The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-17
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Travel TO the seashore over the Pennsyl--
vania lines at present is very heavy and
most of II is carried at tariff rates.
]. Q. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
of the Big Four lines. yesterday returned
from Putin bay, where he had been rest
ing n few days.
w. c. Hope. for many years chief clerk
Of the passenger department of the Jersey
general passenger agent.
F. c. Runte. late with the Colorado
Southern, has accepted the appointment
city passenger agent Of the Louisville S
Nashville at New Orleans.
Hereafter the sheets OF the Chicago Rail-
way Association will be published semi
annually instead OF quarterly. if all inter-
ested assent TO the change
The Monon begins the present fiscal year
with earnings the first week in July OF
s79,82l against s7O,75i in the corresponding
week of 1900. and against s70.464 in 1899.
John s. Bull general freight agent of the
Maryland * Pennsylvania road, is thought
to he fatally i'll at his home in Baltimore.
He has been in poor health for five years.
The Lake Shore on July Is opened TO the
public its new passenger station at Ash
tabula. Q. 1t is of modern construction,
with pressed brick and stone founda lions.
and costing $4,000
The construction gangs Of the lake Erie
g. Western are laying new heavy steel rails
on the main line at the rate OF a mile
a day and distributing gravel ballast at
the rate of eleven miles per week
Colorado tourist business is phenome-
nally large. During the first ten days in
July more tickets were sold than IL the
entire month last year. although July, 1900.
was a record-breaker in this respect.
The Toledo & Ohio Central has awarded
the contract TO Eli Lambert. of Kenton,
o. 10 build the new division shops at Mid
dleton, o.. which are to cost sl25,000.
Ground Will be broken next week for the
new buildings
The White Special on the Big Four. run
ming between Cincinnati and Chicago, has
become one of the best paying trains
per mile the Big Four runs. ranging in
earnings with the Southwestern Limited
and Knickerbocker
r. b Turner. general superintendent of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, was
wheat is beginning TO move TO Toledo. and
from this on the business In this line will
be limited 10 cars the c.. H & d. can
furnish.
The general managers and general SUI
perintendents of the roads which comprise
the Union Railway Company held their
regular monthly meeting yesterday. and
after transacting a little routine business
adjourned 10 the second Tuesday in Sep
TENDER.
c. W. Claybourne. who for twenty-five
years was employed as a passenger con-
ductor on Indianapolis lines, yesterday re-
moved with his family 10 Chicago, where he
will give his entire attention TO patent
gas saving and other coal saving appliances
in which he is interested.
w c. Brown. the new vice president and
general manager OF the Lake Shore and
the Lake Erie & Western. is this week re-
moving his family from st. Paul TO Cleve-
land, and as soon as they are settled he
will make another inspection trip over the
lines in the Lake Shore interest.
Work on the new passenger station that
the Lake Erie & Western and the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois are building al Hopes
ton. H.. is progressing rapidly. IL will
be constructed OF pressed brick. resting on
a stone foundation. costing in round num-
bers S25,0o0. aud will be modern in every re-
Spect
The Union Pacific has invited a party OF
newspaper men from all over the country
10 join its excursion 10 Inspect the great
cutoff in Wyoming. The party will assem-
BILE AZ the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver
on July % and leisurely travel westward
by daylight over the Wyoming division
and INFO Salt Lake.
AS a result OF the conference held in Chi
cago between representatives OF the Central
and Southern Passenger Association lines