The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Pennsylvania Company will to-day
get its Cambridge City division open for
business.
er Of the Vandalia lines was in the city
yesterday on official business
The special business of the Baltimore &
Ohio for the month of March amounted to
los parties, with a total of 2,S17 people.
The high-water blockade of the Panhan
die, which ended on Wednesday night was
the longest in the history of the road
To-day j. q. Williams becomes CONNER
Mich
The Pullman and Wagner sleeping car
companies to-day advance the prices for
occupying their compartment cars 40 per
cent
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern ex-
poets to-tay to run it's trains schedule
time and over its own tracks from Cincin-
natl to ST. Louis.
The general freight department of the
Pennsylvania lines has just issued large
card map of their system which will be of
value to shippers.
Private car No. 2S has just come out of
the. Vandalia shops at Terre Haute rebuilt
and is now one Of the best private cars on
Indianapolis lines.
The Monon shops at Lafayette, which
through March ran but eight hours a day,
will to-day commence running nine hours
six days of the week.
A meeting of the Central Passenger Asso-
citation has been called for Thursday. April
q at Chicago. Some important matters are
10 come up for action.
meeting of the rate clerks of the West
ern roads has been, called for Tuesday to
prepare the rate sheets for the summer
tourist business of 1898.
Receiver Malott, of the Vandalia, has con-
tracted for eighty-five coal cars of 80 900
pounds capacity and of modern build, llav-
ing sides forty-four inches in height
day at Fort Wayne, for many years ran an
engine on the Toledo, Wabash & Western,
and his son is now running an engine on the
Wabash.
power of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago, yesterday went East to be gone
several days. He will spend much of the
time at Altoona.
w. S. Bratt has been appointed freight
and passenger agent of the Iowa and Da-
kota and the Iowa and Minnesota divisions
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee x st. Paul. vice
X. NJ. Calkins, resigned.
During the troubles from high waters on
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines
General Manager Waldo and Superintendent
Galloway put on some old clothes and made
good records as laborers
w. p. Walker traffic manager of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, who is at a sanatorium
at Newport News, is said to be steadily
improving. He was stricken with paralysis
six weeks ago at Cincinnati.
The Indianapolis Railroad officials As
ISOLATION and the Indiana Car-service Assoc
citation will hold their regular meetings next
Monday for the first time since 1t was ar
ranged for them TO meet on the same day.
Engine 40 on the Pennsylvania lines
which made a record of ninety-elght miles
an hour on the Louisville division in hauling
a worlds fair train has been rebuilt and
put in service on the Panhandle lines east.
General Manager Barnard. of the Peoria
& Eastern. has already commenced through
Claim Agents Myers and Edwards, adj
justing the damages claimed by persons in
iured in the wreck on Tuesday near Bloom
ington. i'll.
At the Big Four shops at Wabash the
largest number of men is employed since
the shops We're located there, and the class
of work turned out, Superintendent of Mo-
tive Power Garstang says, would be diff
cult to excel.
A railway official who Is excellent author
ity on such matters says that Mr. Depew
as president OF the New York Central line
received a salary of $25, 600 per annum while
in his new position he win get $4,000 per
annum and have much less labor and worry.
The official report Of NJ. w Mansfield, su-
perintendent Of tile Indianapolis q Vim
cennes. shows usft there were 1853 miles of
its track under sater on Friday and Satur-
day and 1856 miles of embankment washed
out. the track being under water at twenty