The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-23
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.


Additional Duties To Be Placed Upon Il. A.
Ford-Other Personal Paragraphs.
Col VIM. Shaw, general Western agent of the
! l., B. & W, spent yesterday In the city,
H NJ. Bronson, general passenger agent Of the
l., B. & W., Is again so i'll as to conf1ne him to the
| house.
! J. McCrea, president, and v. T. Malott, vice
president OF the Union Railway Company, spent
yesterday in st. Louis.
Aquilla Jones, president Of the Indianapolis
Rouingmill Company, returned yesterday from
| New York, and Ia so ill as to De confined to his
room.
Colonel Bennett s. Young, president, aud f.
B. SUahlman. vice-presdest and traffic manager
of the L., N. A. & c. system, were in the city
yesterday, and left for Louisville last evening.
j. Mcleod, general superintendent, and A. G.
Sala. division superintendent, of the L., N. A.
s. c., yesterday inspected the Chicago & Indian
apOlis Airline. Their train was hauled by the
fine new Brooks engine, No. 10.
Mr.. Ramsey. chief engineer of the Cincinnati,
| Hamilton Il Dayton system, was in the city ye5-
| terday. i. Miller, the newly-appolnted superVl'
sor of the G., ii. & l. division, accompanied
him, this being his first trip over the line.
From railroad man who Is posted TO the
affairs of the Baltimore Il Ohio road it Is learned
that Thomas NJ King will not resign the POSI-
tion of super .ntendent of the Baltimore Ohio
Railroad. but will continue to exercise the duties
OF the office in connection with his new appoint
ment of general manager of the Pittsburg d
Western railroad, and the various other railroad
enterprises he Is engaged la.
The programme of the Pennsylvania Com
pany is to make e. A. Ford general ticket and
Pittsburg road, vice ]. c. Ernst, resigned, head
quarters Pittsburg. Frank Van Densen, 1t is
said, is to be assistant passenger agent, head
quarters Chicago; or, in other words. he takes
Mr.. Ernsts place with less pretenLious title
II. r. Derlng is to remain at Indianapolis as as
sistant passenger agent.
| II oF ruho
Gently elected president OF the Chicago IL East
ern Illinois road; c. H. Ball of Worcester, Mass,
vice-president, and j. E. Knapp, of New York.
who represents a large stock and bond interest
In the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, and also in
the Evansville q Terre Haute road, are in the
city and will, with M. L. Ingalls,, president OF
the c., l., st. L. g. c., legyo for Chicago this
morning. This company will to-day elect a gen.
eral mananer TO succeed d. j. Mackey.
| A railroad man yesterday dropped the remark
| that the relation which the Evansville Terre
| Haute road. or D. j. Mackay, who seems to con-
| troll the property, holds toward the Chicago 81
Eastern Illinois and the Louisville & Nashville
is a clear Of the "tail wagging the dog" as
whichever way Mr.. Mackay chooses to vote his
| stock his vote controls election, This year
he threw his vote with the L. & N. people, and
it is stated that this caused the c. & E. I. di-
| rectors to throw him overheard as their vice
president and general manager.
Local Notes.
Paymaster Lewis, of the L., N. A. & C. system,
will pay to-day on the Chicago & Indianapolis
| AlI-iluo loF OClpUbI SGEhICS-
The Woodruff sleeping-car Company. on Mon
day next, put on two new and elegant coaches
to run between Louisville and Chicago over the
j., NJ & L. and c., St. L. & p
E. b. Stahlmau, Eice-president, says regarding
the successor of H. B. Smith, general freight
agent of the L., N. A. & c., that no conclusions
have yet been reached In the matter.
The time of the Decline over its entire system
is regulated by the st. Louis observatory. Daily
at IL o'clock, noon, the entire telegraphie wire
circuit is connected direct with the observatory
and the time is given by the beats of the pendu-
hIm.
At the meeting held in Chicago ON Wednesday.
:" rCcOnneifs- - +a re~"c tstttes of
| the lines running east nom PEORIA indianapolis,
Louisville, st. Louis and Cincinnati, should come
together at the earliest practicable moment and
adopt rates from those cities TO interior eastern
points, based on the Chicago rates. All these
changes to go into effect Dec. 3.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western road is
building several hundred cars of superior pat
tern, TO put in as their quota in the Great East
ern line which now operates Chicago Grand
Trunk into Chicago and from Stilwell Junction,
on the G. & G. T.. to Indianapolis. over the Wa
bash. Mr.. Walker, agent of the Wabash at this
point looks after the interests OF the Great East
ern line.
Mention was made, a few days since, that the
Great Western Disrs tch mad made arrangements
to carry its business for Terre Haute and points
on the Evansville IL Terre Haute road over the
T., II. g. l.. division of the Vandalia, the latter
connecting at Marshtield with the Chicago & At
lantc. On Tuesday the Great Western Dispatch
landed ten carloads of freight in Terre Haute
over this route four days out, from New York.
The new train placed upon the Cincinnati, In
dlanapolis, st. Louis & Chicago road, on SUNDAY
last, to run between Cincinnati and Chicago,
is receiving loud compliments from the press,
and that it is appreciated by the public is
evident from the fact that 1t was heavily
loaded every night this week. In the elegant
chair each reclining chair has been occupied,
ana the regular coaches are such grand affairs
that they are literally patronized.
At1Ia aI1uJ
on Nov. 1S made some changes in the through
services over the Indiana, Blooming ton & West
ern and the Chicago, Burlington Quincy. The
coach that formerly run on No. from
Council bluffs to indianapolis via Peoria has
been taken off and palace recninP-chair car,
with dra win rooms attached, has been substi-
tnted, running between Ottumya and Indi-
annapolis leaving Ottumwa on No. at 7:15 p. NJ.
The other coaches run between Creston and In
dianapUlis, between Council Bluffs and Indian
apolis, between Quincy and Indianapolis.
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