The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-01
Personal, local and General Notes.

The general offices Of the Nickel-plate are
to be removed from Buffaloeto Chicago.
Delano Luce to-day goes to P%ittsburg to
represent the Great Northern at that point.
The Erie carried sixty-fve coach loads
of military to New York to the Grant dedi-
cation exercises.
The Voluntary Relief Department of the
PennE ylVanla lines now has 10000 members,
the largest number since organized.
E. r. Cost, general freight agent of the
Big -Four, will arrive in the city this even
ing and remain here over Sunday with
friends.
The Detroit e Lima Northern will open
its line May Is between Adrian and Tecum-
sch. Its trains will then enter Detroit over
the Wabash.
Not in many years has there been a day
on which as many official changes take
effect as on to-day, largely in officials in
the freight service.
The Wabash has followed the action of
the Pennsylvania and as an economical
measure has taken off the colored porters
on its. through trains.
After a long period of i%rregularity, oc-
casioned by floods and WashOuts, fast trains
from Southern and Southwestern points are
beginning to run on schedule time.
The report that Assistant General Passen-,
ger Agent Cook, of the Erie, is to leave
that road to take a similar position on the
Baltimore d. Ohio is denied officially.
Thomas Rodd, chief engineer, and J. G.
Spencer, consulting engineer of the Penn
sylVania lines west, have completed a thor
DN1 - ~ - - - $500 ~NAENo
c. c.. Smith, a Pennsylvania employee at
PittSburg, has invented an electric self
locking switch and signal apparatus which
is said TO embrace a number of good points.
Arlington, on the Michigan division of
the Vandalia, has been made a regular
stopping station. Persons who summer at
M~aXinkuckee will appreciate this new move.
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power Of the Big -Four, is building a
large and fine residence or the corner of
Delaware and Twenty-first told Thirteenth)
streets.
The Thomson steel works will next week
begin the delivery of new heavy steel to
the Big Four on the contract to furnish
%, 000 tons, TO be delivered at the rate OF
5000 tons per month.
During April the fast freight from New
York to indianapolis over the Big -Four,
which covers the distance in forty-fve
hours, has not once failed TO reach Bright
wood on schedule time.
A. A. Bennington to-day becomes general
agent of the Cincinnati, Jackson a Macki-
nav at Toledo, vice p. l. Derhamer. Mr..
BeVlngtOn is one Of the Oldest men in time
of service on that road.
Train II on the Panhandle on Thursday
night made the run from Dunreith to IN
dianapolis, thirty-eight and eight-tenths
miles, in thirty-nine minutes, running
through a severe storm.
Harry King, a veteran passenger con-
ductor on the Panhandle, who has been laid
up with rheumatism but is now better, will
go to Martinsville to remain Tor several
weeks for the benefit of his health.
VIM. Dedert, checkman at the Big Four
city freight depot. yesterday completed his
thirty-frst year in the service of the COM
pany at Indianapolis. and ranks as the old
est man on the platforms as to time Of
service.
It is complimentary 10 such lines as the
Pennsylvania, the Big Four and the Lake
Shore that competing lines want the Joint
Traffic Association to handicap them by
forcing the charging of extra fare on their
fast trains.
The Knickerbocker over the Big Four
frequently covers the stxty-tWo miles from
Greensburg to Cincinnati in sixty minutes,
and several times has made the run from
Indianapolis 10 Cincinnati in two hours and
ten minutes.
L. F. Fuller, who to-day, after thirty
five years of service. retires as division
freight agent OF the Panhandle at Cincin-
natl, was on Wednesday evening presented
by his associates with a very handsome
oak library table.
Ofic!ai notice is given of the appointment
OF j. S. Talbot as assistant general freight