The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-03
Personal, Local and General Notes.


James McCrea. first vice president of the
PENNSYLVANIA Company, has returned to
Cambridgeboro to take longer rest.
H.. E.. FELTON,. late general freight agent
the service OF the Standard oil Company.
It is stated that the purchasers of the
Elkhart g. Western will extend it to South
Bend. four miles west of it's present term
inal.
In the month of May there were handled
on the Big -Four lines 1880 passengers,
year of 1884.
James B. Stafford, superintendent of the
r., G.. & Y. division of the Pennsylvania
lines. is with his family visiting relatives in
the southern part of the State.
Another large mileage of heavy rails is
being distributed on the Panhandle be-
tween Columbus and Richmond; 119 car
loads were distributed this week.
The summer time table became effective
on the Wabash lines on Sunday, when
additional passenger train each way between
st. Louis and Buffalo will be put in service
The pleasure resort on the Panhandle here
tofore known as Old lakewood Grove, is
now to be known as lakewood Park Some
$4,000 has been expended in improving the
grounds.
A. E. Martin, travelling passenger agent of
the Burlington, is in the city looking after
west-bound business. He anticipates a good
business during the summer to Yellowstone
Park and Colorado mountain resorts.
G. e. Schaff. general manager, and George
hittredge, chief engineer of the Big Four
TINS morning go to Chicago, travelling by
the Monon instead of their own line.
The official report of John Ferguson. gen.
eral baggage agent at the Union Station,
shows that in May there were handled 1865
pieces of baggage, against 39711 in May,
1897, an increase this year of 1914 pieces.
D. H., Corey. superintendent of rolling
stock of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton
lines, has been in the city for a day or
two looking after some work in progress
Tor his company at the Indiana, Decatur &
Western shops.
New York financial papers state that
there is good authority for saying that the
Woodford syndicate, controlling the In
diana Decatur & Western and the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton q Dayton, had secured con-
troll of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville.
On the Erie road, in place of the standard
pilots for locomotives, which cost from $50
manship, has been substituted pilot made
of iron pipe, which is fully as effective for
freight locomotives, and which costs
Bellamay Sutton ex-superntendent of the
whitewater division of the Big Four, yes
terday returned from Key West, where he
had been for FIVE weeks. His son-in-law, c..
j. White, is chief train dispatcher of the
lines In the Plant system, with headquarters
at Tampa.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yes
terday sent two of its parlor cars to the In
diana, Decatur G. Western shops to be re-
modelled and converted into combined parlor
and buffet cars, to be vestibuled and to be
placed on the day through train run be-
tween Cincinnati and Detroit.
The small relative gross earnings on the
planned on the ground that in April 1897,
operating charges oil the lines east of Pitts
pnrg were cut 100000 below those of April,
1895, and further. rates have been very I'M
satisfactory for sixty days past.
On June !, under orders of Receiver Fell
ton. of the Columbus. Sandusky & Hooking
men and hremen in passenger and freight
service for economy in the use of fuel. The
Crescent with satisfactory ry1 results se uee"
M. Whitaker. the newly-appointed
freight traffic manager Of the Chesapeake
& Ohio, began his career by dropping the
commercial agents at Pittsburg and Gin
cinnau as an economical measure The po-
sitions being aboliShed leaves George Ham
mond and Harry Queen out Of employment.
On June / the passenger conductors on
the Wabash put on their stripes indicating
their rank and number of years of service.
There are three conductors who can wear
six stripes, indicating thirty years of sery-
Ice, and quite number four and five
stripes. each stripe indicating five years of
service.
Announcement is made of the retirement
OF Edwin Abbott as one of the trustees of
this step by Mr.. Abbott is said to be owing
TO disagreement over the mortgages COW
ering the property of the Wisconsin Cen
trail. The impression prevails that the re-
organization of the Wisconsin Central lines
is long way off.
Chief Engineer Croker, of the Southern
construct an extension toward Richmond,
Ind, this year, so much betterment work
is there to be DONE Already six miles of
new steel rail, weighing seventy pounds to
the yard, has been laid and two new
bridges. 125 feet long. completed. and four
thoroughly repaired.
Hiram H. Smith died recently at his home
IN jackson. Mich, at the age of eighty
eight years. Mr.. Smith projected the Jack
son, Lansing * Saginaw road, and for years
was its vice president, retiring In 1871 when
the road was leased to the Michigan Gem
trail. Mr.. Smith was also connected with
Michigan, the Detroit, Grand Rapids &
Western and the Detroit & Bay City all of
which are now parts of the Michigan Gen.
trail system.
An official of the Big Four who has been
connected with the line for some years said
yesterday that he had never known the re-
1ations between the officers and the en-
it is now five years since J. @, Van Wrinkle
was appointed general superintendent and
with each year the situation has improved
and the last three years there have been no
official changes except in case of some
retiring, and in each case his place has been
filled by promotion.
The monthly report of accidents which
as prepared by the Railroad Gazette shows
that in April last there were 1& accidents,
in which eighteen persons were killed and
forty-eight injured. OF those killed seven
teen were employees and one a trespasser
Not q passenger was killed In April OF
twenty-one passengers and four trespassers
In the l5 accidents thirty-one passenger
and 100 freight trains We're involved.
A grand rally of the members OF the Rail-,