The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-21

reaching st. Louis at o'clock this after
noon. In both directions the SCHEDULE was
an hour and thirty minutes faster than the
Continental limited.
The firm of Bates & Rogers. railway
builders, who will construct the Fort
Wayne-Bu;ler line for the Wabash COM
pany, Will crowd the work with all possible
speed. Ballasting will proceed in connec-
ton with track building and the road viii
be ready for heavy traffic the minute the
rails are in position.
1t was rumored in Wall street to-day
tnat the Union Pacific Railroad Company
proposed TO issue an additional $4,000 900
OF convertible per cent. bonds to finance
recent purchased stock of other companies.
InlS report could not be confirmed at the
Office OF the company nor by the dominant
interests in the management of the road.
The ninth annual convention of the Ma
tiOnal Car Inspectors and Car Repairers
O., yesterday. Chief 7. II. Lee, of Column
bus, called the convention to order after
which addresses of welcome were made by
Assistant Director of Law Franklin Ru-
trecht, representing Mayor Hinkle. and
| others.
The division OF the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers at Nation has fixed
June % as the date of the picnic at Reser-
voir Park, near Paris, Ill. Excursion trains
Will be run from St. Louis and from In
dlanapolis, and large delegations on the
Chicago division of the Big Four and the
Peoria * Eastern'S western division are ar
ranging TO attend.
At the meeting of the Order of Railway
Conductors in st. Paul last week two ques-
tons over which there has been consider
able friction were settled--one to continue
the grand officers at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
where they have been for eleven years, an
! other to cooperate as far as possible with
the otTer railroad organizations in the set
Element of labor disputes.
L. S. Purcell died at Logansport on Sum
Gay. He was in the employ of the Pennsyl-
vanla lines forty-eight years, being retred
last January on a pension. In his earlier
service he was roadma ster on what is now
the indianapolis division OF the Panhandle
He was promoted to passenger conductor
and had charge of the first through pas
indianapolis. The last twenty years he
Was claim agent the Logansport di-
vision.
President ingalls,, of the Big Four, and
Chief Engineer Kittredge visited Spring.
field last week TO look over the ground
where the new depot is to be erected. Pres
ident ingalls, told persons interested in its
construction that the delay in the work
lay with the Panhandle and the Ohio
Southern, and the commercial bodies OF
that city will take it up. President Ingalls,
stated that they would erect independent
of other roads, a large freight station at
that point.
At the office Of the New York Central
Railway il was said yesterday that no Sc
to President Galloway. w. X. Vanderbilt
returned from the West yesterday, and 1t IS
believed he will act on this matter at once.
An impression prevails among railroad men
that Mr.. Callaway's successor Will be either
President Newman, OF the Lake Shore, or
Mr. Mellen. president of the Northern Pa
cifc. President Newman said yesterday:
Il am as well located as man could care
to be in the railroad business, and l don't
expect TO be called TO the New York Cen
trail"
Henry A. Ziesel, general yardmaster at
Elkhart, has been promoted to the
superintsndency of the western division of
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, with
headquarters in Chicago He succeeds n.
Il. Newell. who will go to Alaska to as
sumo the management of the Yukon *
White Pass Railroad. Mr. Ziesel is thirty
nine years OF age, and has been general
reached that office by a succession of pro-
motions which began soon after he became
a messenger in the cOmpanys Elkhart
telegraph office at the age of thirteen. He
will assume his new duties on Tuesday,
May Il.