The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-12

PERSONAL, Local and General NOTES..
w. p. Fulton has been appointed auditor
of the Pittsburg, Akron & Western
Oscar Murray, vice president and freight
ira ffic manager of the Big Four lines, was
in the city yesterday.
The indianapolis railway suparinsendents
will hold their regular monthly meeting to-
day at the Union Station.
With the resignation of T. G. Patterson
as general M superintendent ardinatend IT. % of me b rlnG nssn
abolished.
J. r. Wheeler. of the controllers office
on 6nr me has ren resisgned to n rive his attention to
the study OF law,
John Hugo. baggagemaster on the Pitts
nurg aivf ars OF tne ,a ren as,oved M y me ~
~road-forty years.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has
eighty men at work in the shops at
from Brazil to that point.
r. b. F.. PIERCE left for the East yester-
day for a conferences with the owners Of the
the Lake Erie & Western deal.
of the Pennsylvania Company, has re-
Four, with headquarters at Pittsburg.
viii be handled six theatrical ironpes, one
and one from Indianapolis TO st. Louis.
The management of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois are figuring with he LOUISVILLE
~ PCoPiC P0t VII q AooSSA 49,
between Chicago and Atlanta tEa1 any now
running.
DR.. Carrie Liebig, who, on the first of
Northern Pacific, is the first woman to
receive such an appointment from a rail-
road company.
speaking to a Western railway official. said
that the power and roadbed OF hist system
years he has been interested in the prep
erty.
1t is found that 500 in money was de-
Of the depot Of the Chicago & Eastern lii
nois at Brook. Part Of the money be-
longed to the road and part to the express
company.
George Sherman, general manager of the
Vanderbilt fast-freight lines, spent yester-
day in the city calling on a number Of the
| and looks for but little improvement before
next month.
L. st. John, the newly-elected vice pres
Airline, is reported to be already, negotiat-
ing for the purchase of the Macon &
Northern. The controlling interests are
owned by Baltimore parties.
Chief Engineer Kittredge, of the Big
Four lines, yesterday let the contract to
derson, Ind, to NJ. NJ. Marcus. and also a
contract to rebuild the depot recently
burned on the Big Four at Shelby, O.
On Thursday, despite the had weather,
the Knickerbocker express on the ZIG -Four.
made up twenty minutes after leaving st.
fh rom St. sa'e Louis Shi t. to f / All things
considered, train men consider it a remark
able run.
The Pennsylvania Company. in awarding
standard materials can be obtained from
several manufacturers, naming firms who
can supply such goods. This gives the car
petition on his raw material.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon lines, was in the city yesterday.
He says the road has just business enough
to keep every locomotive and car the COM
pany owns busy. and the earnings Of 1895
will unquestionably make a more favorable
exhibit than did those of 1894.
George b.. Roberts, president of the Penn
sylvania, is quoted as saying that his prin-
cipal objection to the, pooling bill Is his
that various roads were entitled to all of
J certain kinds of business, and, therefore.
it was a hardship to compel them to pool.
At Cleveland, yesterday, subject to the
approval Of the other judges of the circuit,
Judge Kicks, in the Circuit Court, appoint
Louis & Kansas City railroad, to the re.
ownership of that property. vice S. r. Cal
laway, who resigned to become president OF
road.
O. c. Waite president and general man.
ager of the Columbus & Hooking Valley.
and George NJ. Bradbury, general manager
of the Lake Erie & Western, are credited
with coming nearer operating their roads
at a minimum cost than any railway man
ayers in the central States. Sixty-four
per cent. and fully maintaining the physi-
cal conditions of the roadbed and equip
n1ent is considered the minimum.
The voluntary relief departments of sew
eral of the larger systems of railways we're
never before In as f1ourishing a condition as
at presenA and have double the member,
ship of three years ago. In speaking of
Pennsylvania lines said that ninaty-nine cut
ISOLATION would dislike any legislation adj
verse to the interests of their organization