The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-18

cents a mile net. Should they succeed in
tercnangeable mileage VIII be in operation
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from
Manitoba to the Gulf OF Mexico.
In passenger circles the belief prevails
that the position of passenger traffic man
ager on the Santa Fe system will be abol-
looked after by w. f. Black general pas
senger agent.
After several years of contention the two
factions of Philadelphia, Reading & New
plan of reorganization which will be pushed
through. The plan contemplates building a.
line to Springfield, Mass.
Charles Hibben, who was for many years
Michigan, is now an engineer on the FIRE.
mont, Elkhorn q Missouri River Valley
read He is spending a few days with
friends here and at Wabash.
The Lake Shore and the Michigan Cen
trail, which have been running horse trains
from Chicago to Buffalo on a nineteen-hour
schedule has changed 1t to a thirty-hour
service. TIE running of these trains on so
fast a schedule was proving too costly.
II the steam motors which the Cincin-
naol, hamilton Dayton is building are
make D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic
manager of the c.. H. & D., famous, as on
his suggestion they were designed and built.
The electrical and telephone department
pleted the work of connecting all of the Of
noes located at Fort Wayne with the most
modern teiegraphic and telephone instru-
ments, including several long-distance tele-
phones.
Notice was yesterday given by the Bur-
hngton and Rock Island roads that to meet
the competition of the Southwestern roads
they viii make rate of one fare for the
round trip for the meeting of the master
plumbers to be held at San Antonio, Tex,
April 1916.
by the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul as
the name for the new train to be run be-
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, and st. Paul,
beginning about the Ist Of May. 1t is de-
clared that 1t will be equipped with the
handsomest cars ever run in this country.
The James river division of the Chesa-
peake q Ohio is said to be the busiest piece
OF track in the country. 1t extends from
Clifton Forge to Newport News. and i'm
mense quantities of grain and coal are daily
shipped over it. 1t being down grade all
the way to the seaboard, fifty to sixty
loaded cars are hauled to the train.
The passenger offices of the Chicago roads
We're bare Of officials yesterday, all the men
neral of the late W. r. White, passenger
traftic manager Of the Atchison. The serv-
ICES Ice were held in St; Mary's Catholic
ment was in Calvary Cemetery, in Chicago
The pallbearers were all associates of Mr.
WHITE in the service of the Atchison road
:, E. 3. Crosley, coal and iron sales agent OF
to be transferred to Philadelphia to take an
important position in the freight depart
at indianapolis and was in the auditors Of
nee of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western,
ss9s1e sue G. Dickinson as auditor. John NJ.
CIaggett, another L., B. & w. man. who has
been at Buffalo, goes to Chicago to fill Mr.
Crosley's place
Daniel Donough general ticket agent of
the Union Railway Company, was not so
well last evening. His illness is the result
OF a severe attack of grip some five years
ago Mr. Donough has been a resident OF
first railroad work was as clerk of the late
Milton Lands, who was then agent of the
point. In 1854 William N. Jackson, then
general ticket agent of the Union Railway
company, employed him as a ticket agent,
and when Mr.. Jackson was elected secre-
tary Aaron Orr was appointed general tick
ct agent; on his death, which occurred in
1876, Mr.. DOnough was appointed the gen.
eral ticket agent of the company and is
credited with keeping his accounts in the
most perfect shape of any official the audi
tors of Indianapolis lines are called upon
to inspect.