The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-03
Local and state Notes.

NJ Hamilton, superintendent of bridges
tho c., FL. e. /. road. received as a holiday gift
from the men under him gold watch and
chain.
NJ Gileas has been appointed general mana
ger Of the Iowa division Of the Illinois Central
road. and Fl. Quimby has been appointed super
intendent CT the division.
w c. Hobbs who now represents the c., l.,
ST. L. & G. in Kansas City, is spending day
two with friends in this section. The company
is profting handsomely by its agency in Kansas
City.
J. D. Campbell. general solicitor of the l., B.
e. W., with headquarters at New York. is in the
West and yesterday. in company with General
Manager Henderson. made an inspection OF the
Peoria division.
F. NJ Irons has been appointed travelling pas,
senger agent of the Lake Erie g. Western road
with headquarters at Indianapolis, vice George
w. Haylor, who has been made cnleI clerk IN
the passenger department.
The new sch edule Of rules which are to govern
the movement of trains on the Bee-line will not
go into effect until March l, that all the train.
men may have ample time to study them, and
on that date ado pt them generally.
Mr. NJ A. Low has been appointed president
of the Rock Island system west of the Missouri
river. This appointment is recognition OF Mr.
Lows earnest work to increase the mileage OF
the system in Kansas and Nebraska
The Beelne people are to make another eff
fort to secure the white mail cars between New
York and ST. Louis, their strong argument be-
ing the better time they make to Indianapolis
and ST. Louis than do their competitors.
General Manager Bradbury, of the Lake Erie
& Western. returned yesterday from New York.
He will at once be in the market for 800 new
box-cars 5000 tons OF steel rails, and seventeen
spans of iron bridge averaging 100 feet in length
In the month of December there were twenty
eight theatrical troupes sent south out OF Chi
caeo and the L., N, A. & G. secured all but
three of them. Competitors. of course, say they
would have got their share had rates been main
tanned.
The hospital of the Wabash Railroad Compa-
there is good deal OF hard feeling over the
matter on the part of those who have assisted
in supporting the institution since it was
opened.
the L. E. e. st. l.. road was opened yesterday
for business contractor Horace Scott comp.et-
ing the twenty-six miles OF road per contract;
and in time for the company to secure several
subsidies voted.
With the compliments of the season. General
Passenger Agent Charlton, of the Chicago q
Alton, is distributing among the passenger men
an illustrated holiday card, in which he is shown
to be- literally distributing commissions from
bags of gold which lie outside Of a large safe
Albert S. White spent yesterday in the city on
his return from Cleveland to his headquarters
at ST. Louis He had been to Cleveland to be
present at the celebration OF General Freight
Agent Hills forty-third anniversary. The Off
Gals of the road made him appropriate presents.
e. c. Bradley has been appointed superintend-
emit of telegraph of all Pennsylvania lines west
Of Pitts burg. vice II. W. Wynkoop deceased.
MIR. Er adl3Y DeEan Is an ONCE OOy lOr tue euu-
| sylvania Company in Columbus, o., ten years
| ago, and has proven to be young man OF large
ability.
The probabilities are, says official OF the
| Pennsylvania, that the company Will own that
| portion of the c., H & d. road between Hamil-
ton O.. and Richmond, Ind, before the LIST OF
| March. This would give the Pennsylvania peo-
| Die a line of their own direct from Cincinnati
| to Chicago.
One of the officials of the Pennsylvania COM
pauy assigns as a reason for the frequent delay
| of their passenger trains the heavy freight
| traffic which is being carried over the Pennsyl-
vania proper, making it almost impossible to
| make the time in either direction between Pitts
| burg and New York.
| Sunday last the c., l., st. L. e. c. had thirty
| ty four freight trains on the main line at one
| time. One OF the reforms which Superintend-
| ent Bender proposes to inaugurate o n that road
| this year is that of doing less Sunday work On
| the first Sunday OF the year he certainly made
| but little progress in that direction.
There is official authority for stating that the
| Pennsylvania company intend. before the year
| closes, to have an independent line from Vim
| cennes to Evansville. 1t is proposed to build
from ST. Francisville to Evansville, using the
/ Cairo & Vincsnnes road between Vincennes and
| St. Francsville, distance of six miles.
There is not day that the provisions of the
| interstate law not violated by passenger men
at this point. and, in fact, at all prominent rail-
! road centers, yet no company has had the nerve
to bring the cutting Of rates by competitor be-
| fore the interstate commission. They were
| asked to settle question of discrimination, but
| never has the former matter been br ought be-