The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-17
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The International Ticket Agents Month
Der HAsaAine Is out win It's inaugural num-
j. A Barnard. general manager of the
. for COUPLE of days.
&. l.. Thomas has been appointed general
freight agent of the Chicago Erie, the
appointment taking effect Nov. /.
In the week ending Oct. IA there were
transferred over the Belt road 13,0S9 cars
and Belt road engines handled $50 carloads
OF stock.
A. F. Knapp. trainmaster of the Peoria
& Eastern, has gone to Burdette, N Y
10 visit his mother, who is quite advanced
IN years.
The shops of the Panhandle company at
this point. which are now run forty-fiye
hours per week. will, after Nov. l, be run
nfty-four hours.
ALI the passenger and ticket agents who
nave labored hard during the worlds fair
will take in the last day, Columbus day.
at the fair. A committee is being appoint
ed toe ARRANGE accommodations. route, etc.
The Pennsylvania inspection party will ar
rive here from St. Louis at $50 D. No. and
remain over night going east over Division
superintendent Darlingtons division to-
morrow morning.
j; Q. Van Wrinkle. general sur erintendent,
and the ten division superinte dents of the
Big -Four will meet in Cincinnati to-day to
prepare the winter time schedule of trains
on the several divisions
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
Just completed a passing track for its pas
senger trains few miles west of Hamilton
which has been named Midway" and il is
expected IL Will greatly aid the more prompt
movement OF It's passenger trains.
Train Z. on the Pennsylvania lines, which
Is scheduled very fast on Sunday night
left Bradford one hour and fifty minutes
late, and ran into the Union Station III
dianapolis, but thirty-five minutes late,
taking out a detention of twelve minutes
NJ Knightstown
Sunday afternoon Engine 1871, on the Big
Four, the new Garstang type, hauled ten
ears from Indianapolis 10 Cincinnati and
came to a standstill in the Grand Union
thirty-hve minutes, the quickest run ever
made with a train of that length.
The Chicago & Alton had fifty-three pas
senger trains into Chicago in one day last
Mountain. the Mobile & Ohio, the Frisco
the n ~ Is 81, & t. the K; G.. Fl.
souri, Pacific, furnishing equipment and
passengers.
Harry Fuller, general passenger agent of
the Chesapeake * Ohio. has arranged to
have two sections reserved for Indianapolis
travel on the through sleeping cars which
the c. & o., I'm connection with the Bic
Four. Is running between Chicago and
Washington daily, on Train Is which passes
indianapolis at =. m.
Among railroad men we'll informed as re-
CARDS the matter it is thought 10 be
fortunate that the Cincinnati Hamilton q
Dayton cannot, by legal action. secure con-
troll OF the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mack
UldN n lew udNS ago the directors OF
TIE iast-named company rescinded the vote
TO lease the road TO the c., II. & d.
The official report of J. A. Cavenaugh
car service superintendent of the Big -Four
lines, shows that yesterday morning. on the
Big Four, were orders for 1600 box cars tC
be loaded. This exceeds the orders of any
day IN the last four months. and, before the
week ends. he thinks the movement on the
Big Four proper will reach five thousand
loaded cars per day.
Export business is beginning to increase
and the all-rail lines will now have a bet
ter show at this business The past sum
mer large quantity OF export grain has
gone via Detroit. the Grand Trunk and
Michigan Central To Montreal, where IL was
loaded for Europe in the steamships which
are now plying between Montreal and near
~ all important European points.
The Chicago * Eastern Illinois is proving
very valuable railroad property, surpris-
Ing the owners by its increased earnings
from year TO year. At the time the com
pany secured control OF the Chicago e
Indiana Coal road IL was thought TO be an
unwise move. but time has demonstrated
that IL was not. as it's heavy coal traffic
could not have been done over the Chicago
r. Eastern Illinois proper, with its other
business at any time In the last two years
Especially is this true this year. SO heavy