The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-05-12

Fully % per cent. OF the cars now moving over
the through lines are empty.
Paymaster Irwin. of the JeftersonvI VILE, Mad
ison & Indianapolis road, yesterday paid on the
main line for April service.
One of the objections made by master meehan-
les to "ConsoI' engines is that they are such
ponderous fellows. In ordinary shops they have
not the facilities TO repair thein.
For a road partially opened for business, the
Chicago & indianapolis Airline certainly is do
ing finely. On Thursday afternoon TWO freight
trains, hauling forty-three loaded cars, came in
from the north.
Engine No. $40 on tina Indianapolis division of
the Pennsylvanla lines. IN the month of March
ran 5,053 miles, aud No. 1914 ran 4. 800 mtles-the
largest mileage made by any engines on the sys-
TEN west of PIttsOurg.
Vice-president Mccullough. of the Pennsyl-
vhnia lines west of Plttsburg, tells Eastern pnr-
ties Interested in these roads that while the
wheat crop on the lines west of Pittsburg shows
n decrease OF 70 per cent, ther5 Ia Il large in
crease in all other products. and that the out
look is prosperous and the weather healthy aud
fine.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton company
have just completed and stocked up with chuica
flowers Il greenhouse at Hamilton, and employed
II florist to take care Of 1t. Manager Waite has
ordered that mt stations along the line little grnss
plots should be fenced off, and that they should
lie made attractive by flowers and plants TO be
distributed from this greenhouse.
President Jewett, OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton lines, will, on his return to New York,
insist that the c., II. & ID. shalt he allowed a
larger per cent. OF business under the trunk line
east-hOund pool out of Cincinnati. For eighteen
months past the c., II. & ID. hns been turning
over a large tonnage to other eastern lines out Of
Cincinnati, to bring up such lines deficit under
the pooling agreement.
Engineers on the Chicago, st. Louis & Pitts.
burg road are paid by thu day. ana on the tirsr
division the run from IndianapOlis to Bradford
Is II days work, for which passenger engineers
receive %3 %, and freight engineers, first class,
receive "a; second class, S3. 60; third class, 81 20.
Pony engineers receive 1925 per day. A first
class engineer must have run on the road three
years; second elass, two years; third class, one
year.
Car accountants Of Indianapolis lines yester-
day received n neat oircular-letter from the gen
stating that a special car would be attached to
their train which leaves Buffalo AT $40 A. NJ, on
the 21st, on which they could go through TO
Philadelphia. This will give the boys an oppor.
tunity 10 SEE the beautiful scenery along this
grand route. The Hotel LAFAYETTE is to lie the
headquarters OF the boys during their stay in
Philadelphia.
The quantity OF coal consumed per mile in
hauling trains over the PENNSYLVANIA lines west
of Plttsburg In the month OF March averaged ia
pounds as follows; Indianapolis & Vincenuea.
96-lO0; Ieiersnnpille, Madison e indianapolis,
564 100; second md fourth dtvisiOne, 65 I-lOO;
{. q NJ. v. division, 90 20-10O: frat, third mud
tifth divisions, rs 43-1OU; Plttsburg, Cincinnati
d ST. Louis division proper, 70 43-lO0. Average
quantity uf rOnl consumed IN pounds per car
per iuile hauled: Second and fourth divisions,
3 S-l0O; r., g. d St L. proper division, A l-100i