The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-25
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Thornton Lewis, general manager of the
Kanawha Despatch, was in the city yes
terday.
The Panhandle will this year erect a
combined passenger and freight statlon
in Springfield, o.
The Chicago & Alton has contracted with
the Pullman car works for twelve new
coaches, to be of the highest standard In
every respect.
The Lake Erie & Western will on Sunday
to Peoria. ILL.,. form points as far east as
Frankfort, Ind.
c.. o. Gwatkin, general Eastern agent of
the Wisconsin Central at New York city,
will on May retire from tnat positlon on
account of i'll health.
NJ. McGrafton and c. E. McKim, super
fntendents, respectively, of the signal and
telegraph of the Pennsylvania lines West,
are on their semi-annual inspection tour.
Oscar Murray, first vice president of the
Baltimore e. Ohio, who has been quite Ill
with a low grade fever for about month.
is improving and expects to be at his office
soon.
w. H McDoel, president of the Monon
lines. has returned from New York, and
emphatically denies the report that the
road is to pass into the hands of the South
ern Railway.
On May l, c. II. Ketcham, at present in
charge of terminals of the Lackawanna at
New York. will succeed r. Dupuy as super
of the Lackawanna.
Commencing with Monday another pas
senger train will be run each way over the
Whitewater Valley road, leaving Cincinnati
for the north at Z a. m and Hagerstown
for the South at 2:35 p. m.
George De Haven, general passenger
agent of the Marquette lines and the Chi
cago & West Michigan, will sever his con-
nection with that road on May 1. His duties
will be performed temporarily by III. r.
Moeller.
III. F. Baldwin has been appointed chief
engineer of the Chicago & Alton. succeed
ing II. c.. Draper. Mr.. Baldwin was for
some years chief engineer of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois, and more recently with
the Erie lines.
Since Mr.. James Charlton retired from
the passenger business of the Chicago e.
Alton he has received over three hundred
letters from old-time ticket agents who
would like to see him in the passenger
business again.
The Nickel-plate. in connection with the
Lackawanna will on Sunday put on a new
train in each direction between Chicago
and New York on twenty-six hour sched-
ule, one hour and a half quicker than any
former schedule.
The Chicago e Alton announces that,
commencing with May i, that road Will sell
homeseekers' tickets 10 Denver, Col, and
other Colorado common points at one fare.
plus 81, for the round trip on all home
seekers oates hereafter.
Ag soon as Congress takes necessary ac-
ton the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
will commence improvements at Washing
ton. which will. 1t is estimated. cost six
million dollars. elevating its tracks, build
ing new station and new bridge across
the Potomac.
]. O'Brien, passenger conductor on the
Lake Erie & Western. has obtained leave
of absence until Sept l. and with his wife
left for New York last night. and on Sat
10 g. De- IL
April Is completed his thirty-seventh year
of service on the Lake Erie & Western,
formerly the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago.
William G. Knight one of the oldest men
in time OF service on the Bee-line division
of the Big Four died yesterday at Della
ware, o. He was a brakemen when John
+. Miller was freight conductor the
Bee-line. later a conductor then yard
ma ster at Delaware for many years, but
on account of old age has recently been a
flagman at a railroad crossing at Delaware.
Indianapolitans will after Sunday have
no room for complaint as 10 Cleveland
service. as the New York and Boston limited
of the Big Four will leave at 2:40 p. m.
reaching Cleveland at 9:55 p. M. New York
2:55 D. m. next day. and Boston at 4:50 p. m.
eastern time at New York and BOSTON,.
This new train will. in both directions. haul
dining car between st. Louis and Cleve-
land.
The midday express trains between Gin
cinnati and Chicago over the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & Dayton. the Indiana, Decatur
a Western and Monon via Roachdale have
now been on two years and are said TO be
on a paying basis. Between Indianapolis
and Roachdale passengers are frequently
treated to a fast run, the thirty-five miles
being covered in thirty-three TO thirty-seven
minutes.
The Indiana. Decatur & Western is still
bringing in from stations on its line fifty to
sixty carloads a day of corn. but the sup
ply Is becoming exhausted. superintendent
Graves thinks that at least IS per cent. of
the corn in close proximity to the road has
been marketed. II not 20 per cent, which
means that the manufacturers OF cerealine
produc,s at Indianapolis must draw their
supply from more distant sections.
z. f. Cost. freight traffic manager of the
Big Four lines. w. ID. Holiday. assistant
general freight agent at ST. Louis. and Z
| p. Buchanan. assistant general freight
agent at Cincinnati, were in the city yes
| terday In conference with FORD Wood. gen.
| eral freight agent OF the Peoria & Eastern
regarding freight matters. Mr.. Cost and
!! Mr.. Holiday stated that In their years al
| freight service they had never known all
| lines 20 he carrying businees on fun tariff
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