The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-14
Personal, Local and General Notes.

II. Eckhart yesterday took the position of
passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton 4 Dayton.
Travelling Passenger Agents Orr. of the
Southern Pacific, and Fowler, of the Illinois
Central, are in the city.
M. e. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio lines, will re-
turn from Washington to-day.
The Wabash lines earned in the first week
of January 1929 ,92S, an increase over the cor
responding week of 1898 Of $34,644.
1t is announced that this year the Illinois
Central will again take its position as a 6
per cent dividend paying road.
A good many tickets to Havana are now
selling. The fare for the round trip from
indianapolis is $3.50, good to return until
April n.
J. T. Odell. formerly general manager of
the Baltimore & Ohio, has become aSsO-
ciated in the reorganization of the Detroit
The Stockyards Company is having an
other big week. Yesterday over two hun
dred carloads of cattle, hogs and sheep ar
rived at the yards.
Trainmasters on the several divisions of
the Pennsylvania lines west have for a
couple of days been in Pittsburg comforting
as to the new train rules.
The Indiana Car and Foundry Company
was yesterday awarded the contract to
build two hundred standard stock cars for
the Mathers Stock Car Company, of Chi
cago.
c. w. Hooven, agent of the Big Four at
states that the manufacturers of that city
are shipping from sixty to seventy-five cars
of freight day.
Frank Baker, who represents the Erie
lines at Peoria, has been elected president
of the Board OF Trade of that city Mr.
Baker has represented the Erie at Peoria
Tor twenty-seven years.
The members of the Brotherhood of Rail-
way Trainmen have received notice that the
time of their annual convention. to be held
in New Orleans, has been changed from
April to May, this year
Tomorrow the Chicago & Northwestern
VIII put on fast train between Chicago
and Omaha, scheduled as fast as the new
train the Chicago & Rock Island is putting
on between those points.
Charles Parsons, jr, vice president of the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg, and vice
president of the South Carolina & Georgia
Railroad, is dead at his home in New York
city aged forty-one years.
The new interlocking plant of the Union
Railway Company on Delaware street is
nearing completion. 1t will have twenty
levers, controlling all switches between
East and Meridian streets.
Charles Rockwell traffic manager of the
Monon lines. was in the city yesterday. On
Jan. 1 he began his thirty-first year of rail-
road service. He began as clerk in the Bee
line yards at Indianapolis.
Harry S. Mcleod, agent of the Toledo,
ST. Louis & Kansas City at Frankfort is to
be transferred TO Marion, and will be sue
ceeded at Frankfort by +. w. Baker, agent
OF the company at Delphos
Freight business is so heavy on the Buffa-
10 division OF the Wabash that a number
of engines from the middle division have
been transferred to the Buffalo division to
prevent a congestion of traffic.
Paymasters of the Pennsylvania lines west
are now on their monthly rounds paying for
December, disbursing a larger sum than has
ever before been paid out for one month 5
service to 1rainmen and shOpmen.
In December there arrived and departed
at the Union Station $3.50 trains consisting
of ,220 coaches, an increase in number of
trains over December. 1897, of thirty-five.
als sa !" "u'nOsf q '0''''sS ." increase OF
General Manager Loree. of the Pennsyl-
vania lines West, is going over the lines.
Yesterday he was in Chicago. M. w. Mans
field. superintendent of the indianapolis &
Nincennes, yesterday went to that city to
meet him.
In a letter to friend. F.. G. Darlington,
former superintendent of the Indianapolis
division of the Panhandle states that he has
fully recovered his physical strength and is
well again. except not yet being able to ar
tculate readily.
appointed, has employed her father. Samuel
cent as her clerk. Her father whom she
succeeds as agent at Roanoke. had been
agent of the Wabash at that point since 1854.
lie IS eighty-four years of age.
The preferred stock of the Monon has adj
Vanced this week AZ points. and President
Thomas assigns as a reason that the road
Is now earning more than the 4 per cent.
dividend. which IL was intended the stock
should pay when the road was reorganized.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has pur-
chased a large dock at Sandusky which
has been idle for years. and win spend $751;
600 to double the capacity Of its coal-loading
machinery Contracts have already been
let for the delivery there of about a million
tons Of coal for lake shipment
The Wabash Railway has filed petition
In the United States Court az Toledo asking
for judgment of So 900 against the Detroit
e. Lima Northern and for possession of its
tracks into Detroit The Detroit & Lima
Northern leased the Wabash tracks between
Lima Junction and South Adrian.
The Monongahela Connecting Railway
Company, which connects all the roads CEN
tering at Pittsburg, and earns the most
money per mile operated Of any road In
the country. has created a new Office that
of general freight agent. and +. a. Ogden