The Indianapolis journal., 1890-10-30
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
John Roach has been. appointed road
master of the Chicago & Erie, with head
quarters at Huntington. Ind.
Horace Tucker, general freight agent of
the Illinois Central road, who has been OFT
for few weeks rest. has returned to duty.
William McPhail master mechanic of the
shops of the Lake Erie q Western at La
fayette. will retire from that position
Nov. /.
The average earnings of the passenger
trains of the Big Four lines the last fiscal
year were $1.01 per mile run. and the freight
trains averaged Sl.37 per mile.
ductOr OH the Vandalia, left with his
family, last night, for Cincinnati to attend
the funeral of his brother, Capt. James
Wise.
President Galloway and the directors of
the Toledo, st. Louis d Kansas City road
are this week inspecting the property.
tees. accompany the party.
The Car-service Association of Toledo
has so far harm0nized matters as to elect
William Crogan general manager Mr..
Crogan was chief clerk of superintendent
Whitseley, of the Lake Shore.
NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four
lines will leave Cincinnati this morning
for st. Louis on special train. Several of
the directors of the company and capitalists
interested in the property will accompany
him.
A director of the Toledo, St. Louis g.
Kansas City road says that the road Is for
sale. 1t is stated that both the Erie and
the Missouri Pacific are ready to purchase
it II it is to be sold on terms which will
justify taking hold of 1t.
A special train of three cars was hauled
from Terre Haute to Indianapolis, over the
Vandalla. on Tuesday, in eighty.four min.
On most any road but the Vandalie this
would be called a fast run.
J Harry Crawford, ST., says 1t is the inten-
ton to build the Indiana Midland road to
Paris. ILL.,, some forty miles beyond it's
present terminal. When he gets ready to
build the extension he says there will be no
trouble in securing the money to do it.
dalia and Kansas City division of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, Will, on Nov. ], leave that
road to take the position of division super
lntendent of the Columbus Il Hooking
Valley road, with headquarters at Logan, 0.
S. G. Reynolds, general agent of the
Florida Plant system of roads, and Albert
Wren. of the east coast lines of Florida.
are in the city. They state that the pros
poets for a heavy pleasure travel to the
Florida winter resorts were never more
hatteriDg
T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent
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friends in the East. Mr.. Goodman left the
Cincinnati. Sandusky & Cleveland road to
take his present position In 1868, and is the
oldest passenger man in service on the Pa
cific coast.
e The Pennsylvania Company is disposed
70 make EXTENSIVE XXI. Se Improvements at 10,
of the citizens through the City Council,
and by the exorbitant prices owners of
ground they desire to purchase have placed
on their property.
William Turretf. who, on Nov. 1, will retire
from the position OF superintendent of
motive power of the Big FOur lines, has
been offered a more lucrative position on q
prominent Eastern road. He said last
night that he should accept no position un-
til he had months rest.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois 10 making
extensive purchases of rolling stock. With
in the last thirty days contracts have been
placed for two complete Pullman vestibule
trains, four baggage cars, nine freight loco
motives and four hundred coal cars. sixty
thousand pounds capacity.
ID. s. Hill. general superintendent of the
Lake Erie * Western road. has been offered
the position of general manager of the
Queen q Crescent road Cincinnati South
ern.) He has its acceptance under Consid-
Grafton. 1t would be d,tficnlt to find a
railroad man better fitted for that position
than Mr.. Hill.
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st. Louis Nov. %. to take action on tho
proposition to build an independent line
from Montpelier TO Hammond, which
would give them Chicago entrance inde-
pendent of the Chicago a. Erie. A Wabash
official says there is no doubt as to the en-
terprise being carried out.
E. r Todd, general freight agent of the
West Shore road, and b. Howell, general
Eastern freight agent Of the road, with
headquarters at New York. are in the city
looking after freight matters. The busi-
ness taken out of here by the Nickel-plate
fast-freight line for Buffalo goes East
over the West Shore road.
Charles Nelson, general superintendent
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, is
in Cleveland comforting with the Erie peo-
pie on timetable matters. The through
passenger business between the two roads
has now reached such a volume that har-
mOnlous working arrangements between
the Erie and the c., II. 81 ID. are quite
essential.
A railroad fight is in prospect at Peoria
The Big Four and the Peoria q Pekin OBJ
ject to the Atchison, Topeka Il Santa Fe
and the jacksonville IL Southeastern cross
ing their tracks, which they must do to
perfect their new line from Chicago to st.
Louis, which, when in operation. Will he
shorter than any line now operated be-
tween those cities.
The Toledo g. Ohio Central manage
ment and the managers of the Chesapeake
x Ohio road, on Monday, held O conference
at Charleston. w. Va, to arrange satisfac-
tory traffic relations between the two COM
panies. The Toledo d Ohio Central people
have decided to double their track between
Toledo and Fostoria, SO heavy is traffic over
this portion of the line.
Auditor McNeale, of the Indianapolis, De-
catur & Western, has returned from New
York fully convinced that brighter days
are ahead for the l., ID. g. w. road. He
thinks that few weeks will develop some
surprises as TO the future of the property,
ani that five years from now it will be one
of the most important roads as to volume
of business coming into Indianapolis.
The royal blue trains which the Balti-
more az Ohio recently put on TO run be-
tween New York and Washington, ID. c.,
are similar in every respect to the vestibuie
trains which the Cincinnati. Hamilton Il
Dayton and the Monon are running be-
tween Cincinnati and Chicago daily. ex-
cept that the Il. IL .. trains are painted a
dark blue instead of the Pullman standard
color.
General Passenger Agent James Charlton.
of the Alton road. has been presented by
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