The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


O., Jointly, are distaneing all competition in the
matter of cutting westbound rates
The accommodation train running between
indianapolis and Paris is made up with new
coaches, which attract considerable attention.
Six gravel trains, two steam shovels and
large force of men were put in service on the In
dianapolis & St Louis road for the season on
Monday last
The briefs in the Illinois Midland case, filed on
Monday at Springfield, make 1000 pages of
printed matter and it is said that Genis's share
of the printing expense was 81, 500
The indianapolis & St Louis road, on Sun
day, brought into Indianapolis from the west
27O On Monday $50 on Tuesday 266 loaded cars
Of these 772 cars 381 were loaded at Peoria.
Passenger officials of the Pennsylvania lines
say there is no truth in the report that the ticket
Office on South Illinois street opened recently by
Frank Newly was established in their interest.
The Cincinnati, indianapolis St Louis d Chi
cago passenger men are quietly trying TO lease
the room on the corner Of Meridian and Wash
ington streets, known as the Beehive corner, for
Offices.
The Vandalia people completed the work of
stringing a second wire between Terre Haute
and Logansport on Tuesday. One wire will be
used for railroad and the other for commercial
business.
Engine No AGO, on the Chicago, St Louis &
Pittsburg road, hauled the fast mail train OF
eleven cars yesterday, from Bradford to the
Union Depot in indianapolis, in two hours and
forty-seven minutes distance, l05 miles.
There seems to be a scarcity of small coin
General Ticket Agent Donough, at the Union
Depot is obliged to buy from the banks 500
worth of nickels and dimes daily, while be has
large surplus of silver half dollars and dollars to
deposit daily.
The Wabash St Louis & Pacific will lose the
most heavily by the recent express robbery IN
St Louis, as the sum taken was made up largely
of remittances from agents on the system,
these remittances ranging from $75, 600 to Sl25,-
900 daily, as returns are made every day.
The Terre Haute Daily Gazette, organ of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen, seeming
Iy. says: THE B. l.. F. has increased during the
last five months from 1887 to 10000, total OF
1854 members-nearly 633 members per month.
At Denver, in September last, they had lio
lodges; they have now 200, even"
The report that corn had dropped five to six
cents per bushel at Peoria and rates had been
restored proves to have been false. The White
line, the Nickel-plate and the Great Eastern
fast-fPeight line on Monday loaded 100 cars at
Peoria, on Tuesday, 172 and fully that number
was ordered by these lines Yesterday.
Fifteen hundred miners are out a strike in
Clay county. or the block coal regions Fortu-
nately the railroads which depend on these mines
for fuel are well stocked up but the coal dealers
are not. and long strike will be serious affair.
Shipments east over the Vandalia have dropped
from an average of ninety cars a day to thirty
cars.
II. C. Villas, general manager of the Erie &
North Shore and Commercial Express, has notl-
fed the agents at this point that all property
consigned TO points on the New York, Lake Erie
az Western road, between Susquehanna and New
York, will take the New York which reduces the
rates to these interior points three to five cents
per one hundred pounds
In the year 1888 but per cent. OF the stock
Of the Cincinnati, indianapolis, st Louis & Chi
caro- road changed hands notwithstanding the
fact that the stock dropped from par to So
Fortunately for the road this stock IS held by
men who are in a financial condition which en-
ables them to continue their holding regardless
OF the ups and downs Of the market
An official circular announces that Colonel r.
Il. Kicker has been appointed general superin-
tendent of the Denver & Rio Grande railway.
Colonel Kicker was for seven years on the Terre
Uaute q indianapolis. for ten years general
manager of the New Jersey Central. and for the
past four years has been connected with the Gil
bert & Bush car works, at Troy. n Y.
Since the first of this month emigration
travel has set in briskly. Extra coaches are be
Eng hauled on nearly all through trains to accom-
modate this travel One train on the G., st a
r., yesterday carried six coaches filed to their
utmost capacity, and the Decline brought in Ave
coaches. Kansas seems to be the destination OF
81 large per cent of the emigration thus far this
year.
G. e. Henderson. general manager of the In
diana, Bloomington & Western road has struck
out for New York with his war paint While
the Midland fast freight line, operating over the
j B. & w, is holding rates and doing nothing
at Peoria, the Vanderbilt and Grand Trunk lines
sailing in at the rate of $50 or more cars per
day. An order is expected to-day for the l., b.
& W. to do likewise at Peoria.
It was understood that the auditors of the