The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-23

The uptown union ticket Office was opened
December L. and the sales of the third week in
May ahead of those in any week since the
Office was opened
A Rec Line official, who purchased the stock
at 90. tells the reporter OF the Cleveland Herald
he expects to see it touch par inside of a year,
and pay per cent. In the bargain.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western COM
paDy Is receiving from the Peninsuar Car
WORKS couple of hundred cars of superior build
These cars are thirty.f feet long and are sub
stantially built in every respect
On the tines controlled by the Peunsyj-
vania company the average receipts for carrying
alton of freight one mile was seven mills less in
1882 than In 18Sl-less than three-quarters of a
cent-while the cost was reduced to about one
half cent.
The three construction trains now in service on
the eastern division of the Cincinnati Indianap-
oils, st. Louis & Chicago road, Monday next will
be transferred to the western division, where
extensive improvements in the way of crawling
is to be made.
The Chicago, Columbus & Indiana Central
now the Chicago, st. Louis Il Pittsburg road, in
the year 1882 carried lis, sic passengers an
increase OF 20S,S22 over the nnmoer carried in
1881. This road carried in 1882 3.00l ,619 tons
OF freight, an iuoFeaee OF 81 470 tons over 1881.
The Indianapolis. Eel River & Southwestern
Railroad Company have leased several rooms in
the Cleveland block on Kentucky avenue for
Offices. The chief engineer says that unless
something unforeseen up to battle their
purposes they will be throwing dirt within
the coal on their line upon this market.
The question is asked: Should an accident oc-
cur to a train run by one OF these second-class
engineers, and a life lost or property destroyed,
aud the matter should go to the courts, and were
Information given that the engineer held only
second class certificate, should not the damages
be made heavier or the penalty greater than
were the train run by "A ffrst-class engineerf
1t is intimated that the talk that the Wabash
people would aid In the building OF the Indianap-
oils Eel River South western road, is advanced
by them to Influence the Pennsylvania people to
aell the Indianapolis Il Vinoennes road to the
Wabash syndicate or lease 1t to them, that they
may thus be enabled to connect the Cairo & Vim
cennes division with the Detroit & Indianapolis
division of the Wabash system.
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati d st. Louis road, in
the year 1852 was operated on 81 lT-I0O per
cent. of the gross earnings. The CHARTERS divis-
ion Of the system controlled by this company on
90 32-l00 per cent; the Pittsburg II Wheeling
division on 90 96-100 per cent: the Cincinnati
& Muskingum Valley on 10 6-10O per cent; the
Little Miami on SO 7S 100 per cent? the Column
bus, Chicago Indiana Central on SO 27-100 per
mile
+. Harrington, the fireman who was scaded
in the wreck at Litchfeld, H., on the Indanap-
oils & st. Louis road, on Friday night last,
caused by a bridge being blown from its posi-
tion, and who died on Sunday night, was buried
at Crown Hill yesterday. The Indianapolis
division OF the brotherhood of Firemen attended
the funeral in body. The deceased was an act
i've member OF the brotherhood, and had done
much 10 make the organization the grand sue
cess which IL Ia,