The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-17
FersonnI. LocaI and General Notes.

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| Weed, resigned.
The Pennsylvania inspection party will
pass over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
! Chicago to-day.
Trainmen on the Pennsylvania lines yes
teTday substituted their winter uniforms
| for those of the summer.
G. G. Waldo, general manager of the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton lines, has
| returned from New York.
j. II. Boyer has been appointed chief mo-
| tive power clerk of the Pennsylvania. with
oh.ce at Altoona, to succeed the late Il. F.
! Custer
| j. 3. Hill, general freight agent of the
Pc lnsylvania lines West. who has been in
! Texas for couple of weeks returned yes
| to-day.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
| indianapolis last week 6,441 cars, 5Os5 be-
| ing loaded, an increase over the correspond
| ing week of 1897 of 1873.
Mr.. Will r. Stailey. of the mileage de-
part,ment of the Big -Four car service; gave
| TO coterie of his friends.
! The Big Four lines proper handled at In
dianapolis last week. 1856 cars. 1858 be,
| ing loaded, an Increase OF l39, as compared
| with the corresponding week of 1897.
Next Sunday the Detroit & Lima North
| ern will put two through trains each
| way between Columbus and Detroit: The
| trains will be Of the highest standard.
An effort is making to organize a syndi-
cate to purchase the Toledo, 81 Louis a.
| Kansas City and extend it to Chicago. II
is stated the charter and right OF way are
accessible.
Charles s. Crane, general passenger agent
of the Wabash. passed through here yester.
day en- route to st. Louis from Pittsburg,
where he enjoyed for two three days the
! Knights Templars conclave.
Fl. G. Clark. general superintendent of the
Missouri Pacific lines, passed through the
| city yesterday on his private car Magnolia,
en- route home from the Pittsburg conclave,
he being prominent knight Templar.
Chief Medical Examiner Arnold of the
and District Medical Examiners Talbot and
| Kells, on Saturday left for Pennsylvania, to
be absent until Oct. rs on a pleasure trip.
The agencies of the Big Four and the
solidated the Santa Fe agent being re-
| tanned. Charles White who has been agent
or the Big -Four, will go to Colfax as agent.
W. T. Dickerill. travelling passenger agent
| of the Canadian Pacific, at the close of the
| annual convention of the Canadian ticket
agents. held in Ottawa last week. was pre-
! scented with an elegant gold watch and
chain.
Joseph Ramsey, jr.. vice president and
general manager, and General Superintend-
ent Magee of the Wabash. who were in
| New York last week to attend the railroad
meeting, returned to headquarters on Sat
| Urday
| Big Four, Chicago division, who has been
| laid up several weeks a result of the
rupture of blood vessel in his leg, has so
| far recovered as to take his train again,
| and is now on his regular run.
The Detroit & Lima Northern is said to
have entered into traffic alliance with
the Norfolk & Western which it is thought
will result in a large interchange of traffic
with the opening of the Columbus division
of the Detroit g. Lima Northern.
c. L. France. of the general offices of the
Nov 1 succeeded c. W. Mordoff as city
ticket and passenger agent of the com
pany at Columbus. Mr. FRANCE began MS
railroad career on the Lake Shore.
| R0fo,-t oil ho aror the Pitts
| burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. who was so
severely injured in wreck near Fort
Wayne about year ago, has so far recoV-
cred that he has taken an engine again.
| making the first run last Thursday.
The Vandalia handled at indianapolis
last week $3.50 loaded cars. bringing in
| SAT and forwarding west 973. OF the in
hound movement. 104 cars were loaded with
live stock This was an increase f OF 2UI
| Spondlng week OF 1897.
In connection with the visit of President
| Mckinley on Friday. Oct 81 the Pennsyl-
vania lines will sell excursion tickets at one
North Vernon. Seymour, Worthngton and
intermediate ticket stations to Indianapolis
| tickets good returning same day.
c.. w. Bassett general passenger agent
of the Pittsburg & Western Saturday
telegraphed Chairman Donald, of the Cen
trail Passenger Association, that as ie-
suit of the weeks contest between the
roads and the ScalperS the railroad people
We're jubiant and the scalpers depressed.
Colonel May, the veteran passenger man of
the PENNSYLVANIA was in the city yesterday.
He celebrated his eighty-sixth birthday on
Pixies Peak last week and then started
for Philadelphia. Colonel May began serv-
ice with the road in 1853. He has been on
the retired list at half pay for eight years.
The Big Four yesterday had number of
excursions, one from indianapolis to C1ncln-
natl one from indianapolis to Louisville.
one from Dayton another to Cleveland off
the Cleveland division and one from La
| fayette and points north to Chicago. On
| the latter thirty-five coaches carried the
| people.
The shops of the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne
G. Chicago at Fort Wayne are being run
thirteen hours day and the output last
| history of the shops Eight locomotives
| the shops for some weeks rebuilding or UNI
| dergoing general repairs.
Next week William Garstang, superin-
| tendent of motive power OF the Big Four
| lines, will give the simple and compound
| engines just received from the Richmond
locomotive works thorough test. The
| engines weigh the same. and it is expected
will haul the same tonnage, the saving in
| fuel being the only recommendation the
! compound engine has.
Panhandle train No. yesterday brought
| from the East special Pullman car having
S beard S H. G. s0ddarS President Ran Of
| Colonel Osborn. editor and proprietor of the
New Haven Register, and Gen. E. E. Brad
| Company en- route to Mexico. The party
| expect to be absent three weeks.
On the Pennsylvania lines West. James
| A. McCrea, son of Vice President McCrea,
| who is assistant engineer on the Eastern
division of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne &
I Chicago. accompanied by c. ID. Law. super
| intendent and F. G. Ericsson, civil engineer.
| precede President Thomson's inspection
| party over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne 81
| Chicago, travelling in a special car which
| has been equipped with indicator to note
| speed or locate low places in the track
| or any defects in the rails
The Baltimore & Ohio is experimenting
! with an so O00-pound coal car between Cum
| berland and Baltimore, where the heavy
movement of coal will justify an increase
| i'm the capacity of the cars. The cars now
i'm use have 80 per cent. greater capacity
than those used three years ago. but with
| the changes in the line and the relaying
| of the track with eight-five-pound steel
and the erection of modern steel bridges
the receivers believe it possible to increase
the car capacity to S00O0 pounds. Plans are
| also being made at the Mount Clare loco
| motive shops for locomotives to weigh be-
| tween 2250o0 and 300O0 pounds the cylin-
ders to be 23x30 inches. and the rest OF the
! engine in proportion. If this engine is built
II will be used on the heavy grades between
| Cumberland and Grafton.
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