The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-13
Personal. Local and State Notes.

The stockholders of the L., n. A. IL T..
road will hold their annual meeting to-day.
A. F. White general agent of the Missouri
Pacific. is spending a day or two in the city.
General Superintendent Hill and other
officials of the Vandalia are making trip
over the system this week.
Negotiations are pending looking to plac
ing the general traffic managership of the
Missouri Pacific road in the hands of j. A.
Hanley.
The Wabash management will place $50, -
600 worth of new steel in their track this
year. The rails are to weigh sixty pounds
to the yard.
The Pennsylvania people have aban-
doned their experiment. with the iron
crOss-tie, being convinced that its use is
not practical.
The Ohio Falls car-works is turning out
box cars at the rate of eighteen day on it's
contract of one thousand cars for the Penn
sylvania people.
Harry Fuller, general passenger agent of
the Chesapeake q Ohio road. is well set
tied in his new offices in the Grand Central
Depot at Cincinnati.
Traffic Manager Parker, of the Lake Erie
&. Western road, who has been confined to
his room for several days, is so much better
that he expects to be at his Office today
The Central Association of Railway Su-
perintendents meets in this city to-day.
Superintendent of the several roads CEN
tering in Cincinnati and Columbus will be
present.
Commencing with April 1 the expenses
OF maintaining the Indianapolis Weighing
and Inspecting Association will be paid on
the proportion OF tonnage each road handles
at this point.
G. H. Pinder, passenger conductor of the
Vandalia, who recently went to Hot Springs
to rid himself of rheumatic troubles, is rap
idly improving, and will be able to take
his train again in three weeks
Judge Cooley manages to be in Chicago
whenever there Is an important meeting of
the presidents and general managers The
Judges presence is said to have highly
moral effect on the railroad officials.
On April I the Bee-line Gazette will be
enlarged and made much more attractive,
although it is now one of the brightest and
most newsy journals of its character pub
lished. On that date it enters it's eighth
year.
During the brief illness of Austin Corbin
the bonds and stocks of the Ohio. Indiana
q Western road fell off sharply. His ILL
ness is said to have been exaggerated for
the sake of disturbing the stock and bond
markets.
Mr.. Emmons Blaine, who has resigned
his position as general freight and passen-
ger agent of the Santa Fe & California
road, is to be vice-president of the West
Virginia Central road, with headquarters
at Baltimore.
The L., N. A. & c. people expect to begin
grading for their track within the city
limits within the next ten days. The right
of way has been secured, except for some
seventy-five feet. from the city limits to
Massachusetts avenue.
The Pennsylvia people are reported to
have purchased the New York, Susque-
hanna & Western road. Charles r. Heald,
formerly general freight agent of the Phila-
delphia & Reading, road, was recently
elected president of the New York, Susque-
hannah & Western road.
The c., II. & d. company is putting fifty
Refrigerator cars into cervice on the Lake
Gulf line. This line operates over the
d. Texas Pacific, the Louisville & Nash
vile and the Louisville, New Albany e.
Chicago and its connections.
A rumor is current that s. II. H. Clark,
first vlce-president and general manager of
the Missouri Pacific, will soon resign. He
in their present inspection trip, and after
that will hand in his resignation.
j. l.. Hazard, who is well known in In
Hianapolis railroad circles, and who was
Ibilled for the general passenger agency of
sthe Chicago, st. Paul q Kansas City road,
but failed to reach the position. is to re-
main with the company as Northwestern
passenger agent of the road, with head
quarters at st. Paul.
Chairman Abbott of the Western Passen-
ger Agents Association, is still hunting for
the c., l., st. l.. &, c. ticket agent who sold
the tickets, reading to Colorado points,
| which have fallen into the hands of the
Chicago scalpers. Ticket Agent Dickson,
| of the Indianapolis Office, says that every
| thing is correct at this Office.
Unless reports are untrue some of the To-
| cal ticket agents are still selling tickets at
| rates which lay them liable to the penal
| ties of the interstate law, and if they are
| punished with something more than a dis
| charge from the service of the company
they represent it will not be a surprise.
| Especially are the roads in the Northwest
determined to have full rates and to see
that any initial line which cuts rates di-
rectly or indirectly is punished.
| 1t is feared that if the consolidation
scheme of the Decline and the c., l., ST. L.
company will give up building shops at
this point, making the shops at Brightwood
] answer the purpose here. One of the pet