The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-19

j. T. Hanrahan, vice president of the
Illinois Central. who has been abroad sew
eral weeks. reached Chicago on Wednes-
day
pany of Michigan City are building sew
eral hundred cars for the Chicago, Burling-
ton x Quincy.
George De Haven, formerly general pas
senger agent of the Flint & Pierre Mar
quette lines, has been appointed excursion
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio.
f. III. Short, treasurer of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton. has gone to New
York, where he will be the guest of NJ. d.
Woodford. president of the c.. H. & d.
The Toledo. st. Louis Western offers
prize of $40 for the person who suggests
the best name. for the two new fast trains
the company will soon put into service.
New York capitalists have purchased the
Rogers locomotive works at Paterson, n.
j.. and they will be enlarged at once and
equipped with the most modern machinery.
Joseph Ramsey, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Wabash, who returned
from the Paris exposition Monday.
passed through the city yesterday en- route
to St. Louis.
W. S. Horsey. who for seventeen years
has been transfer clerk of the Western
New York Pennsylvania. has been given
a position In the office of the secretary of
the Pennsylvania.
T. NJ. Schumacher, vice president and
general manager of the California Fruit
Express. has resigned. and will on Nov.
take the general agency of the Union
Pacific at San Francisco.
Central Passenger Association lines will
make a rate of one and one-third fare
10 Chicago on Oct. 2S and 30 and Nov. 1,
return limit good until Nov. 5, on account
OF the Chicago horse show
A. j. Radcliffe, agent of the Union Pa
cihc's Chicago passenger department. Is in
the city, coming here with funeral party.
one OF whom was Mrs. t. l.. Lomax, wife
of General Passenger Agent Lomax. of the
Union Pacific.
The Southern Pacific. with the resignation
of W. j. Berg, who has represented it's
passenger department at Buffalo, has de-
cided to abolish that agency. and the rep
resentative of the company at Pittsburg
will look after the Buffalo district.
Charles Stone, for several years past
general passenger agent OF the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, has been offered the posi-
ton of general passenger agent of the
Louisville & Nashville. a position made
vacant through the death of the late c. p
Atmore.
Nell McKinnon. who has been in the
purchasing department OF the Toledo. St.
Louis & Western, has been appointed claim
and tax agent of the company, vice w II.
Harrison. resigned and Il. r. Stephens
succeeds Mr.. Mckinnon purchasing
agent.
Before the close of this month six OF
the finest wide vestibule high-back coaches
ever built at the shops OF the Pennsyi-
vania line will be placed in service on the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne a Chicago and
| the Cleveland & Pittsburg division of the
Pennsylvania line
| Train u, OF the Pennsylvania, Is now the
heaviest on the system. on Monday il
consisted OF twenty-six cars. hauled in two
section. thirteen cars for Cincinnati. In
dianapolis and ST. Louis. Another eight-car
train was sent 10 Chicago. Bradford juno
/ ton and Logansport.
Western railroad men say that. notwith-
standing the present agreement TO restore
/ freight rates. a large quantity OF wheat,
probably 100000 bushels, has been con-
/ tracted 20 move at the old basis. and some
less favored lines are beginning 10 manifest
a spirit OF recklessness.
Frank y. Finney. formerly with the Big
/ -Four, but the last two years general
I freight and passenger agent OF the Findlay
/ Fort Wayne & Western. will on Jan. l re-
| tire from that position 10 take the position
| OF ASSISTANT 10 the president of the Ameri-
can Manufacturers Warehouse Company.
| Charles III. Moorehouse. who was for
some time general agent OF the freight de-
partment OF the Santa Fe's Colorado d.
/ vision. on Wednesday became chairman OF
| the various Colorado railway bureaus. vice
Charles L. Wellington. who on Monday be-