The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-29
Personal, Loca and General Notes.

Local railroad shops and city freight de-
pots will be closed tomorrow, and local
freights will be discontinued.
Train q, Of the Panhandle. yesterday con-
sisted OF fourteen cars, hauled by two To-
ccmotives. and came in two hours late.
f. DIN Soule, general agent of the pas
senger department Of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern. is in the city. This is
his first visit here.
On Jan. 1 the Pennsylvania lines will
turn over to the Pullman Company twen-
ty-nine parlor cars and twenty parlor and
baggage cars combined.
Vice President Chappell. of the Chicago
& Alton, has issued an order TO the effect
that no private or special cars shall be at
tached to its limited trains.
James B. Hill, general freight agent. and
j. c. Hill, general soliciting agent of the
Panhandle lines. yesterday returned from
a three weeks stay In Texas.
On Dec. 1 the office of car service agent
of the Columbus & Hooking Valley will be
abolished. T. r. Liner has been appointed
superintendent of car service.
The Evansville & Terre Haute is operat-
6 tng ias br miles. l ane from TO H gyiaedard four to s anq
City. three and one-half miles.
Otis Hockenbeamer, of L~ogansport, will
on Dec. ] a k the position Of chief clerk
of ]. S. May, superintendent of the Rich
mond division of the Panhandle lines.
t--ers were given last week by the Penn
sylvania to build twenty NOR. class H-6
type of ngine at the Altoons shops, for
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago.
w. z. Deppe. assistant general passenger
agent Of the Big Four lines, who has been
resting at Hot Springs. w. Va, for three
weeks, yesterday returned TO headquarters.
Charles Butler. general foreman Of the
shops of the Chicago * Eastern Illinois
master mechanic of its shops at Effingham,
Ill.
NJ. E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four.
who enjoys excellent health, makes it a
rule on pleasant mornings when in Gin
cinnati to walk from his residence on Wal
nu- Hills to his Office, three and one-half
miles.
Charles *. Lawrence. formerly general
superintendent of the Eastern Minnesota,
will on Dec. I take the position of superin-
tendent of construction of the Central
of Georgia Railway.
Joseph Wood. third vice president OF the
Pennsylvania Company, and John F. Miller,
general superintendent of the Southwestern
system. were in the city yesterday, last
evening going 10 Louisville.
Lewis Baker. passenger conductor. in
jured some months ago in an accident.
yesterday reported for duty. Mr.. Baker
ranks as one of the oldest conductors in
time OF service on the Panhandle.
The Illinois Central is getting the former
Indiara & Illinois Southern road, now the
Efingham division of the Illinois Central,
I'm good condition, and Is shortening the
time schedules OF trains on that line.
Franklin Bachman. who was for many
years an engineer on the Chicago & East
ern Illinois, died at the Soldiers Home.
Danville, ILL.,. on Monday, and his remains
were yesterday taken TO Chicago for bur-
ial.
Fred E.Sawyer, freight agent for the Penn
sylvania. will be transferred this week from
Fort Wayne to indianapolis TO succeed
Oran Perry, who goes 10 something higher.
1t is said. f. A. Kirkland, of Lima, O.. will
probably succeed Sawyer.
Panhandle Trains 20 and 81, between Col
umbus and Pittsburg each haul thirteen
fftv-hve 10 sixty miles an hour Il Is said
To be a fine sight. There are usually from
300 to $50 passengers aboard the trains.
The new large passenger engines on the
Pennsylvania are making fine speed rec
ords. Ii is not an unusual thing for one OF
these locomotives TO haul the twelve-car
trains over some divisions at a speed Of
seventy miles an hour for long stretches.
John W. Ward. superintendent of the
Texas Pacific, who last week came north
to attend the funeral OF his mother. near
Lafayette. returned TO Big Springs. Texas.
yesterday. Mr.. Ward was for n number of
years train dispatcher on the Lake Erie *
Western.
chanic OF the Boston & Worcester from
1850 to 1870. died at Newton. N. H. Monday,
eighty-five years of age. He designed the
famous locomotives, Express and Dispatch.
and was one OF the organizers OF the
Master Mechanics Association.
Davis varrill. the Oldest surviving engi-
neer I'm the Lake Shores service. who be
gan work as engineer in January. 49,, is
critically III AT his home In Elkhart
Though nominally in the company's en-
ploy. he has not made a run for over four
years on account OF falling health.
Henry Israel. who has been in the en-
plov q. the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne a. Chi
caro- for forty-seven years. for thirty-hve
years as engineer and since as foreman
on ep~ines. Will be given an easier position.
He goes TO Allegheny and will have over
point
j. s. Swain, national organizer OF the
order OF Railway Telegraphers. says that
! names are being added every month. and