The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-17
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Panhandle is building at its shops
i'm Columbus, o., fifty freight cars OF sO,OOJ
pounds capacity.
The Pennsylvania Company has prepared
plans for the erection of a freight depot
al New Albany, Ind.
The A. c.. Porter Lodge of the Brother
hood of F1remen, at FORT
Wayne, has 1868 members and almost week
ly adds to the list.
James Collision yesterday succeeded r. Il.
c. Anderson. resigned, as superintendent OF
machinery at the shops of the Santa re
lines at Topeka, Kan.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton will
on Sunday run excursions To Toledo fro n
three divisions of the system, on account
of the opening of the Casino.
The Arkansas q Choctaw Railroad Com
pany has dismissed all its colored brake
men and replaced them with white men.
paving the latter standard wages
Frank Herriott. formerly chief traffic
manager of the Erie, is mentioned as the
probable successor of j. f. Goddard as COM
missioner of the TrUnk-line Association.
II. p. Baldwin, general passenger agent
of the New Jersey Central, who for some
DAYS has been very low witt pneumonia, is
reported better and is expected to recover.
On Sunday, May 20. the Lake Erie &
Western will run low-rate excursions TO IN
dianapolis from all divisions of that sys-
tenn and expects to carry a good many peo-
pie.
On Tune 1 the Wabash. in connection with
the 0DICdRO. IOHk lSidlu a Gil MIL
establish through sleeping-car service be-
tween St. Louis and Colorado points via
Kansas City.
On Sunday, in connection with the Big
Four. the Peoria x Eastern will put on a
line of through sleeping cars between
Peoria and Buffalo, using the Lake Shore
east of Cleveland.
NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four.
returned last evening from a three weeks
stay i'm the East. His son Fay, who under
went a surgical operation, is doing as well
as could be expected.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
prepared plans for improving its terminals
at North st. Louis, TO cost fully $l,OOO.00l.
I'm order to better care for its increasing
business at that point.
The Pullman Company will next month
deliver to the Northern Pacific eight new
Pullman cars. To be run on the North Coast
limited. the most elegant and complete
ever built at the Pullman works.
The Lake Erie & Western has received
another large consignment of new steel
rails. which are being distributed west of
Fremont. Extra gangs of men are laying
the new rails as fast as they arrive.
Announcement is made that after june
| the daily California limited train of the
Santa Fe will be discontinued. and in its
Race sem-weekly service between Chicago
and San Francisco will be ~inaugurated.
BY vote the firemen on the Central Rail-
road of New Jersey have decided to adhere
to the wage schedule recently agreed to
at conferences between employees and Of
ficials, the vote ending the entire dispute.
Claude Hill. representing the Wisconsin
Central. and +. Z. Belcher. the Northwest
ern Transportation Company, are i'm tn,
city. Mr.. Belcher's headquarters is at
Toronto. and this is his first visit TO In
clanapOlis.
as superintendent of the Sandusky division
of the Lake Erie & Western. was presented
by his late associates with a handsome gold
chain and diamOnd-studded charm, and his
wife with several pieces of cut glass.
4 circular announces the appointment of
l.. A.. Ball as superintendent of motive
power of the Toledo, st. Louis & Western.
MIR. Ball. on May 1, resigned as assistant
master mechanic TO the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton x DAYTON TO accept the new position.
The Union Railway Company has created
a new po~sition-that of cust~odian-and APP
pofnted j. Mccall To the place. His duties
will be 10 look after the sanitary condition
of the station proper. the train sheds. the
plumbing and carpenter work. etc, OF the
entire plant.
+. Foley. who has been connected with
the Big Four twenty-three years, retired
yesterday TO take.a more lucrative position
on the Baltimore * Ohio. The past eight
| years ne has been agent OF the Big Four at
Marysvllle. o, and IS now succeeded by
G. W. Carter, OF Forest. O.
Rensselaer,. Ind. is excited over a pro-
jected railroad between Toledo. O.. and
on the road. The projectors ask a subsidy
Of ~ per cent. and a clear roadway 10 feet
wide through the township. and ii Is
thought these will be granted.
The Pullman Company yesterday begun
delivering twenty-five freight cars a day 10
the Big -Four until the order for 1.5Og is
illed Arrangements have been made Dy
which every car. when completed. will be
loaded at Chicago for seaboard points, most
II the grain being turned over 10 the Ches.
apeake x Ohio for export via Newport
News.
Fast runs on the Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania lines are again being noted.
Train Is last week, on its fast time. LEFT
Columbus thirty minutes late and reached
Jacksonville on time. and Train 8. coming