The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-20

NJ. Z. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
returned from the East yesterday.
Belt road engines last week handled IA
gu cars. 1,021 of which were loaded with
live stock.
The office of superintendent of motive
power of the Big Four lines 10 to be brought
back to Indianapolis.
j. M. Carpenter. president of the Chi
cago Il Eastern Illinois. has gone to Boston
to spend the holidays.
John G. Williams. general manager of
the Vandaiia lines, was in the city yester-
day on official business.
]. J. Turner, superintendent of the Pitts
burg division of the Pennsy lvania lines, is
in the city for a day or two.
r. s. Seibert has been appointed general
manager of the Nevada Southern, with
Headquarters at Needles. Cal.
Under the new order of things Chief
Engineer Kittredge, of the Big Four. is 10
report direct TO President ingalls,.
e.. Ii. Plat. now general superintendent
of the New York, Now Haven & Hartford,
after Jan. / is to be known as general mans
ager of the property.
Al. +. Ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
has set at $40. 000. 600 the sum that the Big
-Four lines must earn In 1898. This year
the lines will earn about S14, SOC, 000.
Anthony sneeves. for thirteen years su-
p~erintendent of the express business on the
Denver Il Rio Graude, will, on Jan. /, re-
tire to 60 into the banking business.
Within the last thirty days. on one di-
vision of the Big Four, three engineers and
five trainmen have been discharged for
using intoxicating liquors too freely.
In the last thirty days there have been
three collisions at Veedersburg, and the
three roads crossing at that point are NOV
ing to erect an inter locking signal at the
crossing.
The Pennsylvania lines weat of Pitts
burg will make holiday rates; the lines
of the trunk lines, will his year abolish
the practice.
P. c. Connolly, assistant superintendent
of the Chicago 81 West Michigan. has re-
sIgned. and Is succeeded by +. r. DaSe,
formerly u train-dispatcher on the Michi-
gan Central.
The freight-house of the st. Louis divi-
sion of the Big Four at Terre Haute ls to
undergo general repairs, as q result of q
short visit of General Manager Ramsey at
that point last week.
Eighty-five per cent. of the employees on
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg.
not including those on the extra list. are
now members of the Pennsylvania V0lun-
tary Relief Association.
George Ryan. formerly on the Big Four,
but more recently a passenger conductor on
the Chicago d Northwestern. died in Chi
cage last week, of typhoid fever, and was
buried on Sunday at Joliet. Ill.
The transportation department. of the
New Albany Belt and Terminal road has
been placed under the supervision of Will.
lam Stamper. who was for twenty-foul
years with the Pennsylvania lines.
DIR. j. H.. Talbot, medical examiner of
the Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief Asso.
citation. has gone to Cleveland to sttena q
meeting Of the several medical examiner
of tho ennsylvania lines west Of Pitts.
burg.
peake ~ ONO road has got ont a highly
illustrated Christmas book. Sketches and
Poems by Howard Saxby." which the de.
partment furnish when ten cents is sent Il
mail it with.
The low Chicago and Louisville rate.
which the Louisville. Evansville a. St
Louis road is making are emitting INTO then
local business. and may lead to an nd
vance, If not a restoration, OF rates between
the points named.
There are now two pay cars sent on,
monthly on the Big Four. and each is GU
ten days paying the employees. One pay
over the Peoria IL Eastern. the Sandusky
the Cairo and the Michigan divisions. and
the other over the five other divisions.
New England is likely TO have 'ome O
the progressive ideas of Western lines in
troduced. a. A. McLeod, who Was elected
president of the Boston a. Maize, hal
promised TO erect a new station in Boston
in place of the present inferior building.
The locomotive engineers IN this TERRITORY
are taking steps to have q grand unioI
meeting held in this city. with Grand Chic
Arthur in attendance, similar to the on,
held In Jack son, Mich. on Sunday, which
was attended by 800 locomotive engineers
Train 81, on the new schedule. arrived
over The Pennsylvania yesterday bu
nineteen minutes late; the Vandalia mad
NJ this time. reaching Terre Haute in on,
honr and thirty six minutes. or seventy
three miles in ninety-six minutes. hauiinI
eight cars.
The organizations in tho National Car-ser
vice Association. numbering tWenty-nine
In the quarter ending Nov. l handled