The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Wabash to-day will begin to run all
Its trains into Quincy over its own track.
w. N. schof. formerly purchasing agent
OF the 81. fau q Duluth, has accepted a
similar position with the Colorado South
ern.
The Union Pacific passenger department
has prepared for distribution its nnual
volume relating to all outdoor pastimes
and sports.
Clinton Franklin. railroad reporter on the
Kansas City Journal. has been appointed
travelling freight agent of the Kansas City
Southern Railway.
II. c. Stevenson, passenger agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, is in the
city. He reports the business Of that road
highly satisfactory. the new equipment
helping traffic perceptibly.
William Lee Park will to-day succeed
e. c. Harris as superintendent Of the Wy
oming division OF the Union Pacific. Mr..
Park has been with the Union Pacific since
1874. commencing as freight brakeman.
This month the Chicago & Eastern ILL.,
nois will receive five heavy passenger To-
comotives Of a new design in several re-
spects. built on lines suggested by T. c.
Lawes' superintendent or motive power of
the c. & E. I.
President r. Somer Hayes, of the st.
Paul & Duluth. will arrive in st. Paul In a
few days to make the formal transfer of
his road to the Northern Pacific. The an
nual meeting Of the st. Paul & Duluth oc-
CURED yesterday.
Indications are that the big excursion of
the season will be on Sunday. over the
Cincinnati, Hamilton G. Dayton. when the
road carries the Bavarian societies from
Indianapolis TO Cincinnati June 3. Tickets
will be good to return on three days.
By June Is the Illinois Central expects to
be running It's through trains between Chi
cago and st. Louis over its recently ac-
CURED line. the Chicago. Peoria e. st.
Louis. Its contract TO use the Big Four
tracks into st. Louis expires to-day.
There are now twenty-four passenger
trains daily between Indianapolis and Terre
Haute. twenty-five between Indianapolis
and ST. Louis; without including side lines
such as the Indiana. Decatur & Western
and the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City.
A railroad official who has just returned
from the West states that there is a rumor
that George w. Ristine will resign the
come vice president OF the Union Pacific
and have full charge of the traffic depart
ment.
1t is stated that A. ]. Smith, general pas.
senger agent of the Lake Shore, has al.
ready received applications from fifteer
prominent passenger men for the position
of general Eastern passenger agent of the
Lake Shore. vice I. s. Stimson, recently
deceased.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis has issued =
blue and gold announcement of the open
ing of its New Tim line 10 Estherville OF
June l. 1t is very attractive and contain:
/ q map showing the new southwestern dl-
vision. A double daily train service will bs
~inaugurated.
Under the new time schedule the Gin
c~innati, Hamilton & Dayton. in connection
with the Vandalla. makes the run between
| Cincinnati and St. Louis in nine hours and
twenty minutes, the fastest regular SEIZED
ule the two lines ever made between tht
cities named.
Mrs. Harry st. Clair. OF Logansport, Ind.
who was reelected at the national con
-
Engineers as secretary OF the ladies' aux,
Hilary to the brotherhood, has held that 20,
sition for three years and is said TO be 8
very capable woman.
Alcace f. Walker. chairman of the Atchi
son. Topeka < Santa Fe board, says the
| Carson and Colorado cutoff mentioned II
Salt Lake dispatches In connection Will
/ c. p. Huntington's visit TO that city viii
be built and operated jointly by the South,
ern Pacific and the Santa Fe.
Charles II. Newton. for some years pas
agent OF the Wabash at Fort Wayne. to
| day goes TO Toledo 10 succeed Franz
| Clarke. recently deceased. and j. Sullivan
agent OF the Wabash at Wabash, goes q
Fort Wayne. T.. b. Thomas. chief clerk o.
Mr.. Sullivan, takes the agency at Wabash
Charles Schlacks will. on Tune Is, becom,
| general manager OF the Colorado Midland
He will leave the Denver & Rio Grand.
as assistant general manager on June is
Edward T. Jeffrey, president and genera
manager OF the Denver & Rio Grande, VIII,
Is en- route to New York. confirms the abov'
statement.
IL the present programme Is carried on
the Erie Railroad will change time on Jun