The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
w. NJ Eggleston has been appointed division
Operator Of the j., NJ. g. l., headquarters Louis
vile, KY
The leading scalper at this point admits that
the passenger men have him now in closer quar-
tiers than ever before in the several years he has
Aeen doing business at Indianapolis.
As both the Wabash and l.. ID. & s. roads are
IN the hands of receivers it would be an excel
Gent idea for the court to order the contract be-
tween the two roads on traffic to be carried out
The indianapolis & vincennes road now have
coal mines their line of a capacity to turn out
fifty carloads per day. The new mine on the
Island City branch is turning out twelve car
SOads per day.
The purchasers of the Anderson Lebanon &
st. Louis are squealing on the Dee-line claim
against the road for SO 900 which is for the use
of locomotive for several years, for which the
Bee-line charges S8 per day.
w. Caldwell. general agent of the West Shore
road, Is in the city on official business He says
4he break between the Wabash people and
tho New York tWagners) Sleeping car Company
means that the cars of that company are to be
ahrown off of the entire Wabash system.
1t is said that Austin Corbin visits Europe to
sndeavor to secure certain bonds held there on
the T., G. 81 St l.. road. If the report of the
Quigley syndicate is correct however they are
masters of the situation, and whoever secures
fhe t., c. 81 st. l. road will have to pay all 1T is
worth.
The voters of Lebanon Ind, will, on June g
pay whether they will give $47, 600 to aid i'll the
extension of the Anderson, Lebanon & st. Louis
road TO Lebanon. Should the vote be favorable
the company will then have $50, 600 in subsidies
and graded road from Eoblesville to Lebanon
60 begin on.
The limited made up one hour and fourteen
minutes the west bound run Monday be-
tween indianapolis and St Louis. The
,seyenty-three miles from Indianapolis to Terre
=. Haute made in ninety four minutes Four
stops were made--one to allow accomoda
.tion train to take a side track. one at Greencas
tie, and two at railroad crossings This reduces
the actual running time to eighty-fve minutes.
The engineering department of the Wabash
has already begun the construction of the two
fixed spans which will complete the new ST.
Charles bridge. The spans are each to be 300
feet in length, made of wrought iron. The iron
work has been done by the same firm that did
the work for the st. Louis bridge. About one
half of it is now on the ground The spans will
be finished in about six weeks. They are being
put up under the supervision of Chief Engineer
lincoln, of the Wabash. The bridge, when
completed, will be near safe as it is possible
to construct it.
The local freight agents held humiliation
meeting yesterday at the Office of Commissioner
Doherty, of the east-bound pool The term
humiliation is used rs one of the agents present
says he never felt more Inundated than yester
cents per 100 pounds from Indianapolis to the
board unless of the roads cut under that rate
which is so low that the roads carrying the
freights lose cents every 100 pounds they
haul This should be said in favor of the agents.
however all seemed anxious that rates should
be put up to paying basis, and resolved to
name the present low rate only from day to day.
The L., N. A. & G. do not propose TO be left
in the lurch on tourist travel the coming summer
and will, at an early day. change the train now
known as the Frankfort Accommodation and
make it a through train to Grand Rapids. The
programme laid out is to have the train leave
indianapolis at P. NJ, instead of p. NJ, run
through to La Crosse hauling day coach and a
sleeping coach, which the Chicago e West Mich
igan road will take on through to Grand Rapids
arriving there at 6 A. NJ. The answering train will
leave Grand Rapids at p. NJ, reach Indianapo
lis at $50 A.. NJ next morning, hauling day
coach and sleeping-car There are good reasons
for saying that it can be made paying arrange
ment for both roads
Sunday, May 10, the Indianapolis, Decatur &
Springfield and the Peoria, Decatur g. Evans
willie roads will put on solid trains between In
dianapos and Peoria, arrangements having
been perfected yesterday. On these trains will
be hauled baggage and mail and express
car day coach. through recliningchai
from Cincinnati over the c., II. q J., and a
Pullman sleeper from Columbus, Ohio, over
Che c., st. L. & p. Going west, the train will
leave indianapolis at ii PM the answering
train will leave Peoria at p. NJ reach Indian
Ppolis at A. NJ, Cincinnati at A. NJ, Columbus,
o., at ii A. NJ. The Columbus Pullman sleep
ing coach is hauled on two of the c., ST. l.. 81 F.
roads fastest trains.
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