The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-20

r. f. Haraway, chief engineer of the
Chattanooga, Rome q Southern, has ten
dered his resignation.
III. M. La Toilette has been elected pres
ident of the Tennessee Northern, vice
Alfred Glasier, resigned.
J. ]. Turner. general manager of the
Vandalia lines, was in the city yesterday
to confer with Receiver Malott
]. NJ. Norton, commercial agent of the
Chicago & Rock Island at this point, Is
stlll confined to his room with low grade
fever.
The Great Northern will on Sunday clip
two hours off the transcontinental schedule.
a new train will also be added between
st. Paul and Sandstone.
The April number of Sunset. the finely
illustrated magazine published by the
Southern Pacific Railroad, is out, and is
as usual replete with interesting reading.
Caeser Rodney, agent of the Vandalia
at this point, who has been iii and absent
from his Office for several weeks. was yes
terday able to be at his desk for a short
time.
The travelling statesmen will to-day go
over the Vandalia to Terre Haute, accom-
panied by the When band. 1t is expected
that about $50 statesmen will take the train
which leaves at u :35 noon.
The high price at which Chicago & East
ern Illinois stock is selling and the large
holdings that are changing hands have led
to a renewal of the report that the Illinois
Central Is seeking to control IL.
G.. w. Sharp has been appointed agent
of the Indianapolis 4 Vincennes at Bick-
nell, Ind. succeeding ]. F. Buckells, and
l.. II. Lee has been appointed agent at
Marco, vice G. w. Sharp. transferred.
Affairs in railroad circles seem to be
working around TO close union between
the Hooking Valley and the Ohio Central
which within the last year have fallen
into the hands of the Morgan interests.
The Lake Erie & Western Railway an
nounces that in a short time its new sched-
ule will be made, and that 1t will show a
through car service from Fort Wayne to
Indianapolis, via Muncie and the Big Four.
west.
A. j. Elicit, representing the passenger
department of the Chesapeake & Ohio H
Z. Stevenson. of the Baltimore Ohio
Southwestern, and D. Mullaney. of the
Nashville. Chattanooga & ST. Louis. were
I'm the city last evening.
The Erie Railroad has just received the
last of a recent order for fifty freight en-
gines. These are known the consoIida-
ton engines and weigh $4,000 pounds ex-
elusive of the tender. which I'm turn weighs
approximately 12s.o00 pounds
The Central Passenger Association has
adopted a uniform basis of rate for politi-
cal gatherings of all kinds. From points
within a seventy-five-mie radius of the
meeting place the basis will be one and
one-third fare for the round trip.
The vandalia looks for quite boom in
coal traffic the next few days. the Clay
county miners having returned TO work.
Yesterday the road brought in sixty car
loads OF coal. II is expected that re-
ceipts will now reach 100 carloads per day.
The Central Passenger Association has
adopted a rule permitting nuns to pur-
chase half-rate tickets provided they are
in costume when the application is made.
Heretofore certificate from some clergy
man was required before the half rate was
granted
The running time of the new trains OF the
Big Four between ST. Louis and Cleveland
will be thirteen hours and forty-five min
utes and the trains from st. Louis 10
Boston and In the opposite direction are
scheduled at an average speed of forty
miles hour.
General Manager Metcalf. of the l.. & ~
Railroad. announces the appointment of
| John Fitzgerald as superintendent in
charge OF the terminal facilities OF the
| company at East ST. Louis and ST. Louis.
| vice w. G.. Mckesney- resigned Mr.. Fftz-
| gerald has been the district freight agent
| at Memphis.
The switchmcn OF che Peoria & Pekin
| Union Railway have waited on Superin-
/ tendent Thompson and demanded nine
hours work and ten hours pay. Their de-