The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-04
Personal, Local and General Notes.

the system up TO modern ideas or physical
Improvement in railway economies.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Erie yesterday opened to traffic its
double track between Kent and Akron.
J. r. Smith chief clerk in the office of
Receiver Malott. of the Vandalia lines, is
so i'll as to confine him at home.
In March there were handled on the Big
Four system 517.2S7 passengers. against
1888 in March. 1S99-increase this year,
A,71i.
w. G.. Taylor. general claim agent of the
Monon, Is in the city examining claims
which have been presented here against the
company.
Two new parlor horse cars built at
Brightwood for the Big Four were COM
pleted yesterday. They will carry COM
fortably twenty-eight horses per car
The report of Charles Stilz. general ticket
agent at the Union Station, shows that the
receipts from sales of tickets last month
were A,7SSf I'm excess of March, 1892
w. c. Watrous. who has been on the
Great Northern road division superin-
tendent, has been appointed superintendent
of transportation on the Missouri Pacific.
The official report of John Ferguson, gen.
eral baggage agent shows that there were
handled at the Union Station last month
1883 pieces of baggage, 1,O37 more than in
March, 1899.
The roads in the Southwestern Passenger
Association have voted to abolish all party
rates on May /. and it is understood that
other passenger associations will take sim
liar action.
III. c. Graybill. traffic manager of the Belt
road and Union StOckyards Company, who
has been so i'll for three weeks with erysp-
elias. was able to be at his office for a short
time yesterday.
r. ]. Kizer yesterday completed his sec
ond year as representative of the Big Four
lines at the Indianapolis stock yards.
Through his efforts the traffic of this class
has been considerably increased.
Harry Brinkman. now in the Office of
General Freight Agent Brockenbrough, of
the Baltimore & Ohio, will on April 10 go to
Cincinnati TO take position with the
Great Northern as contracting agent.
The Pennsylvania has secured options on
a large extent of lake front at Buffalo. in
GLIDING the Anchor line and Williams
docks. and is expected to make trackage
arrangements with the Western New York
& Pennsylvania.
Train men on the Chicago division of the
Panhandle i'm March made the best pay in
the history of that division. the pay of
engineers ranging from $125 to sl75, of con-
ductors from s135 to $780, and other train
men in the usual proportion.
Mrs George NJ. Pullman passed through
the city yesterday enroute from Florida,
where she has been spending the winter.
of the late George M. Pullman. one of the
finest ever built by the Pullman works.
The passenger department of the Chicago
e. Northwestern has issued an attractive
booklet entitled THE Northwestern Linn
tied" 1t contains a number of fine illus
trations of the various points of interest
along the lire between Chicago and Mime
apolis.
officers of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company have been experimenting with
nickel steel rails on the Cleveland * Pitts
burg division for about two years, and re-
port that they show hardly any wear and
that they are standing up better than any
other rails.
p. b. Reid has been appointed superin-
tendent of all the bridge work on the Lake
Shore main line and the Lake Erie K West
ern, with headquarters in Cleveland. The
stone masonS' and carpenters departments
have been consolidated. and hereafter r. n.
Beeman will have jurisdiction over both.
Owing to the marked increase i'm passen-
ger business of the Illinois Central. brought
about, so District Passenger Agent Brill
says, by the extension of the line into
Omaha, a new position-assistant general
passenger agent of the system-has been
created. S. G.. Hatch, formerly district
passenger agent at Cincinnati, has been
promoted to fill the new position.
A corps of engineers is engaged in sur
veying a new route along the present line
of the Erie Railway between Hubbard, o.,
and Sharon. The present line between the
points named is simply succession of
curves. and In a distance of six miles there
are eight bridges crossing what is known
as Yankee run. The line Will be straight
ened, and Ii is expected that all the bridges.
with possibly the exception of one, will be
eliminated.
AT Youngstown, o., w. +. McCready Sc
cured a Judgment for s166 against the Penn
sylvania Company. The suit is regarded
as test case McCready testified that he
entered the employ of the company as a
brakeman and was coerced into joining the
relief department, a portion of the wages
being taken out each month, though he
protested against IL, and that the amount
sued for represented what he had paid in.
Counsel for the company gave notice of
appeal.
This week brought an advance in trans
portation charges on soft coal. The rea-
son for the advance is based upon the in
creasing demand for bituminous coal owing
TO exceptional activity in manufacturing
rolling stock required TO meet the demand
and the higher wages being paid TO miners
There is a spreading certainty that the de-
mand for transportation of soft coal will
increase rather than decline during the
next few years.
The numerous Eastern lines now sup
porting individual agents in California are
contemplating the adoption OF an agree
ment TO dispense with these representatives
and intrust TO the Southern Pacific and the
Santa Fe as joint agents the equalization
| of the traffic delivered to their Eastern
| connections. Such a course would near
| the immediate saving OF a very large out
| lay for salaries, rents. advertising and
other expenses connected with the mainte-
nance of offices at San Francisco and Los
| Angeles.
The success of General Solicitor Mander.
| son. OF the Chicago, Burlington * Quincy
| in securing practical consent from the De
partment of the Interior for the extension
| of proposed line across che Crow Indiar
| reservation in Montana leads prominent
/ officials of that company TO predict thai
| work upon the new line will begin within
| the next few months. This extension is
| line about $50 miles in length. extending
| from Toluca. Mont, a station forty-foui
miles from the Burlington's western ter
minus at Billings. TO Cody. Wyo.
j. vallery. travelling freight agent OF tn,
! Chicago. Burlington & Quincy. is in tn,
/ city III this city is made his headquar
/ tiers his title will be commercial agent. Tn,
| Iowa Central, also. has under considera
1 ton placing a representative here. anC
| Harry Parker. travelling freight agent O
| the Missouri Pacific has been asked 10 lool
| the territory over. and If satisfactory. [,
| make indianapolis his headquarters. Sine.
| the Chicago * Rock Island placed Com
| mercial Agent J. NJ. Norton at indianapolis
It's business has shown handsome In