The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-22
Personal, Local and General Notes.

S. b. Liggett. secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west, has gone TO Cape May for
ten days rest.
George D.. Fowle, signal engineer of the
Pennsylvania, left yesterday for Europe on
his annual vacation.
The NIonon will on Sunday night run
seven special trains from Chicago TO Louis
Vile to carry Knights Templars.
The gross earnings of the Wabash the
second week i'm August increased $40, $50
over the corresponding week last year.
Notice is given that the Santa Re branch
line will be opened TO the verge of the
Grand Canyon of the Colorado Sept. %.
S. II. Church, assistant secretary of the
Pennsylvania lines west, has returned
from his vacation. spent at Muckoka lake.
The St. Paul-C Chicago lines have fallen
into line and announce a rate OF l cent a
mile TO veterans going to the G.. A. r.
Encampment at Cleveland.
The striking section men on the Evans
vile & Terre Haute and the Evansville q
Indianapolis have returned to work at the
old scale-S1.20 for ten hours.
President Underwood, of the Erie, and
a number of subordinate officers are max
ing a second and more thorough inspec-
ton of the entire property.
Traffic on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie is
so heavy that it has borrowed fifteen
heavy locomotives from the Lake Shore,
which also is short of power.
The Texas Pacific will build a seventy
ffve-thousand-dOllar passenger station at
Paris. Tex. This road is becoming quite
noted for the fine passenger stations.
Fifty gondola cars loaded with steel rails
weighing eighty pounds TO the yard, for
the Big Four. are en- route west. y sim
liar shipment will be made next month.
William Swanston. retired master me-
chanic of the Panhandle at this point, will.
with his wife and daughter, leave next
week for California. TO be absent some
weeks.
1t is reported in railway circles. says the
New York Times. that Charles NJ. Hays
- AAa- 81. q &I.,
Trunk Railway as vice president and gen.
eral manager.
On Tuesday the Chicago and Cincinnati
express. via Roachdale. was hauled from
Roachdale TO Indianapolis, thirty-five
miles. in forty minutes, slowing down in
the city limits.
An engineer who runs one Of the new
large-type Atlantic engines on the Big
Four says that any time he chooses he can
attain a speed of seventy miles an hour
with ten to twelve cars.
The report that the Pennsylvania has
purchased the Chesapeake & Ohio road
outright is not given much credence, as
the president and vice presidents of the
company, with one exception, are in Eu-
rope.
f. r. F.. Malone. recently appointed as
sistant general passenger agent of the Chi
cage Great Western. who has. been very
low with typhoid fever. is improving and
the danger point is thought TO have been
passed.
L. " Wy 49, NV ia de1Il
of the Chicago Great Western. is in the
city. Last night he received a telegram
announcing that the extension Of that line
from Red Wing 10 Zumbrota had been
opened TO traffic.
Gerritt Ford. assistant general passenger
agent OF the Union Pacific. says tourist
travel TO Colorado the present season has
been 20 per cent. greater than il was last
year and promises 10 continue heavy un-
til far into October.
John Bulge. who has been superintend-
ent of the Pullman car works at Whining
ton. Del. will, on Sept. l. take charge of
the greater shops at Buffalo. and j NJ.
Canon. now with the Pullman people at
Denver. will go to Wilmington.
G. F.. Schan. general manager. and
George kittredge, chief engineer of the
Big Four lines. were in the city yester-
day. and last evening left for Cleveland,
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power. accompanying them.
The new track OF the Toledo & Michigan
Terminal Company has been completed be-
tween Ann Arbor and the tracks of the
Michigan Central at Alexis. and an i'm
preston prevails that the new line will
be used by the Pennsylvania Company for
its Detroit entrance.
There are still thirteen victims of the
late wreck on the Wabash at Cass station
receiving treatment at the cOmpany's hos
Ultal at Peru. Ind All but one. a woman