The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-04-06
Personal, Local and General Notes.

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Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Wabash has reopened the station at
Union, four miles west Of Huntington, Ind
The Madison Gid works will to-day
commence delivering new cars TO the Wa
bash. % recent contract, at the rate of
fifteen day.
w O. Rinearson, general passenger agent
OF the Queen * Crescent, who has been on
extended Southern trip, is at his head
quarters again.
The construction of a Belt road at Gin
cinnau is again being agitated. and with
more promise of success than at any other
time in the past.
DR.. George F. Entler. who for twenty
five years has been chief surgeon of the
Delaware q Hudson, was buried yesterday
at Oneonta, n. Y.
r. @. Frederic, a business man of Harri-
son, o. has invented new automatic rail
way signal which is being tested on the Big
Four with good results.
The contract for building double track
bridge on the Belt road al its crossing OF
White river has been awarded to the Detroit
Bridge Company. the bid being S40,Soo
Leroy Hadfeld. who has held a position
in the general Eastern freight agency of the
Queen q Crescent, has been appointed trav-
cling freight agent OF the road, a new posi-
ton.
John Dideoct has been appointed general
roadmaster of the Ohio Southern, with
headquarters at Springfield, o. For several
years he has been one OF the division road
masters.
j. T. Mosel, formerly a conductor on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton < Dayton lines, has
been appointed general yardmaster of the
Columbus g. Hooking Valley at Column
bus, O.
The several branch lines which the Chi
cago & Northwestern will build the present
year will open rich country in agricultural
resources and live stock, which will largely
increase the business of the main lines.
+. & c. road, now part of the Lake Erie &
Western, was consigned TO the scrap heap
yesterday. 1t was purchased by David
Macy, then president of the road In 1856.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton has
purchased 10000 new ties, and about one
third of the number will be placed under
the tracks of its Indianapolis division,
which is TO be brought up TO high stand
ard.
Charles S. Holcombe, recently appointed
travelling freight agent of the Chicago 81
accept the position, but will go to New
York as contracting agent of the New York
Central lines.
The March number of the Black Diamond
Express, in book form. Is out. 1t is a radical
departure from the previous numbers in
form and style. The pamphlet tells all about
Lhe magnificent train service of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad.
press, hauling seven cars. left Indianapolis
one hour late and on its very fast time
run ever made between two points east
bound with regular train.
An agent of the Big Four, in speaking of
the property in the gas belt, cited the fact
mat at Paramount, not by any means one
OF the most important stations on the Mich
| igan division of the Big Four, the business
| transacted the first three months of 1899
reached sl3,911.2. against 81, 1882 in the
corresponding period of 1898. and all sta
| tons in the gas belt are showing equally
| favorable earnings.
Mr.. j. B. McKim. just promoted from
| trainmaster of the Erie & Ashtabula dvi-
sion OF the Pennsylvania lines west to SUI
perintendent of the western division of the
gone to Fort Wayne to take up his new
duties. Superintendent c. ID. Law. whom
he succeeds. will be in Pittsburg soon to
take up his new Office as real estate agent
| for the Pennsylvania lines west.
General Passenger Agents Lynch, of the
| Big Four. McCarty, of the Baltimore &
| Ohio Southwestern, and Fuller of the
| Chesapeake & Ohio, are in Philadelphia ar
ranging for handling the @. A. r. business.
| 1t is hoped that some way may be provided
| phia will arrange to care for sleeping cars
| during the encampment and withdraw the
| order recently promulgated regarding the
/ matter.
| Abner Collins, track man on the Belt
\ road, who was killed by accident on Mon
/ day, was buried yesterday by the Samari-
| tan Lodge of West indianapolis. The de-
| ceased leaves d wife and seven children,
| who reside in two box cars in the river bot
| toms. The Belt Road Company will give the
| family temporary aid, but is not liable for
damages. MIR. Collins having been killed by
| his own carelessness.
| The March freight movement over the
| middle division of the Pennsylvania was
| the greatest on record, beating the best
/ previous month by at least 10000 cars. says
| the Harrisburg Telegraph. A total of H.
| 3S2 cars passed Miffiin during the mon l.
| and the greatest Single day movement on
| record occurred last month. 1t was 6,746
| cars, on March p. April starts off very
| well, and the prospects for another record
| breaking month are good.
| Alonzo Rollins. superintendent of the Buff
| falo division of the Wabash. was in the city
| yesterday. He says the business of thet Buff
| twenty heavy freight trains over the road
| In both directions daily. He went to ST.
| Louis last evening to arrange for having
/ some OF the engines on the Buffalo division
/ sent 10 the company's shops west of De-
| troit, the shops of the Grand Trunk at
/ up as it should be. Six of their big engines
| are now in the Stratford shops for repairs
The syndicate to which some of the news
| papers have been for several weeks selling
| the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton is said
| to have collapsed. not being able TO get suf-
| ticient stock TO get any hold on the prop
erty. The Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
| ton stockholders, says one well informed,
know that their holdings have real value,
| and the future of the property was never
more promising than at present. The lines
| are well managed and the earnings highly
| satisfactory every month showing hand
| some increases over corresponding months
| of former years.
| A Joint committee representing railroads
! i'm the trunk line and central passenger
| territories met at Philadelphia yesterday 10
decide on passenger rates TO be put into
| effect during the CT. A. II. encampment in
| that city next September. low rate was
! adopted, but il will not be made public
\ until the committees hold two more meet
/ ings-one in New York next Tuesday and
| che in Chicago on the following wednesday.
| The Western, Southern and New England
| lines will be governed by the rates decided
| upon by the Trunk Line and Central Pas
| senger Associations.
| Owing to the fact that Trains 20 and n,
| the crack passenger trains or the Pennsyl-
| vania system, running between New York,
! lis and St. Louis, via the Pennsylvania
| Railroad and the Panhandle. have become
| too heavy 10 be handled in one section
| either way. IL Is rlImored that the company
| Will establish two new trains, TO be run one
| hour and half later than the first regular
| trains OF the above numbers. By this
| method many new connections could be
| made at the leading cities East and West,
| and the service might he greatly improved.
| Attorney General Griggs has instructed
| William K. Bundy. United States attorney
| once to prevent the reconstruction by the
| Baltimore * Ohio Railroad Company of its
! bridge across the Ohio river between Ben
! wood and Beilaire, o. This action is taken
| on information from the secretary of war
that the bridge Is an obstruction TO the free
navigation OF the river. The bridge in ques-
| ton has a channel span of BID feet, which
the army engineer department regards as
inadequate for the river commerce of the
| present day. During the last several wears