The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-10
Miscellaneous Notes.

1t is proposed to get all the Transcontinental
roads together and again discuss the situation.
The mines along the different railroads in the
Pittsburg district doing we'll for this season
of the year. The great drawback appears to be
| scarcity of ears.
that the Council Grove. Usage City & Ottawa
railway has been extended to Admire, Kan,
forty-eight and three-tenths miles west of Otta-
wa Kan.
The two indefatigable fnancering and rail-
road-reorganizing gentlemen, Calvin S. Brice
and Samuel Thomas, have completed arrange
ments for the development OF their Duluth,
South Shore & Atlantic project by the purchase
of the Marquette, Houghton q Ontonagon rail
road.
Hungary has administer of Communications
in charge of transportation affairs, and espe-
cially of the state railroads. He seems not to
have bed of roses-at least he doesn't keep his
place long. The last one Baron Kemenv, has
just resigned, the state railroad expenses having
enormously exceeded the estimates. He was
the third Minister of Communications under the
present Prime Minister, Tisza
The st. Paul Union Stockyards Company, con-
trolling an extensive system, has completed ar
rangements for direct shipment from the North
west to Europe of ca title, grain and other
sreights, by refrigerator or improved cars and
fast trains to Staten Island, where transfer
aboard ship will be made far more cheaply and
The extension OF the Bellies Gap railroad
through magnificent coal territory, distance
of eighteen miles westward to the Susquehanna
river, has just been completed. The line is to
be extended still further to Punxsutawney,
where twill connect with the Rochester & Pitts
burg railroad This will give the Pennsylvania
another outlet for soft coal into Rochester, Buff
falo. and other points in New York State.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has
arranged with all lines originally forming the
Transcontinental Association for continuance
of the agreement whereby California winter ex-
cursion tickets were made good to return via
Portland and the Northern Pacific to Minneape-
lis and St Paul General Passenger Agent
Charles S. Fee gives notice that these tickets
can be exchanged at San Francisco payment
of $l5 for steamship fare and $40 exchange fee
A railway signaman in England having been
sent to Jail for six months because of blunder
in setting signals made by him, the Amalga-
mated Society of Railway Servants has protested
against the sentence, holding that the system
prescribed is so complicated that errors are un-
avoidable. But they have nice way of cover
ing them up If nothing serious happens-the
signalmen and engine-drivers meet and square
up" matters by agreeing to say nothing of each
other.
Work is to be begun at once on the Savannah,
Dublin 81 Western railroad. The construction
company has signed a contract to complete and
equip the line from Savannah to Macon, Ca. a
ulsLance Oh 1oi mites. IN elgnb months, ana TO
complete and equip the branch line from Ameri.
Gus to Dublin, Ca, distance of ninety miles,
six months later. The road will make the short
est route to Savannah from the great cotton
growing region of Americus- The new line has
been guaranteed &c, 900 bales of cotton by one
shipper in Macon, and will make connection with
several important steamship lines at Savannah,
and ultimately be extended to Birmingham, Ala,
c. b. Sidell, president of the construction com
pany, states that the entire system will be
turned over completed and equipped within
fourteen months.