The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-14
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
w. C. Arp, superintendent of motive power
OF the Nandalia, is again confined at home
with rheumatism.
On Monday division sNDerintendents on
the Big Four will meet at Cincinnati to ar
range the summer time table
The Big Four earned in the first week of
May S2II,1I6.52, an increase over the CORE
spending week of 1897 of 26419.17
The earnings of the Wabash lines the first
week in May were k5I7S1 in excess of those
of the corresponding week of 1897.
]. C. Johnson has been appointed chief de-
tective of the Big Four vice l.. p. Grady.
who recently went to the Klondike.
W. p Elliott. local ticket agent of the
sleeping-car companies, has gone to Spring
iield, Mo-, TO visit sister who is seriously
NJ. D. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton line. who has been
West several days, will return to New York
to-day.
C. e. Schaff. general manager. and F. o.
Mccormick, passenger traffic manager of
the Big -Four lines, will be home from New
York to-day.
On account of an accident the new Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Pau train that was
to pass through here tonight will not be on
exhibition at the Union Station.
T. f. Steele. general agent of the Ala
bama Great Southern, will on June / sue
of the New Orleans & Northeastern.
The employees of the MonoE at the shops
n Lafayette raised SIS. with which a fine.
large American flag was purchased and now
floats from the flagstaff on the shops.
There is no longer any question as to the
report that the Illinois Central is planning
TO secure control of the ST. Louis & South
western which would give the Central its
own line into st. Louis.
j. r. McGregor, travelling passenger agent
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at
Atlanta, has resigned TO become ticket
agent OF the New Orleans & Northeastern
with headquarters at New Orleans.
H. Q. Schafer has been appointed agent of
the Peoria q Eastern at Champaign. Ill.
vice ;. A. Brown resigned, and Mr.. j. e.
Williams agent at MAYHEM and his wife
agent at Mace, on the p & E. lines
1t is stated that fully $50 trainmen and
shopmen of the Big Four make BrightWood
their home. and when the prices of lots We're
so low they bought lots and built cottages
on them and now have homes paid for.
The Big Four, the Vandalia, the Chicago
treat western and the Iowa Central have
arranged new rates and divisions and are
carrying good deal of business from this
territory to the North and Northwest.
Ticket Agent Medsker, at the Massachu-
setts-avenue Union Passenger Station.
states that the receipts from sales of tickets
the last sixty days have been % to 80 per
cent. in excess of those of the corresponding
period last year
The Roachdale connection of the Monon
ana Clnclnnatl, Hamilton * Dayton lines is
on paying basis In April the short run
over the Indiana, Decatur & Western
handled in both directions sixty-two pas
kengers per day.
John X. Cowen. president of the Baltimore
s. Ohio. and also receiver. is quoted as say
Ing that were IT not for the war with Spain
the reorganization plan of the Baltimore &
OHIO was so far advanced that il could be
accomplished In three weeks time
There is no through train between St
. Louis and New York now scheduled nor
Is there one proposed which will exceed the
speed of the Knickerbocker between the
points named, time and terminal facilities
considered, says a Big Four official
The Big Four has secured the contract for
haullng all the government horses and
mules south from st. Louis, via Louisville,
and j. X. Cavanaugh. superintendent of car
service of the Big Four, has instructed
agents to hold all system stock cars sub
Ject TO his orders.
1t is stated the Brice people have taken
hold OF the Columbus & Northwestern and
will furnish the money 10 push construc-
tion work and IL possible have trains rum
ming into Bellefontaine, o.. in six weeks
Much of the grading has been done and the
rails have now been purchased.
On test run on the Wabash on Tuesday
last. the special train carrying General
Manager Ramsey and other officials be-
tween Detroit and Danvile ran three miles
at q speed OF seventy eight miles an hour
and IL was a frequent occurrence TO cover
five and half miles in five minutes.
John Cassell, for many years general
night yardmaster OF the Wabash at Peru,
died at the company's hospital on Thurs
day from injuries received in an accident.