The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-31
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Personal, Local and General Notes.
W. ]. Lee will, on June /. succeed d. H.
Baker as agent of the Union fast freight
line at Trio. O.
George Noble has been appointed assistant
general superintendent of the International
& Great Northern.
George Brecount. commercial agent Of
the c., l. & l. CMonon) at Cincinnati spent
yesterday with friends here.
e. S. Williams has been appointed passen-
ger agent OF the Chicago, burlington d
Quincy, with headquarters at Detroit.
Executive officials Of Texas roads will
meet in st. Louis tomorrow to perfect the
proposed Southwestern traffic bureau.
j. K. Dillon, the new district passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Company at
Plttsburg, viii assume the duties to-day.
Since the 1st of July the Chesapeake &
ONO shows an increase in earnings over
the corresponding period last year OF Sl9l, $50.
Commissioner Midgley, who has been alb
| sent in Europe the past three months
| sailed from Southamton for home on Sat
! urday.
With the taking effect of the summer
| time table the Peoria q Eastern will put
| on through coaches between Peoria and
! Columbus, 0.
d. Wishart, formerly general passenger
| agent Oh the st. Louis q san FTanGlsco
| Passenger Association.
The report put in circulation by a Pitts
| burg paper that the Pennsylvania lines
| would abolish the dog tariff and carry dogs
| Tree Is ueIlleu OLlclalIy.
President futile, of the Boston & Maine,
! has so far recovered from his recent Sc
| we're illness that it is expected he will be
able to go to his office in few days.
F. d. Buskirk, formerly with the Balti-
| more q Ohio Southwestern tomorrow
takes the general agency of the Ohio South
ern and the Lima Northern at Cincinnati.
| Freight conductors on the Panhandle say
| 1t begins to look like old times between
| columbus and Plttsburg, their through
! trains meeting freight trains running in
| eight to ten sections.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
! run its Niagara Falls excursion from points
| on the indianapolis division July s. The
| rate from Indianapolis to the falls will be
| 81, tickets good for five days.
| The Pittsburg & Lake Erie is hauling
| with its new mogul engines fOrty-five load
| ed cars between PittSburg and Youngstown
| and making with such trains the former
| schedule for passenger trains.
| The Santa Fe has created quite a stir
among the Western lines by restoring the
recOnsgnment privileges at Kansas City
on Texas shipments. and grain consigned to
Texas points can now be stopped in transit
at Kansas City.
The Chicago e Northwestern, in advertis-
ing its line as the route of the Young Peo-
pies Christian Endeavor TO the Pacific
coast issued a neat and attractive pam
phlet replete with valuable information to
those who intend to make the trip.
The Pennsylvania Company will on June
q, put on its solid Vestibuled trains be-
tween Cincinnati and Petoskey and Macki-
nae, and a through sleeping. car will be
run from Louisville via Indianapolis to
Richmond to connect with this train.
The Big Four has had built at st. Louis
a number of flat cars siXty-one feet long
and six inches wider than the ordinary flat
cars, to handle such freightS as the ordi-
nary car will not accommodate. They are
loads.
Receiver Jarvis is doing good work on
the Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis road
bed bringing it up to an excellent standard
Considerable new heavy rails have been
laid and several construction trains are
distributing gravel ballast literally along
the line
Frank j. McHugh, who entered railroad
| service when sixteen years Old on the Big
| Four, was afterwards on the Lake Erie &
| Western, but until taken ILL., more recently
| with the Chicago d Eastern Illinois, died
| at Lafayette on Saturday. His last service
| was in the general office of the Chicago 81
Eastern Illinois
General Passenger Agent Smith, of the
Lake Shore and the Pittsburg 81 Lake
Erie, is awakening to the fact that faster
and finer trains must be put on the latter
to hold its share of business, so sharp has
competition become. He is arranging to
greatly improve the service between Pitts
burg and the lakes.
The ST Louis, Chicago & ST. Paul Rail-
road bluff line) was reorganized in Spring
Charles D. Kimbai, Of New York as siI presi 81
dent; Joseph Dickson, of ST. Louis, vice
president Henry W, Gays, of St. Louis
Springfield, secretary and treasurer. The
possession of the property will be given to
the new management June l.
The new limited train over the New York
Central and the Michigan Central between
New York and Chicago, put on yesterday,
leaves New York at 10 a. m. and makes the
run to Chicago in twenty-three hours, the
same time the Chicago limited over the
New York Central and the Lake Shore
made for a number of years. The new
afternoon limited will leave New York at 5
p. m. and make the run in tWenty-three
hours, going over the Lake Shore between
Buffalo and Chicago, and the. answering
trains will make equally good time.
The Erie is making extensive improve
ments along its line. 1t has adopted the
underground standard rail on the line east
of Marion, and has just purchased twenty
very heavy locomotives to use on that divi-
sion: 1t is rebuilding and improving it's
(Cleveland), Cuba, Friendship, Middletown
and Huntington. 1t Is double tracking its
Mahoning division and has built a branch
of two miles to Bass Lake. so that transfer
Erie grain elevator in Chicago is we'll I'M
der way and the terminals in Cleveland and
Randall have been Increased to take care
of the augmented lake coal business.
The commercial representatives of South
America who are touring the United States
in connection with the Philadelphia Mu-
scum of Industry, composed of man
ufacturers of the United States and the
merchants of South America will leave
Dayton on the c., II. & d. special at p.
m, June 26, and arrive at Cincinnati at
Cincinnati until about midnight of June 80
| when they will take the l.. & N. train for
Nashville. The special train will be COM
posed of Pullman composite car, dining
car, three sleeping cars and an observation
| car. The train will be lighted by cleo
tricity the engine being equipped to fur
nish steam for the dynamo. There will be
| fifty members of the association on board
| the train.