The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-13
PersonaI. LocaI and General Notes.

The management of the Pittsburg, BesEe-
mer & Lake Erie expects to open the entire
line for business Oct. l.
E. c. CorlIins has been appointed agent Of
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, having been
transferred from Hoopeston.
w. Z. Brown, ticket agent Of the Big
-Four at Anderson, has been seriously i'll for
several days with typhoid fever
The Panhandle shops at this point have
recently put more men at work and viii
to-day begin running ten hours.
0. p. McCarty, general Eastern passen-
ger agent of the Southern Pacific, spent
Sunday with friends in this city.
George Graves, general superintendent Ct
the Indiana, Decatur 4 Western, Will leave
tomorrow extended Western trip.
1t is stated that the Missouri Pacific has
asked bids on twenty-five new locomotives
and will award the contract this week.
Harry King a well-known passenger Of
ficial who has been in Florida for a year or
more, has returned in much better health.
The PENNSYLVANIA has in construction at
Altoona and Juniata forty-five locomotives,
ten being OF the Glass type OF passenger
locomotive.
The Monon, on Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday will run a special train every half
hour from the Union Station to the state
fair grounds.
After Wednesday the fast train Of the
Pennsylyania will cease stopping at Cres-
son, the hotels having been closed at that
summer resort.
Investigation shows that the Chicago
roads, in the week ending Sept A.. for
Warded East the largest tonnage or any
week in the city railroad history.
The Indianapolis division of the Pan
handle is doing about its maximum bust
ness last week bringing into Indianapolis
$50 and forwarding 1,03S loaded cars.
H. w Taylor general freight agent of the
Vandalia, spent Sunday at Lake Maxim
kuckee, where his son-in-law, Mr.. Culver,
has been lying very i'll for several days
A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Union
Station, will increase his force this week on
account OF the state fair sixteen men, ten
on the day and six on the night force.
The Wabash earned in the first week of
September $216,9S4, against $2olo lS IN the
corresponding week of last year and against
$262, S5S in the corresponding week of 1895.
The passenger department of the Balti-
more & Ohio is sending out a large num-
Der Of glass paper weights which present a
fine view of the new Mount Royal station.
There were transferred over the Belt road
last week Il SSS cars Bet SOd road engines s
stock, and for private industries on It's lines
CAB cars.
On Thursday C. II. Goodrich, assistant
general freight agent of the Baltimore 81
Ohio SouthWe stern, will retire. Who will
be his successor has not yet been am
nounced
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
run a special train from Hamilton and
points this side to the state fair on Friday,
as well as "Wednesday and Thursday, at re-
duced rates.
Great Western is putting up immense ntn-
ographs forty feet in length and ten feet
high, showing one of their fast trains rum
ming at tull speed.
Locomotive engineers on the Big -Four
system will be paid in the aggregate a
larger sum OF money for their services III
the month of August than ia any former
month since the consolidation.
The Big Four's new instruction car, which
stood on the South Capitol-avenue spur
tracks on Saturday, was visited by large
number of people who are anxious TO note
all improvements in that direction.
Despite the falling off in freight traffic
last week on the Big -Four system on ac-
count of a car shortage there We're handled
at Indianapolis 233 more loaded cars than in
the corresponding week of last year.
On the wrecking trains of the Chicago,
Burlington Il Quincy a regular dining car
is hauled The dining table will accomIno-
date at one time twenty-tour men, and the
conveniences for cooking food are excellent.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
| Anderson office of the Big -Four for August
were S1.962 in excess of those OF August,
| 1856 and at Muncie and other gas belt
| towns the increase in sales has been very
| large
james Sullivan chief train dispatcher of
| the Wabash, with headquarters at Peru, Is
| very low with typhoid fever, and j. ). Ste
| vens his assistant, is also Ill, and the du-
| ties OF the office being looked after by
| John Cullen.
| The Toledo. ST Louis 4 Kansas City has
| been much annoyed of late by the stealing
| of freight from cars, and after much trou-
| Die has discovered the guilty parties. They
| are three boys ranging IN age from fourteen
! to seventeen years.
The striking teamsters in Green county
have adjusted their differences, and this
| morning the indianapolis & Nineennes y i'll
| begin delivering at points designated thirty
| carloads of broken stone daily for distriba-
| ZION on the county roads
Oscar Murray, receiver of the Baltimore
| d Ohio lines. spent yesterday in Chicago,
| and to-day General Manager Green will go
| 10 Chicago. Tomorrow they will inspect
| the Chicago terminal and the Chicago di-
! vision of the b. x O. lines.
William Quinn, superintendent Of tho
| Cairo division of the Big -Four, and j. L.
cavanaugh superintendent OF car seryire
| Of the system, with their families left yes
terday in a private car for Nashville and
Chattanooga, to be absent a week.