The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-15

crease in traffic than on it's Toledo division.
II Is said that this year one million tons OF
coal VIII be handled at Toledo, nearly
double the amount OF last year
The Huntington division of the chesa-
peake & Ohio will have been practically
are completed. For some time past three
construction trains have been distributing
new steel rails on this division, weighing
100 pounds to the yard.
new seventeen-story block at Cincin-
pati Is nearing completion. The corner
room will be occupied by the Pennsylvania
lines. and will be the finest office in the
Middle States. George Rockwell. assistant
general passenger agent, and his force
will have offices on the fourteenth floor.
At the annual meeting of the Guarantee
Ticket Brokers Association of the United
States in Cleveland yesterday the follow
ing named officers were elected: President,
J. a. Webb. Chicago: vice president. David
executive committee. Louis Meyer Detroit.
Mich. The next annual meeting will be In
Chicafi.
II. T. Griffen has been appointed assist
ant general passenger agent of the c., Nj.
& ST. p. effectiva to-day, with headquar-
tiers in the Old Colony building, Chicago.
Mr. Griffen has been connected with the
c., NJ & st. =. Railroad over twenty-five
years. serving during the past fifteen years
as chief clerk Of the general passenger de-
partment.
telegram from Los Angeles announces
the death OF the wife of Thomas C.. Peck,
who for some years was city passenger
agent of the Big Four at this point. Mr..
Peck is now general passenger and ticket
agent of the Los Angeles Terminal Rail-
way Company. Mr. Peck is en- route with
the remains to Knightstown, Ind, where
they will be inferred.
Samuel d. Hutchins, for twenty-five
years an engineer on the Big Four is now
house Company At important railroad
points he meets the Brotherhoods of Loco
motive Engineers and addresses them.
with the aid of illustrated charts, on the
mechanism of the device. and he thorough
ly explains the system and manner Of APP
plying the air brakes for easy stops.
w. r. Hancock has been appointed treas
urer of the Wisconsin Central, vice Fred
erick Abbot, retired on account of i'll
health. The company has created the Office
fore auditor, viii fill the position. including
duties as an auditor. +. G. Cleaver has
been appointed superintendent of motive
power and OF the conpany's car depart
ment.
The old fight of Chicago and ST. Louis
business men against the railroads. which
involves the complaint that carload and
less than carload rates from st. Louis to
the Pacific coast are relatively unjust, and
bear more against the shipper of less than
carloads. has been revived, and on Dec. 10
there will be hearing before the Inter-
state-commerce Commission on matters
concerning the contention.
Ironmaster Carnegie complains that the
Pennsylvania Railroad is treating him and
his Pittsburg interests badly in the matter
of freight rates, but 1T does not look rs If
the Pennsylvania people were pressing him
so terribly when 1t is recalled that within
the last thirty days the Pennsylvania has
placed orders for 10000 tons of steel rails
at SIG. which enabled to pool to keep the
market from breaking.
The following changes were made yes
terday In the board of directors of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe: Howell
Jones. of Topeka. in place of c. X. Halii-
day. deceased: John G. Mccullough. of New
York, in place of Edward n. Gibbs. de-
ceased: Bryan l.. Smith, of Chicago, in
place of VIM. Rotch, resigned. The board
of the character and service of its late di-
rector, Edward n. Gibbs.
The New York Evening Post says the
executives of the Grand Trunk Railway are
likely TO soon announce formally the selec-
ton of General Superintendent F. III. Nc
Gufgan as general manager of the Grand
Trunk. He has been the chief subordinate
Of Mr. Hayes I'm the operating department
during the latter's administration of the
Grand Trunk. and was formerly on the
Wabash. when Mr. Hayes was general
manager of that company. and went to the
Grand Trunk a month after his chief had
entered the service of that company.
There is excellent authority for stating
timore & Ohio will be appointed until the
first of the year, and then the appointee
will be o. p. McCarty, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern. Mr.. McCarty happily combines those
peculiar qualities which fit an individual
for either office or outside business. and
has a faculty for winning and holding
friends. 1t is understood that Mr.. Austin.
now in charge of the passenger department
of the Baltimore & Ohio lines west, will
have the Baltimore e. Ohio Southwestern
added to his territory.
The Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie road
is being constructed thoroughly in every
respect. and like the Indiana Southern.
when turned over to the company will be
a credit to the contractors. At Cottage
Grove. where it connects with the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton, extensive yards
have been LAID out, a large water tank
well under way Within the last thirty
days the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
has delivered eighty carloads of new steel
rail TO the c., r. & NJ. at Cottage Grove,
the rail weighing SeVenty-two pounds to
the yard. 1t is stated that bridges, depots
and all improvements of that class are be-
ing constructed i'm the most substantial
manner.
H. e. Townsend. who for the last six
teen years has been general passenger and
ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific, was
in the city yesterday, and arranged tenn
porarily for G. A. Deane, the company S
representative at Indianapolis, to occupy
part of the rooms of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton and Monon lines. The
building which Mr.. Deane and the Union
Pacific representative have occupied is TO
be torn down to make room for a new
business block. Mr.. Townsend said he
locked upon indianapolis as being one of the
best distributing points in the country.
There was, he said, hardly any other point
where so much business originates as at
Indianapolis and i'm this territory, and
this remark applied to freight as well as
passenger business. Mr.. Townsend was
accompanied by G. A Deane, sr. land COM
missioner of the Missouri Pacific.
Road Congress Delegates.
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