The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-25
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Doan Blinn, commercial agent of the
Nickel-plate, was buried at Toledo on
Monday.
William r. McKeen, ex-president of the
Vandalia lines, has gone to New York, to
be absent several days.
The Pullman Company will not hereafter
furnish a car to any special party that VIII
not pay for fifteen berths.
Harry Matz, representing the Chicago &
Rock Island, and Claude Hill, the Wiscon-
sin Central, are in the city
Samuel Rauh, president of the Belt road
and Union Stockyards Company. has gone
to Buffalo and other Eastern points in the
interest Of the Stockyards.
On Feb. l Daniel Floyd, engineer on
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, will take
the position of fuel agent and travelling
engineer on the Ohio Southern.
The station at Perrysville. on the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois, which was burned a
few weeks ago, has been rebuilt, and was
yesterday opened for business.
A. Nj. Mozier, recently appointed superin-
tendent of the Erie lines west, yesterday
left for New York, on his first trip to the
general Offices since his promotion.
The Southern Indiana road will locate its
general offices at Terre Haute, and Presi-
dent Walsh has purchased a building in
that city to be occupied for that purpose.
The new classification on the roads west
Of the Mississippi river becomes effective
to-day. 1t advances rates on number
of commodities to cents per one hundred
pounds.
Frank Flanagan for eight years general
yardmaster of the Baltimore & Ohio South
western at Parkersburg has resigned and
d. w. Mohler of Wheeling, has been ap-
pointed to the position.
P. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Logansport division of the Pennsylvania
lines, and Bushrod Taylor Superintendent
NJ hQ on in he ri nv
last evening on official business.
P. S. Eustis, general passenger agent of
the Chicago, Burlington * Quincy, has
been selected as chairman of the executive
committee of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation, succeeding James w. Charlton.
Attorneys who heard the argument of
John G. Williams in the Vandalia case be-
fore Commissioner Butler speak of 1t as a
mastery effort, covering the most vulner-
able points set out by the State, the plain
tiff in the case.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, the
Hooking Valley. the Toledo, Lorraine &
Wheeling, the Big Four lines and the
lake division of the Pennsylvania will be
considerably benefited from the advanced
rates on soft coal.
The Railway Club, of Cincinnati will give
testimonial banquet on the evening of Feb.
to d. Dollman, commercial agent of the
Santa Fe at Cincinnati, who has beeG
transferred to the more important position
of commercial agent at Kansas City.
The Financial Chronicle reports the earn
ings of 119 railroads for the month of De-
cember. 1S99,. at $685., S44, an increase OF
81, 036 722 over December 1898. The same
roads, from Jan. /, 1899. to Dec. 81. 1899
earned gross $73O,SS3Sl0, an increase OF
S64. GOO, OBS.
Benjamin Norton, general manager OF
the Ohio Southern. was in the city yester-
day, making further contracts with the
Indiana Car and Foundry Company fol-
cars. These works have just completed
the rebuilding of several hundred cars fol
the Ohio Southern.
Under the new arrangement between the
Panhandle, the Ohio River Railroad an6
the Cincinnati, Pittsburg e Virginia line
the Panhandle will drain the largest part
of the entire Ohio valley between Wheel.
ing Junction and Cincinnati. opening an.
other source IL immense traffic.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is
constructing new train on plans and de.
sign of the new train put on a few day:
ago by the Monon to run between Chicago
and Cincinnati over the Monon and the
c., II. & D., which are admitted TO bt
among the finest and most complete.
The carshops at Fort Wayne are build
ing. novel car to be used as a movabl,
freight house between Akron and South
Akron. distance of two miles. There /.
considerable traffic between the two points
but not sufficient to justify the erection o.
a freight house at South Akron and thi.
car Will supply that want.
| Division Superintendent Blizzard, of tn,
| Michigan division of the Big Four. is pres
ident of a klondike company, most of il:
| stockholders being employees on the Bis
| Four line. On Monday he received encour
| aging reports from the company's repre-
| sentatives at Dawson. The company:
claims are panning out very rich, he states
President Cox. OF the Terre Haute cal
| works, was in the city yesterday. III,
| states that the works have about six hun
dred men on their payrolls and are nov
building 1000 coal and 1000 box cars for tn,
Pennsylvania lines One of the drawbacks
| he says. is the great difficulty in securins
material for the construction OF cars es
| pecially iron and steel.
| The Erie on Monday received the frs
| of its new monster freight engines o
| which the Brooks locomotive works ar,
building twenty for the Eries western
| lines. These engines have eight drivin;
wheels and are nine tons heavier than an,
! engine heretofore used on its western di
/ vision. These engines are guaranteed I,
| haul five more loaded cars per train thar
| do the present freight engines of the Fri
lines.
| Theodore Cox, who last week made al
| inspection of the Lake Erie & Western
| lines as auditor OF the New York Central
| has returned To New York, and expresse,
himself as being well satisfied with the af
| fairs OF the company. He did not finsl
| inspection. and will start on another tri
In early February. after which, he says