The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-30
Personal, Local and GeneraI Notes.

]. T. Davle, private secretary of NJ. r.
ingalls,. president of the Big Four, was in
the city yesterday.
After Nov. l Atlanta will be the head
quarters of the Southern Pacific for the
Southeastern States. with Harry w.
Nathan as general agent.
]. r. Charles. agent of the Omaha, Kan
sas City & Eastern and the Omaha & ST.
and the office will be abolished.
While on his recent trip. which ended in
New York on Saturday night. George
Gould and family Travelled 5000 miles over
roads controlled and owned by him.
Wilbur Lee. general passenger agent of
the LackaWanna. Is appointing agents at
a number Of points in the West. and on
Dec. l will establish an office and appoint
an agent at Denver.
The Union Pacific made a record run last
Saturday with a ifty-cars stock train from
CHEYENNE to South Omaha, covering the
minutes. The distance is $50 miles.
To advertise it's line among sportsmen
General Passenger Agent Pond, OF the Wis
consin Central. is distributing deer heads
i'm papier mache. BY a folding contrivance
they are given a lfelike appearance.
In the last thirty years the time between
New York and San Francisco has been
shortened 1872 hours. To reach such a re-
suit the average speed of trains has been
trebled. and the time will be still further
shortened.
Prohles have been filed i'm st. Joseph
showing the routes of several extensions
of the Indiana. Illinois & Iowa. Although
not yet admitted by the officials. it is well
understood that at some future day Toledo
viii be its eastern terminus.
Cornelius Vanderbilt denies that his trim
over the Chicago Great Western is for any
other purpose than to interest the manage
ment in his locomotive patents. and that
the same is true OF his trip over the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific.
Hereafter all general Offices of the Erie
| system located in tho nrfnpfnaI o;tf~- .str
be closed at | O'Clock Saturday the year
round. ChicagO Cincinnati. ST. Louis
Cleveland. Buffalo. Pittsburg and Indian
apOliS are benefited by the general order.
Paul Morton. vice president of the Santa
Pc. Is in San Francisco arranging the de-
tails of the agreement recently entered into
with the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
by which the latter will take care of the
Santa FEES t%ranspacific and Oriental bust
ress.
An idea OF the passenger business the
Big Four does at this city is shown in the
fact that the car inspectors employed at
the Union Station train sheds daily insDect
S3 passenger ears. and this does not in
clude passenger equipment run on the short
local trains.
w. W. Woodford. the new general srper-
intendent of the Pittsburg division of the
Pennsylvania, entered railroad service when
fifteen years of age as a clerk in a super
intendents office. Since March. 1893. he
has been general manager of the Cleveland
Lorain & Wheeling.
One of the New York CentraTs Atlantic
type or engine made the run from Roches-
ter to Syracuse with nine mail and exDress
cars on Monday in seventy-nine minutes.
distance. eighty-one miles. eclipsing ali rec,
ores between those points. the Empire
State express not excepted.
~Clergymen's permits for the year 1902 will
be issued by the Western Passenger Asso-
citation of the Passenger Ru-
reau and the Transcontinenta Association
Jointly. so that one permit will apply on
all lines between Chicago. st. Louis. Texas
and Chicago and San Francisco.
Quite a number Of freight representative
of foreign lines arrived i'm the city on the
evening trains. among them r.. Thompson.
OF the Santa Fe. w. Hancock. of the Hons
ton Eastern & West Texas; II. Parker. of
the Missouri Pacific. and n. Nicolay, of the
Chicago. Milwaukee * ST. Paul.
Walker y. Hines, the new first vice presi-
dent OF the Louisville & Nashville. elected
al the annual board meeting i'm New York.
is but thirty-one years OF age. He will
have supervision under the president OF the