The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-08
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

On Friday last seventy-tw trains were handled
an the Indianapolis division of the Decline.
Sixteen freight trains were sent east on that day
from indianapolis.
Geo r. Blanchard. Commissioners of the Gen.
tral Traffic Association is making for himself an
enviable reputation as organizer. He handles
ugly questions with remarkable tact
President ingalls,, of the c.. l.. st. L. 6 c.,
awarded the contract for building 500 Dox-cars
on Saturday last The Terre Haute car works
build 25O, and the Lafayette car works the same
number.
That the Union Railway Company propose to
construct viaduct over the Meridian-street
crossing on grand and expensive scale ID EVIL
dent from the fact that they estimate its cost at
@128, 900.
The Evansville & Terre Haute earnings in the
fourth week of February, 1886, increased 81. 800;
month OF February, increased $9, 600. Outlook
good. General Freight Agent Grammar says, for
some weeks to come.
A railroad off cial of an Indianapolis road, who
recently advertised that they were in the market
for $50 boxcars, received bids from ten different
car works, and the prices on the same speci1ca-
tions between the lowest and highest bid varied
BIO per car. The wide difference was a matter
OF surprise.
The FIVE Western roads brought into this sta
fion last week 1855 loaded cars. against a. 054
in the week ending Feb. 81, and against 5582
the corresponding week 188o-decrease last week
rs compared with the preceding one, SO cars; de-
crease as compared with the corresponding week
1885, LOTT loaded cars.
Theodore F. Brown who represents the c., L,
ST. l. & G. in the South, headquarters at Chatta-
nooea, Tenn, spent the Sabbath in the CITY, To-
morrow he removes his family to Chattanooga.
Mr.. Brown is making an excellent record in
Southern territory, and Worrying competitors
who, in times past. have had their own way In
that part of the country.
financial cloud still hovers over the Indiana
Midland enterprise. Nothing has been done in
construction work for some weeks, and indica-
tions that the state of affairs will exist
for some weeks to come. This however, should
be said to the credit of the projectors. they have
paid all bills for labor and supplies far as they
have gone with conmeniable- promptness.
The train records show that on Tuesday last
the c.. l.. St l.. & G. brought into Indianapolis
ever the western division 302 loaded cars, it
being the largest incoming movement on this
division in the history of the road. Business over
this division OF the road for month past has
never been heavier This division of the Big
Four just now seems to be feeding nearly all the
roads out of indianapolis leading east and south
The Chicago s. Eastern Illinois earnings for
the month of February were: 1886, $l28 800;
1885, $107, 024: increase. $2l, BAL By the by.
the stock of this road keeps on advancing and is
now quoted as selling at 8Ia. Good earn
lngs, improving business and careful and
business-like management of the road have
placed this Boston enterprise in very favorable
light. and the rise of IL points in its stock thus
far this year is the result of the growing appre
citation of the roads position and earning
ability.
Below is shown the bound movement over
the four leading Eastern lines last week, rs COM
pared with the week ending Feb 81 and the
corresponding week in 1885,