The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-23

An Indianapolis shipper loaded yesterday forty
cars at one Of the elevators, and was boasting
that he got a cut of 3 cents per 100 pounds.
Both the Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg and
the Bee-line are keeping theirfull complement of
men at work in their shops, but working only
nine hours.
The ticketsealpers are working the word
Especial" on the tickets they sell for all there is
in it. Nothing goes out of their office without
the word special stamped thereon in red let
tiers.
Agents Of the Louisville, New Albany & Chi
eago road yesterday received instructions to send
all mail and kilograms commencing with to-day,
relating to freight traffic to Louisville, KY.
which is now the headquarters of the general
freight department
The Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pa
cific people have decided to put a wide-awake
man at Indianapolis to lock after their interests
IN this section, which is an excellent idea. The
Queen d Crescent route promises at no distant
day to become very popular with the travelling
public. Era sa,7 -4suet-
Some rascal has stolen passes of the c., c., C.
g. l. road, and is selling them in different parts
of the country to scalpers or others who will pay
him something for them. The matter is under
INTERROGATION by detectives, who have traced the
party discussing them to Michigan. Doubtless
by this time he is in Canada. issai.
Passenger circles were somewhat disturbed
q
to Independence, Mo. The strife was between
the local passenger agents and the scalpers. One
of tho local agents learned the bottom rate the
sealpers would give, went under ST.. 80 per head,
and sold ten and one-half tickets.
The Jefforsonville Madison & indianapolis
road (main linel is now laid with steel rails
weighing sixty pounds to the yard, with the
eeption of seven miles, and this light iron is to
be taken up and put on the Madison division,
and q sixty pound to the-yard rail is to be sub
eth nd thp Gobt rails
OH the Cambridge City branch will be taken up
arl PIT or the Madison division and sixty pound
rails pat in thei1 place.
The White line management, agents, etc,
seem tohsve risen up to the situation and now
are forwarding more freights eastward than at
any time for many months. On Monday from
TeIre Eaute, there were billed 1903 loaded ears,
which came from local stations on the |. 81 st.
L., and at Peoria the Grier Brothers are said to
be loading -rty to fifty cars per day. 1t really
seems like old times for the White line to be
forwarding East 100 to 175 loaded cars per day.
The little sharp competition the Nlc4elplate
gave the White line since New Years seems to
have stirred the agents up
Paymasfer Shepherd, of the Wabash. St
Louis & Pacific road, viii pay the Detroit &
Indianapolis division to-day for December serv-
ice The~Wabash- has now become one of the
proIBptest paying roads coming into Indianapo-
lis. In spite of the bears jay Could is paying
his men promptly. and the fixed charges on the
several divisions Of the Wabash. Still runiors
are circulated that he is in hole and bound to
go down with the raid on his stock. Jay, as the
employees call him, has way of coming out of
his hole on such occasions, like an old spider and
& making it very warm for the raiders. AS he
gems TO extract more amusement from these
affairs than anybody else, and is generally the
one who laughs last
Tie Decline people announce that from this
IN their city freight depot will be open for
eeiving freights up to P. NJ that freights for
Anderson and Muneie. merchants and Union,
and for points ON the Cincinnati, Wabash &
Michigan and the Fort Wayne, Muncie q Louis
willie will be forwarded on a freight train which
leaves indianapolis at $50 P. NJ, consequently,
the freight will be at destination ready for deliv
cry on the next morning after shipped, ten
to twenty four hours earlier than under the
old method of forwarding freights. The Chi
cago. St Louis & Pittsburg has been quietly
making inroads into their local business by re-
ceivng freights later than the Bee-line, then for
warding them ON night train, thus reaching
many points where the two roads are Compel
tors earlier than did the Bee line and the latter
protect their business, take this aggressive step.
While o'clock is the named closing hour,
freight to points named above will be taken well
up to { r. NJ.