The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-09

The Corydon branch railroad will be sold at
foreclosure sale on the 18th of this month at
Corydon, Ind.
The Cincinnati, Wabash G. Michigan road to-
day begins to sell 1,00O-mie tickets at 500
Heretofore this road has charged $25 for this
class OF tickets
The Indiana Midland is in trouble bridge
l4O feet In length, just east of Westfeld. went
crested II will De thirty days before the break
is repaired
The stockholders of the ST. Louis, vandalia &
Terre Haute road will hold their annual meet
interest is manifested in the result of this cleo
ton Of directors.
President ingalls,, ofethe c., l., St L. e. c.,
says there seems to be reason to fear that
general traffic with the railroads will not con-
tinue quite as large and as profitable the present
as in the past year.
In the year 1887 there were weighed at tho
e.: l.. >. L. q G.. freight depot scale weight.
I,59I OIL pounds OF freight; excess shippers
weight 1905 527 pounds. Increase in revenue
from weighing such freight, 81, 1883
In the week ending Jan. there were
transferred over the Belt road total of l3 447
cars, against 1856 the corresponding week Of
1886; increase this year, 1851 cars Last week
Belt road engines handled 922 carloads of live
Netock.
The longest piece Of straight track in this
country Is on the Union Pacific road, it being
sixty five and fraction miles. On the Mono1
division of the L., n. A. & G. road is found the
next longest, it being forty-six and one-half
miles.
The Lake Erie & Westerns earnings for the
eleven months ending Dec. 81, 1887 the
time that the present management has operated
the road. were 81 500 817 against ST. 643. I1S the
corresponding period Ia 1856. Increase the last
year, 1888, 649.
The high waters are giving the Lake Erie &
western some trouble. The temporary trestle,
erected few weeks ago, Dayton in place
OF bridge burned, has been unsafe to RUIZ over
and their trains have been running for a day or
TWO via Colfax.
In the year 1887, 5s8, $50 cars were transferred
over the Belt road, and $500 will more than
cover all damages to cars or trains moved over
the road during the year. This is a record that
Superintendent Whitcomb and his corps of
train dispatchers have reason to be proud of.
s d. Kramer. chief train dispatcher of the
Chicago q Alton with headquarters at Bloom
ington. Ill, has resigned, to take q similar posi-
tion on the Union Pacific, Kansas City division
Mr. Kramer was formerly on the c., II. g. D.,
and later on the Vandalia, and ranks among the
best of dispstchers
Repeated rumors that J. @. Clarke, formerly
of the Illinois Central railroad, had been, or
would be, appointed general manager of the
Mobile e. Ohio road, are now set at rest by the
official announcement that he has not only been
appointed general manager of that system, but
that he has also been elected vice-president of
the company.
At the request of the manage. en- Of the L.
b. & W.. G. Bonscaren, a noted ii 4 engineer
now chief engineer of the CinciL.4ti Southern
EUau, has put IN q week examining the bridges
on the several divisions of the l.. B. & W., and
any improvements hs recommen ds which will
give strength to their bridges will be made as
soon as practicable.
When freight traffic is as heavy over a single
track as 1t has been the c., l., St L. e G.
road the last few months it 10 almost impossible
TO move passenger trains schedule time and
TO remedy IN part this trouble President ingalls,
has ordered that the side-track room on the
western division. be largely increased. Some
twelve miles will be laid within the next few
weeks.
freight conductor suggests that the new
rules which the roads are adopting be changed
shat freighttrain crews can smoke when on
auty, but that en- ployes about a freight depot
should not be allowed to smoke when on duty
lie cited two where depots had been
burned and a large amount of freight consumed
where the fire caught from sparks dropped from
the pipe OF an employe handling freight
:, Harry Ora Word. the moving spirit in the In
diana Midland railroad, was In Terre Haute.
Saturday, working up interest in extendino
the Midland to that city. and he promised some
or the business men there that il would he dona
III the project to build the Terre Hanta a. M;ss;
Gippi road WAS carried out The track az tha
Midland is now at Waveland. Ind, and the next
point 20 be bulk to is Rockville. Parke county.
The high officials OF the Brotherhood of Loco-
motive Flremen have moved into their new
quarters at Terre Haute in Mckeen g Block The
Firemen's Gazette will be published from rooms
Ia that building. In speaking of this magazine
brand Chief Debs says il begins 1888 with a cir
sulation of 80, 900 copies. The ensuing year
Angus Sinclair, editor Of the National Car and
Locomotive Builder, is to be one of the contrbu-
tors to the Gazette.
1t is stated with seemingly good authority that
N. r.. ingalls, has made offer for the Toledo
Peoria e. Western road. and it is believed that
the first mortgage bondholders will accept his
proposition, as they feeling blue over the
money they had TO raise TO pay the damage In
the Chatsworth disaster, which means that they
WIZ receive no interest on their bonds for some
gears TO come. The road would oe valuable
one to the O., l.. st. l.. 81 c., and has always
been good feeder 20 it
The general passenger agents Of the roads in
She Chicago ~ Ohio River Association spent two
days IN Chicago last week. endeavoring to agree
on some plan for a better maintenance OF rates.
The only progress made was the appointment of
committee to devise some plan to bring about
such desired result and be prepared to report
o. another meeting. to be called in the near fur-
ure The most trouble is over the carrying of
theatrical troupes, and the fact that some of the
roads persist in working through scalpers-
William y. jackson says that he supposes
John Brough, whsn president of the Madison 81
lndisnspoiis road, the first railroad official
20 issue order that smoking when
on duty would be sufficient grounds
Fas faeh nf t.