The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-24

H. c. Townsend, general passenger agent
of the Wabash. is on an Eastern trip.
]. B. Hill. general freight agent of the
Panhandle lines, is on a Western trip. Yes
terday he went to st. Louis.
Charles Stiltz, ticket agent at the Union
Station, who is i'll with typhoid fever, was
thought to be better last evening.
Col S. H. Church, assistant secretary of
the Pennsylvania lines west will on March
Is be married to Miss Bertha J. Reinhart,
OF Pittsburg.
William Patterson, who for twenty-five
years was baggage master on the Penn
sylvania lines, is now proprietor of fruit
farm at Riverside, CAL
All heads of departments on the Balti-
more & Ohio lines mus. on March l. take
after that date will be held responsible
for such articles.
The Panhandle lines will have another
weeks of February the earnings were $607,-
52S an increase over the corresponding
fourteen days of 1897 of $65,621
The stockholders of the Delaware. Lacka-
this week, reelected the old board of di
rectors, and the directors reelected Samuel
Sloane president for the thirty-frst sue
oessive year.
The Baltimore & Ohio expects to have
it's dock improvements at Sandusky COM
pleted and ready for operations by April
/. The company expects to increase it's bus
mess at that point 90 per cent. by these
improvements.
Medium Gray son of D. S. Gray, has
been appointed soliciting agent of the Pan
Deahl. Medium Gray has been holding
clerical position in the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation offices at New York.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west, has issued a
pictorial booklet which is unique, treating
of the new limited trains which the Penn
sylvania lines put on Jan. II; The illustra-
tons are all from photographs.
of afrrt,k
were in the city yesterday. Among them
were w. 7. Sanders, of the St Louis & San
Francisco; A. w. Noyes; OF the Chicago
Detroit and Cleveland Steamship Company.
The withdrawal of the Santa Fe from the
boycott of the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf without giving an explanation is taken
as evidence that the company prefers TO
allow some of the other lines in the South
western Association TO fight the Injunction
proceedings.
e. "A. Kingsley of Indianapolis has been
appointed assistant in the engineering de-
partment of the L. L. & st. L.. with head
quarters in Princeton, Ind, Mr.. Kingsley
connected with the city engineering depart
ment of Indianapolis.
The report is revived that l.. II. Westrick,
superintendent of the western division of
the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City, will
resign TO go to Klondike, and that he will
be succeeded on the Glover Leaf by j. w.
Chapman who is receiver OF some or the
coal mines on the T., St l.. * X. c.
Officials OF the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf road give the most positive and eX
plcit denial to reports that have been
placed in circulation to the effect that the
terminals of the road are to be changed
from Port Arthur TO Sabine Pass. They
say they are at Port Arthur to stay.
Mr.. A Williams Senate deputy of the
National Union. is in the city in the ia
terest OF Indianapolis Railroad Council
$50. Mr.. Williams is an old railroad man
and is known IN this city. The National
| Union Is fraternal organization, its prin-
J olpal feature being Insurance. Ihis coun-