The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-25
Personal, Local and General Notes.


The Wabash will establish ticket agency
at Niagara Falls.
Paul Rainier. chief of the Weighing and in
spection bureaus, is in the city on official
business.
The Moron earned in the second week of
May $65, Cos, an increase over the correspond
ing week of 1897 of $4,917.
With the retirement of w. II. Newman as
second vice president of the Great Northern
the position has been abolished.
r. l. Williams general agent of the Rail-
way Officials and Employees Association at
Denver, is in the city for conference with
the general officers.
The railway claim agents will meet in this
city to-day. 1t is expected that sixty or
more persons employed in this department
will be In attendance.
The physician of w. p Walker, jr., gem
eral traffic manager of the Chesapeake. &
Ohio says he cannot recover and is failing
fast. He is still at an Eastern hospital
George NJ. Henry, well known in local
Tetary to the new general passenger agent
OF the Detroit & Lima Northern, with head
quarters at Detroit
B. L, Winchell the newly-appointed gen.
eral passenger agent of the ST. Louis & San
Francisco and James Donohue. general
agent Of the same company at Kansas city,
were In the city yesterday
The Cambridge City division of the Penn
eylvania line has been put in good condition
and it is now being utilized to greater
extent than ever before for business be-
tween Louisville and the East.
John Chesborough, who is general North
ern agent of the Queen & Crescent, with
headquarters at Detroit, was in the city
Yesterday, accompanied by his wife, leaving
here in the evening for st. Louis.
The Lake Erie & Western will in the
near future build a new depot at 1lpton,
which has become an important s statlon on
promised to consider the matter at an early
day.
The present month there has been shipped
FIA 1fron nf
&, VincenneS 20S carloads OF fat cattle, ehlef-
" for export, and there are twelve hundred
head yet to be shipped by the Morgan Bros.
at Marco.
Samuel Thomas, president of the Monon,
and several other persons from the East
who are Interested in the property VIII IN
the early part of next month come West TO
inspect the lines and confer as to further
improvements.
Train 49, on the Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania lines which is scheduled from
Louisville to Indianapolis in three hours and
ten minutes, on Monday night left Louisville
late and made the run in two hours and
twenty minutes.
since appointed receiver of the Toledo, st.
Louis &. Kansas City. r. B. F. Peirce has
paid off over $1.100,O00 of its liabilities
placed the road in excellent physical condi-
lion and purchased five hundred new cars
and paid for them
George Kittredge, chief engineer of the
Big -Four last evening went to Terre Haute,
where work will be begun this morning on
new station building, which. with other
tmnrovements contemplated. will cost in the
neighborhood of $40,OO0.
It is stated that but for the strike. of the
stone cutters in New York, which has Sc
riousiy affected the business OF the Monon
from the Bedford quarries. the Monon
would now be showing the largest earnings
since operated. not only on the main line,
but on the Indianapolis division
The Chicago & Southeastern is doing fair
business. and with each month is paying
Off claims which have caused much trouble
IN the past II. Moore, general utility man
on the road says that in few months en-
ployes on the line will be pald as regularly
as on any of the stronger lines.
After a fight lasting several years the
government has secured from The railroads
q concession under which officers and pri-
Yates making long Journeys will be given
through tickets. Heretofore each road mas
honored a government order for the trans
portation by issuing ticket over Its own
lines only.
James Harvard. who represented the San
e. Fe in the Cincinnati and indianapolis dis
trict for some years. but who severed his
connection with the company on May !, was
in the city yesterday en- route TO Chicago,
where. on June /. he viii take position
with one Of the Northwestern lines. Mr..