The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-12-13
Personal, Local and General Notes.

T. ]. Kizer. who represents the Big Four
at the Union Stockyards, has taken Room
80 in the new building.
Charles Stilz. general agent at the Union
Station, and DR.. Runnels left yesterday for
the Indian Territory for a two weeks
hunt.
f. B. Parker, y%ardmaster of the Union
Pacific at Ogden. has been promoted TO
be superintendent of the Wyoming division,
vice c. Il. Baird, resigned.
Andrew Kilgallon. formerly general yard
master of the Lackawanna at Buffalo, has
accepted the position OF superintendent of
terminals and traffic manager Of the Lack
awanna Steel Company.
The illness Of Charles Rockwell, traffic
manager of the Monon, has developed into
a case of erysipelas and is causing his
friends some anxiety. He was taken i'll
in Cincinnati while there on an official
trip.
Some extraordinary rules nave lust been
laid down by the Chicago, Burlington e.
Quincy, tabooing both tobacco and intox-
icating liquors in any form during the
hours of service and requiring employees TO
be vaccinated.
James L. Taylor, formerly general Euro
pean agent Of the Pennsylvania. on Mon
day entered upon his duties as third vice
president of the Consolidated Railway.
Electric Lighting and Equipment Com
pany, New York city.
Twenty locomotives have been ordered
for early next year delivery for the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg. Four
teen are OF the d 10 u type and designed
type consolidated freight locomotives.
In the month of November the Vandalia
handled at Indianapolis 1864 cars, bringing
in 6,307 loaded and 469 empty cars, and
forwarding west 1884 loaded and q 400
empty cars. OF the inbound business, 6S2
carloads were live stock for Indianapolis.
Charles l.. Stone. as general passenger
agent of the Louisville q Nashville, re-
ceives a salary of 5000 a year. the largest
salary paid any passenger official on South
ern lines and comparing favorably with the
annual income of most of the trunk-line
passenger men.
On Ian. 1 John Rhodenbeck, ticket agen.
in the Union Station, will retire and go
and on that date Harry Alexander, chief
clerk at the Big Four outer yards of j. O..
Hicks, will retire TO succeed Mr.. Rhoden-
beck in the ticket office
The monthly fund for December allotted
to the shops of the Pennsylvania Compe v
at Fort Wayne is the largest of any moi IN
since the shops were established. The
shops, in all departments, are running
twelve hours, and every inch of floor room
is utilized. so pressing is the work.
Traffic Manager Babcock. of the Rio
Grande Western. says there will be no i'm
mediate appointment of a general freight
agent to succeed s. j. Henry, who retired
on Dec. 1, which is Interpreted to mean
that Assistant General Freight Agent Ken
worthy will sooner or later be placed at
the head
The Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railway
track building from Matthews TO Muncie
is within a stones throw of the Muncie city
limits, the force of teams doing grade
work being now just across the river from
Muncie. and work on the river bridge is
being pushed. with only the iron work to
be constructed. The company will have
trains running into Muncie by Jan. L.
An Eastern financial paper says that
while the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
curing control of the Erie Railway, and the
paper predicts that the plan will go
through. The Erie operates 2,0S7 miles of
road, has 923 locomotives, S47 passenger
cars and 1898 freight ears, which makes Il
one of the best equipped per mile of any
Of the roads In the Trunk-line Association.
The preliminary steps being taken make
IL evident that the promoters of the Gin
cinnati. Richmond & Muncie intend To push
the road TO a connection with the Erie.
selecting a route through towns that will
vote the largest subsidy. Although there
is said 10 be an abundance of capital be-
hind this new enterprise, the projectors
are looking sharply after a route where
subsidies will be most numerous and
largest.
On Jan. l Charles E.. Doyle. general super
intendent of the Chesapeake a Ohio. will
be promoted 10 be general manager, a po-
sitiOn which has been vacant since George
Stevens was elected president OF the COM
pany. Mr.. Doyle was formerly a train dis
patcher on the Wabash, located at Peru.
Ind. With the promotion of Mr.. Doyle the
jurisdiction of General Superintendent GLE.
os the western division, will "a extended
over the entire system.
The shipments OF hogs. cattle and horses
from the stockyards OF late have been quite