The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-10
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


weighing sixty pounds to the yard.
The Illinois fruit train on Saturday morning
pulled into Chicago with thirty-four carloads of
Strawberries and other small fruits shipped from
southern Illinois and Indiana.
y In these depressed times thecity freight depots
OF the Pennsylvania Company are lively places.
One hundred or more cars of local freight are
now handled daily at the two depots.
OF the SOC, 600, 600 of the capital stock of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. it is estimated
that rather more than half probably $50, 000 900,
is held in London, and most of the remainder
In Philadelphia.
Under the new running arrangements the l.,
b. e. w nightly has out of indianapolis FIVE
combined sleeper and chaircars, in addition to
the Woodruff coaches run between Peoria and
Columbus, Ohio.
TAe Chicago, ST. Louis & Pittsburg road is re-
eeiving large lot OF new wheels from the Fort
Wayne car-wheel works In return they ship
double the weight of old car wheels to pay for
che new received.
Employees on the passenger trains OF the Lee
high Valley railroad have been forbidden to use
tobacco in any form while on duty. The next
step TO be taken is to forbid passengers riding in
parlor cars ladies coaches who use the vile
weed
j. Fl. Richards, solicitor of the ST Louis, Fort
Scott & Wichita road is in the city, taking ties
Rolling mill Company is interested. While in
the city he viii be the guest of Major Richards,
Of the indianapolis News.
Under the pruning knife of President Mackey
the Office of master of transportation on the
Evansville 81 Terre Haute road has been abol-
cold. The work will be divided. All train men
viii be under the control of Chief Train Dis
patcher J. E. Ehret.
Colonel Oran Perry, agent of the Pennsyl-
yania lines at this point, has devised very COM
plete method of showing upon one page of a. book
the tonnage brought in over each division daily,
and forwarded over each division. the character
OF the shipments, whether local through
freights, the number of car, ETC. All can be
taken in readily, and the whole covers as much
business as dozen pages usually do.
The New Albany Ledger says: The heaviest
shipment of strawberries ever made from this
city in a single day was made on Sunday. -Four
large express cars were loaded here with the
fruit, each car containing eight hundred eases
of six gallons to the case making 200 or IL. 200
gallons. The Adams express carried three car
loads and the American one carload, The fruit
was shipped to Indianapolis, Lafayette, Chicago,
Milwaukee and other Northern cities.
1t is intimated that when the Louisville,
Evansville g. St. Louis Airline people get reor-
ganized they will build railroad from New
Albany to Lawrenceburg, passing through Mad
ison, the Airline company being ambitious to
extend their system eastward. At Lawrence
burg they can connect with the O., l.. st. l.. e.
G. or the Ohio q Mississippi and run into Gin
ginnati, probably the frst-naned, as they will
be 9 less direct competitor of the Big Four than
of the o. 81 NJ
The L., n. A. & G. people have instructed
their trainmen to approach the crossing of the
J. 81 V. road at Gosport, the l., d. & s. road at
Roaehdale and the t., G. & st. L. at Linden,
with extreme caution, hereafter, as there is no
signal Waterman at these crossings The
reckless manner in which the L., n. A & G..
has been running over them has been a matter
OF unfavorable comment, some engineers run
ming over them regardless of the State law that
trains must be brought to standstill at railroad
crossings.
Instead of striving so hard to servo the through
passenger travel, TO the detriment of their local
traffic, would it not be a good plan for the L., N.
A & e. (Air-line) to reverse things and run their
trains to suit people along the line of their road
whe, If the road ever does succeed, will deserve
the creditl With all its changes, this road has
never had passenger train leaving Indianapolis
In the morning so that commercial men and
others could run up the line and return the same
day. No other indianapolis road attempts to do
business without such a train.
T. A. Lewis, general manager of the
Great Western Dispatch, Erie and Pacific Dis
patch, and South Shore line, has issued the fol
lowing notice: "a Encouragement of the New
York, Lake Erie d Western Railroad Com
panys fastfreight line agencies in Boston,
severed his connection with the st-freight lines
and the following appointments take effect to-
day III. Kendall. general New England agent
N Y, L. E. & W. Railroad Company's fast
freight lines: b. Sears, contracting agent G. w.
D., L, e. P. ID. and S. s. line. Office, 268 Wash
ington street. Boston"
President Mackey. of the Evansville & Terre
Haute system, certainly understands getting
train service on the most economical methods.
For instance. passenger train leaves Mount
Vernon at 6:30 A. NJ, runs up the branch to Fort
Branch and down the main line to Evansville
reaching there at $40, and leaves at 9:O5 going
mp the E. g. division to Washington, reaching
there at noon. In the afternoon the return trip
Is made, arriving at Mount Vernon at $40. In
this way one train does passenger work three
divisions of the road each day. both ways, and
does it we'll The railroad boys call this train
the "roller coaster
The Madison Courier says that, lin obedience TO
instructions from tbs Pennsylvania Company,
Mr.. e. w. McKenna, superintendent of the j.,
a. & / railroad, and Mr.. Weiss, civil engineer,
made reconnaissance of the route from Madison
to Veyay upon Wednesday afternoon last. The
obstacles encountered arise from the crossing of
the lowland at the mouth of the Indian Ken
tuck creek, and the necessity of going upon
the hillside to avoid high water The gentle
men were favorably impressed with the country
which they pronounced as fertile and well farmed
as any they had ever seen. Data as to the
assessed values of the townships traversed etc.
were secured, and report to the company will
be made.
With the completion of the Henderson XIV.
bridge, which will be finished in two weeks, fast
trains will be put on between Chicago and
Atlanta, running over the Chicago & Eastern
illinois, Evansville q Terre Haute, Louisville &
Nashville Nashville & Chattanooga and Western
g. Atlantic roads. The following fast schedule
has been arranged: Leave Chicago at 4PM,
reaching Nashville at o'clock next morning,
and Atlanta at o'clock same evening Return
ing, leave Atlanta at $50 A. NJ, Nashville at 6:55
P. NJ, and reaching Chicago at 1910 next morn
ing, in time for all Northwestern trains, and
from six to twelve hours ahead of competitors
Elegant coaches and sleepers run through with
out change.
A Surprise i'm Railroad Circles.
Mention was made in the Journal of Monday
that the Grand Trunk people were offering
openly to carry grain and provisions. Chicago To