The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-16

j. j. Turner, general manager Of the Van
dalia lines. is in Pittsburg.
N. w. Taylor, general freight agent of
the Vandalia, was in the city yesterday to
confer with Receiver Malott.
Track-layers of the Southern Indiana are
pushing westward toward Terre Haute, and
yesterday were west of Honey creek.
James Walsh. vice president of the South
ern Indiana, who has been quite iii at Chi
cago, was yesterday reported much better.
There is excellent authority for stating
that the Peoria, Decatur & Eastern. at the
recent sale, was bid in for the Illinois Gen.
trail.
The Lake Shore, now in control of the
Lake Erie & Western. has reduced the
forces in the L. E. G. w. shops about one
third.
Freight handlers at Fort Wayne railway
depots have organized a union, starting
with fifteen members. with G. r. Hench as
organizer.
1t is stated that plans have been COM
pleted for an $4,000 depot for the Wabash
at Decatur, Ill.,, which is an important
transfer point.
Through the summer months the shops of
the Wabash road will be closed Satur-
day afternoons and run full time other
days of the week.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois on Mon
day let the contract 10 extend its line south
TO the Ohio river. striking Joppa. nearly
opposite Paducah.
The Indiana Southern and the Evansville
& Terre Haute have adjusted their troubles
over the former crossing the e. & T. III.
tracks at Terre Haute.
James Love. the veteran detective of the
Panhandle. was sixty-eight years old on
| Monday. He has been in the service of the
| company thirty-eight years.
The Monon In the last ten DAYS received
| two ten-wheel heavy passenger locomotives
| and four twelve-wheeled freight engines.
! which weigh eighty tons each.
| On Monday the Southwestern limited on
| the Bee-line division of the Big Four was
hauled from Marion TO Bellefontaine-
| twenty-four miles-in nineteen minutes.
| All division superintendent of the Penn
sylvania's Southwestern system and John
+. Miller, general superintendent, were in
Pittsburg yesterday TO attend time-card
| meeting.
| The general offices of the Pere Marquette
| lines will on Sept. l be removed TO De-
| troit. and citizens of Grand Rapids and
/ Saginaw are much disturbed over the
/ proposition.
| with the Pennsylvania. has put a line
OF sleeping cars between Louisville and
New York. the first car going out on Tues
| day from Louisville.
! ]. Q. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
l OF the Big Four lines. is In Columbus. O..
1 to-day. attending meeting of the Column
bus Union Railway Company. From Co.
lubus he will go to Cleveland.
| l.. - Scnafer mas resigned as agent OF
| the Big Four at Champaign, ILL.,. TO accept
| the position of ticket and passenger agent
| of the c., p & st. L. Railway in Peoria
territory. with office at Peoria. Ill.
Mr.. r. p Garrett until recently a mem.
| Der of the engineering STAFF. ST. Louis. has
| accepted position on the engineering
| corps OF the st. Louis. Keokuk & North
western Railroad, with headquarters al
| Hannibal.
! The Journal has the authority of W. II
1 fnTl Of he g.. n
ing that the Monon will. after June l. reach
| Louisville over the Kentucky q Indiana
bridge, instead OF over the Louisville com.
pany's bridge
| William NJ. Jackson. secretary OF the