The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Tn 1897 the Big -Four lines proper paid out
for coal for all purposes $998,742.S0.
+. III. Burke has been appointed agent OF
the Erie lines at Trenton, o.. vice S. A.
Ditz, resigned.
Warren j. Lynch, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big -Four, yesterday
buried his father at Cleveland, o.
Joseph Arnult, one OF the oldest Of the
passenger conductors on the Big Four, will
next week be married to a young lady of
prominence in Benton Harbor.
w. /. Laird. representing the freight de-
partment of the Chicago & Great Western
and George Meade, press agent of the lines,
are in the city on official business.
G. d. Bacon, general agent of the Chi
cago, Rock Island q Pacific, is in the city
looking after the interests of the company's
new tourist line of cars to Portland Ore.
Fast freight line men, without exception,
report that they have all the business they
can furnish cars for and that not for many
years have rates been so well maintained.
Joseph Letter will build at Kansas City
the largest grain elevator in this country
and it is understood it will be operated in
the interest OF the Kansas City, PlttSburg e.
Gulf road.
The bids for the new depot the Big Four
will build at Marion, Ind, will be opened
Feb. 70 and the contract awarded. The
building will be of brick, resting on a stone
foundation.
Prof. c. A. Waldo, of Purdue University,
Will, this evening, lecture at Brightwood
Mems Christian Association. His subject
will be Great Bridges"
The gross earnings of the New York Cen
trail for the seven months of its present
fiscal year are officially stated to have been
81, 729, 1902 in excess of those of the seven
| months ending Jan. 81, 1897.
William Swanston, master mechanic of
the pennsylvania lines at this point has
been notified that hereafter more of the
work on the passenger equipment VIII be
done at the Indianapolis shops.
Mason Wells one of the veteran conduc-
| tors on the Michigan division of the Big
| -Four, is one of the incorporators of the
| Peoples National Bank, just organized at
Benton Harbor with a capital of $4,000.
1t is stated officially that the business of
| the Monon at Indianapolis proper for 1897
was nearly so per cent. in excess of that OF
| 1896, which is largely attributable to having
| its own terminals and freight depot facil-
tiles.
| The Central Traffic Association has re-
| considered its action refusing the appica-
| ton OF the Merchants Association of New
| York for excursion rates ON the convention
plan and has decided to grant all that was
| asked.
Since the Railroad Mems Building and
| Savings Association was organized 1t has
! loaned, largely to railroad employees, 81, 49,
3S7, to 1889 persons. and through it 91s per-
| sons chiefly railroad men, have secured
| homes in this city.
| James McCrea first vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company. has been elected a
| trustee of the University of Pennsylvania.
This is the first case in, which trustee
Of that nat institution haf Peeh Slated
James Nicely, who died in the insane
asylum at Richmond Ind, on Saturday,
and on Tuesday buried at Marion, Ind, was
for several years an engineer on the Big
Four. He was injured seven months ago
in a wreck, which resulted in his becom-
ing insane.
Business men on the Michigan division of
the Big Four feel that it IS due to them
that there should be one fast train each
way between Indianapolis and Benton Har-
Dor daily. Now all trains run are local,
stopping at every station and the ride is
rather a tedious one.
The Pennsylvania has put on new trains
between Rittsburg and Cleveland which,
1t is claimed, are the most complete and
handsonest run in the country. 1t is stated
that on no portion of the Pennsylvania lines
is as fast time made with regular trains as
on the c. 4 p. division.
Mr.. Raymond DuPuy. confidential repre-
| sentative Of A. B. Stickney, president of the
Chicago & Great Western Railway, Is in
the city. completing tour Of the East,
during which he has inspected the larre
railway systems OF the East with a view
of adopting the best points of those sys-