The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


road II seems that the iron has played out
The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern road
has added three elegant new dining-cars to its
passenger traffic. The cars cost $l4, 900 each.
The Chicago committee have agreed that the
junction points known as Seneca, Streator,
Dwight and Kankakee should be taken into the
Chicago pool
At the same time that the Illinois Central is
arranging to extend its lines north aud south it
continues to declare the regular per cent semi
annual dividend.
A line is projected from Kansas City to New
Orleans and the citizens of Hot Springs are
taking steps to secure the location of the road
through that place.
It is estimated that the building of the extern
sions already determined on by the Chic ago
lines will involve expenditure of So, 0OO 600
within the next eighteen months
The pool known as the Associated Roads Of
Kentucky. Tennessee and Alabama. comprising
the Cincinnati Southern and Louisville s. Nash
vile. win cease to exist after Aug. l.
.'The Ballast the official organ of the Monon
route. is an attractive eieht-page paper, filed
with valu able information about the resorts
reached by the Monon and its connections.
n. II. Oeen
passenger agent of the Kansas City, Fort Scott
Il Gulf road, with Office at Cedar Rapids, Ia.
vice w. A. Dennis, transferred to other service
Mr. Edwin Fitzgerald. general manager of the
Kanawha Dispatch, which is operated over the
Big Four and Huntington system. is to sever his
connection with that line on the first of next
month.
The discharge of the veteran conductors of the
Ohio & Mississippi railroad continues, and ii the
thing is kept up much longer Superintendent
Bent will have an entirely new force under his
command.
The San Antonio & Arkansas Pass railway
now in the course of construction, has been COM
pleted to Papalote Station. 1l6 miles south of
San Antonio, and trains commenced running on
Saturday last
About four hundred feet of track on the West
Shore road between Lyons and Clyde n. Y,
sunk in quicksand over which the road bed had
been LAID. A temporary track has been built
across the break.
The citizens of Odon, Daviess county want D.
g. Mackey to build railroad from Elnora to
Lawrenceburg. and will ask the County Com
missioners to allow them to vote $40 600 In aid
Of the enterprise
There was good reason for the boom in New
York & New England preferred this week. The
courts have authorized the directors to declare
dividend, and this will be- done on next Tuesday
"a per cent. for six months
It is estimated that five miles Of shedding
railway in the Sekirks; that the cost will be
about ST. 200 000 and that the sheds will be COM
pleted by the lst of December
The St Louis Arkansas & Texas road will be
widened to standard gauge, and completed to
St. Louis. The Illinois Central will make a con
nection with the st. Louis Arkansas & Texas
either at Clarendon or Brnkley.
The extension of the Covington & Macon rail
road to some point in Florida is in a fair way
be speedily built surveying corps is now be-
ing organized, and pioneer is riding southwark
from Macon blazing out the way.
3 Mr. G. p. Huntington, president of the South
.ern Pacific railway. will submit proposition TO
the people of Greenvile, Tex, for the extension
Of the Houston g. Texas Central railway to that
place, distance Of fifteen miles or so.
The Boston &c Maine has, it is stated, secured
control of the Providence & Worcester, which
with its newly acquired Worcester 81 Nashua,
gives it direct route between Portland and the
Rhode Island and Connecticut sections.
Colonel Hayes. OF Lawrenceburg, has gone
over the route of the Louisville, Cincinnati &
Dayton railroad from Middetown to Madison,
with a view to taking sub-contract. The
Colonel says that Lawrencsburg township will
vote the tax.
A meeting of the rate committees of St. Louis
Peoria, Chicago Indianapolis and other points
was held at the Ohio pool office, Chicago, on
Thursday. 1t was decided to restore ali interior
Eates to tariff based on Chicago rates, to 60
into effect Aug. 16
MIR. Austin Corbin, having recovered suff-
eiently. will start to Denver next week. AIR.
Corbins voice is still weak, as a result of his
serious lung and throat troubles, and his physi-'
,Oiaas think that it is not unlikely that they will
have TO order him to spend this coming winter
An Florida
The Ohio Falls Car Company has finally de-
.cided to start the works at Jacksonville. and r.
s.. Ramsey has been re employed. An effort viii
also be made to secure the services of Mr. Ia. 1t.
Matthews, of the Pullman company, who for
merly held the position of general agent with the
Ohio Falls company.
Louisville, Jeffersonville and New Albany will
be the scene of very lively little rate soon
as the new Kentucky & Indiana bridge is
opened. The Pennsylvania people operating the
old bridge propose to put on twenty minute
trains and, if necessary to make it an object for
peoplegto patronize them>
The passenger department of the Monon route
have lust issued handsome book of over one
hundred pages, entitled Social Amusements y
containing choice collection Of parlor games,
tricks. eharades, tableaux, parlor theatricals,
figures and calls for dancing, ETC.. especially ar
ranged and adapted for home amusement
Last night 345 miles of the main line of the
Chicago, Burlington d Northern had been laid,
with only ten miles remaining to complete the
road Within few days there will be another
line between Chicago and St Paul. About the
time the Chicago Burlington & Northern opens
look out for another Northwestern war.
The stockholders of the Central Ohio Railroad
Company have made arrangements to refund the
original per cent. bonds, amounting to s., $780,
900, issued for the completion and equipment of
the road, falling due in 1888 The new issue
will run for forty-fve years, and will bear Al per
cent. interest. 1t has also been arranged to
have the title of all the lands along the road
which are now vested in the Baltimore g. Ohio
road transferred to the Central Ohio.
#. D. Heustis. who has the contract for build
ang the road-bed Of the Chicago & Indiana Coal
mad M lair n Lac rae
menced active work. The grading will be ready
for the iron in ninety days. The distance from
FAIR Oaks to Lacrosse is twenty-six miles, and
at the latter place connection is made with the
Chicago & West Michigan road The object of
The extension is to ges market in Michigan for
Lndianas celebrated block coal and to bring the
Michigan lumber this way in return.