The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-20
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The directors of the Lackawanna are
making a trip over the line with President
Truesdale.
The loaded car movement on the Big
Four system is again ranging from 5.40O to
$500 per day.
The Master Car and Locomotive Painters
Association has contributed 500 to Calves
ton sufferers.
In the year ending June 30 the Monon
lines were. operated on 5S.49 per cent. of
gross earnings, against 61.99 per cent. the
previous year.
Superintendent Corbett, of the Evans
vile & Terre Haute. who has been East on
vacation. has returned much improved
in health.
One of the passengers who went west on
the Vandalia yesterday was over 101 years
old. and his son, who escorted him sixty
four years old.
T. ]. Higgins, superintendent of the
Cleveland division of the Big Four lines
was in the city yesterday TO confer with
General Superintendent Van Wrinkle.
III. c. Townsend, general passenger agent
OF the Missouri Pacific. and James Barker,
general passenger agent of the Missouri,
Kansas q Texas, are In New York city.
During the past year the Wheeling e.
Lake Erie has built at it's own shops ten
heavy consolidated engines. and their per-
Torrance is said to be highly satisfactory.
Earnings of the Hooking Valley Railway
Company for the second week of Septem-
increase over the same period of last year
of $l1.ssl. IS.
w. /. Allen has been made general man.
ager of the Cincinnati. Richmond & Mum
Gle. Mr.. Allen until recently was general
manager OF the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific at Chicago.
Charles Graham, formerly master me-
chanic of the Lackawapna road. died at
Scranton on Tuesday. Mr. Graham was
one of the founders of the Master Me-
ehanics' Association.
The Railroad Gazette reports train acct
dents in July included 81 collisions, lis de-
railments and 3 other accidents. a total of
2l1 accidents. I'm which IS persons were
killed and us injured
w. III. Duffeli, treasurer of the Pittsburg
& Western. is spending a vacation at his
birthplace in England. and a trip through
Europe IT Is the first trip TO his former
home in thirty years.
j. s. O'Shea, of Buffalo. n. ", formerly
connected with the Erie. has been appoint
ed agent OF the Queen & Crescent at Lex
ington. Ky. to succeed James w. Shanks,
who has been promoted.
l.. W. Wakeley. general passenger agent
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's Mis-
souri, river division. and F. NJ Rugg,
travelling passenger agent, passed through
the city yesterday eastward
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe
lines. is in the city. He states that indica-
tions are that travel 10 California this fall
and winter will be unusually heavy
Already complaint of car shortage is
heard. Many thousand cars are tied up al
Atlantic seaboard points A shortage I'm
ocean tonnage Is the trouble. and ears are
used as store houses until there Is vessel
room.
Superintendent Of Motive Power Barnes
of the Wabash. has given instructions that
the shops at different points for the next
two weeks run thirteen hours per day
there being a shortage of power. Car re-
rairs are again heavy.
c. II. Caswell who has been commercial
agent OF the Chicago. Rock Island * Paci-
Hc at ST. Louis. has been promoted e
division freight agent. with headquarter.
at Des Moines. succeeding g. j. Phillips
who goes TO the Lackawanna.
From a suggestion that IL ought TO b.
done has grown the statement that the
Pullman Company will place safes in its
cars for the valuabes OF passengers. The
idea has been talked OF Repeatedly. but
was understood TO be impractlcable.
Haute OF the Southern Indiana the arrival.
aud departures at the Union Station n
that city number sixfy-six trains a day
and were the Big -Four 20 use the Cniof
Station there would be seventy-six trains
The Toledo. Peoria & Western. which I.
under Joint control OF the Pennsylvania
and the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy. Il
shows by It's annual report TO have enjoyed
the most prosperous year I'm it, history
The gross receipts for the year ending JUNE
90 were 81 .0s7.sos. which figure has nevei
before been reached
officials Of the Pere Marquette say tina
that company as freight receiving po.n