The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-03
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Oct. l an advance of half a cent per 100
pounds on grain, Buffalo TO New York, be-
came effective.
The Pullman Company has commenced
the delivery of 500 new box cars 10 the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
In September there were handled on the
Big -Four system 722, rs passengers, 1855
more than in September, 1900.
President Hill, of the Great Northern.
is reported TO be planning for a second line
across the Cascade mountains.
A circular announces the appointment of
K. G.. Butler as general manager Of the
Lake Erie. Alliance & Wheeling.
w. S. Brown has been appointed joint
ticket agent of the Wabash and Peoria q
Eastern at the junction, Danville, Ill.
The Wabash is pushing the work on it's
Fort Wayne-Butler connecting link. The
bridge over the Maumee river will be COM
pleted this week.
Charles GOODNIGHT, for fourteen years
one OF the gatemen at the Union Station,
died yesterday Of pneumonia, after an Ill
ness of four lays.
On SATURDAY night the Vandalia will run
an excursion from Terre Haute to Gin
cinnati in connection with the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton.
Frank R. Garrison has been appointed
general freight and passenger agent of the
Findlay, Fort Wayne q Western Railroad,
with ~headquarters at t1ndlay.
The railroad men of Salt Lake City have
organized a Railroad Mems Club. 1t is a
chartered institution. c. S. Scales is pres
ident and S. T. Young secretary.
All of the railroad shops located at this
point are working ten hours a day, not re-
ducing the number to nine as has been
customary some years past on Oct. 1.
David Anderson. formerly master me-
chanic on the Northern Ohio road, has ac-
cepted the position OF foreman of the shops
of the Lake Erie & Western at Muncie.
L. F. Loree, president, ard CT. L. Potter,
general manager of the Baltimore & Ohio.
have removed their families from Pitts
burg to Baltimore TO reside permanently.
stock agent of the Pennsylvania lines at
this point, who has been seriously i'll. is
improving, and was yesterday able to drive
out.
more passenger business has been handled
into and out of the city in the last three
months than in any like period in any
former year.
elected first vice president of the Louisville
n Nashville Railroad. He is the assistant
chief counsel of the company, and is thir-
ty-one years of age.
manager OF the Southern Pacific, was an
nounced yesterday. 1t is announced that
Mr.. Herbert will go East as manager of
one of the Gould lines.
General Car Accountant Chesbrough. of
the Wabash, is getting together the equip
ment received by the Wabash when il
commenced operating the Eel River road,
TO turn IL over 10 the Nandalia.
j. ID. Cutter. travelling passenger agent
of the Erie lines. who has been in the hos
pital for some weeks, has so improved
that on Monday he returned to duty. His
headquarters will be at Chicago.
Railroad men employed at Washington.
Ind, representing the five railway orders.
held a meeting last Sunday To take pre-
liminary steps TO matchmaking the orders
that they may work more in harmony.
Traffic is SO heavy over the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne * Chicago that the manage
ment Is borrowing locomotives from the
lines east OF Pittsburg. as the Panhandle
has its own engines employed to their ut
most capacity.
w. IL. knight. who was for thirteen
years general freight and passenger agent
OF the Onion Pacific at Chicago. but who
was LEFT out through consultations. has
been appointed contracting agent of the
Santa Fe at Chicago.
There were transferred over the Belt road
In September Sl.565 cars. and il is already