The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-13

Personal, Local and General Notes.
II. j. Medford has been appointed super
intendent of the docks of the Columbus &
Hooking Valley at Toledo, vice w. ID. Todd,
resigned.
The annual inspection of watches of engi-
neers and conductors on the Panhandle
lines, which has been in progress several
is about completed.
George Is. Mcclure, who for many years
was general roadmaster of the Grand Rap
ids * Indiana, died at Ravenswood, Ill,
on Sunday. of typhoid fever.
Judge Field, general solicitor of the
Louisville, New Albany * Chicago, will to-
day leave for Hot Springs, Ark. He is still
a great sufferer from rheumatic troubles.
c.. c. Collins has been appointed division
freight agent of the Columbus. Sandusky *
Hooking. with headquarters at Toledo. This
is a newly created position with that COM
pany.
First Vice President McCrea. of the Penn
sylvania Company, and Joseph Wood.
fourth vice president. were in Cincinnati
yesterday and are expected in indianapolis
to-day.
Employees on the Baltimore & Ohio at
several points are taking the preliminary
steps towards establishing railroad
branches of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION.
The Michigan system of transferring bag
gage. introduced at Toledo recently is not
satisfactory. and the Wabash and the Co
lumbus & Hooking Valley nave withdrawn
from the arrangement.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton has
put on two fast-freight trains between Gin
of the indianapolis division is run to con-
meet closely with ii at Hamilton.
Tomorrow NJ. Schulter will become gen.
eral agent of the st. Louis * San Francis
co at Chicago, succeeding }. II. Cook. re-
freight department of the company thirteen
years.
George l.. Rhodes has been appointed dis
trict passenger agent of the Seaboard Air
line at Washington, succeeding L. y. Par
ker. Mr.. Rhodes was at one time assistant
general passenger agent OF the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific.
j. w. Greenan. trainmaster of the Indian
apolis division of the Panhandle lines, who
a few days ago went to Hot Springs, Ark,
writes that he is not receiving the benefit
from his stay there that he expected, and
will probably return in a few days.
For some time through sleeping cars have
been run between Chicago and Texas points
over the Chicago. Burlington q Quincy
and the Missouri. Kansas " Texas, and ar
fast freight service between the two roads.
w. J. Black. who. on Feb. /. will become
general passenger agent of the Santa Fe. Is
his way up in the passenger service. He
has been on the Santa Fe eleven years,
and previously was on the Nandalia and
the Missouri Pacific.
The pooling arrangement made recently
between the New York Central, the Central
Vermont. and the Delaware e. Hudson on
business between Montreal and New York
was advanced to SO. Now the New York
Central will probably go back to the, old
rate of IS between these points.
1t is stated the Michigan Central and the
lake Shore roads would be willing to
adopt the new 5000 Interchangeable mile
age were the tickets made good for the
bearer at a fiat rate of 2 cents a mile,
which IS virtually the style of book the
Lake Shore now issues for use on it's own
lines and on portions OF other systems,
such as the Big Four.
\ test of fire extinguishers will be made
to-day at the Panhandle shops at Column
bus under the direction of the state COM
missioners of railroads OF Ohio. Railroad
officials of every Ohio road are exnected TO
be present. The different fire e~Xtinguishers
will be given a thorough test with a view
to adopt the best one for use on all pas
senger cars run in that State.
George T.. Smith. a prominent member of
the order of Railway Conductors. who now
resides In Boston. has invented an automat-
ic time signal. which is highly spoken of.
association. has secured control of the de-
vice. The device can be timed to work
from five seconds to t~wenty-four hours.
and II is asserted that il furnishes perfect
protection To rains The signals are now
in use on the Mobile & Ohio.
The freight officials OF the Western lines
met at Chicago yesterday to consider lum-
Der rates from Wisconsin points. This
branch of the traffic Of the lines i'm the
Western Freight Association has. for a
long time, been In a badly demoraliZed con-
dition and the meeting was held for the
purpose of seeing if there was not some
way in which the rates could he adjusted.
IL is likely that the rates will in the near
future be advanced 3 cents per hundred.
The road- of the Western Passenger As
ISOLATION concluded their meeting at Chi
cage yesterday. but transacted nothing be-
yOnd routine matters. The question for
rates to the large meetings of the year. such
as the National Educational Association.
the Christian EndeaVCr. the G.. \. X. and
similar meetings was scheduled for settle
ment at this netting. but the roads found
they would not be able to handle the thing
and all the rate matters went over until
the next meeting of the association.
According to the New York Commercial
Advertiser arrangements have been made
whereby the Atchison. Topeka & Santa re
Railroad Company will acquire the west
road Company. which runs from AlbuQuer-
que. y. NJ. To MoiaVe. Cal. a distance OF
S24 miles. This will give the Atchison abSo-
lutte control OF a through line 10 the Pa
cifc coast. as the Atchison's main line con-
nection with the Atlantic * Pacific at AL
buquerque and the Southern California.
which the Atchison controls. makes Connec-
ton with the Atlantic q Pacific at Bar
stow. Cal.
H.. VI. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big FoAr. returned from
Cincinnati last evening. where he has been
for a couple of days. attending "a meeting
OF the passenger men OF the Big Four,
called by Passenger Traffic Manager Nc
Cormick. for a general conference. On
Monday evening a dinner was given TO the
passenger fraternity Of the road. at which
twenty-three representatives of the line
were present. G. :. Blackman. who rep
headquarters at Buffalo. and c. s. La Fol-