The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-08-29

Personal. Local and General Notes.
No one has been mentioned as yet as a
successor to Secretary Fort. of the Central
Passenger Association.
The business of the Wabash on Sunday
and Monday eclipsed all former records in
number of passengers handled
w. p. Deppe, assistant general superin-
| tendent OF the Big Four, was in the city
yesterday. going from here to Chicago.
p. Humphrey, passenger agent of the
Lake Shore, returned on Monday from a
months trip through Colorado and Utah.
At the reunion of former employees of the
Atlantic & Great Western, now the Erie,
held at Kent, o., on Saturday, over 1000
were present.
John 7. Fish, aged sixty-six. Wisconsin
solicitor for the Chicago & Northwestern,
died suddenly of heart disease at Mil
waukee yesterday.
A delayed section Of Train p on the Penn
sylvania on Saturday made the run be-
tween Harrisburg and Miffiin, forty-nine
miles, in fifty minutes.
Chief Engineer Wilgus confirms the re-
port that the New York Central will spend
$4,000, 600 in improving the Weehawken ter
minal of the West Shore.
One year ago clerks of the railways and
associations located in Buffalo formed a
clerks union, and out OF LOO railroad
clerks i,252 are now members.
| w. r. Johnson. master mechanic of the
Lackawana's Pennsylvania division, re-
tires from that position on Sept. i. His sue
cessor has not yet been named.
NJ. d. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
| natl. Hamilton & Dayton and the Indiana.
Decatur & Western lines. arrived in Gin
cinnati yesterday and will remain several
days.
A number of passenger officials have re-
ceived invitations to the twelfth annual
dinner of the Canadian Ticket Agents As
| ISOLATION. at the Royal Hotel, Hamilton.
Oct. 10.
Vice President and General Manager
Yoakum. of the st. Louis q San Francisco.
announces that the Red River division of
that road will be open for business to Hen
rietta. l.. T.. on Sept. j.
c. p. Benjamin. representing the pas
senger department OF the Canadian Pa
cific. is in the city. He reports their new
fast service is securing considerable bust
ness from this territory.
1t is understood that the road now build
ing out of st. Louis across Missouri, known
as the St. Louis. Kansas City & Colorado.
is to be utilized, when completed, by the
Santa Fe as a line into st. Louis.
Trouble is brewing between the passen-
ger conductors on the Canadian Pacific over
some arbitrary orders that have been pro-
mulgated of late which. ii is alleged. sub
ject the conductors to uncalled for humilia-
ton.
The Rock Island has followed the example
of the Union Pacific by placing a ban on
cigarettes. Notice has been served on the
employees of the company that those who
are addicted to the use of cigarettes must
give them up or lose their positions. In a
new issue of blank applications the ques-
ton Is printed do you smoke cigarettes? %
There is no objection to pipes or cigars.
A special train. consisting of a baggage
car and twelve coaches carrying c.. A. r.
people, was hauled from Indianapolis on
Monday TO Chicago, over the Monon in five
hours and three minutes, making three
stops for water.
Charles w ZalI .div;oiop sapoa a.ant
of the Queen Il Crescent lines. vas i'm the
city yesterday. He states that The COM
pany is getting its passenger equipment in
fine condition, expecting heavy travel
South this fall and winter.
Air brake inspectors are numerous judg-
ing from the fact that William Garstang,
superintendent of motive power of the Big
-Four, has had forty-two applications for
the position which Mr.. Hartman will va
cate on Sept. l to go with the Monon.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul IL
already preparing to celebrate the hftieth
anniversary of the opening Of the road for
business, which will occur Feb. IS. 1901.
There were then twenty miles of main line.
now there is in the system 1886 miles.
The earnings Of the Southern Pacific for
the year ending June 30 were s63. 263. 600. an
amount exceeded or nearly approached by
only one other company In the country, the
Pennsylvania. They were 81, 300. 600 greater
than in the year ending June so, 1899, and
81, 200. 600 in excess of 1897.
]. B. Keefe, who, after twenty-four years
of railroading OF the Big Four. resigned
about a year ago to go into the grocery
business, has gone back to railroading and
has been given a preferred freight run be-
tween indianapolis and Cincinnati until
there Is an opening on a passenger train.
Announcement is made that the Chicago.
Burlington * Quincy new line between
Alliance, Neb., and Brush. Col, will be
open to general traffic Sept. 1. The line
Is 149 miles long and means much TO the
mining and commercial interests of Colo
RADIO and the Black Hills region of South
Dakota.
The passenger department of the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois has issued for free dis
tribution a booklet OF forty pages, entitled
Ell Route to the Southland over the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois. giving descriptions
of the towns and cities and points of inter-
est on the line between Chicago and Nash
vile. Terre Haute is alluded TO in compli-
mentary terms.
Pacific to consolidate freight and passenger
departments IL is announced by circular
that the jurisdiction OF ID. NJ. Collins. with
headquarters at Sioux City, will be ex-
tended to both Departments with the title
OF general agent. Similar notice il given
as 10 c. Clifford I'm the headquarters at
Cincinnati, and r. b. Choate. at Salt Lake
City.
The transportation of the
Pennsylvania lines, which has been i'm ses-
sion several days at Petoskey. have re-
turned. This committee agreed upon "A
standard blank for noting accidents. An
| other question discussed was that of per
diem service, which has been talked of for
years by railroad officials. The mileage
satisfactory 10 the owners Of large rail-
road pronerfies Through this ARRANGEMENT