The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes. ,
The Chicago & Rock Island will to-day
place parlor cars i'm service between chi
cago and Des Moines.
On Sunday the Baltimore Ohio hauled
seven cars carrying 'emigrants west and
the Pennsylvania lines are having heavy
emigrant travel.
The Baltimore e. Ohio has ordered three
locomotives of the type designed by young
Cornelius Vanderbilt, now in use on the
New York Central
The Grand Rapids & Indiana has installed
new lighting plant at Grand Rapids
which is said TO be one Of the most COM
plete in this section.
NJ. Hughitt. jr., to-day takes the position
of traffic manager of the Chicago & North
western and T.. ID. Brigham the position
of general freight agent of the lines.
The Vandalia and the Evansville G. Terre
Haute have arranged with the Terre Haute
car works for all the castings used in the
construction Of equipment machinery for
the roads named
position of chief engineer of it's lines and
appointed w. G.. Berg to fill the position.
E. b. Ashby succeeds Mr.. Berg as engineer
OF maintenance of way.
C. P. Huntington has already spent over
81, 100000 on his project to make Galveston,
at the end of his Galveston, Houston &
Northern Railroad, the great export point
for Southwestern railways.
j. Schilinger, trainmaster of the Big
Four on the Cairo division. has been trans
fered TO the Cincinnati and Sandusky d.
vision, and l.. s. Rose succeeds him as
trainmaster of the Cairo division.
The Indiana, Illinois e. Iowa, the main
line of which is from Streator, ILL.,, to
South Bend. Ind, will this year extend it's
line from South Bend to Elkhart, with De-
troit as the ultimate objective point
James Charlton. the retiring general pas
senger agent of the Chicago & Alton, was
on Tuesday presented with a handsome
silver cup as testimonial from thirty
passenger officials who hold him in high
esteem.
Negotiations are pending which may re-
suit in the removal of the general head
quarters of the Brotherhood of>Locomotive
Firemen from Peoria TO Milwaukee 1t Is
stated that Grand Master Sargent favors
Milwaukee.
+. A. Farnum, attorney for the New Eng
land road before II was absorbed by the
New York, New Haven * Hartford, has
been selected TO fill the vacancy caused by
w. T.. Barnetts promotion from attorney
to the vice presidency.
The Louisville 4 Nashville has created
a service TO take care of travel TO Gen.
trail and South America, a business which
is developing very rapidly, and IL is claimed
more people will go to those countries this
year than in any three former years.
The Panhandle on Monday received the
first of its heavy engines on the 1900 pro-
gramme and to-day Will receive a second.
The engines are of a special design for
freight service. Twenty-four of this type
OF engine are to come to the Panhandle
lines.
w. j. Lynch, general passenger agent of
the Big -Four, announces that to-day the
passenger business In the Cleveland dis
trict will be placed I'm the hands of ID. Jay
Coliver, with the title OF district passenger
agent. His headquarters will be in Cleve-
land.
The recent visit OF President ingalls,. of
the Big -Four. 10 Washington, IL is said,
Will result in the putting on OF fast mail
tain each way between Cleveland and St.
Louis. The Big Four has not been getting
the amount OF the mail business ii is en-
titled 10.
~ III. Mcleod. freight traffic manager of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton lines.
who Is a member OF the classification COM
mittee and has been in New York tn &c
weeks, returned yesterday TO Cincinnati
To remain until the February meeting of
the committee.
One I'm close touch with the Vanderbilts
states that the report 10 the effect that the
| Lackawanna might in the near future
| again pass into the control OF the Sloan
| Hallstead interests Is without foundation.
! The vanderbilts own controlling interest
| In the property.
| III. b. Pierce has been appointed station
master and assistant trainmaster of the
| Pierce resigned as trainmaster on account
| OF ill-health and was succeeded by John
: Riley. formerly superintendent OF the