The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16

LIE INDIAN fOLIC
sum OF money in improving the roadbed
OK the Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis,
and in placing or IL modern passenger
equipment.
II. G.. Sleigh, superintendent of car serv-
Ice of the Vandalia, and ]. r. Cavanaugh.
holding the same position with the Big
-Four, last evening went to Cincinnati TO
attend meeting OF transportation men to
be held to-day
f. L. Whitney, rate and claim clerk in
the general offices of the Baltimore & Ohio
sition on the Toledo, st. Louis < Western.
Mr.. Whitney has been with the Baltimore
q Ohio sixteen years
c. j. Fellows, who, for fourteen years,
was car service superintendent of the Bee
line and later Big Four and more recently
connected with fast freight line service,
was yesterday appointed car service IN
spector of the Chicago & Alton road
W. II. Tayloe. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Southern Railway, ac-
paper men on the initial trip of the Florida
Special. the Southern Railway forming a
large per cent. of the mileage between Chi
cago and Florida points.
w. III. Wishart. emigration agent of the
Chicago & Rock Island road, is in the city.
extensions of the Rock Island at numer-
Gus points, where indications for n
rapid increase in population. Climate and
soil conditions are favorable to develop
ment.
Percy r. Todd, general traffic manager
or the West Shore road, retires from that
position to accept the position of second
vice president Of the New York. New Ha-
ven q Hartford road. a position formerly
held by c. g. Mellen. now president of the
Northern Pacific. Mr.. Todd takes the new
position Feb. l.
On Monday night the Florida Special, on
It's initial trip fover the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton * Dayton. was hauled from Indian
apolis to cincinnati In two hours and twen-
ty-seven minutes. This train stops only at
Connersville and Hamilton. To-day this
special will be run over the Big Four from
Chicago to Cincinnati.
Charles Stone, who a few months ago
LETT the Chicago x Eastern Illinois TO be-
come general passenger agent of the Louis
Vile & Nashville. is being complimented
FOR the methods he has taken to increase
the business of the Louisville & Nashville.
the lines already making the largest pas
senger earnings in the history of the road.
The Chicago and st. Augustine special
train, inaugurated Monday by the vari-
Gus northern lines in Connection with the
Southern & Nashville Chattanooga & st.
Louis railroads, arrived in Atlanta on time
yesterday. The average 81 ed of these
trains is forty-five miles per hour and the
time between Atlanta and Chicago is re-
duced to twenty-one hours.
j. w. Renner. controller of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west, is still occupied in max
ing up a list Of pensioners on the lines
west of Pittsburg and expects to make a
final announcement WITHIN two weeks. a
number of mistakes have been discovered
in the ages of men reported and a number
of Misrepresentation, which caused the
delay, but the number of men to be pen
stoned will be about four hundred.
The Lake Shore people. says one of the
officials, have decided to expend a consid-
cradle sum of money the present year In
improving the roadbed of the Lake Erie &
Western, now under control of the former,
and ii is expected that within two years
the Lake Erie q Western will be In as
good condition any road crossing In
diana. The indianapolis division, as well rs
the main line. will share in the improve
ments.
The train dispatchers of the main line of
the Vandalia on Monday presented to w.
w. Ray, of Terre Haute who has just re-
signed as chief train dispatcher, loving
cup. The dispatchers and their wives went
to the Ray residence in a body, entirely to
lily. j. o. Crockett, Mr.. Rays sue
cessor as chief dispatcher of the system.
made the presentation speech. The cup Is
of solid silver, lined with gold and four
teen inches in height.
The Chicago & ST. Augustine special. the
ly over the Big Four. the Moron and the
Pennsylvania from Chicago to Cincinnati,
In connection with the Southern and Queen
& Crescent railways, arrived at st. Au-
gustine, Fla, last night exactly on time.
The train carried sleepers from Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, Detroit and Chicago and made
the schedule time of forty-five miles an
fCur- The running OF a sleeper from Pitts
burg to Florida, by way of Cincinnati. is
regarded as an innovation by railroad men.
The general managers of the Union
Railway Company held their monthly meet
ing yesterday. r. b. Turner. general SUI
periatendent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton, being chairman. There were
present J. a. Barnard. of the p. & E.; J..
Q. Van Wrinkle. of the Big Four; j. j.
Turner, of the Vandalia: II. Parker. of the
Monon, and A. Bicknell of the Lake Erie
& Western. An appropriate resolution on
the death of the late William Jackson
was approved. Other business transacted
was the approving of bills, etc, of the
year 1900 and adjusting some minor differ
ences.
ISOLATION, which will leave this evening
over the Louisville division of the Penn
Sylvania lines, at Louisville taking the
Louisville q Nashville road, will be the
largest excursion to Cuba ever going out of
the United States. The train Will consis:
OF nine cars, seven of them sleeping cars,
a dining and baggage car being attached
On the trip the eXcursioniSts will travel
by rail 400 miles, passing through eleven
States and, 700 miles by water, stopping
at Havana, Matanzas and other Cuban
ports. The party will number $50 or more
and will be absent fifteen days. special
steamer has been chartered for carrying
the excursionists from Port Tampa and
return
The pass agreement of western lines for
the current year contains two clauses
which draw the restrictions tighter than
ever The first of these cuts off the bust
ness men and shippers, who as bondholders
or as directors in auxiliary companies,
were formerly able to get passes. and cuts
off the placing of shippers on pay rolls
for the purpose or the result of issuing
them passes. The other clause puts stop
TO the old practice i'm the territory north
west and west of the Missouri river of fur
nishing passes or tickets to parties who
propose to go in quest of live took or re-
funding fares paid by those who went on
such mission and then shipped stock to
their home station.