The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-16
Personal, Local and General Notes.

j. +. Barnard, formerly president of the
Ohio & Mississippi. is in the city, the guest
of his son, j. A. Barnard.
w. Z. David. assistant trainmaster of
the Pennsylvania Company, is seriously
i'll with grip and neuralgia.
Steps are being taken by the Pennsylva-
MIA Company to consolidate the I%ndianapo-
lis d Vincennes Railroad with the Pan
handle.
Since March 1 the Big Four has received
twenty new coaches and twelve cOmbina-
ton cars. The new coaches seat eighty-sev-
en- passengers.
j. A. Barnard, at the annual meeting of
the Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Com
pany on Thursday, was elected president
of that organization.
On Thursday night Train "a, of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton x Dayton, was hauled
from Rushville TO Indianapolis, forty miles,
IL twenty-eight minutes.
John Hanna, who has for many years
been in service on the Kansas City, Mem
phis x Fort Scott, has been promoted to
assistant chief engineer of the system.
B.. b. Dennison, for many years ticket
agent of the New York Central at Niagara
Falls, has been promoted to the position
Of district passenger agent of the road.
The owners of the Findlay, Fort Wayne
x Western have decided TO extend the
line to. Huntington. Ind, where connec-
made.
The LAX Shore has just received from
the Haskell * Barker car works, Michigan
City, 500 new furniture cars, part of which
will be assigned to the Lake Erie & West
ern lines.
For the first time since last fall the Lake
shore has the business which has been held
at important points well cleared up and Is
bringing West a good many empty as well
as loaded cars.
A special train on the Wabash on last
Tuesday made the run from Hunting
ton 10 Andrews, six miles, in four min
Etes. and for a considerable distance ran
faster than a mile a minute.
The Lake Shore has sent four of its large
steam shovels to the shops to be put in re-
pair, and TWO will, week after next, DC
set at work on the Lake Shores western
division and two on the Lake Erie * West
The Toledo q Ohio Central has decided
TO build shops on the X. * NJ. division
probably at Galiipolis, citizens having do
mated forty acres of ground If shops arr
located there. Extensive shops are
planned.
Nearly all the papers in the country have
made a mistake in inferring that the gross
earning of the Pennsylvania lines west of
PIttsburg for 1900 amounted TO only S25, 407,-
526.2S. such papers emitting $22,OO0.OO earned
by the Panhandle.
J. w. DAILY. who resigned. last week. as
general ticket and passenger agent of the
Jacksonville * St. Louis Railway, is spend
ing a few days Will his brother, 9. r. DAILY,
general passenger and ticket agent of the
Lake Erie a Western.
Bids were opened yesterday for the new
depot To be erected at Marion. o., to b.
occupied by the Big Four, the Erie and TN,
Hooking Valley. The new station will be
but 900 feet from Center street, the prin,
opal thcroughfare of the town.
on Wednesday J. A. Barnard. general
manager OF the Peoria x Eastern, con-
tracted with the Brooks locomotive works
for two new engines and with the Ameri-
can Car and Foundry Company for sew
enty-ive coal cars OF $1,000 pounds capacity.
The Nickel-plate has created quite a stil
by announcing that IL has arranged TO rur
tourist sleeping ears between Chicago
and Buffalo TO accommodate the Pan
American exposition and other business
This is quite an innovation for a trunl
line.
superintendent Taylor. of the Louisville
division OF the Pennsylvania lines. claims
TO have 10 miles of the best track on the
Pennsylvania lines West, and says il would
be safe TO make the schedule of their pas
senger trains between indianapolis and
Louisville two hours.
The Erie Railroad Company is behind
deal contaminated by which that roas
gains entrance into Erie, Pa. All right
OF way have been secured and work Will
start at once. liz will cost $4,000 TO buiit
the twenty-five miles of new road require,
20 carry out the programme.
Following close upon the resignation o
X. II. weaver, assistant passenger agen
: OF the Reading Railway, comes the res