The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-01
PersonaI. LocaL and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Great Northern road to-day opens it's
Sioux Falls, Yankton * southwestern
branch.
Oscar Murray. vice president of the Big
Four, was i'm the city last evening EN- route
TO Chicago.
w C. Harrington has been appointed
general manager of the Eastern road of
Minnesota, with headquarters at Duluth.
II. Nick. Twombly is to be elected a di-
rector in the Delaware, LackaWanna az
Western, TO represent the Vanderbilt in
terest.
The employees on the Toledo, st. Louis G.
Kansas City have notified the officials that
they will accept the 1Oper-cent. reduction
in wages.
The Southwestern lines are trying to get
the general freight agents together in St
Louis on Friday to make an attempt TO re-
store rates.
II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big Four, is confined at
home by a swollen limb. the result OF
blood poisoning.
Judge Bacon, general agent of the Chi
cago & Rock Island. is in the city. He re-
ports business generally with the Z. d X.
l. as improving.
Warren j. Lynch. chief clerk of e. o:
Mccormick, passenger traffic manager of
the Big Four. will on Nov. be married to
a Cincinnati lady.
f G. Darlington, superintendent of the
Indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania
lines, who has been in Chicago for several
days, will return to-day.
D. 3. Riggs has been appointed agent OF
the Big Four at Martinsville, Ind, vice Il.
z. Mitchell, resigned and G. j. Doll sue
ceeds Mr.. Riggs at Morgantown
DAME. Janowitz, who for some years has
represented the Northern Pacific in this
section, ret-eS to-day, and j. 70. Turner,
late with the Santa Fee takes the position.
NJ. f. ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
who has been East a couple of weeks, is
on his way home. He will be in Cleveland
fO-da Cincinnati Tomorrow
ing.
Freight traffic is so heavy or. the east
end of the Chicago division OF the Big
Four that second engine has been placed
at Guilford hill to help freight trains up the
grade.
The Wabash has gotten the whip hand
on a the s Se isose Seldom fge d hG that there are
not three to four sections of its fast stock
train sent East
To-day L. Rush Brockenbrough, late with
the Chicago &c Eastern Illinois, becomes
traffic manager of the Cleveland Akron &
Columbus, the position of general freight
agent being abolished.
The Baltimore roads have become tired
of the ups and downs of the Southwestern
Traffic Association, of which they have
been members. and are about to- form an
independent association.
G. w. Fairbanks, general solicitor of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has re-
turned from the East and will drop railroad
matters for a few days to go to OHIO and
talk for Governor Mckinley.
r. L. williams, who represents the Rail-
way Officials and Employees Association in
Colorado, with Headquarters at Denver:
and one of the companyS most eteclent
men, is in the city for day or two.
T. p. Lyton, local superintendent of the
| Pullman company at Indianapolis, to-day
commences his twenty-eighth year of Serv-
| ice with that company, he ranking among
| the Pullman company's Oldest employees.
Radical changes in train service in the
| next thirty days may be looked for on a
To- ahnr.T God
| will be dropped and express trains will
| take on more of an accommodation char
acter
| The Chesapeake & Ohio and the Big Four
line of sleeping cars between Chicago and
| Washington via indianapolis, so popular
have they proven in the few months they
have been running.
The Baltimore 6, Ohio lines will not adopt
| their winter schedule until Nov. 10, as by
| that time the consolidation Of the Balti-
| more x Ohio southwestern and of the
| Ohio & Mississippi will have been perfected
| and the officials appointed.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City has
| proven a valuable feeder to the Monon IN
| turning worlds fair business over to 1t at
/ Frankfort, Ind. The last three months the
| Monon has received from it a daily average
| of 80 passengers for Chicago
| At several of the shops of the Pennsyl-
| vania Company not only have the hours
per day been increased, but new men are
being employed. At Fort Wayne some
Il
| force in different departments.
1t is gratifying to note that business is
| increasing with the Southern roads. The
| Erlangec system, for instance. shows in
| creased earnings over last year, and from
! this on all Southern roads will make more
| favorable exhibits than last year.
General Manager Noonan gives notice
| that the office of George w. Warner, agent
| OF the Central States Dispatch at New
| York, will, after to-day, be at 95S Broad
| way and the office of James McDonougn.
/ md ct IN q
| place.
Fort Wayne has a large ladies' auxiliary
| of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
| gineers, which is doing much good. On
| Monday evening they gave an entertain
| ment to raise funds to educate the three
| children of the late engineer on the Nickel
! plate lines, John Lamar
The lines in the Chicago and Ohio River
territory are sending long trains OF empty
| coaches to Chicago, and, coming south
they are loaded to their fullest capacity
| portation men look for such conditions
during the present week before they gel
| the worlds fair people home.
| The Pacific coast roads are doing a large
business in transporting the exhibits at the
| worlds fair to San Francisco for eXhibi
ton there, and passenger men are very
sanguine, from inquiries coming in, thai
there will be a great rush of travel to the
Pacific coast the next few months, as the
Californians are doing their utmost to . in
cago to exhibit at the midwinter eXposi
ton Of California
| To-day the name Ohio & Mississippi
passes out of existence and 1t becomes the
western division OF the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern. There will be 639 miles in
the western division, and about 90 pei
| cent OF the road is in good physical con
| dition, while the remaining 40 per cent
needs a good deal of work in the way OF
| new rails and ballasting The Ohio i&
! Mississippi is among the oldest roads cross
ing Indiana, and aside from the Louisville
| New Albany & Chicago has seen as much
| trouble as regards finances as any road IT
| the State.
| The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton com
| pany expects to receive from the world
| fair next week, the two locomotives which
| the PittSburg locomotive works built fol
, them and which have been on exhibition
| at the exposition. Both are very superior
! locomotives. The heavy passenger engine
| will probably be put in service on the In
| dianapOliS division, as four of the c., II.
| y. trains between Cincinnati and lndianap
! oils are heavier than are any trains rur
| between Cincinnati and Toledo. With Z
| good Western connection of its own the In
| dianapolis division Of the c., II. * d. would
| be a more important division than the Day
ton & Michigan.
So many rumors have been afoat of lat
| of further changes on the Big Four that
| representative of the Journal asked informa
ton. YESTERDAY. from the highest officia
| next to the President regarding the mat
| ter, and he stated with good deal of EN-
phasiS that, aside from the divisional
| changes mentioned in the Journal yester
| day none was 10 be made, except that OF
the 18th of next month Thomas Reynolds
who has been superintendent of the Indian
apolis division, now consolidated with IN
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