The Indianapolis journal., 1884-03-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


HefSOhi1 anu LOCAL.
Western roads have agreed to carry portable
houses, knocked down, in carloads the same as
lumber-tenth class.
J. w. Renner, assistant comptroller of the
! Pennsylvania Company has been in the city for
couple of days past on official business.
Both passenger and freight men report a
healthy improvement in business the last few
days, and the earnings of indianapolis roads in
March promise to equal those of March, 1883.
G. J. Hepburn, superintendent of the c., H
g. D. system writes that he will return from the
East and assume his usual duties as early as
Monday next. His health has much improved.
It. A. Lewis Western manager of the Erie
fast-freight lines has gone to Chicago to take a
survey of the situation. The Erie people feel
that it is about time that their bound bust
ness at that point makes better showing.
AS it is impossible for President ingalls,, or
Generalmanager Thomas to be here to-day, the
meeting called for to-day of officials of the roads
interested i'll the Union Railway Company has
been postponed until the first Wednesday in
April
A. A. Talmage, traffic manager of the Wa
bash, has ordered that all the passenger trains
be run time. There has been more or less
complaint of trains missing connections and
th.s IS not Mr.. Talmage's style Of running rail
t secretary of the Car Accountants Asse-
,.Atien has been notified chat the city of Rich
paond have raised 81. 900 to provide a banquet
n at their coming annual convention. the
banquet to be given at Ballard and Exchange
Hotel.
The Vandalia now has 105 frst-class locomo-
tives on its system. Thirty-eight new engines
have been added to the equipment in the last
eighteen months With the exception of five
switching engines, all are heavy frst-class
passenger and freight locomotives
In freight circles matters are moving along
smoothly since the reduced rates took effect, and
all fast-freight lines are placed on equal ba-
sis. All of the lines are doing something, yet
there is ample room for improvement. Quite an
increase IN export business is reported
Parties who are purchasing the supplies to
push the extension of the Cincinnati, Van Vert
&c Michigan road are in the city, having Just re-
turned from Joliet, Ill, where they purchased
$500 tons of steel rails weighing fifty-sx pounds
to the yard at $36 per ton delivered, which is as
good figure as $34 per ton at the mill would be-
The revised live stock and dressed beef rates
are based on 90 cents per one hundred pounds
for live stock from Chicago to New York, and
dressed beef Ga cents from Chicago to New York
The Boston rate is the same as to New York
These special rates are good only from day to
day and may be withdrawn at any time without
previous notice
P. Rogers, car-tracer Of the Pennsylvania com
panys lines, has for two weeks past been look
West Virginia. Car 3 1862 he found lodged in a.
tree near the Camden coal mines car 1872 he
found in field in the Ohio valley 100 yards
from the track. and he reports nup1erous cases
of like character
1t Is suggested that were the Bee-line people
to haul a chair-car on the train run between In
dianapolis and Cleveland, which leaves Indian
apolis at 1910 a NJ, it would be highly appre-
ciated By the by, it is said that the Bee-lne,
which has good route to Fort Wayne and To
ledo, is hereafter to work more energetcally to
secure a portion of this travel.
The mail trains on the Jeffersonville, Madison
IS indianapolis road make the run from In
dianapolis to Louisville in three hours and fifty
minutes. AS the train is eight minutes getting
out of the city limits, makes thirty stops and is
then eight minutes crossing the Louisville
bridge, there are but few trains in the country
that reach so high a rate of speed
The distance from indianapolis to LaPorte
over the L.. n. A. & c. Airline and the Chicago
& West Michigan road, the new line, is 148 miles,
the same distance as the Wabash or old L. P. q
G. The Wabash is seven hours in making the.
run has but one train each way day. The L.,
N. A & G. and c. 81 w. III. propose to make it
IN six hours and will have two trains each way
daily. 1t behooves the Wabash people to bestir
themselves.