The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-09
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PERSONAL and Local.

C. system, II, 204 persons.
The H., ~ A. & G. people are arranging to
run excursions to Broad Ripple on Sundays.
The parlor cars placed on the day trains Of the
yandalia road some thirty days ago are paying
handsomely
The Louisville, New Albany 8 Chicago rail
way has adopted q neat uniform for its passen-
ger train men.
EB Philips, president Of the Fitchburg rail
road, It is said has boon offered the position of
general manager of the Union Pacific road.
Live stock trains are now run at about passen-
ger train speed. so sharp is the competition.
IL is very good luck that serious accidents do not
follow.
A D. Mcleod, general agent Of the c., II. &
d. lines VINO, with his family, has been East a
couple of weeks on pleasure trip, returned yes
terday.
In the month Of June 1850 carloads Of gravel
and $50 carloads of dirt were distributed on the
Indianapolis g st. Louis division of the Bee-lino
SYSTEM
Six car loads of machinery for the new G., st.
L. & p. shops arrived from the East yesterday.
The shops are to be the best equipped of any
shops m the West
A movement IS on foot among some Of the
prime movers in the Indiana Division of the Train
DispatcEers' Association to issue paper IN be-
half of the association.
The "a. 10 round. trip to Chicago signs come
in this morning. The L, B. & w people should
be credited with acting very honorably IN the
matter of maintaining that rate
NJ Mounts, master of transportation of the
c. H. & l., who has been having q russell with
diphtheria for week or more is better and ex-
poets to bepon duty again BY TOMORROW.
Six gravel trains are in service this week on
the T., Fl. & l. division Of the Vandalia system.
The entire seventy three miles is being graveled
IF thesf
: surfaced up Pennsylvania style.
An aggressive railroad man yesterday re-.
marked that ten years from now not only would
all locomotives be equipped with electric head
lights, but ON all important roads the track
would be lighted with electricity.
Nowtiiat E. w. Sloane has taken supervision Of
the ST Louis American express Office. the expen-
SiitureS will not. be on so lavish scale. Mr.,
Sloane is credited With Operating the Indiana di
vision more economically than is any other Of
the companEs divisions
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton hauled
eleven cars containing members Of the Duck
worth Club from Cincinnati to Richmond,
20 miles; in one hour and fifty minutes incllid-
Ing one stop of five minutes at Hamilton and
glowing up through the towns.
Master Mechanic Swanston, of the j., M. & /.
road, who is to be the master Of the new G., St.
L. & p shops WIS in the city yesterday looking
for house as d residence He STATES chat some
125 men will be transferred from the shops at
Jacksonville to the c., St L. & T. shops.
Engine number 1l2, on the indianapolis & St.
Legis road anighbor two since, made a fast
run from Danville to Indianapolis There were
six ears in the train The first mile east from
DARville was run in 60 seconds, the second mile
In IS seconds the third mile in 81 seconds and
the fourth mile in 5S seconds,
Tire locklcoaI traffic over the Eanialia, the
i. e St L., the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and
t.. N. & q g. continues light 1t will be some
time before the effects of the strike at the Clay
county mines is overcome. The miners suffer
equally wittlthe roads, as with the light de
mand.theyare working short days
R0admaster Henry, of the Indianapolis and
st Louis road, has an Otis steam shovel at work
on the Terre Haute gravel pit which has loaded
20Hcar loads Of graveiin "a hours several times
of late, He has christened the master worker
Jumbo. The ]. &sSt II, companY has also a
Harris leveler in service which is doing excel
lent work. andsis about to purchaser q ditching.
machine. which, like the leveler, is hauled'
by locomotive.
r c. Moore. joint agent of the Chicago east
bound traffic association, gives notice that on all
exhibits forwarded to the Chicago exposition,
full tariff rates shall be charged; but that snch
exhibits, if unsoid and reshipped within thirty
days after the close of the exposition, will be
turned free by the roads, members of the joint
executive committees whocarried the same, upon
presentation of certificate signed by theEproper
officers Of theAeNposition to- the effect that the
shipments are unsola; such certificate to- be- at
tached to the manifest of each shipment
The business Of the G., H g. T.
railroad has been exceptionally good.
SO farsths season as compared with years past
andstO meet the demand of the inereas iii traffic
the company has, largely added to its Facilities
for the handling of business with pronptness
and dispatch. At thisposut the yards Of the
company have been doubfediR capacity new
round house erected, and they have now in
c0tfrsB Of construction g. large water station
near the new round house, and FAIRBANKS car
scales are being putin at the upper yard, pre-
paratory to weighing ears.