The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-31

j. j. Turner, general manager of the
Vandalia lines. was in the city yesterday.
The Wabash has issued bulletin to pas
senger trainmen announcing that the COM
pany will pay half the cost of uniforms
Caesar Rodney. general agent of the Van
dalia at Indianapolis. has returned from
Florida. but is not well enough as yet to as
sumo his usual duties.
w. +. Wilson. general manager of the
West Shore fast freight line was in the
city yesterday calling on local shippers.
General Western Agent Johnson, of the
Merchants Dispatch. was in the city yes
terday. the guest of c. c. Peirce, of the
same line.
Harry F. Hoover, private secretary TO
George Graves, superintendent of the Indi.
ana, Decatur & Western lines Is so iii as to
confine him at home. .a 5-
The Pittsburg locomotive works will next
week ship three consolidated freight en-
gines to the Vandalia, which were contract
ed for several weegs ago.
The annual meeting of the American
Railway Association, of which General
Manager l.. +. Loree, of the Pennsylvania
lines west, is president, will be held in Chi
cago on April 25.
w. w. Hall. commercial agent of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul at Cincin-
natl, left yesterday 10 assume the duties
of his new and higher position. that of New
England freight agent.
George III. Kimball. formerly chief engi-
neer on the Columbus. Sandusky e. Hook
ing road, will on April 1 take the position
Of chief engineer of the lines In the Mar
quette system of roads.
Andrew Wood, private secretary to G. T..
Schaff. general manager OF the Big Four.
with a party of friends a private car.
passed through the city yesterday en- route
to Hot Springs, Ark, for two weeks
stay.
The new double-track bridge over White
river on the Belt road will be opened to
traffic tomorrow. The structure is 420 feet
long. cost 10000, and Is one or the most
substantially constructed bridges in the
West
Students of the Rose Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Terre Haute, have this week been
testing an engine hauling Train 20 between
Terre Haute and Indianapolis to ascertain
the moisture in the steam as IL comes from
the boiler TO the steam chest.
III. c. Allen will to-day succeed w. j.
Long as supervisor of the st. Louis div!-
sion of the Big Four. His authority In
track matters extends from Indianapolis to
Paris, that of Gale Walmsley from Paris 10
Nokomis and that of III. III. Knowlton from
Nokomis to st. Louis.
Rumors are current that the Illinois Gen.
trail contemplates purchasing the Gulf &
Ship Island Railroad. now building, and
changing Its gulf terminus from Gulfport
to Biloxi. The carrying out of this plan
would lay the foundation for of the
largest ports on the gulf.
A. Galloway, superintendent of the Gin
cinnatf and Indianapolis division of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines. was
In the city yesterday. He states that their
business continues heavy beyond precedent
and the earnings Of March will be hand
some,y In excess of those of March, 1899.
Since the death of s. H. Thompson John
r. James has been acting central passen-
| ger agent OF the Missouri Pacific at Pitts
burg. but yesterday IL was announced that
| he had been appointed central passenger
agent, the order TO that effect having beer
| made by General Passenger Agent III. G
| Townsend. of St. Louis
John s. Lazarus, traffic manager of the
Indiana. Decatur & Western. yesterday
completed his thirty-seventh year in rail
road service. he commencing In March
1863. He came to the L.. D. & w. as genera
freight agent in March. 1885. and. what 4:
remarkable. every change in his railroad
career has been in March. and In each cas-,
| salary.
4 j. NJ Montgomery, for sixteen year.
| ticket and passenger agent at the Wash
/ ington station of the Panhandles Char
] tiers branch, and for twenty-four year,
resigned, and within month expects to 9,
/ 10 Topeka. Kan. and make his home witt
| his daughter. Mrs. w. r. weible. II Il
| understood that o. G.. Parrill. extra ager
for the Panhandle. Will succeed Mr.. Mont
gomery-
Reports OF three important railroad sys
TENS for eight months Of the current ksca
year were made yesterday, and all shov