The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-05
Local Notes.

The indianapolis g. st. Louis company is this
week receiving 1000 tons of steel rails from the
Cleveland mills, the last installment of 10000
ton contract.
The Union Railway Company Yesterday re-
ceved thirteen Car loads of steel rails from the
Edgar Thompson steel mill, Weighing sixty
pounds to the yard.
The receipts from the sales of tickets in Sep
TENDER at the Union Depot were S124,7S2 The
uptown offices, aside from this sum, sold nearly
700 worth OF tickets.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago rail-
way has ordered number of passenger
coaches and parlor cars for use on their Chicago
& indianapolis Airline division,
The st. Louis express over the Vandalia, which
leaves at noon, is now run III two sections and
a consequence, the trains seldom fail to make
connections for the West at ST. Louis.
The officials of the G., H. & D., and the L., N.
A. & c., meet next week to arrange for putting
on through coaches between Cincinnati and
Chicago over the c., Fl. g. l., and the c. & l.,
Airline.
The running time of the express trains over
the c.. l., St. L. & c. is to he heightened on Sun
day next between Cincinnati and Kankakee,
twenty minutes. On that date the winter time
table takes effect.
A fair harvest. bringing large traffic to the
railroads. has probably averted the most disas-
trOus rate this country saw. Even
now, with more or less business for all, the con-
troversy breaks out somewhere every week.
superintendent Sala. OF the chicago ~ Indian
apOlis Airline, gives notice that hereafter no
passengers will be allowed TO ride on freight
trains the road is now fully opened for bust
ness and has three regular passenger trains each
way daily over the road.
Geo. H. Daniels. commissioner of the Colora-
do Pool Association notifies agents in this sec
tion by circular that dating from October L, and
until further notice, the first-elass rate from
Missouri river points to San Francisco, Cal,
and Portland. Ore, will be $95.
President Ingalls,, of the Cincinnati, Indian
apolTs st. Louis & Chicago road, states that
nothing will be done toward The erection of their
new shops in the eastern part of the city this
| fall, but everything Will be got in readiness to
make an early beginning in the spring.
Train No. IL, east ont of here over the Bee
line, makes the run to Boston in thirty-twO hours
and twenty minutes. The corresponding train
coming west makes the run from Boston to Ind-
| annapolis in thirty-one hours and tifty-tive min
ues. These the fastest trains run in this
country, and the fastest run for SO great q dis
lance,
at Viucennes. In the former attempt to do
| the Wabash demanded per cent. in the pool
that the f. & T. H., the |. e. V. and the o. 81
NJ. people thought TO be hardly fair the
Wabash people obliged to haul their freight
a considerable distance west over the Cairo 81
Vincennes road before 1t begins to move east
ward.
The earnings of the Cincinnati, indianapolis,
| ST. Louis Il Chicago road for September were
S247,82o, decrease of 81 1877. 1t should be
borne in mnd, however, THAI the earnings of the
'sBig Four" in September, 1882, were the largest
of any month in the history of the road. The
decrease in earnings this year was 50, $50 In the
passenger revenue, and $l3,297 in freight rev.
! euue.
Western agents of the Erie lines have been no.
titled that Reyn oldsvle, N. Y, on the New York
| Il New England railroad, is opened as a freight
| statiOn at Boston rates and divisions The fol
! lowing stations on the Milford, Franklin IL PrOvi-
drnce railroad will be opened for East and West
| bound business via Newburg, at Boston rates
and divisions Milford, Mass, HopkntOn, Mass,
| and Ashland Mass.
I The Indianapolis Rolling mill Company yester-
| day began the manufacture of both the wrought
| and cast-iron GreeDleaf turntables. The rolling
! mill company now has orders on their books for
! fttv-tve-foot wrought-iron turn able to go TO
| Dayton on the c., II. & d. road, a sixty foot
! turntable for the B. & 0. to go to Baltimore. and
one of the same length for the Chicago 81 AT
lautic The Canada Southern and the Nashville,
! Chattanooga g. ST. Louis have each ordered
| fifty foot turntables.