The Indianapolis journal., 1898-01-26
Personal. Local ana General Notes.


W. NJ Greene, general manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio, is on Western trip.
The directors of the Lake Erie & Western
have declared a quarterly dividend or IA
per cent, payable Feb. To-
The Big -Four will within the next sixty
days equip it's line between Indianapolis
and Cincinnati with the standard block sig
nails.
The stockholders of the Indianapolis Belt
Road and Stock Yards Company will hold
their annual meeting the first Tuesday of
next month.
George Bradbury vice president and gen.
eral manager Of the Lake Erie & Western,
has postponed his coming TO Indianapolis
until next week.
At several passenger stations in Chicago
porters wearing red caps are employed ex-
clusiVely to attend passengers alightlng
from incoming trains.
1t is stated that the plans for the new
union station at Dayton, o., are we'll adj
vanced and the contracts for its erection
will be let within sixty days
Train 20 on the Vandalia, consisting of
eight cars, was yesterday hauled from
Greencastle to the Belt road in thirty-six
minutes; distance thirty-nine miles
The new company that controls the Terre
Haute car works has contracts TO keep it
busy for some time. The works are building
300 coal cars for the Mobile & Ohio.
s G. Clark. Southeastern freight agent of
the Chicago a. Alton, is in the city. He says
rates in all directions are firm, which is a
good deal for a G. e. A. man to assert.
l. D. Baldwin. formerly district passen-
ger agent of the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton and the Monon lines, has accepted
a good position with the New Telephone
Company.
On the Santa Fe lines passengers riding
on passes now have to give to the conduc-
tor on each trip their autograph on a card,
which is afterward sent to the general man
ayers office.
w W. Fox. formerly train dispatcher on
the Indianapolis & Vincennes now super
s,,f. Of flln nh 1faf1ic
q st. Louis, in the city yesterday en-
route to Martinsville
w r. Woodard, formerly general super
intendent of the Monon lines is now gem
eral manager of a partially constructed
road in California twenty-five miles of
which are in operation.
Samuel Barnard, one of the oldest engi-
neers on the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas
City road, who few days ago suffered a
stroke Of paralysis, died on Monday night,
the result of second stroke.
George w. Kretzinger, general counsel of
the Chicago indianapolis & Louisville, was
in the city yesterday on official business.
He has just returned from trip to Califor-
MIA and is much improved in health.
The one thousand cars building for the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton and the
one thousand building for the Indiana De-
catur Il Western are to be equipped with
the Buckeye coupler and air brakes.
Norman Beckley. general agent of the Big
Four, has been in Marion couple of days
looking at some real estate which may be
purchased for the Big Four to enable ii to
make contemplated improvements at that
point.
The five engines and crews OF the Pitts
burg & Cleveland road sent TO the Chicago
division OF the Pittsburg Fort Wayne &
Chicago to help through the rush have been
returned to Cleveland, as business has fallen
off the last few days
Panhandle conductors are now charged
with the responsibility. of the proper heat
ing and ventilation Of all passenger cars.
including Pullmans. hauled on their trains
A recent order states that there has been
negligence in this matter.
IL is stated that since the trouble of 1S9i
up to the present date the Chicago & East
ern Illinois has employed in it's train service