The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-17
Personal, Local and General Notes.

houston, rex, Qled yesterday at LloeINS'
n. Y.
George Gould's trip west at this time Is
to ascertain what is needed in the way OF
new equipment.
The lover Leaf will build new passenger
and freight depots at Bluffton this fall, 10
cost $4,000. The Lake Erie * western VIII
make a similar Improvement next spring.
Jerome Graves. for forty years transfer
osent for the New York Central and the
Rene. WATERFOWL & ~CCdenShurg road IT
Skaneatles Junction, was buried at Rome
On Monday.
The trainmen on the Lackawanna have
failed TO reach satisfactory terms with SUI
per%intendent Clark. and have asked Grand
Master MOrrisey to take the matter up with
President Truesdale.
The thirty-frst annual meeting of the
american Society of Railroad Superlntend-
ents, which was TO have been held yes
terday, has been postponed until oct. "A at
Buffalo, n. y.
General Passenger Agent +. A. Ford.
OF the Pennsylvania lines west. announces
that the service over the Akron route, the
Erie-Pennsylvania combination for Bur
falo business, Will end oct. p.
The Southern Pacific expended, in addi-
ton to betterments in the year ending
June 50, 1901, 50. 10000, and il is stated that
several millions more VIII be expended IN
me same direction the present fiscal year.
In order TO obtain better facilities for
handling its increasing freight traffic at
Buffalo the Pennsylvania has purchased
d large tract of land at the outer entrance
of Buffalo and will establish a large freight
yard.
of way into Seattle over its own tracks. BY
action of the Council of that city the
Northern Pacific gets all the rights of the
Seattle d San Francisco Railway fran
chise, which allows it TO enter that city
over the Columbia q Puget Sound tracks.
The official report of the Illinois Central
shows that during the year enuing June 80.
E01. 1863 new industries, representing a
Capitalization of $l0.OO0.O0O. have been es-
tablished along its line. Industrially the
year was the most prosperous experienced
in the fifty years Of the railroads exis-
tence.
Yesterday the appointment of r.. l..
Queisser. contracting freight agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio road at Cleveland. be-
came effective. Mr.. Queisser was for a
number of years chief clerk of l.. r.
fc manag of the Cleveland, Akron q
Columbus.
Charles e styles. assistant general pas
T.. s. Jewett. passenger and ticket agent
of the same lines, both having headquarters
in Kansas City, are in the city; also w. T.
HOlton. travelling passenger agent of the
Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific and as
soCiate lines.
When the Lackawanna completes its new
docks in Jersey City it VIII have one of the
bes~t-equipped water fronts on the Hudson
river. The work, which has been going on
for some time. will cost 100000, and ali
of the most improved facilities in docks
experimental upon in Boston, Philadelphia
and in New York city will be installed.
So enormous is the fall shipping out of
Pittsburg that the railroads. without ex-
ception, are unable TO handle the freight
offered them. Railroad yards; stockyards
that the situation is so acute now that II
all freight offerings stopped at once the
railroads would not be able to clear the
tracks in less than a week.
The stockholders of the Springfield & De-
George w. Graves, superintendent OF the
Indiana, Decatur & Western. and passed a
resolution authorizing the directors 70 is
plete the road. which is an extension of
the Indiana, Decatur & Western. and prac-
tically controlled by the Cincinnati, Ham
llton x Dayton.
1t is stated that the through service be-
tween Cleveland and New Orleans over the
Big Four and the Illinois Central Will be
continued through the winter. The service
business, and, as it is expected that travel
TO the South will be heavy, il will be re-
tanned. and. probably the Big Four, in con-
%nection with the Queen & Crescent, will re-
wise its Neutrality-suspicious. service between
Cleveland and St. Augustine. Fla.
Owing to the multitude of abuses of
single-trip permits issued 10 clergymen
through the commissioner Of the Central
Passenger Association the organization has
decided TO abolish the practice of issuing
them, and on Jan. l will return to the old
method of issuing annual permits TO clergy
men in regular standing, and no other form
of transportation will be issued. The Erie
announces that il has become a member of
the Central Passenger Association Clergy
Bureau.
1t is rumored that the present manage
ment of the Louisville & Nashville is again
negotiating in a quiet manner for control
of the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois Railway.
which cannot be secured on as reasonable
terms as would have been the case two
years ago The Chicago & Eastern Illinois
has entered into very close traffic relations
with the St. Louis & Southwestern, and
with the completion of it's bridge across the
Mississippi interchange Of traffic would be
greatly facilitated.
At the annual meeting of stockholders of
the Illinois Central Railroad. in Chicago
yesterday, the following directors were
elected TO succeed themselves: Il. f.. Aver.
Walter Luttengen, John w. Auchinclaus
and j. T. Harahan. An increase in the
capital stock from $65, 000.0 900 to $40. 200. GOO
was authorized. The additional capital will
be used in physical betterments, including
the double track work now in progress be-
tween Chicago and New Orleans, in pur-
purchasing three small proprietary roads.
These roads are the Peoria. Decatur q
Mattoon. the NATION ~ Evansville and the
Peoria, Decatur q Evansville.
The changes in the traffic department in
cident to consolidation of the Ohio River
Railroad of the Baltimore K Ohio system
are as follows: h. NJ. Marquis. assistant
general freight agent at Parkersburg, is
retired ana goes with the Carnegie Steel
Company; a. j. Slavin, contracting freight
agent Of the headquarters division. is also
retired and the office abolished. The COM
mercial agency of the road at P~ittsburg is
also abolished. and j. ID. LippincOtt, who
held the position. Will remain as CONNER
cial agent OF the Buffalo and Allegheny
valley division Of the Pennsylvania. G. +.
Wolf. who has been travelling freight agent.
takes a similar position with the Missouri
Pacific.
The October number of the Book of the
Royal Blue, the Baltimore x Ohio paSSen-
ger department publication, is printed in
black on account of the death o. the late
President. It is devoted to 4 striking sketch
of Mr.. Mckinley. II contains a composite
editorial from the leading jour- ais, a
composite sermon of the most eminent di-
vines and a composite eulogy OF the peo-
pie. The design of the book is plain. but
artistic. The cover is done in old gold and
black, and the tributes to the memory OF
the dead President are printed in large
type on heavy calendered paper. With q
black border around each page. The front
isElece Is a reproduction Of an excellent
photograph OF President Mckinley. taker
shortly after he had signed the $4,000, OV
appropriation DILL for national dc!ense, in
March. 1895.
Having completed the annual track in
spection of the Pennsylvania road between
New York and P~ittsburg. the winners OF
the prizes of the best condition of line and
surface and the grand division premium are
announced. The first premium goes to SUI
pervisor's division No. 2. Maryland division
OF the Philadelphia. Bloomington K Balti-
more Railroad. The best main line yard at
the time OF inspection was at Jersey City.
and the foreman having the best line and