The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-22

distances is supposed to be slightly inac-
curate. 1t will take several weeks Ito CON-
plete the survey,
There is trouble over the placing of the
local sleeping-coaches. vi late some OF the
roads have been running their coaches under
the train sheds. there to stand from 8 p. M.
until IL r. NJ. when they depart. There
has been some wrangling over the. location
of those run under the sheds, while others
could not get OH OF the spur tracks on
all will again be put back on the spur-
tracks. All will be placed on the ninth
track under the sheds.
The east-bound shipments of flour, grain
and provisions out of Chicago by the lines
in the Central Traffic Association last week
aggregated 27,925 tons. against 1889 for the
preceding week, an increase of twenty-six
tons, and against 81. 736 for the correspond
ing week last year. a decrease of Ash tons.
The Vanderbilt lines carried H.2 per cent.
of the business: the Pennsylvania, 24.3; the
Chicago & Grand Trunk, 16.6. and the Bal
tlmore 81 Ohio, 14.9.
Yesterday a number of railroad men from
st. Louis and Indianapolis, accompanied by
eight or ten leading business men of
Greenfield. drove from that city to Shelby
vile over the proposed new line of rail-
road. The road, as contemplated. is a line
from the Monon route west of Noblesvllle
to Nashville, and a line from Anderson to
Shelbyville. Elections have been ordered
IN Center, Brandy wine, Blpe Rlyel, Green
aid Vernon townships. Hancock county,
and there is little doubt that the subsidies
will be carried. NOblesville, Fortville,
Pendleton and the other towns mentioned
are all heartily in avo of the proposed
roads.
The employees of the American Express
Company are a good deal exercised over a
new order to the effect that every person in
their employ must give a bond of indemni-
fcatiOn in case of dishonesty. The bond is
adjusted to the salary of the employee. The
average salary of the messengers is $50 q
month, and they give a bond of $1,000. The
package I'M frei~ght-handiers, OF porters,
average S5 a month, and must give a bond
of $500. and the drivers the same amount.
The old employees at the Union Station Of
iices. who have been in the service for
twenty-five years or more. are most
troubled over the matter. Most of the ex-
pressmen will give their bond through one
of the guarantee associations. This will
cost the messenger $21 a year; the porter
$3.50 a year..
more freely. The roads in the Central
Traffic territory can now begin to make
comparisons with averages of other years
without to a disadvantage. For
weeks past they have been making compar-
isons with the weeks in which the excur-
sion tickets were sold to the Grand Army
of the Republic, which assembled last year
at Columbus, and the limit on such tickets
did not expire until Oct. 10. 1888. This
gathering at Columbus added many thou
sands of dollars to the passenger earnings of
such roads as the Feline. the Cincinnati.
Sandusky & Cleveland, the Pennsylvania,
and the Ohio. Indiana a. Western. The
last few weeks they have had no such
source of revenue.
Superintendent Woodland. of the Louis
vile, New Albany 81 Chicago road, was in
the city yesterday; also, MIR. Ryder, super
intendent of transportation, arranging the
new time schedule. Sunday next has been
liked upon for its taking effect. and. in con-
hection with the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton. their running time between Gin
cinnati and Chicago is to be made the same
as that of the Big Four. The morning ex-
press train out of Cincinnati wiz depart at
sos, reach Indianapolis at Hos and Chi
cago at 5 P. NJ. The night express will leave
Cincinnati at 10 p. NJ, reach Indianapolis
at lis A. NJ, and Chicago at 7:30 A. NJ. Com
ing south there will lie a change only in
the running time of the night express, it
leaving at $50 P. NJ. The train now leav-
ing there at lip. NJ. will be taken off. a
move which will doubtless please the COM
petitors of the L., n. A. 81 c., as this was
one of the best paying trains run south out
of Chicago.