The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-31
Miscellaneous Notes.

The cross-tes of the Rome 81 Carroltor rail-
road are to be heart pine.
The Cincinnati Southern railway will run a
through sleeper from Chattanooga to Louisville
on and after Sept l.
The merchants along the line of the New York
Central and West Shore roads who have for a
Year enjoyed special pro rata freight rates. have
been notified of the abolition of the same.
A large invoice of steel rails was recently
received for the Alabama division of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad, which
will be laid as as they are distributed along
the line of the road.
A reduction of cent per pound in the freight
rate on hops from the Pacific coast to eastern
points has been made by all transcontinental
roads. The old rate was 3 cents The new rate
goes into effect Sept. 2.
The Central Iowa's traffic contract with the Chi
caeo Burlington & Quincy. by which the latter
becomes its Chicago connection, taking freight
from keithsburg. is understood to be working
well. The company is also doing an eastbOuld
business over its Peoria line.
AS matters stand the Pennsylvania people
need not be in haste to secure possession of the
South Pennsylvania road. Construction is sus
pended for the present at all events, and there
is no probability that the road will be built to
compete with the PENNSYLVANIA road for many
years to come, whatever its ultimate fate may
be-
Superintendent Egan, who has just returned
to Winnipeg from tour of inspection over the
Canada Pacific railroad line extending as far as
the termination of the track in the Sekrks. re.
ports everything in a satisfactory condition.
Between the two termini of the line gap of
only 125 miles remains to be laid, and i6 cannot
take very long to fill that in
AS an evidence of the greatly increased travel
from the East to California during the past sea
son. Sam Miller the tourist agent of the South
ern Pacific company. has reported that while in
past years from $3 600 to $4 coo has been consid
cred good return from the stage travel into
the Yosemite during July last July the travel
by the Madeira stage line amounted to over
$1,000
The New York Central Sleepingcar Company
has just furnished the Lake Shore 81 Michigan
Southern railway, to run through from Boston
to Chicago. four seeping-cars which are pro
nounced by competent judges to be the most
luxurious, elegant and comfortable cars evei
seen on any road in this country. These cars
are named "Lochinvar,' "Marmion st Albans
and Grenada" and will run over the Boston q
Albany, New York Central and Lake Shore
Michigan Southern railroads.
The Chicago Milwaukee g. ST. Paul Railway
Company has sent out little pamphlet OF eight
pages, which describes the trip from Chicago Il
San francisco over its short line and cOnnec
tions, the Union Pacific railway and the Central
Pacific railroad The little book mentions many
or the numerous important places along this
route, and it indicates briefly and in a salts
factory manner what ths accommodations anG
attractions for the traveller are. running
colored birds-eye view map at the tops o.
the pages shows the comparative altitude
of the many cities and points of interest The
| distance from Chicago to San Francisco by thu
route is =, $50 miles, and the time consumed liz
making the trip four aud onehalf days.