The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

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Office at this point as soon as suitable room can
be secured.
The September humble of the Locomotive
Fireman's Magazine has been received and is, as
usual, interesting and readable.
Ed. Burbank, of the Louisville, Evansville &
St Louis (Air-line) general Offices, is to take the
agency Of the road at Evansville.
The Wabash road has issued a new tariff Of
freight rates etwee Des Moines and junction
stations on its line in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois.
A. E. Schrader, traffic manager of the Illinois
Midland road. is at Marquette, trying to freeze
out the hay fever. He expects to be absent un-
til Sept. 20.
The five Western roads last week brought into
this station Bill loaded cars against 4,l66 the
corresponding week 1883, and 1884 the CORE
spending week 1882.
William Baldwin, who takes the position of
general passenger agent of the L., N. A. Q.
road to-day, is editor of the well-known Bald
wins Railway Guide.
The Indianapolis & St Louis company last
Saturday received twenty-five carloads of steel
rails from Cleveland on the third thousand of a
contract to furnish G, 600 tons of steel rails.
The receipts from sales of tickets over the Air
line division of the L., N. A. q {. road at the
O0lOn halfway OFFICES ldbb mOHbu ran ONOI FOsOVV.
In lIarch they were less than $1,000. Major
Emmett is doing good work for this division.
Henry Lacey, for several years connected
with the passenger department of the L. u. q
w. railway, retires to-day to accept a more lu-
crative and responsible position with the Mlchl-
gan q Ohio railroad, with headquarters at To
ledo.
Some of the finest fat cattle which have been
shipped through Indianapolis for years are com
ing in over the Indianapolis & Vincennes road.
They came from the southern part of the State,
and are shipped to Eastern markets over the e.,
st. L. 8 P.
The property-holders who have been opposing
the Vandalia i'll gaining its entrance into South
Bend are said to have become ashamed of their
action, and intimate a willingness to do what is
right in the matter, and the Yandalia track will
soon be laid to that enterprising city.
The Decline last week forwarded east from
this point 919 loaded cars, the c., St. L. & p.
918, the l., B. & w. 400, the c., H. & ]. 352-
making a total of 1852 loaded cars forwarded,
against $3.50 forwarded in the week ending on
Aug. %. The Decline last week dropped behind
155 loaded cars, the c., St. L. & 7. % cars, the
l., B. & w. 81 cars. The c., H. & ]. made a
gain of eleven cars.
Freight men predict that the shipments of hay
to New York and New England from Indiana
and Illinois will be this year heavier than ever
before. Owing to extreme dry weather East
the hay crop has been a failure, while there is
/ pleQUV IN INDIANA anu Illinois. W6Sb Uhleu udy
is selling at wholesale at SO per ton in the New
England market at $1S to $40 per ton; and costs
only $3.50 per ton for transportation.
The c., II. & D. people take exceptions to the
statement which appeared in Fridays journal.
In answer to the inquiry-"what is the quickest
time made on any railroad by any train in the
history of railroading2' The fastest run for a
single mile ever made in this country or any
other was run in fifty and one-quarter seconds
on the Pennsylvania railroad, between Phlladel-
phia and Jersey City, on Sept. 4, 1879. They
the e., II. d u. people claim that the famous
Vanderbilt train run over their road a few weeks
since made one mile in f~orty-six seconds and a
second mile in forty-seven seconds.
In the building Of the new Union Depot it is to
be hoped that, as in Pittsburg and Philadelphia,
the rooms in which the express business is done
will be SO far separated from the waiting-rooms,
dining room, etc, that the stenches arising from
hundreds of beer kegs, dozens of coops of poul-
try, hog-crates, ETC., will not be so unpleasant
and annoying as in the present depot. By the
by, were Superintendent Whitcomb to give this
matter a little attention and require the express
companies to store the above class of freight out
side of the depot until ready to load on trains,
the nuisance would not be so noticeable.
Freight Business Over indianapolis Roads.
The train records continue to show a remark
ably light car movement for this season of the
year, there being 2, l27 less loaded cars received
and forwarded at this point last week than in
the corresponding week 1883, and 2. 437 less than
in the corresponding week 1882. The falling
off seems to be largely in east-bound
business There is a light shipment of grain
to Baltimore and some to New England, but
comparatively nothing to New York. The ship
ments to Toledo are still quite heavy but not as
heavy as in the early part of August. West. bound
traffic is heavy for so early in the season and
promises to be still heavier this month and in
October. North and South roads are doing a good
of live stock both of local and through business
are on the increase. Local business with all In
dianapolis lines is very satisfactorily and fully
up to the average Of former years at correspond
ing periods.
Below is given the number Of cars received
and forwarded at this point in the week ending
at II o'clock NJ. Aug. 80, as compared with the
movement of the week preceding:
Aug. %. Aug, 30.