The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-20
Personal, Local ana General Notes.

On Sunday the Big Four will run an ex-
cursion from Louisville to Indianapolis
Baltimore q Ohio line, is on Western trip
C. w. Forester, of Chicago. general
western agent of the Union Star line, is in
the city.
The Louisville division of the Pennsyiva-
ma mes on wednesday carried 3,627 persons
10 Columbus to the g. A. r. encampment
The national convention of car inspectors
Is Snow now IN session at Toledo. B. Dunkin, Of
columbus, o., is supreme chief inspector
for the coming year.
Earnings of the Chicago Great Western
ROAD Tor the second week in May amounted
10 $lO075S against $S3,S9S for the same week
last year, an increase of $16861.
The Southwestern Traffic Bureau has re-
organized under the name of the Southwest
ern Bureau, and its headquarters will be
at st. Louis instead of Kansas City.
Within the last ten days ninety carloads
Of army wagons and ambulances have been
shipped south over the Monor main line
from the South Bend wagon works.
John Turner has been appointed passen-
Wheeling, succeeding e. G.. Schoen, who is
to represent the Northern Pacific at Pitts
burg.
For the G. A. r. National Encampnlent
at Cincinnati Sept. to 10 the Central Pas
senger Association has made rate Of 2
cents per mile one way, short-line distance
Tor the round trip.
The Big Four passenger department has
issued an attractive little booklet contain
Ing favorite songs of the boys in blue" as
an advertisement of the coming G. A. r.
encampment at Cincinnati.
ID. McNicoll, passenger traffic manager
of the Canadian Pacific lines is quite i'll at
his home in Montreal. His illness is an
other obstacle to the restoration of passen-
ger rates to the Pacific coast.
South Bend manufacturers are highly
pleased that the Big Four has secured
control OF the Elkhart & Western, as it
means a healthier competition for business
wv. manufacturing towns On the E.
At the Big Four shops at Brightwood and
Lindale, on the completion of fifty fat cars
at each place, an order has been given that
at once the building of one hundred coal
cars. 5000 pounds capacity, be commenced
at each place.
Alexander Milloy, who has been in the
service. of the Rfchelieu and Ontario Navi-
cation Company for ifty-two years, has re-
signed and the company has accepted the
resignation and placed him on the pay roll
at half pay during his lifetime.
r. B. Jones. general agent of the freight
department of the Chicago Rock Island G.
Pacific. is in the city for couple of days.
He says at no railroad center have the
shipments kept UP better than from Indian
apolis to the West and Northwest.
N j. Neer. district passenger agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, was
in the city yesterday on his initial trip
He reports travel over the B. & o. S. w.
as very satisfactory, General Passenger
Agent McCarty giving it's competitors some
active competition.
With the taking effect of the summer
timetable the Big Four will put on a new
train, leaving Cincinnati in the morning for
New ork and Boston. The train is sched-
uled to make the run from Cincinnati to
Cleveland, 264 miles, in six hours and thirty
minutes, stopping at Dayton, Springfield
and Columbus.
Roads out of San Francisco are making
further reduction in rates. The Southern
Pacific announces that ii will meet the rates
OF the Canadian Pacific by the Shasta route
through Portland, and the Santa Fe has de-
ternined to make the same rates over it's
road. The other. transcontinental lines will
take similar action.
Judge Taft has filed a modification of the
Toledo ST. Louis g. Kansas City decree Civ
ing the preferred stockholders the right to
bid on condition that they make sufficient
deposits to cover debts that must be paid,
and court expenses which 1t is said the
preferred stockholders will do, This means
that further litigation will follow
A complete vestibule train which would
be credit to the Pullman or any other
car works was yesterday delivered to the
Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton. which was
rebuilt at the Indiana, Decatur & Western
shops. The train consists CT baggage car.
three day coaches and q parlor car. and will
be run between Cincinnati and Detroit
President HILL of the Great Northern, has
returned from Europe, and when asked
what the Great Northern would do TO
the passenger rate war he answered: 'I
consideration. Why should l? am not
worrying about II. We can anord 10 stand
all the loss the Canadian racine can infilct
upon us, and 1t is not our place to settle
the trouble We did not begin it."
A complete reorganization of the passen-
ger department of the New York Central
becomes effective June /. and General Pas
senger Agent Daniels has issued a circular
to that effect. The circular announces the
resignation OF Theodore Buttertield as gen.
oral passenger agent of the Rome Water
town a. Ogdensburg and announces the fol-
lowing appointments: T.. j. Richards, as
sistant general passenger agent, New York
r. j. Wolfe. general baggage agent and
general agent passenger department, Al