The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-31
Persona. Local and stste Notes.

Personal. Local and Stste Notes.
Owing to illness in mis- family yicepresident
FELTON,, Of the Erie. has postponed his trip
abroad.
Continental line al Peoria, Ill, vice Il. J. Ora
ham resigned.
A railroad telegraph operator 1T Columbus,
O.. has written q novel on the rail- and wire
which will soon be published.
Carlton c. Crane has been appointed repre-
sentative OF the Vanderbilt lines in the North
west, with headquarters at Portland, Ore.
The Michigan Central road is making extern
sive improvement to its Mackinac division and
will soon put on fast trains between Alpena and
Detroit.
j. W. Woodrow, engineer of maintenance of
way on the N~icksl-plate, has resigned to take the
superintendency Of the Smith bridgs-works at
Toledo. o.
C. S. Tappan, general manager of the Nickle-
plate fast-freight line. will remove his head
quarters from Rochester. N. Y, to Buffalo. N.
Y, on june !.
The cattle rate war between the Western
roads is increasing in bitterness. all efforts OF
Chairman Midgeley to bring about . settlsment
proving futile.
Judge Cooley is quoted as saying shas the
Interstate Commission would insist on the
Pennsylvania Company making public their ex-
port rates via Philadelphia
The roads in this territory are feeling the et-
fscts of the high waters which have been troub-
ling the Northwester lines the last ton days in
q sharp falling of in freight
The damages to the Peoria extension Of the
Lake Erie e. Western road from the heavy fall
of rains of late have been repaired, and trains
will begin to run again to- day.
Geo. MeGrew on June / commences'his thirty
fifth year in railroad service. twenty-six Of
which have been on the Panhandle lines. In
this long period he has never lost Q days pay.
In the room under the McNabb House. which
the Western Union Telegraph Company has
leased for . depot telegraph office, are eighteen
sets Of teleeraphic instruments, which are kekt
busy most OF the time.
w. NJ. Garstang, ex-master mechanic of the
Bee-line shops at Briehtwood, left last night 70
assume the duties Of general master mechanic
of the Chesapeake e. Ohio road. He has the
best wishes of . host OF friends, made during
his stay in Indianapolis. ,oa g
Judge Cooley stated to a reporter of the Pitts
burg Dispatch that 90 soon as the commission
reached Washington they would flush up some
unimportant old business they have new on
hand, and the next rseular meeting OF the com
mission for the consideration of new business
would be held on June 10.
P. S. Eustis has been appointed general pas
ssnger aud ticket agent of the Chicago, Burl-
ington & Quincy railroad, vice Paul Morton.
who was appointed general freight AGENT on
May %, and who has since been filing both Of
hSCS <hI' IL obptoeOhs kobOfoA pooScb
ger and ticket agent of the Burlington's lines
west Of the Missouri.
Subscriptions are being raised through Ohio
to secure the New York. Mahouing &iWestern
road, which is to run from Fort Wayne. Ind,
near the Airline to Red Bank. Armstrong coun-
ty, Pennsylvania. Contracts to furnish the
steel rails for 317 miles of the proposed line
have already been awarded, the North Chicago
rolling-mills getting the greater portion.
The passenger rate war in all directions in
creases in bitterness. George Butler. who for
twelve years past has been selling tickets for
the Indiana. Bloomington g Western on South
Illinois street, says that at no time durine that
period has he known passenger rates in alfai-
~rections 80 much demoralized. Excursionstiek
cts to Western points, which should be- sold
only for two days Of each month. are sold nov
all the time.
The 200 gondola coal cars which the Indian
apolis car-works contracted to build for the Bee
line have all been delivered and the company
contemplate ordering another 100 Ears Of the
same pattern. The Chicago & Northwestern
was the frst road to introduce twenty-6ve-ton
coal and ore cars and now all tho leading roads
of the country which haul this class of freight
are building them. The large cars are much
more easily and economically handled