The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-05
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Joseph Ramsey vice president and gen.
eral mnager of the Wabash, is on his way
East.
The Nickel-plate has given up the plan
of putting on new twenty-six-hour trains
between Chicago and New York.
Capt. J. Humphrey. postal clerk, has been
transferred to the run between Indianap-
oils and st. Louis over the vandalia.
After lapse of about seven years A. A.
Mcleod, former president of the Reading
Railway. has once more become a resident
of Philadelphia.
joint agent of the Vandalia and the Wa
bash at Lakeville, on the Logansport d.
vision of the Vandalia.
III. w. McMasters has been appointed
superintendent of the Toledo division and
branches of the Wheeling e. Lake Erie
vice j. N. Merwin, promoted.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
George Rockwell of the Pennsylvania
lines. is now located in his new office, at
Fourth and Vine streets. Cincinnati.
The Chicago & Western Indiana will be-
gin Immediately the work of elevating its
tracks in Chicago. The work will cost
s6o00,000 and will consume three years
time
C. +. DAILY, general passenger agent of
the Lake Erie 81 Western. who has been
at the springs at Martinsville for some
days TO rid himself of rheumatism. is i'm
proving.
Harvey Dodge. supervisor of bridges and
buildings the st. Louis division OF the
Big Four, yesterday left for New York to
take a similar position on the New York
Central
The Chicago G. Alton night express will
hereafter run via Peoria and will give that
point a direct sleeping-car service. This is
an innovation on the part of the Alton,
and one that will be appreciated.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is max
ing surveys for an extension of its line to
Joppa, ILL.,, opposite Paducah, on the Ohio
river. Paducah is the terminus of the
Nashville, Chattanooga & st. Louis.
The Big Four now hauls a through coach
between Columbus, o.. and Chicago via
Indianapolis, coming in over the Peoria
& Eastern's east division and connecting
with the fast White special for Chicago.
The auditors of the roads comprising the
Union Railway Company yesterday in
spected the Union Station ticket office and
spoke in complimentary terms of the man.
ner Charles Stilz Is managing the Office.
c. L. Lockwood. general passenger agent
of the Grand Rapids & Indiana. has issued
an attractive and interesting booklet CIV
ing a list of fishing places I'm Michigan.
names of streams, varieties of fish to be
caught, hotels, etc.
At all points on the Big Four in the gas
belt territory and where trolley lines are so
numerous passenger business is much
heavier than last year. AT Marion. Ind.
the receipts from sales OF tickets gere over
81, 200 in excess of April. 1899.
Oscar b. Jerke. chief dispatcher of the
middle division OF the Santa Fe at EN-
poria. died on Wednesday from heart dis
ease. He had resigned his position May
!. intending to go 10 Mexico as superin-
tendent OF one of the divisions of the Mex
lean Central.
r. Z. Hoffman has resigned his position
as mechanical engineer of the Santa Fe at
Topeka. and will accept position on the
Railway Gazette, of New York. Before his
employment on the Santa Fe he was an
editor on the Railway and Engineering
Review. of Chicago.
Sunday, May Il. has been fixed upon to
re-establish the through sleeping car serv-
ice between Louisville and Detroit via In
dianapolis and Logansport, running over
the Pennsylvania line from Louisville to
Logansport and over the Wabash from Lo-
gansport to Detroit
The Pennsylvania announces that during
the week of the Republican national con-
vention at Philadelphia in June excursion
tickets TO Gettysburg and return will be
sold at 81 for the round trip. These tickets
viii be sold June IS TO %. good returning
until June 26, inclusive
For the first time the Chicago & Erie
milk train started from Huntington. Ind.
Tuesday morning. and will serve al Wa