The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-28
Personal. Local and state Notes.


Transfers over the Belt road are again running
two thousand or more cars o day, which shows
that traffic with the through lines is improving
greatly.
Railroad men are somewhat encouraged re-
garding rate matters. now that the lake vessel
owners have advanced grain rates &C per bushel
all round.
The Cincinnati, Wabash s. Michigan people
have the bridge which went down a few days
ago replaced, and all their trains are sgain
running on time.
The Wagner SleepinG-csr Company now oper-
ates over twenty-five railroads. Those run over
the Bee-line pay the best, after excepting the
New York Central and the Lake Shore roads.
The contract for building . double track on
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, from Chicago to
Momence tthirty-four miles, has been awarded
to T. II. Winston, the work TO be completed by
Oct.l
1t is expected that II. E. Ingalls, will reach
home about the Sd of August, and IL is under.
stood that Immediately on his return he will be
appointed receiver Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railway.
Within the last day or two the C., l., st. L. 6
G.. has brought In twenty carloads Of steel rails
for the Citizens Street railway Company,
shipped from a rolling-miil on the Baltimore 81
Ohio road.
A. ]. Earring, assistant superintendent Of the
Chicago. Milwaukee q ST. Paul road, is now
acting superin tendent, no successor to General
Superintendent Clark. deceased, having yet
been selected.
At several points on the Indianapolis. Decatur
& Western road, yesterday, shippers were load
ing oats of the new crop, and the demand for
cars indicates that oats. as well as wheat, will
be moving nRiskiy by next week.
Next Monday the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indi-
annapolis will open its Findlay division for bust
ness, which brings that road into competition
with Lake Erie & Western and the Ohio, Indi-
ana x Western for Western business.
Nine miles of the Chicago e Indiana Coal
roads extension from Goodlapd. Ind. TO Mo-
mence. Ill. Is completed. leaving twenty-five
miles yet To build before connection is made
with the Chicago & Eastern Hines road.
Toe Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis road is
getting matters into shape TO do . good business
this fail. With the recent additions to its
equipments it owns thirty-two good locomotives
ttwenty-three of them nearly newl, forty pas
sepaer coaches and S42 freight cars.
The merry rate war on cattle and provisions
is still on, but on dressed meats it has stiffened
up q little. An impression now prevails that
the cutting will close when the shipments
of grain set in earnestly. The crops are heavy
and the roads will be taxed to their utmost
capacity.
That the intsrstate-commercs act has no ter
rors for general passenger agents Is demonstrate
ed in tho fact that both lines are selling round
trip tickets from Chicago to Cincinnati, this
week. at 81. 80, while the rate from indianapolis
TO Cincinnati, l84 miles nearer, is S. for the
round trip.
Train No. l over the Pennsylvania lines Is
now doing such a heavy business that the Penn
sylvaDis and Nandalia compaEies are thinking
of running it in two sections. This is the noon
train west over the Vandalia, and it is one Of
the most popular trains run over the road, I'M
less tits the 'Psnnsylvania Special"
William p. Bixby. formerly a civil engineer
on the Wabash, then on the Chicago & Indiana
Coal road. but moro recently oE the Fort Scott
& Western road, died on Monday last at Wich-
its- His remains were taken to Francistown,
n. a., for burial. The deceased was with w.
S. Lincoln, chief engineer of the Wabash, for
ten years. commencing with MIR. Lincoln as
chairman.
According TO General Freight Agent Paul
Morton the strike, which has now been on some
six months, has cost the c., b. & Q. road be-
tween 81, 500, 600 and 81. 600. 600. The strikers
place the figures higher. In either case, the loss
has been larger than some Of the stockholders
care TO lose. Those, however, who know the
situation with the g.. B. & O.. express the
opinion that within ninety days the road will be
earning more than at any time in its history, in
spite of all the evil predictions.
The general freight agents of the roads doing
an esst-bouud business out of st Louis have
set an excellent example. One of their number
learned that q certain line was secretly cutting
the grain rate, and instead of getting mad aad
meeting the cut he got the other freight men
together, talked the matter over, and then one
by one they labored with the rste-cuttiug agent.
The pressure was so great that he withdrew the
rate and now they are again solid all along the
line.