The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-05

Personal, Local and General Notes.
NJ E. Ingalls, president Of the Big Four.
left for New York yesterday, to be absent
a week or more.
In some departments of the Erie shops
at Huntington, Ind, the men are working
twelve to fifteen hours per day.
All conductors and engineers on the Van
dalia lines must have their watches exam
ined by the examiner of the company this
month.
r. b. Turner, general superintendent of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has
been so i'll for several days as to confine
him at home.
agent Of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
ton, has resigned to accept a position with
another road.
The tunnel on the Bedford e. Bloomfield
branch of the Monon lines caved in yester-
day and will stop traffic on that division
for several days.
In December the Pennsylvania lines
moved through Fort Wayne 96S trains,
hauling 30.212 cars. OF the cars handled So
per cent. were loaded.
Inc Baltimore & Ohio is pushing the
work of cutting down the grades on its Chi
cago division. These improvements COM
pleteu. il will be one Of the best divisions
on the system.
F. d. Allen on Monday assumed the
duties as agent of the Merchants Dis
patch at New York city, and Gordon Nc
Leod those Of agent of the Dispatch at
Albany, N. Y.
AS evidence that the car situation is cas-
ing up the Wabash on Wednesday placed
800 grain cars at elevators on its line for
loading. the largest deliveries OF empty
grain cars In many months.
The Wheeling G. Lake Erie will this
year aud ten locomotives and two thousand
cars to It's equipment The engines recent
ly purchased have enabled the company to
cut down expenses considerably.
In 1889 there arrived and departed at the
Union Station 46, 749 passenger trains, haul
ing 26S, 1886 cars, against $3.50 trains of 264,-
1S6 cars in 1898; increase in number of
trains over 1898. $50; in number of cars.
4,S10.
Jonathan Moore has been appointed agent
of the Lehigh Valley road at the Jersey
City terminals, vice j. II. Donnelly, re-
signed. Mr.. Donnelly is a son of James
Donnelly, who recently resigned as general
superintendent.
John S. Lentz. assistant superintendent
of motive power on the Lehigh Valley
road, has resigned. MIR. LentZ is one Of
the best-nnown master mechanics in the
United States and prominently identified
with railw ~ associations.
H. ]. Burgee on Monday assumed the
duties of general Western freight agent
of the Big Four road at Kansas City, sue
ceeding c. nj. Saffron resigned. Mr.. Bur-
gee for some years past has been agent
The Arrangements interested are sur
| prised over the business done by what is
| known as the Roachdale express, over the
Monon, the Indiana, Decatur & Western
road and the Cincinnati Hamilton &c Day.
| ton. The train is very remunerative.
Notice has been served on the Chicago.
| Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
| that the Chicago General Street-railway
| Company will claim s1,0O0,0OO damages in a
| civil suit growing out of track elevation at
L hnr rxr~nr. nv a ctr Gfraor
| F. c. Thomas has been appointed fora
| man of engines of the Pennsylvania S
| Pittsburg division. He succeeds s. d. Nor
| rigan, recently elected sheriff Of Column
| biana county. Mr.. Norrigan has been con-
| nected with the Pennsylvania since 1873
Within the next few days it is proposed
| to divide the Cleveland, Akron & CouI:I-
| bus into two divisions, one from Cleve-
| land to Akron, the other from Akron ii
| Columbus, Akron to be made the divIsi IN
| point for train crews in place of Hu 1son.
The Wabash on Wednesday received two
more locomotives from the Baldwin loco
motive works, completing the orders given
| to different locomtive works last fall fol
| thirty-two locomotives. Most of them are
now in service on the eastern and middle
| divisions.
Charles Dyer superintendent of the Colo.
| rauo division of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad. has been appointed
general superintendent OF the Colorado &
Southern Railroad, succeeding T. F. Duna.
way, resigned The appointment become.
effective Feb. 1.
w. G. Cullom, who has resigned as gen
eral manager of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
| st. Paul, has been in the service of tha
company since 1868, commencing as brake
man. Mr.. Cullom will spend six months il
Europe and then return to engage In com
mercial pursuits.
]. s. Myers, of Gordonville, Pa. on,
of the employees placed on the pension lis
of lne Pennsylvania Railroad. has had
remarkable career, being section han,
on the same portion of the track during
the last fifty years, entering the service o
the company in 1850.
| Decatur Axtell, the new president of tn
| Toledo & Ohio Central, is also the vic
| president of the Chesapeake & Ohio. Hi
election to the presidency of the formc
has created conditions which will perm
the Chesapeake & Unio securing a direc
outlet to lake Erie ports.
The Big Four has built at Lafayette
new Office building, OF which the telegraph
| operators, the yardmaSter and his assist
ants will be the occupants, and wher
trains will take orders. This will make
unnecessary to blockade streets OF Lafay
cite with long freight trains.
The Trunk-line Association. 1t is SAID
has receded from so much OF its recen
action placing articles formerly give
commodity rates into the classified list a
was applicable 10 cotton goods. This wa
done on account Of the vigorous protest 4
wholesale and retail dry goods firms.
On Wednesday the Barney-Smith Ca
COmpany. of DAYTON. was reOrganizef