The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-09
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Next month, it is SAID, the Chesapeake &
Ohio will JOIN the list of dividend-paying
roads.
o. b. Biggerstaff has been appointed agent
of the Panhandle ut English Lake, Ind, vice
G.. w. Green, deceased.
E. F. Cost, freight traffic manager of the
Big Four lines, has gone East to attend
q meeting of the Vanderbilt freight men.
E. NJ. Miles, formerly joint agent of the
Big Four and the Vandalia at Colfax, Ind.
has been appointed agent of the Big -Four at
Danvile.
The rumor is current that the United
States Express Company will be CONSOLE
dated with one of the other large express
companieS
f. II. Hoyt. former secretary of the Joint
Traffic Association, has been selected as
secretary of the conference Of Eastern rail-
way presidents.
William NJ. Bolger. for many years an
employee in the Vandalia shops at Terre
Haute, was on Wednesday stricken with par
alysis while at work.
President Blackstone of the Chicago &
Alton, has increased his library endowment
to the town of Hartford, Conn.,, where he
was born. another 100000
w. H. McDoel, vice president, George
Lowell, general superintendent. and Chief
Engineer Hail. of the Monon lines were in
the city yesterday on an inspection trip.
Freight traffic on the Chicago division of
the Baltimore & Ohio is the heaviest ever
known and engines are being transferred
from the eastern divisions to help move the
business.
c. A Henderson, who has been in Off
Cial position on the Ohio Southern for thlr-
teen years. has accepted q position on the
Louisville. Evansville q st. Louis, with
headquarters at st. Louis.
]. II. Crawford, general manager of the
Iackawanna fast freight line, was in the
pers in company with ]. Byrne, who repre-
sents the line In this territory.
T. d. Rhoades, assistant to President
Hunt, of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth 81 Vir-
10 m in ahlV Of hn
erty during Mr.. Hunts receivership of the
Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City.
D. f. Spangler has been appointed super
tntendent of car. service of the Norfolk IL
Western, vice A w. Towsley, resigned on
account of i'll health. Mr. Spangler has been
train master of the. Kenova division
John McKeever. one of the oldest engi-
neers on the Vandalia line, on Tuesday
hauled Fast Express IA, with Engine 1S5,
from Terrs Haute to indianapolis, seventy
three miles, in eighty-nine minutes, making
two stops.
The improvements the Chicago, Burlington
x Quincy is making at Quincy. ILL.,, will cost
M,C0OO0. This includes q new bridge, new
passenger and freight stations. and requires
the filling of an embankment forty feet
high for over one mile.
A. N. Martin. secretary in the office of
General Freight Agent Brockenbrough. has
been transferred to the office of his father,
the passenger traffic manager of the Balti-
more & Ohio. and r. p. Magee succeeds
him in the former position.
w. b. Miller, the newly appointed official
IN charge of motive power of the Panhandle
lines at the Columbus shops, is making
changes in the running of locomotives which
will result in the engines used the long
through runs being better cared for.
The gross earnings of the Chicago Great
Western for November were $475.1I1. SO. an
increase of 81 I29.1S over the corresponding
month of last year The total increase since
the beginning of the fiscal year July u is
$9le23.Il, as compared with the same period
in 1897.
The Chesapeake & Ohio in the last week
of November shows an increase in earnings
over the corresponding week of 1897 of $3s,-
729; the Louisville & Nashville an increase
OF $22l .7S5 for November this year, and the
Southern Railway an increase of $40 495
over November, 1897.
+. r. Pilling. passenger conductor on the
Panhandle. who has been confined at his
home in Dennison for some time with
locomotor ataxia, has written a book. which
is now i'm the hands of the printer. giving a
series of railroad experiences from section
hand to official position.
The second biennial session of the Broth
erhOOd of Railway Trackmen of America
was held in Macon. Gu. and elected John
II. Wilson. of st. Louis. grand chief fore
man. The executive committee is composed
Of j. F. Craig chairman. W. +. MacBee T.
A. Bangor and j. c. Lamert
Committees OF telegraphers and station
agents on the Kansas City. Pittsburg &
Gulf have presented demand on the gem
era officers for an increase of p per cent
I'm their wages. On the southern part of the
road such an advance was recently made i'm
the pay of the men IN the same departments.
President Fish. of the Illinois Central.
who has been on an inspection trip Of the
entire system. has returned to New York
and speaks in the most complimentary
terms Of the manner the property is being
operated. and Ia much pleased with the
volume OF traffic over the more recently
acquired lines.
Illinois now has 1928 miles of railroad
main line, 10 miles having been added the
last year, and these roads are capitalized.
including capital stock. funded debt and
current liabilities, at 1915 1885, or s67,957