The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-27

Personal. Local and General Notes.
The Big Four Will next Sunday carry the
Concordia Society 10 Louisville.
\ Vice President Harahan, Of the Illinois
Central. Is In New York on official business.
George W.. Boyd. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Pennsylvania lines east
OF Pittsburg, Is In the city visiting relatives.
President Ashley, OF the Wabash, says the
lines viii all earn their fixed charges TINS
year and ave a balance about the same as
last year.
on Sunday the Big Four carried from
Cincinnati 10 Whitewater Park, on stne
Whitewater division, LOO people, filling tnir-
ty coaches.
The employees OF the Big Four at the shops
In Wabash will to-day present their late
master mechanic, Doebler. with an elegant
diamond ring.
w. G. Wright. general roadmaster of the
Monon's Indianapolis division, has oDtainS
a three months leave Of absence on account
of poor health.
On Saturday the commercial travellers Of
Ohio viii go from Columbus 70 Cinc.nnau
over the Pennsylvania line. The party VIII
number eco or more.
c. II. Haggerty, district passenger agent
OF the Pennsyivania lines at LOUISVILLE, ~
will be married June 3 TO Miss Lucy -.
Bridges, Of that city.
J. H. Hill has been appointed general man.
ager OF the Galveston. Houston q TENDER
son and NJ. T. BoZano TO a like position on
the Chattanooga Southern.
A regular surgical staff has been organized
on the Columbus, Hooking K Sandusky TO
provide capable surgical service promptly
when it becomes necessary.
On June ! Timothy w. Hammond, VINO Tor
forty-nine years has been treasurer or the
Worcester, Nashua & Rochester, will retire.
He is eighty-two years OF age
The Grand Rapids & Ohio is showing bet,
ter results, the road earning in the second
week of May 47,7s4, an increase over the
corresponding week of 1895 of $2.091.
]. J. Archer. late division freight agent Of
position OF assistant general passenger ana
freight agent of the OHIO River road.
w: place. for many years a PASSENGER
conductor on the Cincinnati. Hamilton q
Dayton, IS now conductor OF one OF the best
trains on the Chicago * Eastern Illinois.
f. T.. Stiles, the oldest person in the en-
ploy Of the Chicago, Milwaukee d ST. Paul,
viii retire on June /, He has been agent OF
the company at Rockford for forty years
Arrangements have been made by which
Wagner sleeping cars will be run through
from st. Louis and from chicago Tor the
master car-builders' convention on June 10
Train 7 on the Erie lines, which has run
for years as a local train between SaIa-
manca and Cleveland, is to be made a fast
train running through from Jersey City TO
Cleveland.
Edward Foley, foreign freight agent of the
Erie lines, has resigned, and on June / viii
be succeeded by G. p. Lamprey, who since
1898 has been agent of the Erie Dispatch in
New York.
f. A. Jackson, formerly freight agent of
the Santa Fe lines at Buffalo, has been APP
pointed travelling freight agent OF the West
ern Transit Company and the Anchor line
at Cleveland.
William Greene, general manager Of the
Baltimore & Ohio, has contracted with the
Richmond locomotive works to build twenty
five freight engines of the same type these
works built for the Big -Four.
One year ago j. w. Relnhart was presi-
dent of the largest system OF ailway then
in the United States, the Santa Fe. Now
ha fc nroci1nnt nf tho EhnC0 Hd a West
ern, a road twenty-seven miles long.
The local trains OF nearly all the roads
are running one TO three extra coaches TO
accommodate the expected travel on account
other meetings now In session in the city.
The election OF E.. s.. Washburn as presi-
dent Of the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis is looked upon by railway officials
as very fortunate for the road. Mr.. Wash
burn is well known in this section through
his connections with the Big Four.
A special on the Richmond division of the
Panhandle lines on thursday night, when
carrying the Knights Templars made the run
from Richmond to Anderson, hfty-one miles.
in hfty-four minutes. making two stops,
which occupied six minutes of the time.
The National Association of Claim Agents
will hold its annual session at Pittsburg to-
day. Messrs. Hutchinson, of the Panhandle,
and Myers, Of the Big Four. left last night
there will be eight hundred in attendance.
The first week in June the Protective
travelling Mems AsSoclatlon VIII convene at
Terre Haute. Yesterday the executive COM
mittee OF that body arranged for an excur-
sion to Toledo and Detroit over the Van
dalia TO indianapolis, the Panhandle TO Day
ton and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
to Toledo. Detroit and Put-in-Bay.
c. Z. Schaff. general manager of the Big
Four, Is in ST. LOUIS noting what, If any,
damage the high waters do the track of the
ST. Louis division of the Big Four. The
improvements of the last few years are
thought to have placed the Big Four in a
position that high waters will give it little