The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-04
Personal. Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local. and General notes.
E. b. Thomas, president of the Erie, and
party, who have been West for two or
three days, returned to New York yester-
day.
Commencing with this month all local
one-way tickets OH the Monon are limited
to the day of sale, aud all round-trip tickets
| to thirty days,
In May the baggagemen at the Union
Station handled 80, I'll pieces of baggage,
1,79O more pieces than in the corresponding
month of 1896.
Fl. f. Bickell, assistant general superin-
tendent of the Lake Erie & Western. has
been spending couple of days in his form
er field of labor in Ohio.
Business on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton main line is reaching large ton
mage the movement of ore and coal being
very heavy from and to Toledo.
Estimated gross earnings of the Rock
Island system for the month of May are
81, 202 400, an increase of $1.247 oyer the esti-
mated earnings of the system for the same
month of last year
Heads of departments on the Pennsyl-
vania lines west, wnen finding it necessary
to reduce their force, are instructed to re,
tain as far possible married men and
discharge single men.
Charles Scull, late general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, has been
offered a good position with one OF the
roads entering at Pittsburg, and it is
though he will accept.
The Wabash will run cheap Sunday ex-
cursions Last Sunday it ran a one-dollar
round trip excursion into Toledo. and so
much of a success was it that the COM
pany will do more of this class of business.
The management of the Baltimore & Ohio
will issue orders to the effect that every
employe Of the company shall have a dis
tinctive uniform, and have either a badge,
cap or suit which will identify him as a
B. & o. man.
In May there were transferred over the
Belt road ,916 cars, 1,200 more than in
April Belt road engines handled at the
stock yards 1883 carloads of live stock, and
for private industries its line. during the
month, 1855 cars
L. G. Haas, engineer of maintenance of
way on the Toledo division of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, has been promoted and goes
to Pittsburg, and T. b. Hammond, assist
ant engineer of the Panhandle, succeeds
Mr.. Haas at Toledo.
The Wabash in connection with the Mo-
non, has established fast freight service
between Louisville. New Albany and De-
troit, and is handling immense quantities
of fruits and vegetables for Detroit and
other Northern points.
T. G. Wells, travelling passenger agent
of the Chesapeake & Ohio was in the city
Yesterday looking after summer pleasure
Ohio which touches some of the most at
tractive in the country.
j. H. Sands, late general manager of the
ger of the South Carolina & Georgia, sue
ceedng e. S. Bowen, who, it is stated, will
go to New York as vice president and
financial agent of the company.
T. f. Sweeney, who a few months ago
resigned his position with the Baltimore
& Ohio at Pittsburg to engage in CONNER
cial pursuits, has returned TO the service
of the B. e. o. as chief clerk of z. d.
Smith, division passenger agent.
Mayor Maybury, of Detroit, in an inter
view, is credited with saying. that the
Pennsylvania Company is really negotia-
ting to secure a line into Detroit and that
the company proposes to have its own line
and arrange it's own terminal facilities
The business men of Lima, O.. are boy
cOttinp the Pennsylvania lines having con-
ceived the idea that the Pennsylvania Com
pany was instrumental in defeating prop
ostion to vote a subsidy toward securing
the shops of the Lima Northern at Lima.
The West Shore road has made a change
at Buffalo which will considerably taclil-
tate the movement OF through freight wa
Tonawanda, instead of through East Buffa-
10, doing the switching at Suspension
Bridge instead of East Buffalo.
The business of the through combination
sleeping and chair car between Cincinnati
and Hannibal, over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton the Indiana, Decatur x Western
and the Wabash, has so increased that
there is seldom a night that every berth
and every chair is not occupied.
Kingan & Co. are shipping from thirty
five TO forty carloads of provisions and
dressed meats per day In May they shipped
$50 carloads of provisions and dressed meats
to the East and the Southeast A large
per cent. of the provisions were tor export
via New York and Newport News.
The five-thousand-mie books are still
selling slowly. Commissioner Donald, of
the Central Passenger Committee has is
SUEDE his report for May, showing the re-
ceipts from the sale of the fve-thousand-
mile interchangeable mileage books during
the month TO have been but y94,1SS
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the c., /. q L., was in the city yesterday.
He states that the company will open Cedar
Lake Park on Saturday and the company
expects to handle several thousand people
there the opening day and on Sunday.
A good deal of money has been spent on
the park
On the invitation of General Manager
Blue of the Indiana & Illinois Southern
the shippers and business men at towns
on the line of that road will come to Indian
apoliS to look the city over and meet bust
ness men June 10. The party will arrive at
lao a. m. over the indianapolis Vim
cennes and will leave for home at p. m.
Two years ago the Erie withdrew from
the local passenger association at Buffalo
and ignored all rulings of the association
The grievances have been adjusted. On
June l the Erie again became a member
and the rate war is now between the roads
and the scalpers. After Sept the anti
scalping law will become effective in New
York.
On Sunday a special train Of four Wagner
cars and dining car will leave Chicago
over the Big Four, and one of the same
number over the ST. Louis division of the
Big Four, carrying the master car builders
and master mechanics to their annual con-
apolis the trains will be consolidated and
run via Cincinnati over the Chesapeake d
Ohio to Old Point Comfort.
The through Chicago, Indianapolis e. Bal
timore line requires four sleeping cars and
four day coaches to operate it. Pullman
furnishes the sleepers, but one of the coaches
is furnished by the MOnon, another by the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton third by
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, and
the other by the Baltimore & Ohio. 1t is
the first time that coacneS of the Monon
and the c., H. & d. have been seen as far
East as Baltimore on regular runs.
Edward McKenna expects to get his roll
ing mill at Joliet for rerOlling steel rails in
operation by the 1st of July He now has
over 10000 tons of steel rails to reroll, and
has "a bright future in prospect, as most of
the leading roads will furnish more or less
business. The mill win reroll an eighty
pound rail. making it as good and as well
finished as originally. but three to four
pounds to the rail lighter. Mr. McKenna's
air-whistle for the rear of trains is also
remuneratiVe.
BY order of c. E. Schaff, general mana
ger of the Big Four lines, bulletins have
been posted in the shops and other conSpic-
uous places on the line reading: Hereafter
any employee whose wages are garnisheed
a second time, or who gives orders on or
assigns his wages without sufficient excuse
will be dismissed from the service of the
company. The company will deduct from
the amount due the employe whose wages
have been garnisheed any expense incurred
by reason of such garnishee.
The lines of the Central Passenger Asso-
citation spent the greater portion of yester-
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