The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-19
Personal, Loca and Notes.

j. H. Symington. superintendent of mo-
tive power on the Atlantic Coast line, will
retire from that position on April l.
The Pennsylvania expended in 1900 for i'm
provements to roadbed and equipment $l25,-
7S9.91S, against $l24, 1856 in 1899 and against
Sl22. 81. 800 in 1895.
L. b. Eveland. travelling passenger agent
for the Rio Grande Western, has been in
the city two or three days. He is just re-
covering from a serious illness of several
weeks.
George w. Lishawa, auditor of the Gin
the city looking after affairs of the Indi-
ana Decatur & Western, controlled by the
c., H.. & D..
The Financier says: 1.-THE Monon seems
to be a standing temptation to excite the
cupidity of more than one of the larger sys-
TENS, and is not apt to go neglected for a
much longer time
Even in the face of the attitude of the
run lines ii is stated that two have too
close relations with scalpers, and that un-
less the peculiar situation is changed seri-
Gus trouble may ensue.
George Bender, general agent of the Big
-Four, who has been in the city since Sat
urday, last evening returned to Sandusky,
his headquarters. The business of the Big
Four at that point is steadily increasing.
John b. Cockrum, attorney of the Lake
Erie * Western, and a few friends, left,
yesterday, for Florida. TO be gone two
weeks. They travel in the private car for
merly used by General Manager Bradbury.
The Pittsburg. Bessemer * Lake Erie
Railroad Company has decided TO build new
and large shops at G~reenville. work 10 COM
mence at once. Citizens of that place have
donated a large tract of land and a money
bonus 10 secure the shops.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western, which.
on April l. will remove its general Offices
to the Majestic Block. will occupy seven
rooms on the sixth floor. five of them pleas
ant front rooms. and. with the American
Express Company. will take most of the
rooms on the sixth floor.
The order which the Lake Shore placed
with the Brooks locomotive works last week
is for hfty-one large engines eleven for
passenger business) exceeding in size any
now running on the road. The passenger
engines will have eighty-inch driving wheels
and zOi5X2S-lnch cylinders.
John Nelson. passenger conductor on the
Big Four's Bee-line division, has just COM
pleted his forty-flrst year in service on the
line between indianapolis and Cleveland,
the last thirty years as a conductor. He
was employed first on the road In running
one of the construction trains.
Indications are that the homeseekers' ex-
cursiOns to-day TO the Northwest over the
Great Northern and the Northern Pacific
will be the heaviest yet run. Many Of those
taking advantage of these low rates are
people who have money and are DESTROYS
of finding a good place TO locate.
The kentucky Central has been COM
pleted 10 a connection with the Illinois Cen
trail. 10 which road IL will hereafter be an
important feeder. The new line is but
twenty miles long. but runs through one OF
the best sections of Kentucky. On this
short connection there are five coal mines,
eight tobacco factories and fourteen saw
mills.
The official report of Andrew Woods,
agent of the Big Four, at this point, shows
the company is now handling q. the city
freight depots the largest tonnage in the
history Of the road. one day last week
there were loaded and unloaded at the