The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-03
Miscellaneous Notes.

In six years the number of miles of railway in
Florida has increased from six hundred to two
thousand.
Passenger traffic was begun Monday last on
the Galespurg & Rio railroad, the new Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy branch, connecting Gales
burg and Peoria directly with the Chicago. Bur
lington q Northern route.
the Western Maryland railroad has consum4
mated lease for ninety nine years of the Balti-
more & Harrisburg RAILROAD, the latter being a
consolidation of the Hanover junction, the
Hanover 81 Gettysburg, the Baltimore &
Hanover and the Baughrnan Valley railroads,
the whole aggregating mileage of sixty-seven
miles
The first special train on the Chicago Bur
lington q Northern made the run from st. Paul
to Chicago in eleven hours and ten minutes.
which is said to be the fastest time ever made
between those cities. For a good part of the
distance it is said that the running time averaged
a mile minute. This was the initial trip over
the road.
A large stakeholder of Atchison is enthusiasts
tic over the subject of the proposed Chicago ex-
tension, and says that the completion of the
Gulf Colorado & Santa Fe connection, added to
the Kansas and through business, will give the
Chicago line traffic enough from the Atchison's
own lines to pay 10 per cent upon the bonds
necessary to build to Chicago
At a convention of German naturalists and
physicians in Berlin, recently, Mr. Lichtenberg,
hearing of railroad men, and the effect of imper
fections ia it on the safety of trains. He said
that he had examined $50 railroad employees,
and found no less than ninetytwo of them, or
364 per cent, suffering from diseases of the ear.
The Grand Trunk is said to be intending to
extend the Midland road of Canada from near
Atherly and past the Muskoka lakes to near the
mouth of French river, and from thence on the
shore of Georgian bay to the Sault Ste. Marie
and across, by bridge to be built under an old
charter. At or near this point connection will
be made with the Northern Pacific, which is to
be extended easterly from its present terminus
on the south shore of Lake Superior.
The Huntingdon & Broad Top has requested
the Pennsylvania to furnish the company with
additional rolling stock. The Broad Tops equip
ment is inadequate for the unprecedented bust
ness now crowding upon the line. and as the re
suit several large and profitable contracts for
the shipment of soft coal have gone over to the
Baltimore & Ohios lines The Broad Top wants
T. 900 more cars and it wants the Pennsylvania
to furnish them as part of the new contract re-
garding the working of the Cumberland soft
coal fields.
Notices were posted Monday in the main
building of the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad
Company, at Philadelphia, stating that and
after Nov. IL the restaurant connected with that
establishment would be closed 1t has been In
operation for twenty years. and was started with
a view of saving time by having the clerks and
other officials take their meals in the building
The same system is in operation in the Pennsyl-
vania railroad building The closing of the res
taurant in the Reading building will save the
company 5000 per ahnum, and the clerks
whose hours are from $50 A. NJ. to 5 P. NJ every
day except Saturday, when they quit two hours
sooner, will be allowed half an hour for lunch.