The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-03
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
II. o. Dunkle, superintendent of the Pitts
burg & Western, who is in poor health
has gone South to rest month.
j. s. Bowdoin has been appointed COM
mercial agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul at Davenport, including its i'm
mediate territory.
II. s. Burgesser, assistant general freight
agent Of the West Shore has resigned, and
is succeeded by F. II. Holbrook, CONNER
cial agent of the Central Vermont.
j. w. Starr. superintendent of terminals
and local agent of the Santa Fe at Kansas
City, has resigned, and Will De succeeded
by III. w. Sharpe. at present commercial
agent of the company.
The Chicago, Burlington e. Quincy will
spend 100000 on new equipment for through
passenger service to the Pacific coast by
the Burlington and Northern Pacific. Nine
trains will be required for this service.
Superintendent of Motive Power Lawes.
OF the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, will
place an order for five passenger engines of
his designing. They will be heavier and
more speedy than any engines now in use
on that line.
The official report of Charles Stilz. gen.
eral ticket agent at the Union Station.
shows that the receipts from sales of tick
cts ia January were $9.eS4.S7 in excess of
those of January, 1899, and $l5.42 greater
than in January, 1895.
The Evansville & Terre Haute, on its
Evansville & Indiar apolis division. is now
hauling more coal than at any period in
the company's history. With each year
coal from mines on this road is getting a
more extensive distribution.
The special train over the Vandalia that
brought the Students of the Indiana uni
versity from Bloomington made the run
from Greencastle Junction to Indianapolis.
forty miles, in thirty-eight minutes. There
were nine coaches in the train.
The extension OF the Illinois Central to
Omaha cost the company 100000. The
Illinois CentraIs Chicago-Omaha leafiet Is
an eye-opener The cover is prepared as
a closed blind which. upon being opened,
discloses good thing for Omaha.
The Chicago & Northwestern road serves
a free lunch to it's employees in Chicago
daily and seven hundred employees of the
company are given this privilege. By good
management the cost OF each meal has
been reduced to IL cents, and the food is
wholesome, nourishing and well prepared.
John C. Wager, late general manager of
the Wagner Palace Car Company, who has
been appointed assistant superintendent OF
the entire consolidated Pullman-Wagner
system, will have his headquarters at New
York city. and be the chief executive Of
ficer of the Pullman Company in New
York.
Under the supervision of w. G. Arp.
superintendent of motive power of the
Vandalia line. its passenger equipment is
being thoroughly overhauled and the best
OF the coaches equipped with wide vesti-
bules and other conveniences. The work
done at the shops in Terre Haute is ex-
citing favorable comment.
f. J. Forest. proprietor of the leading
ticket-scalping office i'm Syracuse, N Y.
says he will not close his office, as he ex-
poets the Canadian Pacific TO break up the
anti-commission agreement. He says the
weak lines will get the worst OF the deal
unless the strong lines have assured them
of a certain percentage In order to get
them In.
The New York Central is distributing a
large map folder throughout the country,
the principal feature of which Is page
Illustration of an open gate overiookins
the Hudson river. with the four tracks OF
the New York Central in the foreground
the magnificent steamer Albany In the cen
ter, and the Capitol. with a glimpse OF the
city, In the distance.
The Indianapolis division OF the Central
Aszoctatten Of Railroad omcfais WI f2'p