The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-10
PERSONAL, Local and ner Notes.

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The medical examiners OF the Pennsylva-
MIA lines will hold their annual meeting in
Philadelphia on May Il.
B. F. Horner, general passenger agent of
the Nickel Plate, spent Sunday with his
mother in Columbus, O.
Charles Rockwell, traffic manager of the
Monon, spent Sunday in the city. the guest
of his brother, George Rockwell.
President Blair, of the Wheeling & Lake
Erie, who has been in Florida some weeks,
has returned much improved in health.
A number of passenger officials passed
through the city last night en- route TO Cln-
cinnati to attend a meeting to be held in
that city to-day.
The report sent out from Chicago that
Captain J. F. Merry, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Illinois Central, had
resigned, is officially denied.
The Brooks locomotive works on Friday
received by cable an order from Shanghai,
China. for three more STANDARD passenger
engines, being the second order from China.
The Vanderbilt people, when West last
week to attend the annual meetings, made
an inspection trip over the Pittshurg q
Lake Erie, which is d part of the Lake
Shore system.
The directors of the r~eorganized Phiiadel-
phia & Reading have reelected the old Of
fcers, including C. T.. Henderson as gem
eral manager OF the coal and iron interests
of the company.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will
to-day put on new Vestibuled trains entire
to run between Kansas City and Chicago.
1t is claimed these VIII be the llnest trains
run on Western lines.
Engine go, Joseph Grass, engineer; hauled
a special train on which were officials OF the
Erie road. on Wednesday last, from Ham
mond to Huntington, l2 miles, IN liz min
utes, and made q stop for water.
The fast train, No. 80, over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, was on Friday hauled
from ~Gwynnevihe to Indianapolis, twenty
eight miles. in twenty-four minutes. Tn
train consisted Of four vestibuled cars.
On May 80 the Pennsylvania, in connec-
ton with the Wabash, Will put on for
sleeping cars between Louisville and De-
troit via Indianapolis and Logansport.
j. N. Robinson. district passenger agent
OF the Northern Pacific, with headquarters
at Milwaukee, died quite Unexpectedly on
Friday night, being taken suddenly i'll at
Grand Rapids, Wis, when out on official
business.
The contract has been awarded for the
construction of the Peoria & st. Louis Rail
way from Sherman to a connection with the
Chicago & Alton at Pekin, q distance Of
ffty-tive miles, the road to be completed
within seven months.
J. w, Campbell, for some years trainmas-
ter on the Scioto valley division Of the Nor
folk a. Western, has been placed in charge
of the terminal of the road at Columbus,
o., and lralnmaSt-r D. II. Begra's jurisdic-
ton is extended to cover the Scioto Valley
division.
Chesapeake & Ohio, says that by July l
the whaIves at Newport News, recently de-
stroyed by fire, will be replaced and proVid-
ed with all modern Improvements, and that
there is no danger that the business of that
port will suffer as a result of the fire.
The firemen on the Vandalia do not take
kindly, to the, proposition OF returning TO
the old method of firemen wiping their own
engines, as is to be the case on the Logans
port division, and, lest it spread to other
divisions of the system, they will appoint q
committee to look after their interests.
The lines in the Central Passenger traf-
fc territory have issued an official circular
which shows that between now and July
l there are excursion rates granted to six
ty-four meetings in different parts of the
country, bearing out the statement made
recently that the excursion business this
year would exceed that Of any former year.
In the last sixty days over 100 Joint clergy
permits have been lost or stolen, and the
general passenger agents are not pleased
over the carelessness with which the clergy
men care for their transportation. 1t of
course causes a good deal of trouble for
passenger conductors, as they are mortified
to watch for this lost transportation and
take it uD when offered.
The surveying corps of the Findlay, FIT.
Wayne & Western, on the extension from
TT. Wayne to Kankakee, ILL.,, has reached
North Manchester. and this week the survey
will be made fromNorth Manchester to Rose
Hill. 1t begins to look as if this extension
would be built. There is an abundance of
capital behind the Findlay road, but the
parties interested move cautiously.
The special train which carried the con-
ductors from the East over the Pennsylva-
MIA lines en- route to Los Angeles, Cal, to
attend the annual meeting of the Order of
Railway Conductors, was made up of Pull
man cars and run in two sections, carry
ing eighty-one conductors and their fami-
lies. The Pennsylvania and the Vandalia
gave them a fast run and did all in their
power to make their trip a pleasant one.
w. D. Ewing, when general manager of
the Evansville & Terre Haute, was very
strict in his orders that the equipment be
kept clean and bright, especially the loco
motives. on the Fitchburg road, of which
he is general superintendent, he has intro
duced the same features, and as a result a
Boston paper gives the Fitchburg road
credit for having its locomotives the clean
est and most attractive of any line running
into Boston. unless it be the Boston d
Maine, which has always been noted for
this special feature.
The passenger department of the Penn
~sylvania lines is inclined to boast of the
fact that the passenger earnings on lines
both east and west of Pittsburg compare
favorably with former years. In freight
traffic the Pennsylvania IS feeling the de-
preston much more. than in the passenger
department. In fact, the passenger earn
ings of the Pennsylvania road proper are
exceeding those of former years, and the
last six weeks the through trains Of the
Panhandle, the Vandalia and the Pittsburg,
Ft. Wayne & Chicago have been doing a
better business than in the corresponding
period of last year.