The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-12
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Inc CINCINNATI. portsmouth q NlISllld
to-day becomes a part OF the Norfolk *
Western road.
f. Gurley. supervisor OF the Union tracks
and Belt road, left yesterday for Ashevilic,
y. c., to be absent two weeks.
Next spring the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul Will rebuild its northern division
in Wisconsin, at a cost of S,OvO,OW.
President Gowan and L. b. Morris and
directors of the Choctaw x Oklahoma road
are expected 10 return from Europe next
week.
The directors of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton have declared a regular quar-
terly dividend of IA per cent, payable
Nov. s.
The tracklayers on the Panhandle yes
terday began laying the second track on
the seventeen miles between Unionville and
Hayden.
Engine 400 on the Big Four, running on
the indianapolis and Cleveland division. as
shown by the official report for September,
ran l2,l17 miles.
Oct. Z was a fatal day for railroad men.
The statistics show that twenty-one men
were killed and siXty-fve injured while In
the performance Of their duties in seven
States.
The Union Pacifc's new $3,OOO,O Aspen
tunnel, on the Leroy-Bear river cutoff, in
Utah, will be opened for trains tomorrow.
1t has been two years in course of con-
struction.
b. 2. Humphrey, travelling passenger
agent of the Lake Shore. is visiting friends
in this section. Mr.. Humphrey began in
railroad work on the Steubenville & In
diana road, now the Panhandle.
1t is predicted that in the event that
President Fish, of the Illinois Central, be-
comes a representative of the United States
abroad, he would resign, and Vice President
Harrahan would be his successor.
Officials Of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul report that construction is being
pushed on the Kansas City cutoff, and
they will have the line in operation be-
tween Kansas City and Chicago by Jan. l.
f. a. Ford, general passenger agent Of
the Pennsylvania lines west, returned yes
terday to Pittsburg. He has been visiting
the more important points and giving
agents instructions to make a fight for
business.
tive power of the Baltimore & Ohio, says
the Glenwood and Allegheny shops will be
consolidated and new shops of the most
approved modern design constructed in the
Fittsburg district.
The Panhandle on Tuesday received it's
first passenger locomotive of the Atlantic
type, and on Thursday ii hauled one of the
heavy, fast trains for several consecutive
miles at a speed of eighty miles an hour
between P~ittsburg and
John McCurdy has just completed his fif-
tieth year as engineer on the Michigan
Central, and, although seventy years Of
gan City and jackson, 1853 miles. with the
activity of a man of thirty years.
The Northwestern lines seem to be shar-
Ing in the general prosperity. Northern
Pacific earningS for September increased
$247, $40. Great Northern earnings Increased
$721. ISL, and Chicago Great Western earn
ings for September increased $72O,0l2.
Thomas Stewart. who in thu sixties was
agent of the American Express at Indian
apolis, later agent Of the Vandalia at Terre
Haute. and now general superintendent of
the Nashville & Knoxville road, was in the
city yesterday calling on old friends.
M r.
neers of the Toledo 90 division celebrated
its thirteenth anniversary on Thursday
night. Grand Chief Arthur was present
and made an address; Several other ad-
dresses We're made and some musical seleC-
tions rendered.
On Thursday the Pacific Express Com
pany. which operated on the Eel River
road, now the ~Logansport & Toledo, closed
coded by the Adams Express Company,
which will establish offices at Mexico, Den
yer, Chill and Butler.
Col. William Hunter. who entered the
Columbus, o., in 1864, and was for many
years city passenger agent of the company
at that point, has resigned. +. A. Ford.
general passenger agent, has not as yet
announced his successor.
The Rock Island and the Lake Shore COM
Ianies hare arranged 10 vacate the Van
Buren-street depot in Chicago by Jan. l
and use the Grand Central Station so as
-
mence tearing down the depot Ia prepara-
ton for putting up the new structure. 1t is
the intention to have the new depot ready
for business by January, 1903.
George Gould, while in St. Louis on a tour
of inspection, said that by the acquisition
of the Omaha q st. Louis the Wabash and
the Missouri Pacific would have a direct
route to Omaha. 4 half million dollars. he
said, would be spent in improving that
road. Extensions to the New Orleans q
and the Boonville line are
nFnu a. O 70 / y ~ nil hn HnlGhal nv
Jan. /.
The following appointments are an
nounced on the Mexican Central Railway:
Naldemar Drummer. general manager,
ler, assistant general freight and passenger
agent. vice ID. w. Harvey. appointed
secretary to the general manager; j. G.
tiers in City of Mexico, vice Ernest Muller,
promoted; Lotus j. Mum. customs agent.
with headquarters in Vera Cruz, vice VIII
liam McRObert, resigned.
At a meeting of the west-bound freight
committee of the Trunk-line Association in
New York, for the purpose of inducing the
West Shore Railroad to abandon a recently
acquired practice OF making up carloads by
throwing together a sufficient number Of
less than carload shipments. the matter
was arranged to the satisfaction OF all in
terested, the West Shore agreeing to with
draw. This method has been in general
use in England, but ii has been discour-
aged by freight traffic managers in this
country.
At the meeting of passenger men in CHI
cago three things only were considered.
One was homeseekers' rates. another was
party rates and the third the differential
situation at Kansas City. General Passen-
ger Agent Crane, of the Wabash, failed to
attend the meeting OF the Western Passen-
ger Association; consequently the Wabash
differential question was not much dis
cussed. The opinion was general, however.
that the matter was one for the Kansas
east-bound lines TO fight out. and a reso-
luton was passed leaving 1t to them.
The New York Journal Of Commerce says:
"A New York syndicate Of capitalists has
acquired the concession which was granted
some years ago TO William Mackenzie, for
merly traffic manager &c the Mexican 1ulf
& Monterey Railroad, for the purpose of
bringing a new water supply TO the City
of Mexico. Warren Loss. of New York,
has been awarded the contract for carrying
out the undertaking. which, ii is estimated,
will entail an expenditure of nearly $1,000
900 American currency, and will mean the
purchase. 1t Is said, of no less than $1,000
tons of material In the United States.