The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-19
Personal, Local and General Notes.

William f. Boyer has been appointed
freight solicitor of the Panhandle, with
headquarters at Dayton, O.
The Pullman Company will next month
complete a handsome new private car FOR
the Pennsylvania road, for the use OF vice
Presidents Greene and Rea.
A financial house i'm New York is inviting
deposits of Evansville & Terre Haute
stock. This is supposed TO be in the in
terests of the disgruntled stockholders
William Swanston. ex-master mechanic of
the Pennsylvania lines at indianapolis,
now pensioned on account OF age limit,
returned Ehursday from a seven weeks
trip to the Pacific coast
Fort Wayne is becoming one of the most
important points for traffic on the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. Within the
last six years the tonnage handled at that
point has more than doubled.
Oscar G.. Murray. first vice president of
the Baltimore K Ohio, is making a trip in
his private car over the Western line, con-
road at the more important points.
Conductors on Wabash passenger trains
are now required to look closely after the
temperature of all coaches, including sleep
ing cars, of their trains. and keep them
heated TO comfortable degree through the
fall and winter.
Mr.. p. Z. Thomas. formerly soliciting
freight agent of the Norfolk & Western
agent of the Seaboard Airline, with head
quarters at Chicago. the appointment to be-
come effective on Oct. 10.
For several days of this week the. ad-
Big Four have been in Cincinnati in con-
ference with General Manager Schaff. The
men want a REIMBURSEMENT or the schedule,
which practically means an increase in pay.
To-day there will be q great political
meeting at Springfield o., where Hon.
Charles w Fairbanks and others will
speak. and yesterday sixty coaches were
ordered from Indianapolis to make up
gnpcial Springfield o.
day.
A circular announces that Eugene B.
Cook has been appointed assistant SupeTin-
tendent of the Toledo division of the Lake
Shore road. He is promoted from train
ma ster of the western division of the Lake
Shore and takes this position, which has
just been created.
Travelling Freight Agents L. De Pew, of
the Mobile & Ohio: J. y. Rucher, of the
Louisville & Nashville; L. Liston. of the
Union Pacific; George Rump, of the Wa
bash. and L. s. Pawkett, of the Interna-
tional & Northern, are in the city looking
for business.
Isaac Davis, travelling freight agent of the
Chicago x Eastern Illnoins, on Thursday
celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday by
giving a box party at the Grand Opera
House. having his invited guests j. Il.
Nallery, of the Chicago, burlington &
Quincy; W. ]. Laird, of the Chicago Great
Western, and II. T. Nickolay, of the Santa
Fe.
The new fast mail train on the Chicago
* Northwestern line. east from Omaha to
Chicago is proving of great assistance to
the mail service, making possible a reduc-
ton in the time of transmission of mail
between the West and points in Indiana.
Ohio and Kentucky. In many cases the
time thus saved amounts to twenty-four
hours.
The line from Miami to Alton. J. r,
which unites the old Frisco and Memphis
railway systems, now the Frisco system,
was opened at Miami, L. T., yesterday. The
completion of the link gives Kansas City a
short route to Oklahoma, Indian Territory
and Texas. The road is fifteen miles in
length A golden spike was driven in the
last plate.
p H. Morrisey grand master of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen. and +. Hawey
grand master of the Switchmen's Union
reached Scranton on Thursday, and yester-
day was fixed for a conference with their
respective unions on the Lackawanna road
The employees are dissatisfied with some of
the rules laid down by Superintendent
Clark. and have asked for a conference
with President Truesdale.
The action of the Western Passenger
Association in declaring against the aboli-
ton of passes has given an entirely new
turn TO that movement The more con-
servative passenger officials are Of opinion
that the railroads will now try TO regulate
the issuing of passes rather than TO abolish
them entirely. and by a possible elimina-
ton from year TO year will work by de-
grees TO the state of affairs desired
Sales OF Lake Shore stock at $500 per
There is obviously some reason for this.
The Wall-street Journal says. without pro-
Tossing to know what the exact reason is
il may be said that the large holdings by
the Lake Shore of Lake Erie * Western
and Nickel-pate stock. both having had
large rise this year, adds materially To the
actual value of Lake Shore stock. Further
more, Lake Shore has a large book surplus
in the form of betterments to the property,
which might lead to a distribution TO stock
holders I'm case such action should be 10 the
interest of the New York Central.
The Chicago x Eastern Illinois is about to
abandon its yards at Chicago and utilize
for its freight terminal new yards at Dali
ton. sixteen miles south OF Dearborn sta
ton which will be the northern terminus
OF everything except the passenger trains
Between Dalton and Chicago the cars Will
be handled by switching crews The new
yards. upon which the company has ex-
pended thousands of dollars and intends to
make as perfect as possible. are now in full
operation. The experiment will be watched
with interest, as il is only a question of
Few years when the crowded condition OF