The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-02

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Charles Mixer. late travelling freight
agent OF the vandalia in this territory,
who resigned a few days ago. has accepted
the position OF chief weigh master OF the
Texas Pacific at New Orleans.
Fl. NJ Diehl, air-brake instructor on the
Pennsylvania lines west. is having the air
brake car rebuilt on more elaborate plans
The car will have twenty-five air brakes
instead of seven, as heretofore.
The Southern Railway Company has
plans completed for new depot at Sey-
mour. the structure to be built of Bed
ford stone and finished in its interior after
modern plans for such stations.
Wallace F. Guilford. son of Nathan Gull
ford, freight traffic manager of the New
York Central has been a appointed general ass,t
Company, vice Theodore Vosburg.
On Jan II. W. Forward assumed the
duties OF assistant general passenger agent
OF the Erie lines at Chicago and Thomas
Beard the position of foreign freight agent
of the Erie, with headquarters at New York
city.
The circular announcing the appointment
of r. +. Bunch as assistant general pas
senger agent of the Southern Railway, with
headquarters at st. Louis. has been with
drawn, Mr.. Bunch having accepted service
elsewhere.
Dr. J. e BIickensdofer. of Columbus, o.,
succeeds Dr. +. f. Wagner medical ex-
aminer of the Pennsylvania voluntary re-
lief department at Fort Wayne, DIR. Wag-
ner to-day becoming chief examiner on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Frank A. Bescher yesterday became the
Richmond freight agent of the Cincinnati,
Richmond a. Muncie Railroad. Bescher has
been in the employ of the Panhandle
freight department. but resigned yesterday.
He has had thirteen years experience.
J. c. GRABBING, who has been the Adams
Express Company route agent. with head
quarters at Richmond, yesterday became
the city agent at Columbus. o.. and Z. NJ.
Voglesong, route agent, with headquarters
at Columbus, succeeds him at Richmond.
Yesterday ]. c. Hagerty took the posi-
ton of trainmaster in the Cincinnati.
Washington and Louisville district OF the
Baltimore q Ohio Southwestern, and j.
NJ Mack, that of chief train dispatcher.
both to have headquarters at Washing
ton, Ind
Amos F. Barratt. who had been con-
nected with the Pennsylvania lines for
thirty-seven years and for some years past
in charge OF the dairy traffic freight of
the Union line, was buried at Columbus
on Monday, he dying quite suddenly OF
pneumonia.
night. the result of SECOND stroke OF
paralysis, was buried yesterday, number
% railroad men attending his funeral.
He had been employed in the shops of the
Belt road twenty years and was much
esteemed by mis- associates.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will expert
ment with locust ties to test the durabil-
lily of this kind of wood. The locust tree
natures rapidly, and if ii is found that
locust ties will last long enough to justify
the expense the vast tracts of barren
mountain land will be planted with young
trees to provide ties for the future.
L. G. Ericsson. engineer of maintenance OF
way of the Pennsylvania lines west, with
headquarters at Fort Wayne, has been pro-
NOTED to assistant chief engineer, with
headquarters at Pfttsburg. w. b Blake
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, will succeed Mr.. Ericsson at Fori
Wayne.
]. r. Carey, who has been B. & o. 8
w. trainmaster, with headquarters al
| Washington, Ind, for several years, has
| been called TO Newport News, Va, &c
take service with the c. & o.. He is sue.
| ceeded by John G. Hagerty, who has beer
| chief train dispatcher. with headquarters al
| Washington. Hagerty will be succeeded by
| John Mack.
| Beginning with Yesterday the Santa Fe
will have three daily trains running each
way between Chicago and San Francisco
| the California Limited now being daily
service since L. o. Mccormick became pas
| senger traffic manager of the Southern
Pacific causes the Santa Fe to bestir itself
| and there Is now no better service thar
| that these two great tranScontinental lines
| offer.
The Wabash is so pressed with business
| that it is borrowing engines from the
Grand Trunk. j. B. Barnes, superinten
| thority to at once purchase thirty-ftys
heavy freight engines and fifteen passen
ger locomotives. Mr.. Barnes has tht
ready and says the passenger engines vii
| be fast runners, with eighty-inch driving
| wheels and cylinders nineteen by twenty
| eight inches.
| W. o. Thompson, formerly engine dis
| patcher for the Lake Shore lines ives
| of Toledo. with headquarters at Elkhart
but for the past year salesman for TIT
| Hancock Injector Manufacturing Company
| of Boston, has been placed in charge OF tn
engines of the Toledo, ST. Louis & West
| ern, with headquarters at Frankfort, Ind
| All matters pertaining to the locomotive
department on the entire road, except tn
| shops at Frankfort. will be under Mr.
| Thompson's supervision.
Charles NJ. Hays. the new president o.
the Southern Pacific, spent the first day o.
his employment in the company in making
an inspection of its terminals at Calves
| ton and examining the harbor and por
facilities. The development begun there
he said, would speedily as possible be fin
ished. Mr.. Hays says he will spend a grea
deal of time on the road. AS soon as III
gets settled in San Francisco he expects
to start out on trip to inspect all thu
lines of the Southern Pacific
A w. Milspaugh, the Oldest railway maj
i'm the United States in point of activ
| service, died at his home in Kansas City
| Mo-, yesterday, aged eighty-six. Mr.. Mills
| paugh was born in Middletown, n. Y, Il
| 1913. During the civil he EN-
| ployed by the government to superinten
the transportation of soldiers to and fror
the South He went to Kansas City 4
! 1870 as general agent OF the North Missoul
Railway, now the Wabash. and later 1
| the same year became ticket agent at tn
Union Station, position which he held u
TO the time of his death. Friday last Nj
Millspaugh celebrated his birthday, and i
receiving guests contracted a cold tina
caused him to take to his bed
A novel dispute is in progress whic
dates back to the Johnstown food, May g
1889. The controversy is concerning the owT
ership of seven or eight sets of trucks an
many tors of old iron. and between the cor
tractors and the Pennsylvania Railroa
| Company. In making excavations, las
week. for the new Pennsylvania traffi
building at Johnstown the railroad peopl
ordered a wrecking train to remove tn
| wreckage of several passenger cars tha
had become unearthed. Contractor Sc
bert says that published order soon afte
the food put unclaimed relics on the lis
| of public property. Mr.. Seibert declare
/ that he found these trucks. and that the
are his property. plate bearing No.
was found among the wreckage which b,
Ionged to the dining car of the ill-fate
day express train which was lost in til
flood, and also some of the dining rool
| euufDment