The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-21
Personal, Local aud state Notes.

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Out Of :, $40 stockholders in the Pullman Pal
ace car Company LAT are residents of New
England.
C. 6. Tappan, general manager Of the Nickel
plate fsst.fre;ght line, was in the city yester-
day on official business.
W. o. johnson, formerly with the Lake Shore
road, has been appointed assistant to President
Benedict, Of the Chicago e. Atlantic.
Pennsylvania trains were subjected TO . sin
gular delay on Tuesday night ut Pi,tsbure, the
refusal OF the pneumatic switches to work hold
ing them back for over an hour.
General Freight Agent Poe, Of the Mobile &
Ohio road. has ordered the agents OF the COM
psny to bill free and with dispatch all contribu-
tions to the yellow fever sufferers.
Yesterday seems to have been a field day with
the Pennsylvania lines. They handled In the
Union station l62 coaches, the largest number
handled in any one day for some years, IL ever
before.
J +. W. Patterson, who for several years has
been roadmsster Of the New York d Western
road, has been appointed general superintend-
emit of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie road, succeed
ing T.. Holbrook.
Notes OF the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
road. payable in fifteen and twenty-seven
months, and bearing 6 per cent interest, are
offered on the Boston market. They were given
to the indianapolis Car Company In payment
for equipment.
It has leaked ont that George K Blanchard.
chairman OF the Central Traffic Association,
asked for an advance IN salary TO 1000 year,
and the general managers did not think the d.
rectors would consent TO such an advance, aud
declined TO make IL, consequently he resigned.
The Local Freight Agents Association yester-
day received the resignation of j. @. Van Win
kie as their chairman, and passed appropriate
resolutions on his departure for bis new feld, .
promotion which would be quite acceptable to
any member of the association.
For the first time 10 some years the Chicago
& Northwestern last week delivered more grain
at Chicago than did the Chicago. Burlington &
| Quincy, the G. & n. delivering 1,671 carloads
against ]. 500 delivered by the G., Il. Il Q. The
Chicago & Rock leland came third, delivering
| LILO carloads OF grain.
The indianapolis car works will, in q few
weeks, deliver the remaining coal cars on the
order for 2. 900 cars given by the A, I. & S. +.
This road will Their be in shape to do an i'm
mense coal traffic. The company expects TO
handle double the quantity Of coal on its system
this year than it did last year.
On all Pennsylvania line trains, unless IL is
on some of the small branches. the bell-cord 10
| gone and instead of 1t the air brake pipes are
used to blow . whistle In the locomotive cab.
The slightest touch of a delicate wire leading to
q valve in the brake system blows the whistle.
The Vandalia, as well, has adopted it on most
of its trains.
A notice wac expected by the general freight
agents yesterday announcing that the Penn
sylvania Company would restore rates on east
bound freights Oct /, but none was received.
kilograms from Chairman Blanchard, OF the
Central Traffic Association, in the afternoon in
dicated that he also expected such action would
be taken by this company.
G. III. Rockwell. general passenger agent Of
the c., II. Cd. roaq, was ia the city yesterday.
1t is quite probable that as Q result OF bis visits
another eheap-rate excursion to Cincinnati will
| be arranged, "but 10 will not drop to ST. one OF
| the C.. Isl. e ID mas eenQPr meu saws. '1uulesS
the c., l., ST. L. q {. should attempt TO run
another one. and then we would even up with
them"
A. h. Tucker, SUPERINTENDENT of the Canadian
division of the Michigan Central, has been ap-
| pointed general superintendent of the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio road, C. r. Fitch, super
tendent of the Mahoning division OF the same
road. relieving T.. b. Thomas, who has been
looking after these departments az general man
ager. Mr.. Thomas goes to New York on Oct. l
TO become general manager Of the Erie system,
which includes the N. T., F. & o.
To say that all along the Bee-lins there is gen.
ersl rejoicing that Judge Stevenson Burke has
been so handsomely vindicated in the decision
of the arbitrators in the Hooking Valley case is
no exaggeration. Bee line employees all think
well of Mr.. Burke, and it is now hoped that he
will be reinstated as vice PRESIDENT position
which he retired from when the suit was brought
In this case. The judge. in a conversation with
a reporter OF the Cleveland Leader, remarked
that the suit was one of the greatest villainies
ever psrpetrated. and that the fellows who insti-
tuted it would have to pay for ii dearly.
Thomas Rodd, architect and engineer Of the
new Union station, General Superintendent
Miller, Of the Pennsylvania lines west Of Pitts
burg. and several other railroad officials spent
most of yesterday at the new Union station no.
ticing how the large crowd arriving and depart
ing were handled. There are several minor i'm
p%rovements suggested which will, in part, be
carried out. that will greatly expedite the hand
ling of crowds on such occasions as the big DAYS
Of State fairs. Still, the crowds yesterday and
the day before were handled in o manner which
was very creditable to the mon in charge of tho
tracks. gates, etc.