The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-19
Personal, Local and General Notes


c. S. Blackman general Eastern agent of
the Big Four, with headquarters at Buff
falo. is in the city.
NJ. Z. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
lines, will return TO Cincinnati on Saturday
accompanied by his family.
w. F. Holton, the new representative for
this district of the Southern Pacific road,
was in the city yesterday, calling on pas
senger men.
The business of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton has so increased at Toledo that
the company has placed in service two adj
ditional switching engines.
Samuel Vauclain, general superintendent
OF the Baldwin locomotive works. was in
the city yesterday, and visited the Big
Four and Panhandle shops.
Vice President Hovey of the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific, gives notice that its
line into Lawton, o. T., was opened for
both freight and passenger business on
Sept. IL.
Frank j. Reed, general passenger agent Of
the Monon lines, was in the city yesterday
He is gratifed over the increased passenger
earnings of the lines In the year ended
June %.
Captain John p. Green first vice presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania, who has been in
Europe with his family for some weeks.
has returned, and on Tuesday was busy at
his office.
w II. Lewis, treasurer and assistant sec
rotary Of the Monon, will on Sept 30 COM
plete his fOrty-third year as treasurer Of
that company, and has record of which,
says one OF the officials, he has reason to
be proud.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has let the
contract for grading its new yards at
Hazleton. The yard will he nearly two
miles long. and contain, when completed
fifty tracks.
Ex-President John w. Cowan, now gen.
eral counsel or the Baltimore & Ohio has
been confined to his home several weeks,
suffering from nervous prostration Only
a few OF his intimate friends are allowed
to see him.
The new large ten-wheel passenger loco
motives OF the Wabash. built after designs
of Superintendent of Motive Power Barnes
are making fine records In hauling heavy
belated trains
1t is noticeable that many of the cabin
cars of roads centering here have Presi-
dent McKinley's draped picture hanging to
the sides. and the same is true of numerous
locomotive cabs.
President Mullen, OF the Northern Pacific.
on the retirement Of Chief Engineer Henry,
on Saturday last honored him with a din,
flcers Of the company.
Commencing Oct. l, the Denver & Rio
Grande will control and operate all eating
houses and dining cars on its line. and also
on the Rio Grande Western, with d. S.
Fraser superintendent.
c. B. Buchanan, passenger conductor on
the Vandalia line, has resigned to enga &c
in commercial pursuits at Terre Haute.
Amos Johnson TO regular run.
The new Atlantic type of passenger loco
motives the Monon will receive next month
will be equipped with electric headlights.
the cabs will be lighted by electricity. and
the running gear by incandescent lights
David Lee now ranks as the oldest in
time OF service on the Baltimore d Ohio
west of the Ohio river. He is superinten-
dent of maintenance of way. and begun
service fifty years ago as a section man
On Monday and Tuesday the Harris track
| layer laid on the Indiana. Decatur e. West
ern extension laid two and one-half miles OF
rails. and will now lay one mile a dav.
The graders are delaying the work some
what.
Complaint is heard that agents at way
stations on Indiana roads are not giving
attention TO marking on blackboards when
train is late, putting figures on the board
| Monday morning and letting them remain
| for a week.
Competitors of the Wabash deny with
| emphasis that they have been cutting rates
on east-bound business at Kansas City on
the contrary. they allege that the Waba n
has violated Arbitrator Martins ruling as
TO differential rates.
Maurice Coburn has been appointed as
sistant engineer Of maintenance of way of
the Nandalia main line. succeeding +. L.
Shanenberger, recently appointed engineer
OF maintenance OF way OF the Peoria di-
vision of the Vandalia lines.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Paul i'm
the year ending June 30. paid out for labor
SIS l2S: for material and supplies 81 SOL =
lis. The company's funded Indebtedness