The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-26
Local and General Notes.

II: c. Graybill. traffic manager of the
Belt road and Union stockyard, has gone
to New York on official business.
The Wabash lines earned in the third
week of April $314,031, an increase over
the corresponding week of 1899 of 51,5s5.
NJ. S. Curley has been appointed master
mechanic of the shops of the Illinois Cen
trail, at Memphis, Tenn, in place of w.
White, resigned.
The loaded car movement of the Big Four
is again exceeding five thousand cars a
day. Monday it reached 5,110 loaded cars,
and on Tuesday. 5,306.
The Fort Wayne division of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers now has 149
members, a larger number than either di-
vision of engineers at indianapolis.
S. G.. Warner announces that he will be-
gin his duties as general passenger agent
of the Kansas City Southern on May /,
with headquarters at Kansas City.
The Southern Indiana is experiencing so
much trouble in getting entrance to Terre
Haute that the company threatens TO d.
vert the road from Centerville and make
Brazil its western terminus.
George F.. Geagan. general live stock
ing after securing for the Lake Erie a
larger percentage of the horses and live
stock shipped from indianapolis east.
On May l John Fitzgerald, division
freight agent of the Louisville & Nash
Vile at st. Louis. will succeed w. S. Nc
Chesney as superintendent of terminals of
the Louisville & Nashville at st. Louis.
ID. 1. Roberts, general passenger agent
of the Erie lines, will make the Lake
Chautauqua resort still more popular this
season and will put on additional trains
and the company's finest passenger equip
ment.
George Graves, superintendent of the In
diana, Decatur & Western, will to-day go
TO Atlantic City, accompanied by his wife.
The latter will remain there for the sum
mer. Mr.. Graves having purchased a cot
tage on the beach.
The dining cafe cars of the Chicago &
Alton on the fast Alton Limited are so
well patronized they cannot accommodate
all their guests at noon luncheons. These
cafe cars accommodate twenty-eight per-
sons at one sitting.
Paymaster Jansen, of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, is so much pleased
with the new paycar of the Indiana, De-
catur d Western, that he has arranged to
use IL in paying off on the Cincinnati, Ham,
ilton d Dayton lines hereafter.
NJ. D.. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton x Dayton, who has been on
a trip TO the Pacific coast, will return on
Sunday. accompanied by his wife and
daughter, Mrs. Balch, who have been on
the coast some weeks.
The ~Lackawanna has given notice to
it's western connections that on business
destined 10 points beyond New York, and
passing through that city. baggage will be
transferred without charge, which virtually
reduces the rate so cents.
Should the Panhandle Company decide to
build on the line now being surveyed be-
tween Dunreith and Knightstown, Ind. il
will have an airline between those points,
and get rid OF Raysville hill, the grade of
which has been a source of trouble.
The Lake Erie & Western will not adopt
its summer schedule until May 6. The train
now leaving at 1:O will then leave at 1920.
and make close connections with the Wa
bash fast train east, at Peru, and at La
porte, with the a Shore. for Chicago.
The Panhandle is receiving so many new
engines that IL has found ii necessary to
use some of the old machines. and, to
avoid duplicating numbers of engines, soon
TO be condemned, letters will be used on
the Older engines, commencing with Il No /.
The policy of the Illinois Central in gain
lag entrance 10 Omaha, Memphis, Louis
b. its increased earnings. The company's
net earnings for the first eight months of
its present fiscal year show am increase
over 1899 of s.. 265, 100.
Walter S. Galloway. son Of A. Galloway.
division superintendent of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton lines. who has just
completed a course at Purdue University,
in mechanical engineering, has accepted a
position on the Baltimore 81 Ohio, in the
office OF j.. M. Barr. mechanical superin-
tendent. as engineer of tests.
The new all-rail line from Richmond, Va.
TO Tampa, Fla, was completed on Satur-
day by the completion of the ninety miles
of new road from Cheraw, S. c., to a juno
ton with the Florida Central & Peninsu-
lar south of m Up to the present
time Cheraw has been the southern ter
minus OF the Sea Board Airline.
New Orleans shippers are much elated
that the Southern Pacific. the Texas Pa
cihc and the Sante Fe are 10 discontinue
the practice of concentrating large quanti-
ties OF sugar and moiasses at Shreveport