The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-29
Personal. Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Moron shops at Lafayette are run
ming full time and give employment to 800
men,
The shops CT the Erie road at Huntington
have been shut down until Aug: /, so quiet
is business.
A meeting of the Central Passenger AS
ISOLATION has been called for Aug. f. at
Chicago Beach Hotel.
F.. J. Grim succeeds w. G. Cameron, pro-
NOTED, as general yardmaster of the Wa
bash at Fort Wayne.
The Southern Indiana Railway Company
has received two more new engines from
The Baldwin locomotive works
William Garstang superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four lines, is spend
ing ten days at Anderson, w. Va.
The Big Four earned in the third week
of July $25S 1886, an increase over the cor
responding week Of 1897 of $4,35997
The rate war between the transcontinen-
tai lines has been renewed and freight rates
bid fair to be cut deeper than ever.
To-day and tomorrow the three lines to
Chattanooga Will make one-fare rate for
the round trip, good to return on Aug. l.
After Aug. l the general offices of the De-
troit q Lima Northern. at present scat
tered will all be concentrated at Detroit.
The indianapolis Ice Company yesterday
ordered from the Big Four one hundred
cars to ship ice from Warsaw, Ind, south.
On Saturday the Loyal Legion of Chicago
had an excursion over the Monon to Cedar
Lake PARK ana II required lis coaches to
carry the people.
the Evansville & Terre Houte road for thir-
ty-seven years. Was retired on Tuesday on
account of his advanced age.
"A. o. Sumption, for years agent of the
Union Pacific at Albion. Neb. has been
appointed travelling auditor of the road
with headquarters at Salina, Kan.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
third week of July S63S37, against SIS. 9SS in
We If
k60,225 in the corresponding week of 1896
The Vandalia is pursuing more liberal
policy In the matter of constructing
switches to private industries on its line,
and already good results have been shown.
At Brazil the Vandala is loading eighty
TO ninety cars of block coal daily, and
would do more were cars to be had. Not
Tor some years has coal traffic at Brazil
been as active.
VIM. A. Happier, formerly cashier of the
Cleveland, Canton & Southern. has been APP
pointed by the new receiver auditor of the
road, 10 have entire charge of the account
ing departments.
c. +. Sehaff, general manager and ]. O.
Van Wrinkle. general superintendent of the
Big Four lines. who have been in st. Louis
a couple of days, returned last evening to
their respective headquarters.
The placing of the Columbus terminals
of the Panhandle under p. A. Bonabrake.
superintendent of the indianapolis division,
Will cause a number of changes in the
switching service at that point.
A syndicate has purchased a considerable
tract OF land at Omaha, and is said to
have purchased it in the interests of
the Chicago Great Western. which it is I'M
derstood will build to Omaha
E. w. Woodland. who built portions of the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton lines and
who in ISL was selected president of the
indianapolis & st. Louis. died at an ad-
Tanced age in Taunton. Mass, on Wednes-
day. e4s
on Wednesday the indianapolis stock
yards had the heaviest receipts of live stock
OF any day in the history of the yards in
summer month, the roads delivering ~ 500
hogs l.2SO head Of cattle, 1900 sheep and 44O
Grand Master Morrissey of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen will on Aug. /
start on an extended trip through the
Northwest, going TO Winnipeg British Co
lumbia. and several of the Pacific coast
States.
The. great Western limited started on its
Initial trip between Chicago and St Paul
Tuesday evening from the Grand Central
Passenger Station, Chicago. There are two
OF these new trains, consisting OF buffet IL
brary cars, compartment sleeping cars