The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-10
Personal. Local and State Notes.

IN july.
Personal. Local and State Notes.
A new railroad between New Albany and
Jacksonville is being located.
T. H. Valley has been appointed agent of
the Vandalia at Glendale, vice +. Curtis
resigned.
John B. Carson, general manager of the
L., N. A.. 81 G.. road, has gone East. He ex-
poets to be absent several days.
The Indianapolis car-works were yester-
day awarded the contract to furnish new
trucks for $50 cars of the Georgia Pacific
road
There is the best of authority for stating
that the general offices of the Decline will
remain at Cleveland for the present at
least.
The Ohio railroads want the Legislature
to give them the canals in that State, as
Pennsylvania has given hers to her rail
roads.
is moving to secure control. of a line into
Chicago independent of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois.
The roads are putting in new cross-ties by
the thousands this spring, being able to do
such work fully a month earlier than in
any former year.
Edgar Hills, general freight agent of the
several weeks, has returned, fully relieved
of all paralytic symptoms.
The Indianapolis & ST. Louis road is re-
ceiying. from the Edgar Thomson steel
rail-mills $500 tons of steel rails, weighing
sixty-five pounds to the yard.
The Decline received direct from the
Schenectady 1ocomotive-works yesterday a
heavy switching engine. 1t is numbered
40, and is of superior build in every re-
spect.
1t is stated that a relentless war against
the ticket-scalpers is hereafter to be one of
tho hnhhrao Of tho Vnforufa 70 oIuvnx A-zo-
citation, as well as the Central Traffic Asso-
citation.
Superintendent Boyd. of the Indian
apolis, Decatur & Western, has gone to
New York. and Auditor Neale, of the same
company, to Baltimore. Both will be away
week or more.
During last winter but seventeen broken
rails were found ON the Bee-line system,
against $40 in the winter of 1888. The ex-
emption from broken rails is, of course, due
to the mildness of the winter.
The Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
has Joined the list Of roads which are to
better observe Sunday. Last Sunday not a
freight train was run over the road and no
switching was done In its yards.
w. G. Irwin. chief engineer of the Bee
line, who, in company with the road mas
tiers of the several divisions of the system,
has been inspecting the lines, is in the city.
He reports the track in excellent condition.
The citizens of Crothersville are moving
to raise a subsidy to induce President
Mackey, should he build a branch of the
Evansville IL Richmond road to Madison,
TO locate 1T so as to pass through CrOthers-
vile.
General Manager Beckley, of the Cincin-
natl, Wabash & Michigan, is taking sound
ings at Anderson as to what IL will cost the
company to get out of Anderson on the
south. providing it builds an extension to
Nashville, Ind.
Cleveland is no better off than Indianap-
oils as regards its stcelrail-mill, as its mill
has been idle now nearly two wears, it be-
ing impossible for the Cleveland mill to
compete with the Pittsburg mills in the
matter OF prices.
The average gain in the fourth week of
March IN gross earnings, so far reported, is
3 per cent. over the corresponding period
last year. For the month of March the
gross earnings with tifty-five roads is near
ly 10 per cent. over last year.
Should the earnings of the Ohio, Indiana
d Western road continue as large for the
next three months as for the last six weeks.
the company will be able, o n July l, to pay
the coupons which fell due on April l and
those which fall due on July /, 1883.
The raised platforms atthe Union Station
sheds which. with the opening of the new
station, were so severely denounced, are
now we'll thought of by the trainmen and
please the travelling public on account of
their convenience In getting on and off
trains.
While the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany has long followed the practice of
building q large per cent. of its own loco
motives, it is no secret, says one of its mas
ter mechanics. that the same engines could
usually be bought cheaper from contract
firms winch build locomotives.
1t is stated that the May pay-rolls will
show about 1900 men dropped from all de-
partments on the Pennsylvania lines east
and west of P~ittsburg. On the Union Pa
citic 5000 men have been dropped. The pay
roll for April will show but 11,720 men in
the eompany's employ, against 1900 one
year ago.
Notwithstanding the statement that the
Pennsylvania liues have suffered in their
business through the rulings of the inter-
state law no one has charged them with
trying TO press n repeal of the law. but TO
the contrary the impression prevails that
the recent amendments TO the law were
instigated by the attorneys of the Penn
sylvania lines.
j. b. Eckman. secretary of the Indianap-
oils Weighing and Inspection Bureau, states
that In his notices 10 wholesale men on
South Meridian street he has given them
more for their own benefit than
on account of a desire TO be over-Officious.
On Saturday last one of the Meridian-street
merchants. he alleges. shipped a box over
the Nandalia. billing il as hardware. which