The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-05
Personal, Local and General Note,

personal, LOcat ana GemeFal notes.
J. Q. Hicks, general yardmaster of the Big
-Four at this point, is so Ill as to contine him
to the house.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has cut down
It's running time between Pittsburg and Buff
falo two hours
George Lowell general Superintendent Of
the MonOn lines, was in the city yesterday.
He left for Louisville last evening.
$. B. F. Morse, general passenger and
ticket agent of the Southern Pacific, is Wis
iung friends in Ohio for a few days.
Within the last sixty days twenty-five en-
glneers. fremen and conductors have moved
with their families frop Andrews to Peru.
Ind.
dalia has been appointed superintendent of
the shops of the Louisville Evansville &
st. Louis at Princeton Ind.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
Union Station for 1888 exceeded those OF 1897
$l6l POI, and were the largest of any year
since that of the worlds fair.
w. w. Peabody, recently general manager
next week expects TO leave for the Holy
Land, Will be absent six months.
Sohn f. Miller general superintendent Of
the. Pennsylvania Southwestern system, is
still confined to the house with grip but
hopes to be about again next week.
1t is stated that some of the insurance
companies will renew the old fight before
the Indiana Legislature against the Penn
sylvania voluntary relief department.
Alva Hewitt has been appointed rate clerk
of the Big Four at the uptown freight Office
vice }. Ferguson who went with William
Sullivan to Richmond as his rate clerk.
on Monday George A. Smith succeeded S.
j. Casselty as freight and passenger agent
Of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville and
will be given the title of general agent.
Z. +. Smythe. formerly with the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Memphis, has assumed
the duties of assistant general freight agent
of the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf.
Employees on the Southern Railway will
hen f.Rpst
fore the 10-per-cent. reduction of 1898. Sew
eral thousand employees are benefited by
the action.
Notwithstanding the reduction in force Of
employees at the Union Station, there are
now eighty-four men employed at the station
proper, and they will receive for December
service SO 937
1t is stated that before another year the
more important roads will abolish the plan
of carrying corpses in the baggage car and
will insist that remains of the dead be car
ried in the express cars.
There We're handled on the Big Four sys-
tenn in 1898 /, rs loaded cars. against l.
SCI SOB in 1897. against go in 1896, against
l,l026 1S in 1895, against 1,5l3,0l2 in 1884, and
against 1,521,226 in 1883
Daniel c. Prescott general freight agent
| of the Maine Central. died Unexpectedly on
| Sunday and was yesterday buried at Port
land, Ne He was one OF the Oldest freight
| officials in New England.
The Wabash fast mail now leaves Toledo
an hour earlier than formerly, but has added
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| Louis any earlier than before the new
| schedule became effective.
The Chicago. Fort Madison & Des Moines
Railroad was sold yesterday, under an or
| $l5O,OO0 by Jesse A. Baldwin, of Chicago
| for the bondhOlders' committee.
A. q. Talent, of the Chicago & North
| western, on Jan. ! became general agent of
| the freight and passenger department OF the
! road for territory between Columbus and
| Pittsburg and Pittsburg and Harrisburg.
} Charles p. Clark, president of the New
| York, New Haven & Hartford. will ask the
! directors of the company at their meeting
| next week, to grant him leave of absence
in order that he may take a trip to Egypt.
| The January number of Locomotive En-
| gineering was issued on time, notwithstand-
| ing the fire and consequent Inconvenience,
| the editor and manager having shown an
! enterprise which will be appreciated by it's
| readers.
| w c. Arp. superintendent of motive power
! Of the Vandalia, was in the city yesterday,
| last evening leaving for Schenectady to
! complete the plans and specifications for four
| large passenger engines Receiver Malott has
| contracted for
Fire in the paint shop Of he Nashville,
| Chattanooga & st. Louis Road at Nashville
| yesterday destroyed ten coaches, including
| President Thcmas's private car and he lIy
| car of the road. The loss on he building is
estimated at $4,000, and on rolling stock
$S7, 600
| An adjourned meeting of the stock lDlers
! of the Baltimore & Ohio Railway COMPANY
| was held yesterday for the purpose Z; elect
! ing directors for the coming year. It was
decided to take no action at this tine, and
! the meeting was again adjourned III til
| Feb. g.
Joseph Heavy, division freight agent of
| the Big Four lines and his clerical staff yes
| terday moved their furniture and supplies
| from Benton Harbor to indianapolis, and
| will occupy five rooms in the fourth story
! of the ingalls, block. This change brings sew
eral families to the city.
Frank Irish travelling passenger agent of
| the Chicago & Northwestern, who few
! weeks ago was severely injured in Il railway
| wreck at Railway, N. j.. is so much better
| that he has been removed to his home in
| Pittsburg. but it is said it will be several
weeks before he will be able to get about.
| The statement that the indianapolis d.
! vision of the Central Association of Railway
| Officials reelected the old officers cor
| rect except that ]. w. Riley, superintendent
! of the Peoria & Eastern. was elected presi-
| dent, being advanced from vice president,
| and A. A. Zion was elected vice president
| and George Stats secretary and treasurer.
! Representatives Of the New York and Chi
! cago press and of Harper's and Mcclure S
| magazines applied for permission to ride on
| the fast trains run from Chicago to Omaha
| over the Chicago Burlington & Quincy and
| the Chicago & Northwestern, but the rules
! of the United States postal service excluded
! them.
Local freight officials were yesterday sur
prised to receive a notice of reduction in
! rates on provisions, for export only, to the
! basis Of % cents per 100 pounds, Chicago to
| indianapolis to New York, q cents to Phila-
/ delphia and 20 cents to Baltimore or New
| port News. There is no secret cut, but an
open rate.
The Monon has about completed very
| important Improvement by which 1t does
| away with a bad grade in the vicinity of
| Bedford, Ind. 1t has built seven miles of
/ new road, from Harrisburg to Smithville,
and will run all its through freight trains
! over this new track, using the main line
! only for passenger trains and local freights.
| The track is UP to the best standard The
| company is again agitating the building of
| a road from Cloverdale to SwitZ City.
| A trestle on the Baltimore & Ohio South
| western Railway. near Lawrenceburg, Ind,
| was burned early yesterday. making a gap
| of eight feet. 1t is at a point where west
| bound train could not have seen it in time
| to stop and a wreck in such a case would
1 have been unavoidable. The fire was dis
| covered by Operator Fisher. of the Big Four
! telegraph office. Baltimore & Ohio South
/ western trains are running over the Big
/ Four tracks until the trestle can be rebuilt.
| c. W. Shaw. of Bloomington. Ind, one Of
| the promoters of the Columbus, Blooming
| ton & Terre Haute Railway, has been in
| Columbus for several days awakening an
| interest IN the project. The City Council of
| Columbus will this evening vote on giving
/ the company the right of way and terminal
4 facilities at that point. Mr.. Shaw is con-
fident the road will be built this season.
! The commissioners of Bartholomew, Mon
! roe. Prown Owen. Clay and Vigo counties
will be asked to call a special election in
| each of the townships through which the