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


1t is settled that the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago car shops will go to Monon, which is the
best point to locate them.
Col Horace Scott was in the city or yesterday.
He states that regular trains will not be put on
the Greensburg, Hope & Columbus road before
Christmas.
Ticket agents at the Union railway Office re-
port their receipts. thus far this month, the
highest of any corresponding number OF days
for many years.
Minshan is the name Of station just opened
for business on the T. II. L. division of the Van
dalia. There is a large mining interest growing
up at this point.
The directors of the Belt road held a special
meeting yesterday and arranged to raise tn q
funds with which to pay the Belt road extension
contractors, and then adjourned.
The Indianapolis Rolling-mil Company yester-
day shipped Greeneaf turn-table, ffty-fve
feet in length, to the Michigan Central road, to
be put in service at Niagara Falls, Canada side.
- The usually promptpaying Union Railway
Company has not yet paid its employees for No
vember services and the latter inquisitive
TO learn the cause of the neutrality-suspicious.
delay in the matter.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton company
mas mad the pleasure of paying penalty of $3.50
Tor violation of the Chicago and Ohio river pool
ing agreement. IL is claimed that the violation
was mistake on the part of the agent.
The division civil engineers Of the Vandalia
mouth TO South Bend. The track-layers on the ex-
tension will to-day reach Plymouth. and it will
take couple of weeks of good weather for the
construction men to surface up the track
Manager Mackey, of the Evansville G. Terre
Haute road, finds that his passenger engines
cannot make the time when burning slack coal,
and has returned to burning nut block coal,
much to the qualification of the Vandalia people,
who were so often obliged to wait the Evans
vile q Terre Haute connection at Terre Haute.
=. The passenger men have made the limit on
tickets between st. Louis and Louisville over the
Vandalia and the J., NJ. & l., and the L & st l..
and the j., NJ. & l., too short If either road
misses Its j., M. & L. connection, and parties are
delayed at indianapolis one train, conductors on
the j., M. d L. will not honor the tickets and en-
forces payment of fare. A half-dOzen such
cases have occurred within the past few days,
The twenty-four consol engines which have
now been in service some two years on the In
diana, Bloomington a. Western road are giving
general satisfaction. The engineers have now
become used to handling them; there is less
breaking of draw-bars, couplings etc, and in
the cost for repairs and in the consumption of
fuel their record is a very favorable one, giving
for freight service.
In the month of November the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis st. Louis d Chicago road handled
loaded cars OF 134 foreign roads and fastfreight
lines. Among the number were cars of the
Northern Pacific, the Savannah, Florada &
Western, the Galveston & San Antonio, the Cen
trail Pacific, the Portland & Ogdensburg, and the
New Orleans Pacific, which is a striking illus
tFatlon OF the circumstances of the railway sys-
tenn oil this country. a
The general freight agents of all roads center
ing here will meet to-day at the Denison House
Tor the purpose of revising the joint tariff There
is little need. however, of doing this, as seldom
is the tariff referred to by agents. If it is it is
not adhered to- so far as to the rates given.
Where the road asked for a rate knows that if
1t live NJ to it their competitor will get the
business, 1t has come to be understood that It,
regardless OF tariff, can give ratewhlch will Sc
cure the business.
H. j. Jewett, president OF the Erie system,
has great regard for the lives of his train men,
and favors any coupler or other device which
win make it less hazardous for trair men to do
their work. An instance of his desire in this
matter is cited where he has ordered that the
stirrups. ladders, handles, ETC., which the brake
men use to mount the top of the cara be placed
on the outside instead of between the cars. as
in case an iron broke and a brakeman lost his
hold he would fall away from the train instead of
under it. The new box cars now building at the
indianapolis Car Works for the Erie lines are,
out of regarn to his wishes, so constructed.