The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-30

dous to know when business is to assume Its
usual fall tonnage.
All new cars built and all cars repaired, Of the
q, l., st. L. & G. road are fitted up with the
Clifford automatic draw-bar. The Baltimore &
Ohio is about to introduce the draw-ba on their
system.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says: Mr.. F. Reese,
at one time auditor Of the Illinois Midland road,
win succeed Mr. Russell Elliott as auditor of the
Chicago s. Atlantic road. Soft seems that Man
,ager Broughton has carried his point
Pullman parlor, not sleeping, car service com
1nenced yesterday between Louisville and Chi
cago over the j., M. & l. and the c., St l.. e. p
The Woodruff company continues to run its
Bleeping-cars on the night trains and, under
its lease, can continue so to do until Nov. B 1856
It is anticipated that the labor troubles and
other embarrassments on the Chicago & Great
Southern road will be adjusted in few days
and trains resumed as usual Colonel Crawford
seems to have taken bigger load than he could
carry, when it is difficult to realize on the best
of railroad securities.
r A. Lewis, Western manager Of the Erie
fastfreight line returned from the East
yesterday Mr. LOWS SAYS that nothing is
known of the proposed policy of the new manage
ment of the road, nor will there be till after
Nov i. The statements going the rounds
regarding throwing out Of fastrHelght lines
btc., is merely speculation
charge that the Chicago & Eastern Illinois was
quitting rates east-bound business out OF
Herre Haute. The agents of the Great Eastern
line deny emphatically the charge. The officials
explain that this was -four shipped by kidder
Bros to inland points not otherwise easily
reached, except by the Great Eastern, which runs
over the c. & e. L
Mr.. Henry c. Villas, general manager of the
Commercial Express line and Erie and North
Shore Dispatch, makes the following announce
ments "The agency Of the Erie and North
Shore Dispatch, at st. Louis, Mo-, win be closed
On Aug 81 Mr.. G. III. Garnahan, agent Com
mercial Express line, will attend to all matters
pertaining to the business of the Erie and North
Shore Dispatch What is to be done with the
indianapolis Office is not yet stated
Engine No AGO, on the c., ST. L. & P. road,
recently rebuilt, comes out of the shops Monday
next equipped with an electric headlight which Is
said to work perfectly. The power is furnished
by Coats disc engine which makes $50 revolu.
tions per minute. The electric lamp is inciosed
In an ordinary locomotive headlight frame, re-
Hector, etc. and should the electric light fail an
oil lamp can be put in its place in two minutes
Butt is expected that the electric light will per-
form satisfactorily in every respect.
Fast freight-line number IL has commenced
operating over the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
indianapolis road. Below is given the several
Lines which now operate over the road from the
East Great Western Dispatch, Erie & North
Shore Dispatch, Traders, Dispatch, National
Dispatch Canada Southern line, Great Eastern
line, Niekelplate line, West Shore line, Con-
tinental line, Lackawanna line Kanawha Dis
patch. For the South Queen and Crescent line.
And il is now rnmored that the Globe line would
like to get into Indianapolis over the O., II. q l.
The programme given some days ago regarding
the Wabash and Missouri Pacific Offices at this
point is to be carried out to the letter. On
Wednesday next, Frank Wade now with the
1ndianapolis, & st. Louis road, at ST. Louis,
takes the district passenger agency Of the Wa
bash. with headquarters at Indianapolis
William King better known as Amiable Billy,
takes the position of chief clerk. I. G.. Denny,
present district passenger agent goes back to
his old love, the Missouri Pacific, which seems
to have wholly abandoned by the Wabash. Mr.
Denny will lease room and establish his office
at this point. The Wabash retains room No.
SO South Illinois street
A special train over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
81 Indianapolis road was yesterday hauled from
the indianapolis Belt road crossing to Hamilton,
o. ninety eight miles, in ia minutes. The
train consisted of engine No 134, Crum
engineer, one day coach, vieepresident
Waite's private car and the private
car of john B. Carson. This is
said to have been the best run ever made over
the G., III e. J., and demonstrates the fact that
Vice president Waite is about right when he
says the O.. HI & /. track is as good as that of a
majority Of the Western roads, and when he gets
in twenty niles more of steel rail will be Sec
ond to none. The train was IN charge Of NJ
u.-
ALI. the news, telegraphic, State and city, in
the SUNDAY JcuREAL tomorrow Price, three
cents
The Improvement of Quarter of Century.
1t is quarter of a century this month since
Mr.. Pullman ran the first sleepingcar that ever
appeared on an American railroad It was an
August night, on the road from Bloomington,
ILL.,, to Chicago, and he had four passengers who
were charged fifty cents each for the accommo-
dation, and from this has grown the grand Pull
man system of sleeping cars, for such it is.
While it is often charged that their rates are ex-
orbitant one would hardly want to, when travel
ing do without the pleasures a nights
ride in one of the palaces on wheels
affords. The Pullman. cars, as a re-
suit of the establishing of the Woodruff and the
Wagner Sleeping Car Company, bave become
less burdensome to the roads. Before these
companies were established the Pullman com
pany forced the roads to pay them three cents
milaege for their cars and TO keep the cars run
over the respective roads in repair Now the
roads pay but q cents mileage, the Pullman
company keep their cars in repair, and turn over
IS per cent. Of their gross earnings to the roads
over which their cars are run. In the year 1883
Pullman cars run on American roads aver
aged to. earn $1,000 per month These
cars, complete, average to cost &l4 500 per
sleeping-car. The Pullman parlor cars average
TO cost $l2 O00 What may seem singular IS
that the parler cars, which are run only on day
trains, pay full as well as the sleeping-coaches,
although both pay handsomely. The expenses
of the Pullman company are enormous Coaches
need overhaulmg every two years. modern i'm
provements are continually being introduced,
and the company is certainly enterprising in the
matter Of meeting the demands of the public.
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SHALL advertising special feature Of the
SUNDAY JOURNAL, which sells for THREE cENTs.
Only osE-HALF cENTA WORD.
1ndianapOlis Balances
Commissioner Fink has issued statistics show
Ing the overs and shorts in tons of the seven roads
which an in the Indianapolis east bound pool
ut the end Of the second months existence Of