The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Big Four passenger department has
issued some very attractive engraved cal
endars for limited distribution.
Twelve of the Wabash's new heavy
freight engines are to be placed in service
between Detroit and Buffalo.
Frank Reed general passenger agent Of
the Monon, was in the city yesterday, re-
turning to Chicago last evening.
"a p Blakeslee, superintendent of all the
coal branches of the Lehigh Valley road,
will on April 1-retire from that position.
Startling Thompson has been appointed
travelling freight agent of the Kanawha
Dispatch, with headquarters at Louisville.
B. II. Lewis, assistant to the general man
ager of the Santa Fee lines for eight years
past. will retire from that position on
April 1.
will be at Old Point Comfort to-day to wit
ness the launching the war ship Kentucky,
and will tomorrow go to New York.
Express Train No 2. on the Wabash, was
on Saturday hauled from Tilton to Peru, 103
miles in two hours and eleven minutes,
making seven stops at stations and railroad
crossings.
Grand Secretary and Treasurer Clancy. of
the Order of Rail way Conductors, has gone
to Cambridge Springs, Pa, for q few weeks,
hoping to get relief from serious ailment
of the stomach.
There is a movement on foot to secure
the restoration of transcontinental pasSen-
ger rates, pending the second conference
between the Canadian Pacific and the
American roads.
Orders have been given for a general
overhauling and repainting of the entire
passenger equipment of the New York Cen
trail, and in the best coaches high-backed
modern seats are to be provided.
The Wabash in the near future will erect
a number of interlocking signals and
switches at its crossings of other roads, and
viii then be able to still further cut down
the running time of its fast through trains.
The Monon lines earned in the second
week of March, So, 022, an increase over the
corresponding week of 1897 of $l1 $50. Since
July l the road has earned 81, 517, an in
crease oyer the corresponding period of last
year of $363,71S
The roads of the Central Passenger AS
sociation have decided to make a rate of 2
cents per mile one way for the round trip
to the annual encampment of the Knights
of Pythias, which takes place in Indian
apolis in the early part of September.
From three hundred to five hundred car
loads of the Letter grain are now passing
through Buffalo daily, most of which goes
to the sseaboard from that point over the
Lehigh Valley road. which has a contract
10 carry 100000 bushels of this wheat
VIM. ]. Howard who was buried in Phil
adelphia on Tuesday, was for thirty years
the head of the law department OF the
Pennsylvania road, being called there by
Edgar Thomson. the first president of the
company. He retired in 1890 account of
i'll health.
Tuesday hauled a train of 1,459 tons from
indianapolis to Kankakee. which is 459 more
tons than were ever before hauled over this
division with single engine. General
Manager Schaff says its performance is
marvellous.
George G. Yeomans. who has been ap-
pointed purchasing agent Of the Chicago,
Burlington Quincy, to succeed George
Hargraves. resigned, will also fill the posi-
ton of purchasing agent for all the lines
the %" is interested in, his headquarters
TO be at Chicago.
The fast time which the roads between
Chicago and Omaha making has
aroused the Arrangements of the roads be-
tween Chicago and Kansas City and it is
probable that thirteen-hour trains will be
put on. The fastest present schedule is 10
hours and % minutes.
Albert Ingalls,, assistant superintendent or
the Indianapolis and Cleveland division of
the Big Four, is in the city. He stated last
evening that during the day the company
had been handling on the Indianapolis &
Cleveland division trains of four roads
which cross them at different points.
Freight officials say that the all-rail lines
and the part lake and water lines begin the
season in a manner which indicates that
they will make money. as all interested
have agreed TO maintain tariff rates. as
fixed by the general managers of the lake
steamer lines and those of the all-rail lines
One of the latest and strongest iEdorse-
ments by commercial bodies of the anti
scalping bill now before Congress is that
of the Boston Associated Board OF Trade,
comprising twenty-four separate and dis