The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-01
Local Notes.

Traffic with the Chicago & Indianapolis Air
Line is looming up. Yesterday morning on the
train north twenty three loaded cars were
hauled.
The chief of the Union Railway Detective As
sOcistion has discharged J. Pope and Fl. Case
under circumstances which should be fully in
Vestigated by the managers of the Union Rail-
way Company.
The Cincinnati, Wabash g. Michigan is receiv-
ing from the PeninsuAr Car-wOrks 200 box cars
specially adapted to the lumber service between
the Michigan pineries and indianapolis ana
Cincinnati These cars are thirty-fOur feet long,
are very high and roOmy, and have carrying
capacity of 10000 pounds.
President Ingalls,, of the Kentucky Central
road, within the last few months has placed on
the road ak frst-class Baldwin passenger en-
gines which are making a fine record for speed
and for making steam. Engine No. > last week
hauled five cars seventy-three miles and con
sumed hut one ton of coal. new pattern OF
smoke-stack ia In service on these engines which
is said to work a large sayingln the consumption
of fuel.
The vaudalia people charge that Assistant
General Freight Agent Gays, OF the Indanapo-
lis & st. Louis, last week gave a Is cents per
100 pounds grain from Terre Haute
to Pittsbnrg, IL being twO-cent cut. The gen
eraI freight agent of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne
& Chicago road which carries the property from
Crestline 70 Pittshurg, was informed about the
matter, and comforts General Freight Agent
Hibbard by telesraphing that the p, FIT. W. d. G.
Will demand their fun proportion of the rate.
The Atlantic & Mississippi Railway Company
filed articles Of incorporation with the secretarv
Of State yesterday. The proposed line of tho
road will extend from Union township in Ad-
ans county, to Eugene township, IN VermilliOn
county, passing through the counties OF Adams,
Wells, Huntington, Grant, Howard, Upton, Clin-
ton, Boone. Montgomery, Fountain and Vermil-
lion. II is provided in the articles that the road
shall run by way OF Tnorn5own. The distance
from the TN to the western terminus is l 80
mies. The capital stock is 100000, of which
$I1 $50 Ia subscribed by citizens along the pro-
pOsed route The directors are John Higgins
Tohn M ROV1. Peter A Huffman. Richard Nam
time, John G. Farber, George M. Wild and Sam-
uel Harding
One of the Chicago, ST. Lous & Pittsburg
officials, In conversation regarding the recent
wholesale discharge of passenger conductors,
remarked that il was unjust 70 the conductors
to characterize them as all dishonest because dis
charged, = such was not the case the'faot WAS
some were discharged because incapable to fill
the postiOu-dnc, for instance, seldom filed ouU
his report correct while all his money would he
there another was impOlite and cross to nassen-
gers: another always dressed slOvenlv; another
was forever flirting with the girls The railroad
reporter of the journal tlien remarked that iJ
might be well to inform such conductors why
they were discharged, as spoilers had been
working on the road. There was a wholesale dis
charge OF conductors following their operation,
and the imputaTinn, at least, is that they were
dishonest. conductor would much rather rest
under the charge that he was discharged for
flirting with a girl than that he WAS Il thief.
The president of one of rhe best managed Rys-
tens of roads running lntOlndianapOliS remarked
Saturday last to the railroad reporter of the
Journal that the time was rapidly approaching
when man would be employed in railroad ser
vice on n tirst-claEs road who drink whisky or
gamble. He for year past had made 1t a rule
TO discharge any man in their service VINO he
heard had been on spree, az 1t is termed, and
he now proposed to draw the lines tighter even
IN this rtspeci. He added that he noticed some of
the Western papers are questioning the rights of
employers to interfere with the private affairs of
those who serve them. AS far AZ these private
habits affect the business interests of the en-
plOyer he would certainly seem to have that
right. No railroad corporation would feel safe
TO trust important matters to men who drink
and gamble. Such men are not competent to
attend to their own affairs and cannot expect the
confidence of employers or Of the general pub
Ito.