The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-12
Personal, Local and General Notes.

J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
OF the Big -Four. has gone to Putin Bay,
to be absent ten days.
II B. Hubbell has been appointed agent
of the Pennsylvania company at billiards.
o., vice j. Midkin, resigned.
Within the next eighteen months the Illi-
nois Central will be a dOuble-track road
from Chicago to New Orleans.
President Loree, of the Baltimore & Ohio,
confirms the reported purchase of the Ohio
River Railroad by his company.
The Wabash is receiving five new mod
ern passenger cars per week on a con-
tract to build ffty-one coaches.
j. j. Turner, fourth vice president of the
Pennsylvania lines west, is making an in
spection of the Panhandle lines.
The New York Central has placed an
order with the Haskell-Barker car works,
Michigan City, Ind, for two hundred fiat
cars.
Albert ingalls,, superintendent of the In
dianapolis and Cleveland division of the
Big -Four, and w. s. Moore, engineer of
maintenance of way, are in the city.
Barney. Smith * Co. of Dayton. O., have
been awarded the contract to build 500 box
cars for the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day.
ton and the Indiana. Decatur & Western
roads.
H. S. Reynolds, of Boston. has been APP
pointed general manager of the Columbus
Railway of Georgia. Mr.. Reynolds was
formerly connected with Erie in an Of
fetal capacity
III OulAC III dNtld6t VI GslDDsDVv DOulluS
daily of inbound and transfer freight were
handled by the Big -Four at indianapolis.
and a daily average of $4,000 pounds of out
bound freights.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
under. consideration adopting a pension
plan for its employees similar TO that re-
Gently put in force on the Chicago. Mil
waukee & st. Paul road.
The Erie passenger department has given
notice that il will honor 5,00O-mile mileage
books on that line. The Erie recently
entered the interchangeable mileage bureau
of the Central Passenger Association.
The Central Passenger Association gives
notice that 1t will grant a rate of one fare
for the round trip to Chicago July "A to 20.
on account of the International convention
of the Baptist Young People of America.
Oct. l has been set as the date to open
the new line of the Wabash between Toledo
and Montpelier. Rapid progress is making
i'm the construction of the line. which will
be so constructed as to make rapid time
safe.
Ralph Peters. general superintendent of
the Southwestern system of the Pennsyl-
vania lines. has, with his family. gone TO
Roaring Brook. near Petoskey. Mich. Mr..
Peters Will return in the early part of next
week.
Three months ago Buffalo had but eight
ticket s~calping Offices. il now has forty.
and more are seeking rooms to operate in.
All are doing a good business. says a local
scalper, who a day or two ago returned
from Buffalo.
Competitors of the Pennsylvania lines
have consented 90 the Pennsylvania run
ming Atlantic seaboard excursions. and il
has been arranged to run such excursions
off of the Pennsylvania lines west on July
% and Aug. s.
Santa Fe surveyors are at work in the
vicinity of Ripley. Okla. locating a line at
least two hundred miles in length to be
built at once in Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory. The extension will be known as the
Eastern Oklahoma line.
Lror1 NVoo1 gapara1 fraigbt aga,+ 90 +bo
Peoria x Eastern. states that the corn crop
in Illinois and Indiana could hardly be
more promising. There has been plenty of
rain and the hot weather is developing
corn in a rapid manner.
w. w Richardson. district passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines, says that
at no former period has business to Michi-
gan resorts been az heavy as thus far this
season. sleeping cars out OF Indianapolis
nightly being we'll filed.
George T. Smith has been appointed gen.
eral agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company In New York. vice q. j. Geer
transferred. Mr.. Smith has been general
superintendent of the Union line in New
York for a number OF years.
Frank II. Dyke. who has been chief clerk
in the Nickel-plate Office at Chicago. has
been chosen assistant TO Traffic Manager
Caldwell Of the Lackawana. Mr.. Pyke was
chosen from six men who had been under
| consideration for the position.
A special on the Lake Shore on Wednes-
day. carrying Epworth Leaguers. made the
run from Buffalo 10 Cleveland with eleven
cars in three hours and forty-fve minutes.
Several consecutive miles were covered at
a speed of seventy-twO miles an hour.
\. =. Averill. who has been appointed
travelling auditor of the Toledo. ST. Louis
* Western. was for several years in the
auditing department of the Wabash and
is now promoted from a clerk in the au-
diting department of the Glover Leaf.
The passenger department of the New
York Central has just sent out No. 5 of its
four track series for 1901. entitled Two 10
/ Fifteen Days Pleasure Tours IL is a book
I OF eighty pages. replete with information
10 persons who contemplate taking pleasure
trips.
The Pennsylvania Company is expanding
money freely on it's Cleveland and Pitts
burg division. reducing grades. eliminating
curves and placing che rOadbed and track
in condition TO run its fast trains at any
desired speed. Work has been commenced
on the new passenger station at Cleveland.