time turn out three new sleepers, built
entirely after the Pullman pattern, and which
ara models OF convenience elegance and beauty.
Before July 1 these shops expect to send out
three more sleepers OF the same pattern, which
will make a total of eight for the year.
1t is said on good authority that while Van
Gerbit or the Bee Line people have secured con-
tFol of the Indianapolis & st. Louis and the
1erre Haute Alton & St Louis by lease, and win
operate the C., C., G, Il l., l. & st. l.. and st. L.,
a. & T. H. as one line, the day is far distant
when the three viii be consolidated as one road
Vanderbilt having Ibeen defeated at every point
looking to such result.
We're the Pullman Car Company a poverty
struck corporation there would be some excuse
for their not employing agent at this point
There is not day thai the interests of the com
do gIiffer niuel thap wnuId he the
additional cost of establishing agency here
The blunders of the lads who sell their tickets
here cost the company monthly nearly as much
as they would pay an agent The reputation of
the company. as well, suffers.
Paymaster Shepherd, of the Wabash system, is
billed to pay off on the Detroit & indianapolis
division to-day Monday next for January
service. The slow movement of the paymaster
ana the reports OF the largely increased earn
4he newspapers, don't read we'll together. ON
yell-managed roads it is thought TO be as neces-
sary to pay employees promptly as it is to pay
interest on the bonds OF the road.
Some idea of the handsome passenger business
the Indiana, bloomington e. Western is doing,
more especially over the Peoria division, may
that on Monday last on this division 53l passen-
gers were handled the mail train going
west. In the first fifteen days of this month
the Chicago, Burlin Ct on a. Quincy road delivered
TO the l., B. & W. an average of sixty-two pas
sengers, while the l., B. & W. on their part de-
hvered an average OF seventy passengers per
day.
Grand Chief Engineer Macarthur, of the LOCO
motive Brotherhood, gives the following as the
basis of settlement between the management
and engineers of the Wabash system On each
division the following pay has been established:
Freight conductors first year, 3l9 cents per mile;
1econd year, cents per mile; passenger con-
1nctors, 319 celtS per mile; engineers on ten
wheel engines, $40 cents per mile engineers
on way freight trains, cents per mile: construc-
uon-train engineers, $3.50 per day of twelve
hours; 35 cents per hour for overtime; for delay
On road, 80 cents per hour.