The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-09

C. Z. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four, was in the city yesterday, en- route
to Cincinnati from Chicago.
The official headquarters of the Akron
division OF the Baltimore a Ohio will be
established at Akron on March /.
1t is stated officially that the recent con-
ferences of the Lackawanna officials and
employees related to discharged individuals,
not to grievances.
G.. w. Hardisty has been appointed dis
trict freight and passenger agent of the
Northern Pacific road at Montreal, to sue
coed Thomas Henry, resigned.
j. T. Clarke, formerly agent of the Amer
lean Express Company at Cincinnati. has
been appointed agent of the company at
the Union Station. indianapolis.
Armour & Co. have secured the approval
of the Chicago freight committee for the
reduction of the carload minimum on bulk
meats from $4,000 to $4,000 pounds.
Charles Rockwell. general traffic man.
ager or the Monon lines, was in the city
yesterday. He reports business on the lines
as heavy, especially south-bound.
A movement is on foot in Chicago to re-
store the junction of the Baltimore e. Ohio
line with the Wisconsin Central, which
was severed some ninety days ago.
Since Feb. / the Pullman Company has
delivered fifteen elegant new passenger
coaches to the Chicago & Rock Island, to
be used on line east of the Missouri river.
Il
tourist train, carried from New York and
Philadelphia 107 passengers. The train now
leaves New York daily, Mondays, excepted,
for Tampa.
t. T. Creamer. chief train dispatcher of
the Big Four's Chicago division, has re-
signed on account of i'll health and is sue
ceeded by James Butler, promoted from
assistant train dispatcher.
One Of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
Cages new express engines Of the ten
wheel type hauled nine passenger cars up
the heavy grade from Kenwood to Summit
cut at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour
The Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief De-
partment. on its lines west of Pittsburg,
has recently taken on good deal of ac-
tivity and the medical staff is unusually
busy. AT some points an additional sur
geon has been placed.
Walter Dobson, Willis Black and Will
liam Hudson, locomotive engineers on the
Pennsylvania, have been promoted to be
three men have seen years of active serv-
ice on the Pennsylvania system.
1T is understood that the division SUPER
intendent OF the Baltimore & Ohio whose
headquarters was removed to Grafton last
July Will be returned to Cumberland, il
having been found almost a necessity to
have the main office at that place.
The Santa Fe, says one of the roads rep
resentatives, is building at its own shops
two hundred furniture cars TO carry busi-
ally 10 points reached by the Santa Fe
large numbers OF carloads of furniture.
The report OF Conductor Taylor, of the
Panhandle. shows that on Wednesday
morning the Lawton funeral train was
hauled from indianapolis to Columbus ISIS
miles, in four hours and eight minutes,
stops at Richmond and Dayton to be de-
Quoted.
w. III. Sellers has been appointed super
visor OF the middle division of the Big
Four between Cincinnati and Chicago, and
II. Van Gordon goes TO the Cleveland di-
vision, vice r. Boyer, who recently re-
signed TO take position on the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern.
Charles III. Angle, formerly commercial
agent OF the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul. has been appointed general agent OF
the Chicago. Oklahoma * Gulf. with Of
flee at Atlanta, Ga. He will have charge
OF the freight and passenger business In
Southeastern territory.
President Stickney. of the Chicago Great
Western. has set aside a handsome sum OF
money for improvements this year Every
wooden structure on the system now exist
| ing will be replaced with iron and steel
work and there will be considerable pur-
chases OF cars and locomotives.
President FELTON,, OF the Chicago & Alton,
proposes to increase the coal traffic OF the
| road. New mines are TO be opened and
! those now opened operated to their fullest