The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-05
Personal, Local and General Notes.

]. ]. Turner, vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia lines, spent sun
day in P~ittsburg.
TIE stockholders of the Erie Railway
Company will hold their annual meeting
in New York Oct. Is.
The rate TO Washington, D.. c., for the
Union Veteran Legion Encampment will be
one fare for the round trip, good from oct.
10 to %.
E. F. Cost, general freight agent of the
Big -Four. spent Sunday in the city and will
remain over to-day to look after business
matters.
The Big Four is painting one. hundred
refrigerator cars in attractive style for the
special use of the Indianapolis Brewing
Company.
It is stated that the Pullman works will
within a few days, be in full operation
again, having recently secured a number OF
good orders.
J.. T. Wann has been appointed general
auditor of the Erie Dispatch fast freight
lines, of which Albert S. White is the gen.
eral manager.
In the monN of September there were
loaded and unloaded at the Big Four city
freight depotS 6,4J3 cars, against 1874 IN
September, 1895.
NJ. S. Corners. superintendent of the Co
lunbus & Hooking Valley, has gone to
Pennsylvania to spend a couple of weeks
at his old home.
There were handled at the Union Station
baggage rooms in September 81. S62 pieces of
baggage, the largest number in any month
of the present year.
The transcontinc ntal lines have agreed
on Z rate of $50 for the round trip from
points in California to Canton, O.. for par
ties Of not less than one hundred.
d. G. Edwards. passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, who
has been at West Baden ten days, re-
turr1i to his headquarters yesterday.
The report that the Louisville, Evans
vile G ST. Louis win soon be reorganized;
and George w. Parker made the general
manager, is denied on authority WHEN Is
reliable.
Tho peppcvI,a,ia Copopapy hos ft+ed III
a large number of cars properly ventilated
for handling the west-bound oyster trade.
They are hauled on passenger train time
schedules.
The Santa Fe will make a blanket reduc-
ton of 81 per ton in hard coal rates from
Chicago to Missouri river points. It is
meet the reduced rate.
Roger Parry, for years with the Van
dalia, who resigned recently. was on
cane by his friends. who appreciated his
many kind services to them.
Engine No. 8. Grant build, on the Indiana.
press east, on Saturday left .Roachdale
eighteen minutes late and reached the Tn On
Station but four minutes late, covering the
thirty-eight miles from RoachdaIe to In
dianapolis in thirty-seven minutes.
Inc wabash people show d disposition to
protect their line in rate matters. Begin
of - cents per hundred pounds on packing
house products and Is cents on fresh
meats from Kansas City and other Mis-
souri, river points to Chicago. The old rate
vas 23La cents.
John Moran. one of the oldest passenger
conductors on the New York Central in
position with Seigel, Cooper q Co.. in New
York city. During the worlds fair Mr..
CentraIs exhibit, and when the Empire
State e~nress was started was one of the
conductors.
1t is fifteen months since any employe
of the Rio -Four ryhn handles ifG money
has shown any irregularity, either by care
lessness or dishonesty, and in the last ten
the American Guarantee Company. which
guarantees the company against loss by
any of its agents. has not been called on to
put UP the amount of 81, 900.
C. E. Schaff. general manager of the Big
Four; j. @. Van Wrinkle, general super
intendent, and j. A. Barnard. general man
day for New York TO attend the general
managers and superintendent meeting.
Messrs, Van V inkle ard Barnard went over
the Baltimore & Ohio in a special car, and
Mr.. Schaff via the Lake Shore.
There is a general movement with the
more important roads to stop the decora-
grounds that it IS a dangerous practice,
the policy being to have the engines APP
gineers and other trainmen whose duty is
to watch for signals will have no excuse
fo" failrre to note their meaning.
The vandalia yesterday received two
AAOA nv |Ao X 1iAS l. ~ . ICAO-
cotive works, making sixteen of the TWEEN
ty-two contracted for delivered. These en-
gines are designed to handle heavy freight
trains at high speed, have ffty-eight-inch
driving wheels, and are of the ten-wheel
type. One of them on Saturday hauled
Train 20 and performed very satisfactory,
although not expected to make the time
that the big Schenectady engines do with
this train when late. An official of the
road says they are doing better in the way
of speed with heavy trains than the best
friends of the type of engine had looked for.
l.. -. 1nomas, president of the Erie lines.
in carrying out the spirit of his annual
report to the directors, has addressed a
circular letter to the company's employees,
in which he says: 1T is a pleasure to be
able to state that the employees have indi-
Gated by their work that they have fully
as much regard for the company's inter-
ests as the receipt of their compensation.
The c~ompany's success depends Upon the
work of its officers and employees. 1t is in
the opeTl market-ar times a very competi-
tive market-for business, and the relation
which its representatives in all grades bear
to the public is similar to that of the en-
ployes Of any corporation or any individ-
ual having goods to sell. The public is not
compelled to deal with any one particular
concern. 1t is. therefore, of the most ma
terial Importance to the company'S inter-
ests that all officers and employees should
realize this fact to be most courteous.
obliging and accommodating to the public
in every instance"
CUNDHY F00TRHH