The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-11
PersonaI. Locai and GeneraI Notes.

May IS is the date the important roads
have set for the summer time tables 10 go
into effect.
c. H. Beggs has been appointed purchas-
ing agent Of the ST. Louis & San Francisco,
with headquarters at st. Louis.
Theodore Wells, travelling passenger agent
of the Chesapeake & Ohio. will this week
go to the Pacific coast to recuperate his
health.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
Indianapolis last week $3.50 loaded cars,
every division showing remarkable IN
crease.
d. c. Jones, assistant general freight
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee st
Paul, who was recently transferred to chi
cago, has resigned.
The export traffic of the Fitchburg road
averages considerably more than 80 per
cent. of the total exports from Boston to
transatlantic points.
A. c. Adams has been appointed chief of
accounts of the Wagner Palace Car Com
pany, with headquarters at New York, vice
r. ID. Boak, resigned.
There is no truth in the report THAI J. T.
Hanrahan vice president of the Illinois
Central, has been offered the presidency of
one of the Vanderbilt lines.
The Vandalia will have IL car for air-brake
instruction. J. M. Bindley will be placed in
charge of 1t, and will be assisted by stu
dent from Rose Polytechnic.
The Lake Shore and Rock Island now
control the cab and carriage service at the
Van Buren-street station, Chicago, so as to
From May to Sept. all the outside
ticket offices at Cincinnati will be closed 1T
/ y. m. every Saturday and at Buffalo
such a proposition is being considered.
The extension of the Mobile & Ohio from
Columbus. Miss, to Tuscaloosa, Ala, is
completed distance of eighty-tive miles,
and the road was last week opened to traf-
fic
souri, Car and Foundry Company new box
cars Of 1000 pounds capacity at the rate of
ter day until the order for 120 new cars Is
filled.
lines proper handled at Indianapolis 1901
loaded cars 4,537 more than in the week
ending April 2. and ZIP more than the cor
responding week of 1897.
The Columbus Northwestern is having
trouble getting into Lima over any of the
roads running in there. and il may be
forced to build its own line and terminal IA
cilities at that point.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
which operates it's own sleeping car service,
Wagner companies, increasing the rates in
compartment sleeping cars.
The traffic on Western lines for March
was, heavy beyond precedent The Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy handled II per cent.
more loaded cars than in March 1897 and
the Santa Re 10 per cent. more.
For locomotives of the Panhandle at Co
lumbus, o., there are daily required from
one hundred or more locomotives daily TAX
ing their coal on at that point.
1t is reported that George Gould will
form "A gigantic combina ton. taking in the
Missouri Pacific, the Iron Mountain and the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas, and that ). III.
II. Clark will be at the mead of it.
Nineteen CARLOADS of live stock were
hauled from Galesburg TO Chicago over the
Chicago Burlington q Quincy. l63 miles in
three hours and thirty-nine minutes, or an
average of forty-five miles an hour.
Western representatives of the Pennsyl-
Vania lines have been notified that the en-
account OF "A blockade has been lifted. and
sttch shipments will again be received.
Negotiations arc pending between the Pa
cifc Express Company and the Canadian
Express Company opera ting iii the Do
minion by which the Pacific Company,
which has just got into Buffalo over the
Wabash, can extend its service into Canada.
Robert S. French, formerly with the
Plant system, has been appointed CONNER
cial agent of the chesapeake & Ohio at
Charleston. S. C.. where large quantities of
coal from the mines on the 6. & 0. are han
died.
= is stated that the Chicago and Denver
rods are about TO agree on common time
schedules between Kansas City and Omaha
and this will end IN the adjustment of eX-
cess fares now in effect on some of the
Northwestern lines.
Plans are now being prepared for new
Pennsylvania station at Richmond. This IS
something the public there has been de-
handing for long time. Superintendent
J. 5. May, of the Richmond division, was