The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-22


ford insisted on allowing no reporters IN the
room. After considerable wrangling, Craw-
ford paid off the claims, ana Receiver
Campbell was discharged.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
]. j. Turner, general manager of the Van
dalia lines. is in the city
j. C. Davie, private secretary of President
ingalls,, who has been at French LICK
Springs for few days, returned yesterday
to Cincinnati.
w. p Elliott who entered the service of
the Pullman Company in 1915. yesterday
completed his fourteenth year as agent at
the Indianapolis Union Station.
d. G. Edwards passenger traffic mana
ger of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton,
and Frank Reed, general passenger agent
of the Monon, have gained an enviable
record by the manner they accepted the in
Interchangeable mileage and the strictness
with which their lines abide by the agree
ment.
Frederic Robinson will, on Jan. l, become
the travelling passenger agent of the Cen
tral road of Georgia, with headquarters at
Chicago.
Judge Field of the Monon, states that
the company is now the freest from litiga-
ton in the many years he has been its
general solicitor.
Professor Morley, of Purdue University,
will present paper at the annual meeting
OF the Indiana Engineering Society, to be
held at Indianapolis on Tuesday, Jan. 4.
The passenger department of the Wabash
is distributing for the new year some hand
some calendars, designed by Walter Evans,
the general advertising agent or the road.
c. B. Segar, for twenty years past
passenger conductor on the Panhandle, VINO
has been confined to the house for several
weeks with Sciatic rheumatism, is improy-
ing.
1t is practically settled that the Southern
Railway will in the near future take control
of the Memphis & Charleston, a consolda-
ton which will do away with number OF
officials
/ The earnings of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois increased the second week OF De-
+ cember over the corresponding week or 1896
So 56. The coal traffic of the road is again
quite heavy
| H. C. Graybill traffic manager of the In
| dianapolis Belt Road and Stock Yards, re-
turned last night from Cleveland where he
| had an important conference with railway
officials and stock-yard people.
The commercial agent of the Illinois Cen
| trail at Memphis on Monday closed con-
| tract to carry thirteen thousand bales of
cotton from Memphis to New Orleans for
export. 1t will require 55S cars to trans
| port it.
II. Parker, travelling freight and live
stock agent of the Missouri Pacific lines,
| is in the city. indianapolis is now included
| in his territory. He says that like other
| lines, their business is limited.to cars to be
| placed for service.
| AS result of the recent conference in
| New York between the officers of the Ohio
| soft coal railroads it was announced yester-
| day that an agreement regarding prices
| and rates of Transportation had been
reached. The agreement is said to be for
| two years, and is expected to put the trade
| on better basis than for years past.
| Major T. j. Anderson has been trans
| ferred from the position of assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the Rock Island to
| Kan. On Jan. / Eben c. Mcleod now
| Southeastern passenger agent of the road
| at Pittsburg, will become assistant general
passenger agent, with headquarters in To-
peka.
An official of one of the Northwestern
| lines stated yesterday that the Chicago,
| Burlington & Quincy Is now loading on its
| own lines $500 cars day, and that the
| Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific has not
moved more than per cent. of this years
big crop of grain, live stock and produce,
and has all the business in sight it can
comfortably handle the coming year.
| w: r. Warwick, district passenger agent
| of the Missouri Pacific, will retire on Jan.
| 1 on account of poor health, and will be
| succeeded at Cincinnati by A. A. Gallaher,
| Southern passenger agent of the Missouri
Pacific, now located at Chattanooga. Mr..
| Warwick ranks among the Oldest passen-
| ger men in time of service on the Missouri
| Pacific system.
On Jan. the following appointments will
| become effective on the Chicago, Rock ISL
| and & Pacific: L. E. Mcleod, assistant
| general passenger agent. with headquarters
| at Topeka, Kan, vice T. J. Anderson, as
signed to other duties; E. w. Thompson
| excursion agent with headquarters at New
York, and A. G. Turpin, travelling passenger
The directors of the Columbus (O) Union
Railway Company will to-day hold their an
nual meeting. 1t is expected that President
ingalls,, of the Big Four, and James Nc
Crea. first vice president of the Pennsyl-
| vania, will be present. At this meeting a
| secretary and treasurer of the Union Rail-
| way Company will be chosen. G. c. Corner
| of the Union Line, has been suggested by
! the Pennsylvania Company, and 1t is said
| Mr.. Ingalls, will approve his appointment
p. A. Bonebreak superintendent of the
| lines, has just completed a careful inspec-
ton of the track. roadbed, bridges, ETC.,
| on the main line between Indianapolis and
| the Ohio river, and says there is not one
| foot of the track that it would not be per-
| fectly safe to run train over at seventy
miles an hour. He claims that no division
| west of Pittsburg is in better condition
| than the j., M. & j.
Charles Parker, chief clerk of Frank
Campbell, trainmaster of the Peoria divi-
sion of the Vandalia, has issued book of
| twenty-four pages which will be of value to
| trainmen for two years to come each page
| representing month. Each page has eight
| columns for engine number, train number,
| engineers and conductors name, terminals,
| hours dates, etc, so arranged that 1t Will
| be convenient for the use of tralnmen and
| a perfect memorandum.
E. B. Taylor general superintendent of
| transportation of the Pennsylvania lines
| west of Pittsburg and A. M. Schoyer,
| perintendent of telegraph. were in the city
| yesterday, going to Chicago by the after
noon train. Mr.. Taylor states that there
| Pittsburg that is not crowded with business,
| and this means that the Pennsylvania road
| proper will make the largest December
| earnings in its history.
The board of managers of the Union Rail-
| way Company held their regular monthly
| meeting yesterday, and after disposing of
| some routine matters, the paper sent by
| the city authorities regarding charging the
stone ARCHES under the Union Station train
sheds Fas taken up and after some discus
sion action was deferred until there was
a fuller meeting of the board; meantime,
further information on the matter from
the city engineer will be sought for.
George Foster. the engineer of the freight
engine which collided with a fast paSsen-
cago & Eastern Illinois, is not dead, as re-
ported. He is at the St. Elizabeth Hospital,
Danville. ILL.,. and some hopes are enter
tanned of his recovery. The three dead are:
j. b. BaSueh, engineer of the fast passen-
ger train; his fireman, George W. Brewer,
and the fireman of the freight engine, +.
S. Deeter. The two first mentioned were
buried at Danville, and the remains of Mr..
Deeter were brought to Indianapolis for
interment.
T. F. Sweat, representing the freight de-
partment of the Illinois Central is in the
city. He states that the seventeen miles
of new road the Cotton Belt Company is
constructing from Delta to the Mississippi
river is practically completed, and the IL
linois Central is building six miles of
new road on the east side, striking the river
the opposite side from the Cotton Belt
Terminal, where the river will be bridged,
making a good connection with the Cotton
| Belt and giving the Illinois Central the
short line to the territory reached by the
Cotton Belt lines.
An official Of the Pennsylvania states that
at no time in the history of the lines has