The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-23
Personal. Local and General Notes.

| OF the road.
| Personal. Local and General Notes.
| o. S. Lyford. vice president of the Chi
| cago & Eastern Illinois, and family have
| gone to Florida for few weeks stay.
Mr.. Weis. air-brake instructor of the Erie
| lines west. has resigned. Weis has gained
| quite a reputation an expert in this line.
Joseph Wood, third vice president Of the
/ Pennsylvania Company, was in the city yes
| terday for conference with Receiver
Malott, Of the Nandalia.
| George Shaver. the Panhandle engineer
| who was so severely injured in the wreck
| at Star City few weeks ago. is out again
and will soon resume work.
The relations between the Ohio Southern
and the Detroit q Lima Northern have be-
| come much strained and both roads are
| likely TO suffer in their business
| The Canadian Pacific Railway, following
the lead of the Great Northern. has cut its
second-class passenger rate west-bound
from st. Paul to the Pacific coast to $3.50.
| The Monon lines earned in the second
week or March S69 965, an increase over the
July an increase in earnings of 1888 is
| shown
The grade crossing question is now being
agltated In Cleveland, and movement Is on
| foot TO get such legislation as will enable
| the city to take some definite steps in the
matter
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy will
place passenger representative at Pitts
L
| without passenger man in that immediate
| territory.
+. Torrey, travelling engineer on the Chi
| cago, Burlington & Quincy has been ap-
pointed master mechanic of the shops Of
| the company at Ottumwa, vice j. Z. Bolton
| deceased.
| Jim Burwick, a we-known conductor
| evangelist, is holding series of meetings
| in Pittsburg under the auspices of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad branch of the Young
| Mems Christian Association.
| VIM. Garstang. superintendent of motive
| power Of the Big Four, states that there
| are no grounds for the rumor that he has
| been offered position on the New York
| Central and will probably accept it.
| Through freight traffic with the Pan
: handle lines continues heavy The official
| report shows on Sunday there were thirty
| freight trains east-bound and twenty west
bound between Pittsburg and Columbus.
| E. L. Clark. grand chief conductor of the
| Order of Railway Conductors, on Tuesday
| lectured at the State University of Ohio be-
| fore the students. his subject being The
Relation of the Employer and Employee"
| The first run of the Wabash's new fast
| mail train TO St. Louis and Kansas City
/ was successful, not a delay of any kind
1 happening This fast mail service to the
| Southwest marks a new epoch in transport
| tation circles.
| The quarterly meeting of the division off,
| GERS of the Pennsylvania lines west was
held at Pittsburg yesterday. Nj. w. Mans
| held, superintendent of the indianapolis &
| Vincennes. and Harry Miller, superintend-
/ ent of the Vandalia main line, were IN at
/ tendance.
| The receipts of the Monon from sales of
tickets at indianapolis for the month of
| March will be the largest since the road
| brought its line into Indianapolis. large
| San Francisco travel has helped to swell
| the receipts, and the sales of interchange
able mileage have been large
| j. W. Fitzgibbon, who has been assist
ant superintendent of motive power and
| river of the Rock Island, has resigned and
| accepted the position of superintendent of
| machinery of the Delaware, L.ackawanna
| & Western road, with headquarters at
| Scranton, Pa
| A number of trainmen. including en-
| gineers. tiremen and conductors, who have
| recently been discharged on the Chicago 4
Eastern Illinois. have been in indianapolis.
| and, in every case. say the Brotherhood men,
assign as reason for dismissal by the c. q
the Brotherhoods.
| The Missouri. Kansas & Texas announces
on April the company will establish the
| Katy Flyer. between St. Louis and Gal
| weston. General Passenger Agent Barker
| says IL will have a faster schedule than
| has yet been maintained. The train will be
| Tor to any heretofore operated in that Sec
| ton.
The vestibule trains now running between
Chicago and Cincinnati over the Cincinnati,
/ Hamilton * Dayton and the Monon have
| been in service twelve years being the first
| vestibule trains the Pullman Company built
| and there is no handsomer trains running
| into indianapolis than these, one be-
| longing to the c., II. & ID. and the other
| TO the Monon
j. c. Holenbeck has resigned his position
| as travelling passenger agent of the L., d.
& w. Railway Company and goes the first
| OF next month to the Florida East Coast
| Railway and Steamship Company to be-
| come chief clerk In the passenger depart
ment at ST. Augustine Mr.. Hollenbeck be-
| gan service with the l., d. & w. Company
| ten years ago.
| The interchangeable mileage book has
| evidently come to stay. and its will be
Increased by covering more roads, rather
| than fewer. A majority of the travelling
| pubic which rides on interchangeable mile
| age would not willingly go back to the old
form OF tickets. as the interchangeable mile
age has been modified and adjusted TO the
| Is but little inconvenience TO use ii.
c. E. Hollenbeck travelling passenger
| agent OF the Indiana, Decatur IL Western,
| yesterday rendered his resignation to accept
| of the. Florida East Coast Railway and
| Steamship Company Mr.. Hollenbeck has
| been connected with the Indiana, Decatur
| q Western ten years, several times being
| promoted, and In every position has made
| an excellent record. His headquarters will
| be St. Augustine.
The information has been received which
| shows something in the plan of the Penn
| sylvania in taking in the Cleveland. Akron
| & Columbus. 1t is not thought that the
/ road will be purchased outright. but that
a controlling interest will be bought and
1 the PENNSYLVANIA exercise the same control
\ over this line IL has over the G. * NJ. W,
the Vandaia and the T.. p * w. This will
| do away with a number Of the present Of
| dcers of the c., a. x c.
| meeting of the American stockholders
of the proposed Black Diamond route, a
| railroad to run from Ohio to Port Royal,
| S. c.. was held in Cincinnati yesterday for
| the purpose of completing the sale to Eng
| lish capitalists. W. p. Dickinson, OF WASH
| ingtOn, was authorized to transfer the fran
| chfSeS and rights TO the British financierS.
| Mr.. Dickinson will leave for England in a
| few days Ii is understood the construction
will begin in few months. The first pOr-
ton to be built is that running from Clay,
| NY, TO Port Royal. $50 miles
| The Pacific Express Company says an
omaha dispatch, has made arrangements
| Tor material extensions CT its business this
| 10 California and the points along the coast
| line and another eastward through route
/ TO New York city and the whole Atlantic
! coast. May the company will abandon its
/ business on the Colorado * Southern sys-
/ tenn. but will continue to operate with all
| other lines This retirement will not cause
| any restrictions whatever in the Pacific
Companys business or territory, and not a
single attache will be let out
Railroad Commissioner Kayler, of Ohio
/ Is taking steps to enforce compliance with
| TIE law passed by the last legislature re-
! qCiring air brakes and automatic couplers
| 10 be placed upon all locomotives and cars
run in the State by April of the present
| Of the different roads asking them to re-
| port the percentage of cars and locomotives
| row equipped and the steps that are being
| taken 10 equip those not yet provided for