The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-20

Traffic Manager Graybill of the Belt
road and Union Stockyards. is so i'll as
to confine him to his room.
1t is said to be definitely settled that the
Chicago & Alton will absorb the Quincy.
Carrollton & Western.
On Thursday evening fourteen carloads
of horses were shipped East from the
Union Stockyards by express for export.
L. F. Loree, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west, left or Wednes-
day on a trip to New Mexico to be gone a
month.
The heads of departments of the Big
Four lines, thirty-two in number, will hold
their monthly meeting at Indianapolis
Tuesday.
Charles ]. Carroll has been promoted
from assistant superintendent of the Penn
sylvania Railroad ferries at Jersey City
to be general superintendent.
The Cleveland Car Service Association on
Thursday reelected Lewis Williams SUI
perintendent. Mr.. Williams formerly
superintedent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
G. Dayton lines.
The papers of Philadelphia are very con-
road is to be elected president of the
Chesapeake & Ohio road whenever Mr..
ingalls, decides to retire.
Howard Smith, who has represented the
freight department of the Chicago, Bur-
lington & Quincy at Pittsbrrg, has been
transferred to Cleveland as travelling
freight agent Of the same road.
The new Southern Indiana depot at Lin
ton has been completed and President
Walsh is at Linton inspecting the work
there and along the line between that place
and Jasonville. Trains will begin running
Monday.
Chicago capitalists are at Covington,
looking over the old G. & L. /. roadbed
which runs through that place from Bis
marck, south, with the view to utilize IL
in building a line to the coal fields south
| OF Covington.
r. C.. Johnson, for several years super
| intendent at Philadelphia of the Pullman
| Company, mas been transferred to Jack
sonville, Fla, and is succeeded at Phil
| adelphia by w. II. Patterson, of the Chi
| cago district.
Four more of the Big Four's best pas
senger coaches were this week put into
| the Brightwood shops to be remodeled and
made full vestibule cars. The company will
then have twenty-five modern full vesti.
| buled coaches.
| The Brooks locomotive works are now
turning out an engine day of the
Mother Hubbard pattern, on a second or
der from the Lake Erie Railroad. They are
| large and powerful. and twenty are to bs
delivered by Feb. 1.
The J.. Il. Allfree Manufacturing Com.
| pany. OF this city, is building a new de-
| sign OF motor car for the Pennsylvania
/ Company, the power being ahead and sep
/ arate from the passenger car, which is
| rebuilt private car of the Panhandle com
| pany.
! a new cafe dining car and a sleeping cal
| built by Barney. Smith & Co. for the Illinoi:
i Central yesterday attracted a good dea
| OF attention while standing on a spul
/ track west of the Union Station. The car,
are seventy-two feet long and full vesti
| buled.
No. 708, one of the Big Four's new con
| solidated engines. yesterday hauled a traii
| Weighing 1,7S0 tons from Cleveland to In
| dianapolis. These engines are guaranteed
10 haul a train OF 1850 tons over the Chi
| tago division. and IL is thought will b.
| able to haul 1900 tons.
r. III. Soule. vino has been appointe,
| superintendent of construction of the Chi
| cago & Alton, for many years represente,
| the Baldwin locomotive works at Chicago
He is TO superintend the extensive recon
struction and enlargement OF the company
shops at Bloomington, Ill.
While IL is not probable that C. ]. Gram
mer traffic manager OF the Lake Shor
| will. under the same title, have 1urisdic
ton over the Lake Erie & Western, IL 4
understood he will have much 10 do witt
debating the policy. Samuel Sweet, tn
general freight agent or the Lake Erie 4
Western, is considered one OF the hes
freight ofdcials In Central Traffic Associa