The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-29
Personal, Local and General Notes.


Trainmaster May, OF the Panhandle, is
so i'll TO oonfine him at home.
c. Z. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four. was I'm the city yesterday. going from
here to 81. Louis.
G. NJ Brown. chief engineer OF the Pere
Marquette lines. will retire from that
position on April ].
D. Bowes. general western passenger
agent OF the Chicago & Alton Railroad,
will arrive in the city to-day.
On May General Manager Pottinger, of
the Inter Colonial Railway. will retire and
be succeeded by Fl. Mitchell.
The directors of the Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, Chicago & st. Louis have declared
quarterly dividend of Ia per cent. on the
preferred stock, payable April 20.
The new interlocking plant of the Van
dalia and Illinois Central at Effiingham has
been put i'm operation. cutting out another
stop for the Vandalia's fast trains.
The Missouri. Kansas & Texas has can
celed It's notice of withdrawal from the
Southwestern Freight Bureau, and peace
hovers over the Southwestern situation.
General Passenger Agent Lynch, of the
Big Four lines, is in Philadelphia arrang-
Ing through summer time tables with
the Pennsylvania and the Chesapeake &
Ohio.
T.. s. Eaton, trainmaster of the Evans
vile & Terre Haute. will retire from that
position on April and his place will proba-
bly, be filled by promoting passenger con-
6uctor. -
Passenger Officials Cleveland of the Chi
cago & Northwestern, Ivers of the st.
Louis & San Francisco. and Campbell of
the Cotton Belt lines were in the city yes
terday
The Big Four will improve both the pas
senger and freight service on the Benton
Harbor line, expecting a heavy business
on that end of the Michigan division the
coming season.
Charles Steele. who recently entered the
firm of j. p. Morgan & Co., New York.
was yesterday elected director of the
Reading Company, TO succeed the late
Charles Z. Coster
Frank Kingsley, rate clerk in the Big
Four offices under General Agent Fraser,
goes to st. Louis to accept more impor-
tant position. William Holland will sue
coed him at this point.
p. Bennett, passenger conductor on the
Indiana, Decatur & Western. will sue
coed George S. Cbeyney as roadmaster
Mr.. Cheyney on April ] will take service
with an Eastern line.
The track layers of the Southern Indiana
yesterday reached Jasonville with the
track which is but twenty-five miles east
OF Terre Haute. Between Jasonville and
Terre Haute much of the grading is COM
pleted.
Samuel Miller was yesterday appointed
assistant master mechanic of the Pan
handle shops at Indianapolis. William
Swanston's title will hereafter be general
master mechanic of the Panhandle shops at
this point.
Patrons of the Wabash are again loud in
their complaints of the service on the east
ern division so far as Toledo business Is
concerned. and are urging the construction
of a trolley line on the Wabash and Erie
canal bank.
The Grand Trunk Railway will, on April
q put into effect a new export tariff be-
tween Toronto and New York. At present
the rate on export grain Is IL cents. On
April il will be 1872 cents. This rate Will
also apply to Boston and st. John.
II. c. Graybill. traffic manager of the
Belt road and Union Stockyards, who has
been quite i'll for ten days past with cry
sipelas. is better, but his physician last
evening said II would be some days before
he would be at his Office.
The general offices of the Big Four and
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
Pennsylvania lines advise that all tickets
sold after April l to Havana. Cuba, must
DC sold subject TO the quarantine STRIFE
tions of the United States government.
The Chicago & Rock Island boasts that
il is not only a capital road regards
equipment and roadbed, but in addition to
that il has the capitals OF Iowa, Nebraska,
|. Colorado and Kansas on its line, and came
very near having the capital of Oklahoma
moved to its line.
The Wabash statement for February
shows an increase in gross earnings of
s197.657. or 1875 per cent. and gain In net
of sl29.601, or 1875 per cent. For the eight
months ending Feb. % the gross earnings
gained 81 .623, 726, or II per cent, and the net
s73l, 044. or 3G.4l per cent.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie Is about to
call up twelve more firemen for examina-
tion for promotion, and those to be exam
ined are carefully examining and study
ing the rules The new engines ordered
some time ago are being delivered. and the
new men will probably be assigned to these
heavy machines.
The steel works at Athens. Pa, are build
ing two spans for the Big Four to place IN
its bridge over the Wabash, portion or
which went down recently. One span Will
be 225 feet I'm length. and the pier In the
center of this space will be removed, Civ
ing the water freer course where the cur
rent of the river is so strong.
1t Is stated that should George l.. Brad
bury accept the presidency of the Kansas
City, Pittsburg & Gulf road w. G. Brim-
son will be elected vice president and gen.
eral manager. and threre are two or three
of the present officials of the Lake Erie &
Western who will doubtless be asked to
accept positions under Mr.. Bradbury.
The Chesapeake & Ohio coal traffic con-
stitutes about one-half of its total tonnage.
and il is carried at about the lowest rates
made-2.2l mills per mile-on seaboard bust
ness in the last fiscal year. Its coal bust
ness last year was about 100000 tons. and
the mines and it's own lines SO situ-
ateO tnaI IL IL an important ldctot III ootu
the Atlantic and Western markets.
H. c. Stiles. general agent of the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton at this point.
said yesterday that while the business or
the c. III. & ID. at Indianapolis had been
the largest and most satisfactory in the
roads history for some months past, had
the company been able to furnish cars he
could have considerably increased the
tonnage from his territory, the company
even now being unable TO furnish as many
=
II is announced that the Gulf & Inter-
state Railway has been sold TO the reor-
ganization committee of the Kansas City.
Pittsburg G. Gulf Railroad. now the Kansas
City Southern Railway The Gulf & Inter
state extends from Beaumont, on the line
of the Pittsburg & Gulf. to Galveston, a
distance of seventy miles. The road, IL
acquired, will give the Kansas City South
ern entrance to Galveston. and would irdi-
| cate that the new owners intend to have
| tidewater terminals at both Port Arthur
| and Galveston. The Gulf & Interstate road
was once offered TO the old management of
| the Pittsburg & Gulf. but IL was decided to
| make Port Arthur its sole terminus on the
| Gulf Of Mexico. fet.