The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-02-19
Personal, Local and General Notes.


After March / the Pennsylvania company
gives notice that train 10 viii stop on
hagging al Frankton, Ind.
j. II. Talbot, Nj. d., left for Cleveland
iast night TO attend a meeting of the med
ical examiners of the Pennsylvania yolun-
tary relief department.
President Spencer, of the Southern Rail-
way, says the Noodle az Ohio will be oper
ated as separate company without con-
solldaton or merger with the Southern.
W. l.. McCarty has been appointed COM
missioner and III. c. Ream assistant COM
missioner of the recently formed New
York Freight and Transportation Bureau.
II. s. lodge will on March /. become gen
eral traffic manager of the Memphis sys-
TEN OF roads. For several years past he
has been general traffic manager of the
Cotton Belt
The Panhandle is putting in service, some
cars OF superior build, They are seventy
two feet long and rest on two sets of six
wheeled trucks.
The Lake Shore will contract for 1900
Lake Erie & western lines The Illinois
Central will purchase 1,0o0 box cars OF $1,000
pounds capacity.
The managers of the roads comprising the
Union Railway Company will hold their
monthly meeting to-day, and tomorrow
the car foremen's Association will hold it's
monthly meeting.
Lawson Albertson has completed his for
Station, and Superintendent Zion yesterday
assigned him to an easier task-that OF
keeping things orderly in the baggage
rooms.
The advance in price Of stock of the
Evansville & Terre Haute common and the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois securities is at
tracing attention. The L. & L. III. stock
| is selling at a higher figure than at any
| time in years.
Three hundred and sixty-one passengers
were carried on the Pennsylvania low
| rate excursion, Saturday, TO Chicago A
| number OF these excursions viii be run
| during the coming season, three Chicago
| lines participating
The Pennsylvania is preparing to carry
| 5000 people from Indiana, Ohio and Pitts
| burg TO Washington to witness the inaugu-
ration ceremonies. The Baltimore & Ohio
and the Chesapeake & Ohio are arranging
| to handle large business.
| General Manager Schaff, of the Big Four
| lines, has asked the New York Central to
| loan one of its wide fire box Atlantic type
| OF passenger locomotives to the Big Four
i to test it's working in comparison with the
| Big Four's new passenger engines.
General Passenger Agent L. W. Wakely
| has issued a second edition of the Burling
| ten special folder of the Northwest. Be
| sides a map and description of territory, 1t
gives brief historical sketches Of the LOUIS
| lana purchase and the Lewis and Clarke
expedition.
| In the year 1900 there were 2646 railway
| accidents on the roads of the United States,
against 2.431 In 1899. In these accidents liz
| passengers were killed, one less than in
| 1895: 452 employees were killed. against i02 In
/ 1892 and seventy-fiv trespassers. During
| the year 2,123 persons were injured.
| The directors of the Minneapolis & st.
| Louis and the Iowa Central have ratified
| the traffic agreement with the Burlington,
| Cedar Rapids & Northern, under which the
| Iowa Central secures entrance to Albert
| Lea, MINI. This gives the Iowa Central
marked advantage over any former period
| J. q. Hicks and the assistant engineer
/ OF the Big Four have been measuring and
| revising the list of private switches OPP
/ Grated at Indianapolis and its immediate
| switches leading 10 various indianapolis
/ industries. thirty having been added in the
| last two years
/ A. L. Humphreys. superintendent Of the
| passed through the city yesterday en- route
/ to Providence. r. l., where he Will con-
tract with the Rhode Island locomotive
pound and of the heaviest type. built for
freight service. costing $1,000 each.
There is an immense amount of good coal
| i'm the region surrounding Cadiz o., and a
| company is TO be formed 10 build road
| which may eventually be extended to Ben
| wood or Bellaire, so as 10 connect with the
| Panhandle's Wheeling division. and the
Cleveland & PlCtsburg's river division.
| forming a short line between Wheeling,
| Toledo and Chicago.
There is another freight conjestion, on
east-bound business on Nanierollt lines lines
|
| all the freight piling up In tire lines west.
| The Canada Southern alone has 1.5oo loaded
| cars waiting TO leiiver to roads at Buffalo.
| This condition of affairs explains the Big
| Four's decrease IT, gross earnings In the
first week OF February.
| The Seaboard Air line has given official
| notice that its projected new road from
| Baltimore 10 Washington viii not be built.
| This Is regarded by Southern railroad men
| as indicating community of interests be-
tween the Pennsylvania. the Baltimore &
| Ohio the Southern Railway Company, the
| Seaboard Air line. the Chesa peake * Ohio
| and the Atlantic coast line.
Fl. f. Farrell has been appointed freight
traffic manager OF the st. Louis * South
western Railroad. commonly known as the
| Cottonbeit to succeed a. S. Dodge who
becomes general traffic manager OF the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf road. Mr..
Farrell Is general freight agent of the Cot
ton Belt system of Texas His appoint
ment becomes effective March /.
The Chicago. Indiana & Eastern road
Harry Drew's line. has Increased it's bust
ness TO such an extent since getting into
Muncie that IL will require TIE immediate
purchase of more engines and cars. Al
Muncie and several other points attractive
convenient depots are being erected. The
read, as far as completed, is forty-thres
iries in length and the run Is made over II
IL one hour and twenty-five minutes, the
trains making nine stops.
At the meeting OF the Transcontinental
Passenger Association IN Chicago yesterday
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