The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-16

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Indiana Car-service AssocIst,o han
died in October %, 0S6 cars.
b. w. Taylor. engineer of maintenance of
way on the Louisville division OF the Penn
eylvania lines. Is seriously i'll.
A branch OF the Railroad Mems Y. Nj. G.
A. was organized at Frankfort, Ind, on
Sunday last with forty members.
The Ohio & Mississippi Is expanding
good deal of money on brih ges this year
Fine new steel bridges are being put in at
Medora and RiveIdale, resting on heavy
stone masonry.
J. L. Bromley, agent of the Lake Erie 81
Western at Kokomo, will retire TO engage
in commercial pursuits. Il. w. Wander
berg. of Michigan City. will be bis sue
cess0r as agent
Officials of the Louisville, Evansville &
ST. Louis say there Is not word of truth
in the report that Morris Mcdonald, train
master, was retired on account of the de-
mends of the trainmen,
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
Is taking from the Premier steel-works
five TO eight car loads day of steel beams.
which go into buildings IN Chicago and
other Northwestern cities
VT. Maiott. chairman OF the executive
committee OF the Chicago II Western lndi-
ana, returned yesterday from New York,
where he went TO look after financial mat
ters in which the company is interested.
Traffic Manager Grammer. of the Mackey
lines. has asked the management TO pur-
In the Mackey system he saws twenty more
engines could be used to great advantages.
L. +. Ccst assistant general freight
agent of the Big Four. with headquarters
at Chicago. who was for some weeks down
with the typhoid fever, has so far recov-
cred that he Is at his office q few hours
each day.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, No. ii, Indianap-
oils division. have arranged for a social,
literary and musical ENTERTAINMENT on the
evening of Nov. 50. to be followed by q sup
per and dance.
All ticket collectors on trans of the Ohio
AZ Mississippi were taken OF on sunday.
and the conductors are back in their usual
element. 1t Is intimated that the position
of ticket collectors on the Big Four lines
will be short lived.
The Big Four yesterday commenced re-
ceiving fret ght in the portion of the new
depot which Is completed. reaching ir by
the way of South street. AS the walls of
this immense structure 20 mp the more
striking does the Improvement appear.
J. K. Barnard. ex- president of the Ohio &
Mississippi, spent yesterday in the city the
guest of his daughter. wife of A. G. Wells.
superintendent of the st. Louis division OF
the Big Four. Mr.. Bernard has been West
q couple of weeks, looking after some prop
erty he owns.
1t is stated officially that the Pennsyl.
wanna Company. with the taking effect of
its winter timetable. will put on faster
train between Louisville and Chicago. Mr.
Miller. superintendent of the Louisville
division, favors one fast train each way
over the Louisville division.
Some weeks ago Josephus Collett. of Terre
Hante. president of the Chicago 81 Ohio
River road, went East to make arrange
ments for money TO extend the road as
originally planned. He was attacked with
lumbago. and is now confined to bed in
the Fifth-avenue Hotel. New York.
The Peoria * Eastern - putting in addi-
tional side-tracks at Mooreheid( w est Side)
which will hold two hundred cars. The
road Is pressed for room at this terminal.
and this new track will give considerable
relief THIS company 10 also putting in
more side-traek and an immense water
tank at New Castle. TO take care of the r..
d T. and the Whitewater roads at this con-
Meeting point.
The stock holders of the Chicago. & Erie
Railroad Com pany held their annual cleo
ton IN Huntington. Ind. yesterday. The