The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-28
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Charles Persy has been appointed auditor
of the Grand Trunk in Canada, succeed
ing the late Thomas Davidson.
The stockholders of the FIT. Wayne &
Jackson will hold their annual meeting
for the election of directors Jan. 25.
Brooks Morgan has been appointed assist
ant general passenger agent OF the South
ern Railway, with headquarters at Wash
ington.
The Pennsylvania will with the new year
begin the work incident to the building
of a two-track elevated structure through
Wilmington, Del.
Charles Foster, storekeeper of the Toledo.
St Louis & Western, with headquarters at
Frankfort, Ind, last night returned home
from visit to his parents in this city.
A proposition is now being voted on by
the roads east of Chicago to change the
rule requiring fifteen tickets for special
car to that will require eighteen.
officers of all roads east of Chicago and
west of Pittsburg and Buffalo have given
notice that home-seekers' rates will be
extended through January and February.
The report continues to circulate that
the Vanderbilts anxious to buy the
Indiana, Illinois & Iowa and stop the plans
for an extension that will parallel the
Lake Shore.
George w Haylor, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Lackawana, remained
in this city but a few hours on Thursday,
going hence to Chicago. He will return
tonight and remain in the city until Tues
day.
X. NJ. Wishart has been appointed trav-
cling passenger agent of the st. Louis &
San Francisco with headquarters at
st. Louis. Mr.. Wishart has been city
passenger agent of the same road in Chi
cago.
One of the latest problems with which
Western roads are wrestling is the set
tlement of the colonist rate in Chicago
that is. what shall be added in Chicago
TO ST. Paul TO the low rate of the North
western roads.
n. ]. holland, in charge of the car de-
partment of the Wabash at Toledo, has
rendered his resignation and will on the
1st of January accept the position of gen
eral sales agent for the largest railway
supply house in the country.
The Belt line at Toledo is nearing com
petion. 1t consists of a thirty-mile belt,
with two or three branches extending into
the city. By whom this project is being
financed is still mystery, but the suppo-
sition is that the Goulds are behind 1t.
Samuel Spencer, president of the South
ern Railway Company, says the story pub
lished in several Southern papers to the
effect that he was to be made chairman of
the board of control of the Morgan syndi
cate of railroads is without foundation.
C. F. Franklin, who recently resigned
as general superintendent of the Toledo,
St. Louis & Western. has been appointed
general manager of the Toledo Columbus
& Cincinnati Electric Railway and will
assume the duties of the position Jan. i.
a special train on the Cleveland. Akron
81 Columbus road was hauled, on Dec. %,
from Columbus to Cleveland, 10 miles, in
four hours and eight minutes. Before the
improvements were made by the Pennsyl-
vania six hours between those points was
considered good time.
Relative to a report that the Indiana.
Illinois & Iowa Railway had been pur-
chased by the Vanderbilts and would be
operated as a part of the Lake Shore road,
Vice President and General Manager
Brown, of the latter company, said yes
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T.. w. Sloane, who for many years was
division superintendent for Indiana for the
American Express Company, but who for
several years has been i'm a private san
accident recently, he falling and breaking
his hip. 1t is thought the injuries may
prove fatal.
The accounting department of the North
and operated by the Pennsylvania, will
be removed from Baltimore to the Broad
street Station, philadelphia. on Jan: 1.
The removal will center the accounting
departments of all the lines at the Broad
street Station.
The big cut around tunnel No. q on the
Cincinnati Southern, on which work was
commenced in March 1900 has been COM
pleted. The cut is one and sx-tenths miles
in length and cost 100000 The tunnel will
be kept open for about year. and if the
cut and fills around 1T then all right
the tunnel will be abandoned.
p M Arthur chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, and j. j. Hanra-
han, vice. grand master of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, are in st. Paul, in
conference with members of adjustment
committees Of Great Northern eigneers and
firemen and officials of the system Their
mission is to secure increases in wages for
the men.
The Norfolk & Western has ordered ten
consolidated engines with 21x3O-inch cylind-
ers, drivers SO inches in diameter, and boiler
extended wagontop 81 inches outside diam
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sure of 200 pounds and will include 273 tubes
21A inches in diameter The firebox is of
wide type and the heating surface is 2,474
square feet
Northwestern States at Helena next Mon
day on the proposed railway merger will
not be affected by the death Of Governor
Rogers, of Washington. That State was
to have been represented only by the at
torney general, owing TO the Governor
Illness and the plans were perfected with
those conditions.
The cutting down of loaded cars per train
is necessitating an increase In train crews
j. @. Hicks, of the Big Four. said yester-
day that he had examined and given en-
ployment to more men in the last three
months than in the preceding three years
and DR.. Talbot, surgeon of the Pennsyl-
vania lines at this point, is busy daily ex-
aiming men for the divisions centering at
Indianapolis.
Oscar ID. Grant, recently appointed gem
eral manager of the Davenport, Rock
Island & Northwestern, in 1874 was oper-
ator and clerk to the superintendent of
the Indianapolis & Vincennes road. For
eight years he with the Jeffersonville
Madison & Indianapolis, in 1887 going to
the Chicago. Milwaukee & St Paul as as
siStant dispatcher In 1897 he was appoint
ed superintendent and treasurer of the Ma
son City & Fort Dodge which position he
resigned to accept the one first named.
An official of the Pennsylvania lines saws
that no matter whether the Wabash extern
sion is built not. the former company
would spend millions of money to pro-
tect the interests Of its western lines at
Pittsburg. The yards of the Panhandle and
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago roads
are 10 be extended, bridges rebuilt and. II
any kind of a compromise. the main line
of the Panhandle will probably be recon-
structed from Pittsburg TO the Ohio river
at an expense of millions of dollars
The Lehigh Valley road has a road
stretching from New York 10 Buffalo i'm adj
dition to its coal lands and coal roads 1t
has been improved wonderfully the last few
years, at the expense of dividends however.
but is now in such good condition that the
earnings of the present year have demon
strated that its managers can re-commence
paying dividends whenever they choose to
so do. 1t is understood that the Lehigh
Valley has been secured by the Philadel-
phia & Reading interests, which, IL is
claimed. own major half OF the capital
stock which will be announced within the
next few days.
officials of the Rock Island road had
rather a sad Christmas 1t was moving
day. and the general offices of the system
were transferred to the Grand Central sta
ton at Fifth avenue and Harrison street
Chicago where they will be housed until
the new depot that will replace the pres
ent old structure on Van Buren, street is