The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-09

in Indiana, being o1nstYucted by the State
The cedar % IN excellent preservation. Tee
relic 10 father INTERESTING one, showing the
expensive cross-ties usea ia those early days
IL Is understood that j.. l.. Burnett, at one
time connected with the Bee Line, will bs
made assistant agent OF the c., III. and /. aud
Air Line when the passenger Offices are con.
sQlidated.
Ghs stockholders OF the indianapolis, Eel
River and Southeastern held their annual
meeting yesterday and elected the following
Directors: hon. A. Mcdonald. S. T. streeter,
p. ID. Smith, ]. T. Saller, S. Huntington, OF
New York; z. G. Baker, Rochester; l.. j. Bond
and A. II. Hill, Ipdians. As yet only q
small portion of tbs road has been graded
md this on that portion adjoining the L., n
A and @. in tho coal aud stone regions The
officials OF the reed say that the work OF com
pletng the lire will be commenced In earn.
EFT in few days.
The statement that the L, B. and w. has
no ST. Louis connection Is untrue. This
road now connecs Tor the Mound City with
the Chicago and Alton AZ Bloomington.
With the change in the time card, which
takes place 70 morrow, the l., b and w.
Will put on fast trsins east add west. The
train now leaving at 20 a m. will leave at
leave Of sos instead OF 5:07 D. m. Train
No. will leave ~ lilo as usual No. .
will arrive here at 4:25 p. m. instead OF $3.50
p. m.
In speaking Of the recent strike on the Del
aware and Hudson brought about by the
discharge of color blind enginemen, the
Railroad Gazette says: Certainly the en-
ginemen have no right TO say what tests sha
net be used. The officers in charge of the
road are responsible for It's safe operation,
end they must adopt such tests as they know
they can trust IL is doubtless true that the
danger from color blindness is not q great
ore, because the cases are few when the col
or-blind is not able to distinguish sigma 8.
though he does not distinguish them by
their color but it always may happen thai
tie circumstances will occur when he csn
not distinguish the signals, and il is to elm
mate this chance that the tests are made. II
made at all they certainly should be so made
as 10 show whether the man knows red from
green by their rtdness and their greenness,
or only by their different degrees of gray
ness, so 70 SPEAK"
FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION.
Surprise is often expressed that the aver
ege expense OF transport per railroad ton.
mile should be 50 much lower here than in
Europe, though the consumption OF Iusl Is
higher with us.
The explanation sppesrs to bs fOU1dei on
a. least Two distinct reasons. Granting that
there is a vastefuI consumption of fuel on
American railroads, 1t does not follow that
any very unnecessary expenditure exists in
other directions. Because q msn INDUCES
in the most expensive cigars, 1t does not fol-
low that he AFRO specDlaies Ia Wall street.
And probably any waste in the matter of
fuel Is more than made no by economies
IN other directions, Freight in Europe is
han died and traL sported in smaller q1snti-
iles than here, lssger percentage consists
OF manufactured or pefisbso.s articles, while
the log hanls common here are practically
unknown there All these factors tend to
increase the III necessary to handle freight.