The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-18
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Union Pacific is said to be about negoti at
ing the sale of 4OOO 900 of it's treasury bonds,
with the proceeds of which it will extingush all
its floating debt.
The New York Central Sleeping-car Company
are about to send the Boston & Albany num-
Der of new cars for the Western expresses to re-
place the oldfashioned sleepers now in use.
The Omaha and Grant smeter, doing business
at Denver, paid to the Union Pacific road during
the last twelve months for the transportation of
ore, bullion. fuel, ETC.. the sum of ST. $4,000.
1t seems that the West Shore has not paid
over to connecting lines it's through freight col
lectiOns, and several. if not all of them have is
sued notice that hereafter all freight bound for
points on that road must be prepaid.
Recent statistics show that a passenger can
travel SOB 568 900 miles upon Massachusetts rail
roads without being killed 2ll GAG 900 upon
New York roads. and only III 25l 900 upon the
railways of the United Kingdom of Great Brit
ain.
1t is officially announced that the general
Offices of the Gould railroad system in Texas
will be transferred Immediately from St. Louis
to Dallas. Ground will be broken in few DAYS
for the erection of magnificent building for the
companys Offices.
The Atlantic & Pacific company expects to reap
a substantial advantage from the removal of the
herds of the cattle barons from the Indian reser-
walton. Many of these parties are in treaty with
the company for the purchase of available tracts
of grazing land along its line.
Col w. ID. Mann, of the Mann Boudoir Car
Company. states that the first Mann car which
was run between Boston and New York was
great success. The total length of time they
were run nftytwo days. and the net re-
ceipts were Sc, 1868, and represents the largest
amount of money earned on parlor and sleeping
cars.
The division of expenses for transfer privileges
at Council Bluffs by the lines cen tering there is
now made on the following basis: The Union
Pacific pays half, and the other half is divided
equally between the Rock Island, Wabash,
Northwestern. ST Paul and Burlington. The
charges thus provided for are for the renting OF
transfer depot, switching of cars, hauling of
freight, etc
Chicago Business says: "a broad smile suf
fused the faces of railroad men when they heard
the report that the Rock Island was on the point
of buying tine Northern Pacific. The Rock
Island is also on the verge of absorbing the Van
derhilt and Baltimore g. Ohio systems, to say
nothing of the Pennsylvania and Huntington
roads. When these mouthsful are properly di-
gested, the Rock Island will swallow the earth,
and last of all will swallow itself. After that
chaos"
On Saturday, Aug. g. the day of General
Grants funeral, 200 passenger trains were rnn
into and out of the Grand Central Depot in New
York, which is used by the New York Central &
Hudson River and the New York New Haven d
Hartford roads. This large number of trains
was handled without delay accident and
without difficulty mainly account of the ex-
ceilent system of block signals and Of interlock-
ing signals and switches in use there, which was
completed not long ago by the Union Switch and
Signal Company.