The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

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IT, Is road. and j. II. Steiner, of the White line.
lsft on the Decline limited yesterday afternoon
Tor Buffalo.
The Yandalia people now light their yards at
St Louis, as we'll as at Terre Haute, with cleo
Rie lights, and are greatly pleased with their
performance.
Tie L.. n. A. e. C. people are figuring on a
hg2e card to shorten the running time between
Indianapolis and Chicago. In so doing they
propose to put on two additional trains to do the
local work
Perry Van Kirk, passenger conductor on the
sSeond division of the c., St L. d F. road. was
mxrried, on Sunday last, to Miss Mary Heffner,
Of Logansport Ind. Perry will have best wishes
of host of friends
From one of the attorneys in the Illinois Mid
land case it is learned that Justice Harlan will
this week revise his decree, and he intimates
that he will order the road to be sold at fore
closure sale on or about August 30, 1885
The report Of the conductor OF the Bee-line
Hnsited east, over the /. 81 St L. division, yes
feEaay, shows that the train carried thirty five
through passengers, paying fares three dead
heads and that the train handled thirty six
passengers between the few stations at which
the limited train stops
IL W. GAYS, late general freight agent OF the
indianapolis & ST. Louis road, was in the city
uusstion Are you gon to take position on the
Eyle systemT he answered: "Yes, if they will
give me money enough; that's what propose to
work for now, not newspaper fame"
A Pennsylvania railroad official, yesterday, to
eae question do you take any stock in the ru-
Ia0<S that the Pennsylvania people are manlpu-
iatiDg matters to secure control of the Cncin-
naki Hamilton & Dayton lines2" said no he did
not He thought the Pennsylvania people now
had all the north and south lines they wanted.
To Offset the eagerness of the l., B. e W.
people to be allowed differential rates wherever
their lines are longest, the l., d. g. S manage
inert will take steps, it is stated, to secure a
differential rate on their Peoria business their
ronae between Columbus, O., and Peoria being a
few miles longer than that of the l., b. & w.
road
The vandalia people will soon publish book
illustrating Lake Maxinkuckee and its pleas
ant surroundings. In addition to the 5000
books, %, 600 pamphlets containing the Maxim
kuckee views win be issued and distributed in
oil the stations on the Vandalia line. These 80,
GEO books will be a valuable advertising ''me-
dium"
Enc Chicago & West Michigan road has sur
prised southern connections by getting out a
TINA table, which took effect on Sunday, which
ignores southern connections practically, SO in
convenient are the hours at which their trains
arrive and depart at La Crosse The new time
table breaks up all Major Emmett's summer
plans for excursionists.
June the Pennsylvania and Vandalia people
viii open a second outside Office at this point,
occupying room 134, South Illinois street. The
Office will be under the supervision of George
Rech, city ticket agent, and he will have for his
assistant Amos Parrish, who is just the man to
catch the class of travel South Illinois-street
officers have to deal with.
Pool matters at st. Louis worried FL. W. Hib-
bard. general freight agent of the Vandalia, to
such degree that about ten days ago. in com
wrxsk1 vi INov
Hennessy he left for the fishing grounds of
Kalkaska, on the Grand Rapids & Indiana road.
The party returned yesterday in fine TRIM hav
ing caught while absent GAO fine trout.
Che limited over the c., ST. L.. & P. road on
Sunday morning, was hauled from Columbus
O., to Indianapolis, 188 miles, in four hours and
ten minutes, stops aud slowing up in city limits
to be deducted from that time. The eighty four
miles from Columbus to Bradford was made in
1O7 minutes time taken for eight stops at sta
tions and railroad crossings to be deducted.
4 representative of the Bishop safety car
coupler, which has been adopted on several of
the leading roads, is in the city arranging to in
troduce this simple but useful device on the Bee
line and the c., l., st. l.. IL G. roads. The de-
vice takes the place of the awkward stick now
used by switching crews when coupling ears,
and costs no more than on roads using sticks for
such purpose.
The railroads are beginning to feel the lake
competition. The busiest day that Buffalo
maroon mas known Tor many years, IL IS reported,
was last Monday. The number of grain cargoes
anoat IN the harbor during the day. including
sHeh as had waited over from Saturday night
and Sunday, was fortyf Ave, large number of
which had come down under sail, strange and
unusual as that may SEEM The aggregate in
round figures was 2, 127, 900 bushels of grain.
The Wooley Electric Light Company are now
hitting up an entire train the c. l., St l.. &
c., To light it by electricity, the same engine that
runs the machinery for the locomotives electric
head light to furnish the power which lights the
train There is possibility of the electric light
companies undertaking too much. The greatest
Importance is to perfect the locomotive electric
head light; the passengers can get along much
better without the light than can an engineer
What rs needed is to perfect the light so that it
IS perfectly reliable. and then reduce the cost of
the light to such point that every railroad can
afford TO adopt it.
Otto Oustermiller, engineer on the Vandalia,
running engine No. A. on which the American
electric headlight is placed left here on the St
Lcuis express on Sunday night at 10:45 during
very heavy thunderstorm. After making a
stop for the Belt crossing, he opened the throttle
and started west at about thirty FIVE miles an
hour He had hardly got under good head
way when he noticed something across the track
at the transfer station. The train was slowed
mp and he pulled gradually up to the station,
where he discovered a fiat car standing about
half way out on the main track He thinks that
If it had not been for the electric light there
would have been q serious wreck.
Legislators Who Work Cheap.
Out West, if reports are true, legislators want
something besides passes to prevent their pass
Ing Laws which will DO detrimental to railroad
Interests, while in PENNSYLVANIA animal nasses