The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-06

c. B. Kols has received the appointment
of superintendent of the dining and parlor-
car service of the Big Four lines.
=. A. Dean. general freight agent of the
Ptttsburg * Lake Erie, is so I'll with rheu-
matism as 10 confine him at home.
c: z. Schan was in the city yesterday.
and to-day will make a trip over the Michi-
gan division, from Louisville TO Benton
Harbor.
Arrangements are in progress through
which the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore
d Ohio will use the same passenger station
at Baltimore.
1t is estimated that the contract the
Oregon Short-line will award soon. as the
route through California is selected. will
amount TO $40.
An Atlantic City excursion from points on
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton in con-
nection with the Baltimore & Ohio will he
run on July II and a second one Aug. l.
s. N. Hubbard. general baggage agent of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott * Memphis,
Will retire from that position on Aug. l..
He has been with the Memphis road thir-
ty years.
The Hooking Valley has abolished the
that department will be looked after by
the auditor OF the road. This retires Ed
ward j. KELLEY.
the Northern Pacific, has been asked TO
accept an important position on the Plant
system He may accept. but declines to
confirm the report.
me idol lew nights Il nedVy travel TO
nllchlgan pleasure resorts has set in, the
Pennsylvania and the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton * Dayton being obliged to run addi-
uonal sleeping cars.
engineer on the Pennsylvania lines, who
was placed on the pension list Jan. / was
buried July 3. at Lima. He removed to that
city from Fort Wayne some six months
ago.
The Transcontinenta Passenger Asso-
ciatlon Is voting on the proposition to es-
taolish permanent joint agencies at Los
Angeles and San Francisco. the business of
the several liree justifying such an ex-
psnse.
C. W. Mellen. president of the Northern
Pacific, has appointed Thomas Potter as
sistant TO the president. The promotion Of
General Traffic Manager HanaforG to sec
ond vice president awaits the approval of
j. Pjerpont Morgan.
IL Is stated by a New York paper hat D..
l. Roberts. who. on July 1. retired as gem
eral passenger agent of the Erie lines. will
be retained at a handsome salary TO act in
senger traffic matters.
There will soon be a general exodus of
pennsylvania Railroad officials TO Europe.
Vice President John p. Green has already
gone, 70 return Sept. l, and he will be fol-
lowed by President Cassatt and Vice Presi-
dents Pugh and Provost.
Samuel Rea. of the pennsylvania. has
Ohio. vice Z. r. Bacon, resigned This gives
the pennsylvania a majority of the direc-
tors or the Baltimore & Ohio. the Chesa-
peake * Ohio and the Norfolk & Western.
a number OF Glass H-4 engines. borrowed
from the Pittsburg. Fort WAYNE q Chi
cago road, have been in service on the
Panhandle lines, and so we'll do they meet
the demands on the billy divisions thar a
number have been ordered built for the
Panhandle.
Fred Wild. a veteran in railroad service
now seventy years old. has retired from
active service apd is spending a month AT
Hot springs. Ark. He went 10 Chicago be-
fore il has a railroad. and has been in
transportation service since with some
Western line.
marine service, who distinguished himself
by the rescue OF sailors OF the disa bled
torpedo boat Winslow. of Cardenas. in
May. 1885 has resigned and accepted the
position or foreign freight agent of the
pennsylvania road.
w. :. Haines. for some years master me-
chanic OF the Baltimore * Ohio al New
ark. has been promoted TO assistant me-
chanical engineer OF the Baltimore & Ohio
system. and II. NJ; Bremen, chief boiler in
spectcr OF the Baltimore * Ohio, succeeds
MIR. Ha.nes at Newark.
On Tuesday OF this week there were shin
ped from Minneapolis by railways 81 s9
barrels of -four. the largest ipmen ever
made from that point IN any one day. on
sunday I'VE mills We're in operation all dav
meet the export shipment.
General Passenger Agent Crane, OF the
Wabash. IS elated over the an-America
business the road Is doing. its Buffalo
trains ali being well filled, most OF the
trains consisting OF ten ears each. The
time scheduled from Kansas City TO Buffalo
Is based oD forty miles an hour.
Olaf Hon. q civil engineer OF some note
OF Minneapolis. on July I entered the eerv-
Ice Of the Kew York Central as engineer or