The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The editors of the Train Dispatchers' Journal
have contracted witR the HasselmanrJournal
Company to publish the paper. It is intended at
an early day to issue it weekly instead Of
monthly as it begins its career.
The Bee4ine people have arranged for a grand
excursien to Putin Bay Monday. Augustus. The
fare for the round trip to Cleveland will be 50,
and another IL entities one to a l4O,miae sail
ninongt the beautiful islands Of Lake Erie.
. Vandalia engine No. 18i hauled twelve cars,
The coaches loaded to Their utmost capacity with
passengers from Indianapolisto Greencastle, yes
terday, in fifty minutes. Travel is seldom
heavier over the Vandalia than at the present
time.
Al large indianapolis shipper yesterday re-
marked that the Cincinnati, Hamilton y Indi-
annapolis road was getting the cream OF the east
bound business out OF Indianapolis andln answer
10 the question, why, said they do not scrutinize
weights, bills Of lading ETC., as closely as the other
roads.
Freight rates out Of Terre Hauts, east-bound,
Rre reported to be shaky. A line operating over
the Logansport division of the Vandalia is re-
ported to be cutting the rate on mill feed openly
five cents per hundred, and as the shipments OF
mill feed are large from that point the war on
rates, unless soon checked, will tend to a gen
Bral Decentralization.
The gepeFal manager Of one Of the Indianapo-
I'D EOnNS WifO iAlG6 4OYQI HE LIN III AA S@SI A0
Ing directors car, proposes to reduce the mum
Der of section men, SO smooth and solid IS the
track. A messenger who rides in an express
sar over the same road sayslf he will make one
"Trip and ride in his express car, he would think
1t better to put on additional section men, and
make his track a decent one.
J. ii. Deveraux, receiver of the indianapolis
Il st. Louis road, is about ready to close his
Feceiyership. The task of settling affairs of this
road prior to his accepting the receivership, and
while it was operated by a receiver, We're con-
Biderably mixed up. The Liabilities exec eded
Ehe expectations Of the receiver and in some
cases were quite complicated. This has made
the work Of strengthening up matters tedious.
The passenger rate war yesterday extended to
Bast-bound business. The cut was slight, but
now that it has been INDUCED in at all it proves
to he more serious. On Saturday, to Kansas
points, parties could obtain any rate they de-
sired, practically, one road going so low that but
forty cents per head Is left themafter payipgthe
arbitrary west of the river. The excuse the
passenger agent made for giving such a rate was
that it would end the war quicker.
It is said by parties who are well posted that
On no railroad Of the country are there
TO be found so large a per cent. of
Grst-class locomotives as on the roads
running into Indianapolis. Almost without
exception the indianapolis roads are equipped
with engines comparitivly new and of model
build in every respect. More especially would
these remarks apply to engines run over the
Vanda1ia, the CT, st. i. & Fl, the O., T., st. T.
81 G. roads, and the Decline and /. & st. L.
were also getting their power into excellent CON
dition.