The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-27
Personal, Local and General Notes.

come, show increase in revenue from pas
senger service over any former year in cor
responding periods.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Big Four, in connection with the
Chesapeake & Ohio, will establish week
ly line of sleeping cars between Chicago
ana Hot Springs, Va
X. Campbell Kennedy has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the Big Four,
with headquarters at Cairo. H., vice Mr..
w. ID. Corners, deceased.
The new road which the Wabash pro-
poses to build is one from point near
Toledo to a point near Montpelier. fifty-six
miles, and from a point near Butler to
Fort Wayne. twenty-seyen miles.
The Lake Erie & Western has made itself
by hauling on it's local freights refrlg-
orator car carrying perishable freight FOR
way stations, regardless of the tempera-
ture.
tendent Van Etten and the committee of
trainmen of the New York Central re-
suited in the pay of trainmen being in
creased 10 cents per trip and OF conductors
81 cents per trip.
j. S. May superintendent of the Rich
mond division of the Panhandle, with head
quarters at Richmond, Ind, has rendered
his resignation, to take effect March 1. lie
has accepted a responsible position with
the Chicago * Alton.
The Big Four's Prosperity Special for
Washington will leave Indianapolis Satur-
day evening at $40 as a second section Of
the Knickerbocker for Cincinnati, and the
Chesapeake & Ohio has arranged TO give
the train fast run.
The plan of the Baltimore & Ohio of
having a number of instructors for the
different departments to give the men use
full information regarding their work has
proved so much of a success that X will
be continued indefinitely.
The Chicago &c Alton announced yester-
n
points on its lines liz Illinois and from ST.
Louis the came rates for the Parliament
can Exposition ar Bu1alo as nave been an
nounced by the Central Passenger Associa-
ton.
John Wakefield who has been agent of
the United States Express Company at
Sullivan, Ind, for several years, will, on
March l, succeed Edward Ruston as agent
at Terre Haute, Mr.. Ruston having been
transferred to Louisville as cashier of the
company
The Railway Equipment and Finance
Company, of indianapolis. has issued the
Railway Purchasing Agents directory in
hook FORM covering 442 pages. 1t is a
very valuable work for reference, being
replete with information desired by pur-
chasing agents.
The Baltimore & Ohio which Is still short
OF power, has placed an order with the
Baldwin locomotive works for fifty-hve
heavy freight engines 10 be delivered in
July and August. and will distribute among
other locomotive works the building of
forty-fve additional engines.
AS result OF the trip of President Spen-
Ger over the Louisville, Evansville * st.
Louis and the Mobile & Ohio the Southern
will, on his recommendation, expend large
sums Of money on both OF its recently ac-
qured lines to bring them up to as high n
standard as any roads in the Southern sys-
tenn.
Cars of the Lehigh Valley road are be-
ing sent into. this territory loaded to an
extent never before known, and the bust
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veioping remarkably. In January the
loaded car movement eastward consigned
TO the Lehigh Valley line was 460 cars in
excess of January, 1900.
The troubles and dissessions in the Amish
Church and society, which has large
hold in central Illinois. have caused many
of the prominent members to dispose of
their farms and seek new homes in the
| far West The low passenger fares for
settlers now In force have prompted many
| TO take advantage of them.
The Big Four has in the last two years
built a number of new passenger stations
| of modern design, and has several others
planned for this year, the most important
at Greensburg and Wabash. and, jointly
| passenger station at Lafayette. The COM
panies will double track the line for three
miles west from Lafayette.
| The contemplated retirement early in
dent of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad,
and also vice president Of the Chicago, st.
| Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad, has
| been confirmed. Mr.. Sykes has had the
| step long under consideration. He has been
| in the railroad service for fifty-seven con-
| secutive years, and feels the need of rest.
| 1t is stated that c. Z. Henderson. traf-
| fic manager of the Philadelphia * Readings
| iron and coal departments, will be given
an important position following the con-
| solidation of the Philadelphia a. Reading
| and Lehigh Valley roads. Since leaving
| Indianapolis as general manager of the
| Indiana, Bloomington & Western Mr.. Hen
| derson has come rapidly 10 the front as
| a railroad manager.
Saturday evening at 7:20 a special train
/ will arrive at indianapolis over the Van
| dalia. going east over the Pennsylvania
lines for Washington. This train will carry
| Company n. infantry from Peoria. and an
/ other company from Canton Ill. Good
| mans band of thirty-eight pieces Will ac-
| company the two companies of infantry,
| and on arriving at the Union Station, In
dianapolis will play a number of selections.
1 The territory under c. l.. Hilleary, as
/ sistant general passenger agent of the Big
/ Four at St Louis. has been extended TO
| include Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Col
| orado. Arizona, Wyoming. Utah. Nevada.
| Idaho. Montana, New Mexico Texas, In
| dian Territory, Oklahoma, Arkansas and
/ Mexico. and the Baltimore a. Ohio South
4 western as far East as North Vernon and
| The Illinois Central 10 Louisville and Mem
| phis.
| From "a reliable source il is learned that
| q serious rupture Is imminent between the
| Chicago. Burlington a. Quincy and the
| Union Tacific. The former is tdispleasssi
| over the recent acquisitions of the Union
Pacific, while the Union Pacific dislikes
| Quincy TO build TO Salt Lake City, and it
| is said only some fine diplomacy will avert
| trouble
! The Contra! Passenger Association lines
| has decided 10 carry TO the higher courts
| the case in which an Indiana court gave
| damages TO travelling man OF $3.50 for be-
ing put OF train by a conductor who re-
4 fused TO accept a mileage slip in lieu of a
the lower courts will not be sustained as
| the contract signed by the purchaser of the
mileage book provides that the mileage