The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-10

Joseph Wood. third vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company, Is East on omclai
business.
A circular will be issued to-day appoint
ing Earl NJ Costin, chief train dispatcher
Of the Peoria & Eastern lines, trainmaster.
J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
of the Big Four lines, who has been IT. ST.
Louis for three days, will return this morn
ing. .
Chief dispatcher Of the Wabash, J. G.
Sullivan, has returned TO his duties at Peru,
after a six weeks rest on account OF Ill
ness.
Engine 1s7 of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton lines was sent to the Indiana, De-
catur & Western shops yesterday TO De re-
built.
C. Z. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four will be In the city tins :rorning. Yes
terday he made trip over ;he Benton Har-
Dor division.
To-day is pay day of the Union Railway
Company. the pay roll for Octooer Icing
SIG. 945 the largest of any one month In
the company's history.
Judge Field, general solicitor of TIE
Monon lines, and a party OF friends viii
to-day go to the southern part OF The State
for a few days hunting.
The appointment of j. J. Henry as train
master Of the c.. A & c. division of the
Pennsylvania lines carries with it the posi-
ton of road foreman of engines
j. c. Bland, assistant chief engineer OF
the Pennsylvania lines West, Is. with his
assistants. making his annual inspection OF
all bridges on the Panhandle svsieir.
The new yards that the Wabash Is con-
f ind and viii be e' known as EImwood. where
a new telegraph office will be located.
Next Wednesday is the date fixed to re-
store to their normal basis passenger rates
between Chicago and ST. Louis Chicago end
Kansas City and Chicago and Omaha.
1t IS stated that the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy has purchased the Utah & Wy
oming franchise for a right OF way into
Salt Lake City, via Emigration canyon.
l. tIat tH1 of tAn
Competing Railroad per mile this wear are
the largest of any road in the wcTid. All
though short line, the traffic over it Gaily
is immense.
r. E. Edie, of Columbus, O., has just
completed his fiftieth year of continuous
service with the Pennsylvania lines, he be-
ginning as an apprentice in the shops at
Steubenville.
Clarence A. Carpenter, assistant chief en-
gineer of the Lake Shore road, died in
Cleveland yesterday as the result of being
struck by fast passenger train at Say
brook on Tuesday last.
Officials of the Northern Pacific Railway
confirm the statement that on Jan. that
road will redeem 100000 worth of bonds
WeyerhauSer syndicate.
Harry Bronson. chief clerk of General
Passenger Agent Lord. of the Chicago
Great Western, will come TO the city to-day
TO spend a couple of days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Bronson.
Engineers on the Pennsylvania lines have
another new duty to look after. Under a
late rule the whistle must be blown to warn
postal clerks that mail sack is to be taken
on or thrown off. and failure 10 do so means
censure.
The new trains the Illinois Central puts
on Sunday will make the run between Chi
cago and New Orleans in twenty-five hours
and thirty minutes, the fastest schedule
for its through passenger trains ever at
tempted.
J. ]. Turner, general manager OF the Van
dalia, and subordinate officials, who have
bridges. buildings, etc, arrived in lie city
last evening and will insp Get the Il. a. &
/. division to-day.
President Lanier and the board of d.
rectors of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne *
Chicago yesterday passed over the western
division on their annual inspection. The
road is leased for ninety-nine years to the
Pennsylvania Company.
The commissioners of Clay county, In
diana, have for the second time declined
10 order elections he'd to vote aid TO the
projected line on the ground that the tax
rate is too high already.
S. Fl. Kneeland. of New York arrived in
Si 1S natl yesterday with his attorney,
motion in the United States Court to-
day for foreclosure and sale OF the Glover
Leaf Railway, under the decree as amended.
The section foremen on the Logansport
division OF the Panhandle have been called
before the superintendent at Logansport
Tor an investigation as 10 why the section
men under them cannot be made to work
on Sunday, the section men refusing 20 re-
port on that day.
Il. II. Dudley passed through the city
yesterday over the Big -Four with his
| dynamograph car, or track Indicator He
had just completed trip over the Chicago
* Alton lines and now goes 10 the Queen
| * Crescent 10 make tests OF the track con-
ditions OF the O. * C..
George Stevens to-day completes his tenth
year as general manager OF the Chesa pea Ike
a. Ohio lines. and President Ingalls, viii this
evening celebrate the event by giving a
dinner to Mr.. Stevens at his home on Wal
nut Hills, Cincinnati. other friends OF Mr.
Stevens will be present.
The Cincinnati, Hamilt IN K Dayton has
| four OF its new loco motives III service en-
l the Indianapolis division-two freight and