The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-10

City as general roadmaster of the st. Louis
q San Francisco.
The Pittsburg & Western Railroad was
Solu az auction yesterday and was bought
Dy the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
psny at 100000. subject to three mort
cages amounting to $40. 360, coo.
George I. Gunnip. representing the Santa
re; predlcts that the volume or traVei 10
california this winter will be greater than
ever III tact, s~leeping-car accommodations
are now being secured by tourists.
on oct. Is 5. X. Parrot. travelling pas
Sehser agent OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton q
DAYTON az Atlanta, will sever his connec-
uOh with the road to accept a similar posi-
uoh with the ChOctaw & Oklahoma.
a. Grosvenor. passenger engineer on the
Detroit division of the Wabash, who died
at MS nome IN Peru a day or two ago was
one or the Oldest men in time OF service
on the line. For years he ran on the Eel
River division.
j d. Yohe, general superintendent of the
Plttsburg q Lake Erie. who has been
seriously. Ill at his home in BeIlefeld, "a,
Is mGch better, but still unable to visit MS
Office, and his chief clerk. \. h. HOFFMAN,
goes 10 ms residence TO obtain his lnstruc-
tions daily.
JOIN p. Waldo. formerly a teiegrapher of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & indianapolis, Is
now rainmaSter on an important Western
line, with headquarters at Fort Scott, Nan.
Mr.: Waldo was one of the organizers OF the
Railroad Mems Building and Savings As
sociation at Indianapolis, and continues a
large shareholder.
w. G. Pencil. general agent of the Big
Four lines at Columbus, o., was In the city
yesterday. the guest of Ford Woods. gener-
al freight agent of the Peoria K Eastern.
The two gentlemen have been associated In
a railroad capacity over twenty years, De
ginning on the Indiana, Bloomington *
Western, now the Peoria & Eastern.
William Murphy, a veteran engineer who
has made good records during the past
twenty-fOur years on the Pittsburg, Fort
W9Xne n Chicago fears ha Will nave 10
abandon the service. For some time, owing
TO an affection of the eyes, caused by the
strain of running the fast express trains,
he has been ON the retired list.
The Lake Shore has on exhibition at the
Pan-American exposition at Buffalo an At
lanttc type ten-wheeler which is much ad-
ers, and in working order with a tender
weighs 324, 900 pounds. With the heaviest
trains run over the Lake Shore this type OF
engine has maintained a uniform speed. OF
s~eventy-eight miles an hour for 100 miles.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth d virginia
Railway yesterday the old board of di-
rectors was reelected. The directors meet
next Saturday to elect the same ofhcers
thai are chosen for the Norfolk & Western
at the annual meeting OF that company
in Norfolk tomorrow. After this week the
general offices at Cincinnati of the old Gin
cinnati. Portsmouth & Virginia Company
will be abandoned.
An official of the Lake Shore road is
quoted as saying that ne not only mao no
objections to having short local freight
traffic go to the electric roads, but he real
ly hoped the electric lines would relieve the
Lake Shore of much traffic that is now
found undesirable, yet il is out of this
traffic which the steam roads are so will
ing to abandon that the electric lines could
make their profit. Of course this remark
applies only to short hauls.
Never in the history of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne q Chicago has IL been so
pressed with business as at the present
rf~nn N InnnAz - fnr~ - 100 nn1a
Fort Wayne one of its most important di-
vision points, and an idea of what this
means is shown in the fact that on Sunday
east and west thirty-eight trains averag-
ing forty cars each were sent out of Fort
Wayne in six hours. Since Oct. 1 twenty
five new brakemen have been hired, three
new crews put on and assistant yardmas-
ter.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton e Dayton Rail-
way magazine for October is full of inter-
esting reading matter. 1t also presents an
perintendent of the Delphos division of the
c., II. & d. Mr.. Harring entered the SerV-
ice of the Lake Shore in 1862 as a truckman.
In 1864 he went to the Wabash as a con
ductor. From this position he was pro-
noted TO trainmaster, in which capacity
he served until 1882. HI then was APP
the Toledo & Indianapolis road and after
ward became. superintendent. This road
passed into the hands of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton in 1890.
A Cleveland clergyman has got himself
I'm the tolls. on Tuesday morning he went
into the Big Four ticket office and pre-
scented his permit calling for a half-rate
ticket TO one of the points on the line. The
ticket was furnished, and late in the after
noon a gentleman called with the ticket
and asked to have a berth reserved on a
sleeping car. Mr.. Collver looked the ticket
over, and said that il was in improper
hands. The gentleman protested that he
had a right to the ticket. intimating that
he had purchased il. Mr.. CollVer said plain
ly that he had no right 10 it, and that in
behalf of the road he would take up the
ticket. The gentleman said he would do
nothing of the sort. and grabbed the trans
portation and left hastily. A bulletin was
issued at once canceling the ticket, and the
clergyman who loaned his permit will here
after have the privilege of paying full fare
when riding on any railroad in the Central
Traffic Association territory.