The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-16
Personal, Local and General Notes.

secretary declined TO discuss the report.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
J.. H. Dilley. formerly train dispatcher of
the Nandalia, has accepted a similar posi-
ton on the Northern Pacific.
Charles Rockwell, traffic manager of the
MOnon lines, who has been resting at In
dian River, Mich, will return on Saturday.
Work on the new track of the Vandalia,
which will practically give 1t a double
track through the city of Terre Haute, is
being pushed
w. j. Thomas, master mechanic of the
Big our and the Chesapeake q Ohio at
Louisville. is visiting his brother in this
city for a day or two.
There is an extraordinary, in fact. unpre-
cedented, demand for Pullman cars this sea-
son, and III many instances difficulty is ex-
perienced in meeting 1t.
Col. +. S. Gray, general Western freight
agent of the Pennsylvania, returned yes
terday from a three weeks vacation spent
at the Delaware capes.
j. NJ. Schoonmaker, vice president and
general manage of the Pittsburg ~ Lake
Erie, has returned from a lengthy vacation
spent at Spring Lake, n. j.
Chief Inspector Barr, of the Indianapolis
Weighing and Inspection Bureau, is spend
ing a couple of days at Fort Wayne Initial
ing the new agent at that point.
Major Trout, OF Philadelphia. superin-
tendent of the dining car service on the
Pennsylvania, is in Chicago inspecting six
new lHOucIn ullllib CdIo Dulluill6 W Nhul
company.
Instructions were issued yesterday to
working twelve hours until fur
Their notice in several departments of the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne ~ Chicago shops at
Fort Wayne.
The Evansville & Terre Haute earned in
the first week of August 29,65l. against
$3.50 in the corresponding week of 1900; the
Evansville & Indianapolis $3.50, against
$6,549 last year.
On Monday a special freight train on the
Panhandle, made up of twenty cars loaded
with peaches, made the run of one hundred
miles from Columbus to DennisOn in two
hours and thirty-five minutes.
Milton Knight. who has been promoted
from freight traffic manager 10 second vice
president of the Wabash, will still retain
the same duties as before. with the added
responsibility of an executor.
Charles %Spaulding, representing the
freight department of the st. Louis & San
Francisco line, the traffic commercial agent
of the Northern Pacific and Mr.. Pummil, of
the same line, are in the city.
The Atlantic City excursion yesterday
over the Big -Four and the Chesapeake &
Ohio was one of the best patronized of the
OF the morning trains and on the evening
train.
c. L. Wilson. deputy chief Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen, is in st. Paul
motive iremen of the Great Northern to
present their case before the officers of the
road.
The action of the Erie in placing on sale
its coach excursion tickets TO Buffalo on
the basis of | cent a mile on Saturday as
Well as Tuesday is likely to result in great
er concessions in the matter Of rates by
competing lines.
Railroad men are not taking kindly TO the
new Glass r engines recently put into
service on the Chicago & Northwestern.
Two explosions from the bursting Of an
arch fue. a new idea in engines, have oc-
Cured within a week.
The Santa Fe passenger department has
secured an injunction against the ticket
brokers of the city of Los Angeles. The
injunction restraints all the ticket s~calpers
from handling any of the Epworth League
tickets returning East.
Edward Dunn, general passenger agent of
the St. Louis x San Francisco Railroad
begin building from Oklahoma CITY within
two months and make its temporary termi-
nus for the extension at Lawton.
$. c. Stickney. general manager of the
Chicago Great Western. saws there is no
truth in the report that the shops of the
Winona Western Railway would be moved
To st. Paul. Instead many improvements
will be made to the shops at Winona.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
has opened for freight and passenger traf-
fc its new line TO Silsbee. Through car
service will be maintained between Beau
mont and Santa re, main line points in
Texas. Indian and Oklahoma Territories
and Kansas.
Coke Alexander. who for several years
represented the Missouri Pacific in this
territory. now general manager OF the
Produce shippers Dispatch, is i'm the city
Yesterday he appeared before the State
Board of Taxation TO take exceptions TO
the assessment made upon this dispatch
line.
~ a result OF the community of inter-
ests'' between the Southern Pacific and
the Union Pacific, John June. who has rep
resented the Union Pacific at indianapolis
some years. VIII. on Sept. /. retire. and this
territory will be looked after by W. +
Holton. who represents the Southern Pa
cific ut Cincinnati
Sunday was a record breaker in travel
between Philadelphia and Atlantic City. the
Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia q Read
ing carrying 5000 people into Atlantic CITY
between 4 o'clock p. m. Saturday and noon
Of people handled both going and return-
ing, not a single accident is reported on
either road.
An injunction has been asked to restrain
the contractors from proceeding with work
on the bridge across the M-onongahela river
Tor the Wabash Railroad. This is the first
legal step that has been taken TO prevent
the Wabash from entering Pittsburg. and
until the decision Of Judge McClung is
known the contractors will do no further
work.
Thomas J. Newkirk. right-of-way man
for the new Cincinnati. Richmond * Mum
Gle Railroad. was in Marion Thursday. and
stated that as soon as the new road is
ready for use a motor car service will be
i~naugurated between Marion and Rich
mond. with a continuous car service be-
tween those two cities. He said General
Manager Allen. OF the road. had told him
the motor cars are already ordered for the
service. and that il will be established lust
as socn as possible.
The uniforms of the passenger employees
OF the Pennsylvania line will next summer
be changed from the heavy double-breasted
long coats TO light single-breasted unlined