The Indianapolis journal., 1890-02-24
Personal, Local and General Notes.

W
gan on n contract to build go refrigerator
cars for the American Transportation Com
paDy.
H. G. Allis, comptroller and assistant to
President Fordyce, of the st. Louis Arkan-
sas * Texas road, has resigned to engage
IN banking pursuits.
Z. J. Peabody. of Chicago, having re-
signed the secretary ship of the Train
dispatchers' Association, w. w. EglestOn.
of Louisville. has been chosen as his sue
cessor.
o. III. Brown. who for some years has been
claim agent of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road. has been appointed assistant
general freight agent, with headquarters at
Kansas City.
The Chicago * Eastern Illinois manage
ment is placing its bridges and trestles in
good condition. Over the Vermilion river.
near Sconce, a new iron bridge Is in process
of construction.
Assistant General Superintendent Peck,
of the Big Four lines, has issued notice
of the appointment of forty two surgeons
of the company. at points on the system,
for the year 1890.
will be resumed on the Louisville, Cincin-
natl & Dayton road. and it is proposed to
have trains running as far southwest as
Madison, Ind, by Sept 1.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
this week commence the building of q neat
ton. When completed most of it's passen-
ger trains will stop there regularly.
On April twenty five of the engineers on
the New York Central road, and who have
been in the employ of the company thirty
years or more, will take trip to California.
the company bearing all the expenses.
The Toledo, Findlay & Springfield Rail-
road Company has made arrangements to
run over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton into Toledo the former intersecting the
C., II. g. ID. at Bowling Green, some twenty
miles from Toledo.
The Pennsylvania Company. for the first
time In many months, is able to furnish
cars in some proportion to the demand.
The blockade east of Pittsburg is raised,
and the company Is able to get its empty
cars west with some dispatch.
The work of rebuilding the passenger
coaches which have been running for a
quarter OF q century or more on the Big
Four between Cincinnati end Lafayette
will be begun this week. All are to be put
through the Brightwood shops.
President Galloway. of the Toledo, ST.
Louis d Kansas City road, who has been
returns with authority to purchase addi-
tional equipment and make other much
needed improvements to the property.
f. w. La Baum. formerly assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the st. Louis
Arkansas a. Texas road, has been appointed
l.. 4. Day, formerly assistant general
freight agent, is made general freight
agent
There were transferred over the Belt road,
last week, 1887 cars, against 1884 cars in
the corresponding week of 1889; increase
this year. 563 cars. Belt road engines, last
week, handled 500 carloads of live stock,
an increase of ten over the number of car
loads handled in the corresponding week of
1889.
ID. Bowes. who for years past has been
general agent of the Chicago & Alton road
has been appointed general Western pass
enger agent of the road. vice s. III. Knight.
deceased. His headquarters will be ST.
Louis. This position is next in Importance
20 that of General Passenger Agent Charl-
ton.
The Gettysburg & Harrisburg Railroad
Company has decided to build q road in a
direct airline from Gettysburg to WASH
ington, ID. G. The road will connect with
the Pennsylvania road Just outside of Bal
timore. and will use the terminals of the
Pennsylvania Company at Baltimore and
at Washington, which means that the
Pennsylvania is behind the enterprise.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton 81 DAYTON
company has purchased the Strong engine
which they had in service for short time
The engine. which has been in the shops
undergoing repairs, will be out this week
It Is claimed that it will run, with ten cars
ninety miles an hour. The best record it
has made on the e., II. & I'D. was In running
from the Belt road. Indianapolis. to Pales-
tine. l1.6 miles. at an average speed of sev-
enty-two miles an hour, hauling six cars.
1t is said to be the purpose of the Big
-Four people TO put the Whitewater Valley
road in the best physical condition and then
work for local business chiefly. Conners-
vile Is one of the best points on the road,
and here the company has twelve private
switches leading TO manufactures, lumber
and coal-yards Connersville loads for
both roads doing business there about
twenty-five carloads of freight a day,
largely furniture. carriages and buggies.
The Big Four people will to-day begin to
use their new round-house at Riverside, a
short distance out from Cincinnati. This
is said to be the model ronnd-house of the
West. The walls are of brick, resting
on a stone foundation, and the roof which
is of slate, rests on a large truss. and be-
tween the stalls which number eighteen,
there is not the least support. everything
being clear TO move about. The building,
and each pit over which the locomotives
stand. is heated by steam. There is a
wash-room for the engineers and tiremen,
and IN every respect 1t is q model round
house.
An Eastern paper in commenting on the
annual report of the Lake Erie d Western
road, says that 1T is worth noting that la
the operating expenses there has been no
reduction Of the maintenance of the prop
erty in order TO achieve net results. An
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