The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-10
Personal and Current Notes.

A new passenger station is to be built
by the Lake Shore road In Ashtabula. o.
w. II. Gridley, of the Chi
cage. Peoria and st. Louis. was in the city
yesterday.
Tom Matthews. travelling passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific at Louisville,
| was here yesterday.
C. A. Baird. district passenger agent of
the St. Louis-Louisville lines of the South
ern, Is in Cincinnati.
). F.. Logan. travelling passenger agent
| of the St. L~ouis-IOuisvi lines of the
Southern, left last night for Louisville.
Colonel G.. A. A. Deane, land commits
sioner of the Iron Mountain Route at Little
| Rock, was at headquarters here yesterday.
Receivers of California fruit in Chicago
| and New York are again urging the trans
continental lines to make faster time with
their fruit express trains.
A charter has been taken out at Nash
vile for the building of a railroad from
Wayne County to the Tennessee River. 1t
will be known as the Tennessee and North
western.
"A detachment of the Fifth Cavalry ar
rived here at 4 a. m. yesterday over the Big
Four and left over the Frisco for the Pa
cific Coast. Two more trainloads ore due
here on March II.
r. D. Yoakum, assistant general freight
agent of the Chicago and Alton, left last
night for San Antonio. Tex, to attend the
ton on March Il.
II. H. Wellman. purchasing agent of the
Wabash. has removed his offices from the
ttbli ~ kiC Iihll iiooA VI kAC siiiSo
building. and S. e. Cotter, fuel agent, has
taken the offices formerly occupied by Mr..
Wellman.
1t is rumored that the Northwestern
road is going to build twenty-eight miles of
road from Houghton, Mich, to connect with
the copper range road. Such a line would
shorten the company's route between here
and Houghton.
Henry E. Stone. "a years old, is the old
est active engineer on the Lake Shore road
He has run an engine on that road for
the time at Elkhart. Ind. Last week he was
transferred to the Ypsilanti branch. where
offer.
True to native instinct and love of the
Emerald Isle, General PASSENGER Agent
Bryan Snyder Of the Frisco will inaugurate
Patrick's day, March lion and after that
dete the new train will leave Union Station
the Big Four and Vandalia trains from the
East.
1t is rumored that the Pennsylvania
company is going to consolidate the Baiti-
Wilmington and Baltimore. The Pennsyl-
vania now owns 2lISi9 shares of stock In
more and SO, i61 shares of the Baltimore and
Potomac. and also 100000 of the latter
company's consolidated mortgage bonds.
e. A. Ford. general passenger agent of
emphasis the rumor that the Penn -ylvania
and Erie lines will establish passenger
service over all divisions of the two sys-
TENS that could so be utilized. He says he
has no knowledge of any arrangements in
local territory or of a traffic agreement
between Cleveland and Chicago or ST.
Louis.
tt management Of the Lake Shore has
decided to establish a night school for the
apprentices of the general shops at Elkhart.
Ind. Attendance at the school will be COM
pulsory. and it is purposed to make every
employee in the mechanical department of
the company obtain through the school a
technical education. Ii is understood tina.
the school will be extended in time to EN-.
brace other departments.
p. NJ. Myers. secretary of the Milwau-
kee and ST. Paul road, in Milwaukee. who
left that city on a notwithstanding trip to the
South several weeks ago, is reported to be
quite Ill in Dayton. Fla, and his family
physician has been sent for. Mr.. Myers has
has travelled considerably with the hope of
improving. He is one of the Oldest officers
of the St. Paul road. Under the charter of
the company a general office must be main-
tanned in Wisconsin, and to comply with
this provision the secretary's Office has
been retained in Milwaukee. though the
headquarters of the corporation have been
in Chicago for q number of years.