The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-08

and he will look after the correspondence
of Mr.. Bradbury.
Charles Stiltz the newly appointed gem
eral ticket agent at the Union Station who
.isis been i'll with typhoid fever some weeks
was able TO be at his office a short time
yesterday
Under instructions from Receiver Malott
the shops on the Vandalia lines are now
running nine hours a day, or ffty-four
hours a week, making Saturday afternoon a
half holiday
April / has passed and the Monon has not
taken control of the Chicago & Southeast
influence with President Thomas such q
deal is not likely.
The last spike on the Astoria e Column
bia River Railway has been driven, and the
completion of this road gives the first all
rail line from Eastern United States sea-
ports to Astoria, Ore.
George Bender is now superintendent of
the maintenance OF way department of the
Chicago division of the Big Four and Fl. +.
Houghton is superintendent of the trans
portation department.
Alexander Robertson has been appointed
tralnnaster OF the eighth, ninth and thtr-
teenth districts of the Wabash lines, with
headquarters at Decatur, Ill. He comes
from the Fftchburg road.
ductors on the Grand Trunk. 6fed at Wind
sor, ont, on Wednesday. In its early days
Mr. Snider was quite prominent III the Or
der of Railway Conductors.
The Pennsylvania Company has COM
menced the construction of fifty new coach
es at Its Columbus shops. They are to be
or the wide vestibuled pattern and finished
In the interior with mahogany.
H. e. FELTON,, general freight agent of the
Lake shore, has appointed r. i. Talcott
commercial agent of the company at Buff
falo, and K. E. Gavin succeeds Mr.. Talcott
as contracting agent of the Lake Shore.
The passenger department of the South
ern Pacific gives notice that it has decided
to discontinue the sunset limited for the
season, eastbound, from San Francisco
April 2S; westbound, from Chicago, May s..
Under the bylaws of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers the term of Grand
Chief arthur does not expire for two years
unless ne chooses to resign. The matter
will not be preached at the coming conven-
ton.
A. II. Sanford, engineer of maintenance
Of way on the Pennsylvania lines, has been
ing r. B. Hamilton who on April / went
to the Cincinnati division of the South
western system.
Beginning April 16 the rates on plow
beams and handles in the rough or in the
white, in carload lots, from Louisville to
Chattanooga and Knoxville will be 25 cents;
to Rome and Atlanta, Ca, 35 cents; to Ma
con and Columbus, Ga, 81 cents.
J. q. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
of the Big Four was first offered the posi-
ton as . member of the. staff of Governor
portation, but declined, thanking the Gov
ernor for the proposed recognition.
NJ. f. ingalls,, president of the Big Four.
will present his son Albert, who is to be
married on April u, with handsome resi-
dence in Cleveland, and the bride, through
her grandmother, Mrs. d. Stinson who is
eighty years of age, will receive large sum
Of money.
The passenger departments of the Penn
sylvania lines east and west of Pittsburg
have issued orders that the conductors re-
name to it. Although the rule has been in
existence for years it has never been
strictly enforced.
Since the imposition of 81 extra fare on
the through travel of the Chicago and Den
yer lines the business has diminished. The
Chicago & Northwestern train on Tuesday
evening left Chicago with two Denver pas
sengers and the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy had but three.
An official circular announces the APP
pointment of E.. B. Crosley as assistant
Reading, in charge of the Western through
freight service, vice, +. W. Fouke, resigned.
Mr. Crosley was formerly auditor of the
Indiana, Bloomington & Western.
Col. VIM. Shaw, district passenger agent
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, was
in the city yesterday and in commenting. OH
the appointment of b, l.. Winchell as gen
eral passenger agent of the St. Louis e. San
Francisco said it was an excellent appoint
ment, and that he was d capable passenger
man.
The will of Robert Bee, former general
superintendent of the Decline, was pro-
bated at Cleveland on Tuesday. Hugh Blee
the executor. fixes the value of his real es-
tate at $1,000 and the personal property at
$50, COO A striking feature of the will is
the charitable requests ranging from $3.50
to 81, COO.
George Kittredge chief engineer of the
Big -Four, spent yesterday in the city He
expresses the opinion that most remarkable
work has been done in the last ten days in
repairing washouts on. Indiana and Ohio
roads, and this remark not only applies to
the Big Four lines, but to most of the other
roads which suffered from high waters.
Stree George Bradbury became general
manager of the Cleveland, Akron e. Column
bus it's condition has been greatly improved
and with this a handsome increase in earn
ings is being realized. Some of the credit
for the increased earnings belongs to G.
F. DAILY, general passenger agent, who has
made special efforts to meet the wishes of
the patrons of the road in the train service.
The annual election of directors for the
Cincinnati Richmond & Fort Wayne Rail-
road Company took place at Richmond yes
catur; Henry e. Robinson, Charles S. Blink
ley and Col. John Il. Miller, Richmond; T.
j. O'Brien, ]. II. r. Hughart, W. r. Shelby
and w. o. Hughart, Grand Rapids; J. y.
Brooks, James McCrea and Joseph Wood,
Pittsburg.
Rowland II. Minturn, superintendent of
the northern division of the Chicago Mil
waukee & st. Paul, died yesterday at Green
Bay, Wis, of an abscess on the brain. His
for burial. He entered railway service in
1872 as voucher clerk for the Chicago &
Northwestern. He has been civil engineer
and roadrLaSter. and in 1886 accepted the