The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-24
MORE TRACK ROOM NEEDED
Union Station Facilities May Be TooLim-
tied to Handle Veterans in 1898.
How the Train-Sheds Can Be Lenethened-
Prosperity of the c., II. & D.-The Nickel.
Plates Cut Rates Withdrawn.

Every time there is more than the ordi-
nary volume of business passing through
the Union station, as during the last few
DAYS of the fair. the G.. A. II. business. the
Y. p. C. e. business. or. IN fact. any great
annual meeting. ~ is made evident that
the train sheds and the leading tracks from
them to the various railroad tracks are not
of o proper length. Said q chief engineer:
The Union Railway Company should at
once carry it's heavy stone masonry and
iron girders as far east over Pogue's run as
Virginia avenue, then put down two addi-
tional tracks to accommodate the trains ar
irving and departing. On the west the I. II:
& L. freight depot should be removed and
the tracks ON the west extended to Missls-
eippi street the train sheds could then be
extended to Tennessee street, and eventu-
ally this Improvement must be made. The
curves are SO short on the west END or the
train sheds that 1t Is difficult to get sleep
ing cars or ttn-wheel passenger engines
over them without injury to the equip
ment and some risk of leaving the track.
In fact. the present depot and train sheds
seem as inadequate to handle the business
asdid the old Union Station before the
new one was erected so great has been she
increase in len 9Th of trains and the rcduc-
tion of time given to handle them ct the
ODlOu CthtlOu.
Growth of Traffic with the C., H. 6 ID.
A railroad official of extended service
and we'll informed on railroad matters gen.
orally says he dou BITS il there is q road one
hundred miles in length in this country
which, under similar conditions, has shown
such an increase in business az has the In
%dianapolis division of the c., II. Il ID. 1t
is but q few years ago that it bad two
through trains between Cincinnati and In
dianapolis: it now has five each way, all OF
which are paying trains. FIVE years ago
If the receipts from sales of tickets at the
Union Station. indianapolis, exceeded $50
10 BIS a day il caused surprise: now, should
they drop un;ler $50 to $500 n day the sur
prise would be greater. The growth of its
freight business at this point is equally
loaded cars were handled at Indianapolis
in q week it was good business. and tive
years ago. five hundred was a surprise; now
an average of one thousand loaded cars are
handle by the line at indianapolis weekly.
This Is the more creditable to the road from
the fact that at Indianapolis it has no road
which 1t can call q fixed connection; the
vsndslia. the Indianapolis. Decatur a.
Western, and the Lake Erie ~ Western
work amIcably with it, but independently
II they choose to do 80. All this results
from the placing of good men at the heads
OF the various departments, placing good
GuulVAuQut I'LL " lluO III v tt0lno
at good speed and safely. II know of no
road said the official. "on which better
work has been done, or the results have
been more satisfactory, than on the one
u. division OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton"
The Nickel-Plate Whipped Into Line.
All danger Of an east-bound rate war
seems to have been averted for the present.
The Nickel-plate announced yesterday the
withdrawal of the one-way rete of $3.50
and the round-trlp rate of sA between Chi
caco and Buffalo. As the rate of e12. 30 to
New York had already been Withdrawn.
shis brings the trouble to an end. True,
there Is st,n some grumbling because the
Nickel-plate has made an excursion rate of
$3.50 from Chicago to Buffalo to q party OF
real-estate men. but il Is not likely that
the other roads will permit 80 trifilng an
incident to draw them into q tight.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
J. ID. WEIGH. general agent of the Union Pa
ciiic. Is In the city on official business.
HI. McGaffet is building q $500 depot at
Shirley, on the Peoria & Eastern road.
The @. A. r. people begun to return from
Washington yesterday, and to-day the Big Four
looks for a rush OF business from this source.
J. d. Brannan. chief train-dispatcher of the
Michigan division OF the Big -Four, has been
called TO youngstown, o., to bury his mother.
<eoLhO
City, this week have been shipping cars TO the
Northern Pacific road at the rate Of fifty aday.
It is stated that the Office of assistant gen.
eral freight agent OF the Michigan division Of the
Big Four Is soon to be abolished, as an econom-
ical measure.
The Evansville & Terre Haute company Ia put
ting In four fine iron bridges over important
streams between Terre Haute and Evansville.
one being over White river.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the Peoria
a Eastern, last evening left for Hot Springs, w.
Ne 20 he alaQnf fhrQa nr fnnr daVQ Mira RQr-
nard Is said to be improving In health.
1t is stated that negotiations are again pend
ing for the building OF a link 10 connect the Wa
bash and Wheeling * Lake Erie roads, which
would give the Wabash a good Pittsburg line.
George w. Boyd. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania, 10 quoted as saying
that the company's seashOre business had been
the heaviest this year in the history OF the road
The Big -Four lines are overwhelmed with busl
Iess. One of the superintendent says at the In
on tne several diyisions over :. 500 loaded cars ! 3
day.
superintendent Reynolds has but twenty en-
gines on his division tthe Old Bee-line) to do the
work between BrightwOOd and Gallon, and from
twenty-six TO thirty trains are hauled over the
road daily.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton still re-
CINE. and is testing 1t in hauling the fast through
freight trains. &c Ia doing good work, and IL 10
probable the c., H. d ID. Will purchase It.
III. n. Daniels, formerly Of the Lake Shore
road. has been appointed superintendent of the
telegraph operators ana wires of the Pniladei
phia d Reading eompanys Lehigh Valley dt-
vision, with headquarters at Buffalo. N. Y.
An official of the Louisville. New Albany Il
Chicago states that it 10 as good as settled that
the Monon will build TO the block coal fields of
Clay county, utilizing the line surveyed and
partly graded when the Breyfogle syndicate was
In power.
The survey for n new road from Michigan City
TO q connection with ono of the Chicago terminal
systems has been completed, and options are
now being taken for the right OF way. There
seems TO be little question that the friends of the
Chicago * West Michigan are behind the project.
A special train of eight new Wagner sleeping
coaches. drawnb by one OF the Michigan Centrafs
heavy ten-wheel passenger engines, pas sed over
the line yesterday, carrying 300 OF the general
ticket and passenger agents EN- route for Chi
cage, returning from the Philadelphia conyen-
ton.
General Manager Porteus, of the National Dis
patch line, said at Chicago yesterday Chair
man Midgley's efforts TO have freight rates re-
stored from Boston to st. Paul would certainly
fail, as some OF the lines had made contracts on
the basis OF the reduced rates that would not ex-
pire until the end of the year.
1t has been understood that on the first Of Oc-
eoeer the Terre Haute * Indianapolis (SaDdalia)
would take control OF the Terre Haute a Peoria.
c. w.. Fairbanks, president OF the L. II. & p,
said last evening that while the deal was pro-
into the control Of the yandalia At a. early q
date rs that mentioned.
The New York Central the last ten days has
been making some elaborate tests OF an air
brake, invented by a New York mechanic. and
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