The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-07
CDM IEtxA LLLIV'
Kokomo Ind, Oct. g.
Personal, Local and General Notes.

F. L. Pomeroy general manager of the
White Line, is in the city.
Greenfield. Ind, has been made flag
station for Panhandle Trains z and ..
s B. Iiggett, secretary of the Pennsyl-
yania Company on Tuesday returned from
his annual vacation trip.
The citizens of Butler, Ind, are much
eIated over the probability that 1t is again
TO become a division point
w. K. Richards has been appointed gem
eral agent of the Nickel-plate at PlttSburg,
a new position at that point.
Engine 1893, on the Wabash, on Friday
hauled seventy-seven cars from Andrews 10
Tilton Sixty-two of the cars were loaded.
At the Union Station, Pittsburg. there
were handled in September 95,2O6 pieces of
baggage, 12,2S6 more than in September,
1896.
John Chesborough, ex-general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern. spent few hours in the city yester-
day.
The earnings of the Lake Erie & West
ern the fourth week of September Were $lS,
1876 in excess of those of the corresponding
week Of 1895.
c. L. Thomas has been appointed divis-
ion freight agent of the Erie lines, with
headquarters at Meadville, vice H. G. Hast
ings, deceased.
w. b. Sells, for several years past freight
agent of the Columbus, Sandusky d Hook
ing road, died at Columbus on Tuesday of
stomach troubles
Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dalia main line, has purchased a lot in
Terre Haute on which he will erect q tine
house for residence
The Nashville, Chattanooga & ST. Louis
directory has authorized President Thomas
to close the deal for the purchase of the
Middle Tennessee q Alabama road.
In the last two weeks the Wabash has
hauled from Peru l0I carloads of crude
petroleum, and there are as many carloads
in the oil tanks awaiting transportation
L. F. Loree, general manager of the
PENNSYLVANIA, lines New
attending time meetings and looking after
other matters connected with his position
On Sunday next the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton will run an excursion to Gin
cinnati at 81 the round trip from Indian
apolis and all local stations on the Indian
apolis division.
e. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
promised to attend the annual convention
of the travelling passenger agents, to be held
at Nashville Oct IL
The new offices of the Monon at Lafayette
are nearing completion, and after Nov. 1
all crews will change at the new yard office
and neither passenger nor freight trains
viii stop at Salem street.
The net earnings of the Chesapeake &
Ohio in September were $50,214 in excess of
those of September, 1896. Since July an in
crease is shown over the corresponding
period last year of $299. 800.
Yesterday the Vandalia received an order
from one of it's Southern connections for
three hundred cars to load with cotton for
the North. 1t Is thought the cotton crop
will now begin to move rapidly.
Ex-Trainmaster Sisler, of the Wabash,
was buried on Monday at Napoleon, o. In
1898 he was stricken with paralysis. Mr..
Sisler we'll known in railway circles and
was a very popular official in his day
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton peo-
pie have decided to make no move toward
a new city freight depot at this point until
toward spring. The old Decline depot they
now occupy will be repaired and used during
the winter
The Louisville & Nashville will restore
the 10 per cent. wage reduction made in
1893. The road is now very prosperous, and
as soon as the yellow fever scare is over
will do the heaviest traffic in it's history,
it is expected.
The receipts from sales of tickets at In
dianapolis last month over the Monon north
We're 40 per cent in excess of those of Sep
TENDER last year, and over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton the increase this year
is about SO per cent.
The Grand Rapids &, Indiana on Tues
day ran an excursion to Grand Rapids
from Fort Wayne and points on its line, and
II required four trains to carry the people,
over 2 600 tickets being sold mostly to
farmers and their families.
The Big Four instruction car, in charge
of w. j. Hartman, which has been on the
Peoria a Eastern for month, Will to-day
be transferred to the Michigan division of
the Big Four William Garstang. superin-
tendent of motive power of the Big -Four,
since building the car, has devised num-