The Indianapolis journal., 1899-01-26
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Controller McElevey, of the Pennsylvania
Company was in the city yesterday on Off
| ctal business
| W. c. Arp superintendent of motive pow
| er Of the Vandalia is so Ill as to confine
/ him to his room.
1t is stated that General Passenger Agent
/ Capes. of the Detroit & Lima Northern,
Will retire on Feb. !.
| c. l.. Allsberry. of Shelbyville. Ind. has
/ been appointed agent of the Big Four at
! Fowler, vice o. c. Minor.
| The shortage Of the agent of the Big Four
at Fowler was the first Shortage of an agent
| OF the Big -Four lines in the last ten years.
The Big Four has awarded a contract for
| two new steel bridges over the Cuyahoga
| river. near Cleveland. on the Bee-line di-
| vision.
P. D. Plank has been appointed master
m mecnanlc OF the Louisville. Henderson g
| nation was recently noted.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
| Pennsylvania Company, was in the city yes
! terddy for conference with Receiver Ma
| lott, of the Vandalia lines.
| The Order of Railway Conductors Divi-
| sion 103. will hold a special meeting on Sun
day. Jan. 29, at p. IN. Grand officers Will
acted
Daniel Johnson. representing the Union
/ Pacific road is in the city. He reports the
| as being heavier than in January of last
| year.
| The auditors of the several roads center
! ing here yesterday examined the accounts
| at the Union Railway ticket office and the
books of the auditor of the Union Railway
| Company and Belt road.
s. w. Green chief electrician of the Ches-
| apeake & Ohio, has through his agents, Sc
of the Norfolk & Southern road with his
| patent electric train signal
The Ohio Falls car works are crowded
| with business. In addition to several large
| orders for cars heretofore noted. IT has
| this week received an order from the Texas
! Pacific road for 400 freight cars.
On Tuesday the friends of T. J. English,
! who, on Feb. l, will leave the Big -Four
superintendent of the Cincinnati & San
| dusky division. to go with the Baltimore &
! Ohio, gave him banquet in Cincinnati.
! Excess fares on all trains which make
| the run between Chicago and New York
! in less than twenty-eight hours either way
are to be strictly enforced. They had been
quietly dropped, except on the limited trains.
The January number of the Big -Four In
| dustrial Series is Just out 1t contains
views of the new interocking plant at
| Greensburg Ind. of the ticket office at
| Cleveland and cut and description of the
new Big -Four passenger locomotives.
Robert J. Baldwin. of the general offices
vania lines west for twenty years past, has
| resigned to take the general managershp of
mining interest at Apex, Col. George
Porter succeeds Mr.. Baldwin at the general
| offices
The steadiness of the Cincinnati Hamil-
! ton q Dayton securities and stock is matter
|
of the stock boom. The preferred stock a
regular ) pei. cent. per annum dividend
payer, is selling at $50 and the common
1t is said the Pennsylvania now owns a
! sufficient amount of the securities of the
| Panhandle lines to fully control it. and that
| handle stock is unnatural, the PennSyl-
vania also owns 40 per cent. of the common
| and preferred stock
j. G. Neal & Co. a day or two ago got
| hold
! ity cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
| loaded from their elevator at Bunker Hill
largest quantity of corn it is claimed, ever
loaded into car in this State.
]. B. Townley receiver, and Frank E.
Dewey. the new general manager of the
| Detroit Lima Northern. this week
| making an inspection of the property. The
Stillwell interests are just now predominant
ing in backing the road J. T. Ode is with
| the inspection party representing Stillwell
interests.
The Wabash has more business and more
cars than it has engines to handle it, and
| on its side tracks at Peru, Andrews and
| other division points has a congestion of
| traffic. AT Peru the company has secured
| the two side tracks. of the Lake Erie &
| Western for few days to be used until the
| congestion is relieved.
| T. ]. Kizer. stock agent Of the Big Four
! at the indianapolis stock yards, has just
| completed his first year in that position.
| He has largely increased the business of the
company, some days thirty-five to forty car
1
| Big Four. In December the average was
| twenty-three carloads per day.
| Andy Walker the oldest engineer in time
Of service on the Vandalia lines. is i'll with
| rheumatism, and is now at Indiana Mineral
! Springs. Mr. Walkers first work was as an
engineer on the Madison & Indianapolis
| road, he commencing in 1852; a few years
later he went to the Terre Haute e Indian
apolis. He has been a member of the Broth
| erhood of Locomotive Engineers since 1864.
President Mellen, of the Northern Pacific
W a inc n lf1I f-nr, NTaxr
| Haven that he was being considered in con-
nection with the presidency of the New
YORK, New Haven Hartford Railroad,
/ said he was not candidate for any position
in the railroad service, and he did not be-
| leve the reports were anything more than
idle rumor.
| lowing transfers and promotions: Wash
| ington Lavery. assistant superintendent mo-
| transferred to similar position the lines
east of Salamanca; George Donahue. pres
ent master mechanic at Meadville, to sue
! Ceed Mr.. LaVery; Willard Kellse present
! master mechanic of the Chicago & Erie at
/ Huntington transferred to Meadvie; j.
| McLaren, present foreman at Chicago to
succeed Mr.. Kells; NJ Mercatoris, present
! foreman at Youngstown, to succeed Mr.
McI4aren.
| The representatives of several Western
| railroads which have been in session at
| chicago for nearly a week trying to re-
organize the Western Passenger Associa-
! tiOn adjourned yesterday without having ar
! rived at any definite arrangement Certain
| transmissour roads stated they could not
! become members of any passenger associa-
! tion including the roads east and west of
! the Missouri river. as they claimed the bus
| mess could not be divided satisfactorily
] The meeting was adjourned subject to the
/ call of the chair.
Chief Engineer w. T. Manning, of the
| Baltimore & Ohio. has invented a new rail
| that experts say has many points of interest
| to railroad owners the principal one being
! its economical feature. Manning has evolved
/ plan which, he asserts. will reduce the
/ cost 81 per cent. per ton per year. He adds
/ materially to the life of the rail by plac-
! ing additional metal in the head and on the
side upon which the wear comes. The new
! rail viii be given a thorough test on the
Baltimore & Ohio. the receivers having or
dered 1000 tons from the Carnegie Steel
/ Company. The Pittsburg & Western has
also ordered 500 tons.