The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-07

Acrsohui, Local anu Oenerai notes.
C. C. McNir has been appointed acting
claim agent OF the Monon, vice w. +. Tay-
Tor. resigned.
l.. s. Robertson has been appointed stock
claim agent of the Louisville & Nashville.
vice j. G. Sweeney, resigned.
b. r. Stephens has been appointed acting
superintendent of the Toledo. st. Louis a
Western, vice c. f. Franklin, resigned.
Eugene Zimmerman, vice president of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Dayton, expects to
sail from New York for England or
March 10.
tract with the international Power Com
pany. Providence, X. J., for locomotives to
cost $4,000
The great four-track steel bridge of the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne * Chicago and the
Lake Shore over the Calumet river has
been completed.
r. S. Logan, assistant to the general man.
ager of the Grand Trunk Railway. has been
appointed vice president and general man
ager of the Central m road.
Influenced by American experience with
large freight cars. the Prussian Railway
authorities has decided to experiment with
cars of twenty-five tons capacity.
Abner L. Frazier, who was assistant en-
gineer and located the Steubenville & In
diana road, now a division of the Panhan-
ole, died at Duluth on Monday, aged eighty.
The railroad accidents in this country in
January included los collisions, lbs derail-
fuellS anu ten OlneT dtClucllS, Ill WHICH
seventy-six persons were killed and 207 in
Jured.
The tri-weekly Pullman service between
New York and Hot Springs, over the Penn
sylvania and Chesapeake IL Ohio Is TO be
changed to daily service. commencing to-
Gay.
C. f. Daily, general passenger agent of
the Lake Erie q Western. gives notice OF
ing passenger agent of the company, with
headquarters at Peoria, iii.
Trains 20 and 81 on the Panhandle yester-
day were hauled by W locomotives. Train
q consisted Of twelve cars, six being Pull
man cars. and all but one mail car went
through TO St. Louis over the vandalia-
The Wabash lines earned in February ST.
go. 4s6. AS: an increase OF SCI GAS 9s Since
freight earnings this shows an increase or
$500. 724.47; in passenger revenue, 1901 .67O.41.
on March 10 r. S. Davis will become gen
eral freight agent Of the Cotton Belt, sue
ceeding III. l.. Farrell. appointed freight
traffic manager, and on the same date j. T.
Parks will become assistant general freight
agent.
Charles Rockwell. traffic manager of the
MOnon lines, was in the city yesterday.
He looks for a handsome increase in earn
ings with the Monon when the building
season sets in and traffic from the Bedford
stone quarries commences
Jackson Smith. division passenger agent
OF the Louisville * Nashville at Cincinnati,
has resigned. Mr.. Smith has formed n
| connection With j. p. Mcdonald q Co, and
will go TO Ecuador 10 superintend the con-
struction of a railroad in that country.
General Manager Schaff. General Super
intendent Van Wrinkle and Chief Engineer
Kittredge yesterday inspected the Michi-
gan division of the Big -Four and looked
into the question of what improvements
should be made at Benton Harbor this year.
A special train on March 3, consisting Of
five cars. made the run from Cincinnati
to st. Louis over the Baltimore * Ohio
Southwestern $40 miles. I'm seven hours and
twenty minutes. The schedule time OF pas
senger trains is nine hours and forty min
utes.
The engineering department of the Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne K Chicago challenges
any other road to show a hfty-three-mile
perfect i'm every respect as that between
Chicago and Wanatah. on the Chicago di-
vision.
General Superintendent Mozier Is author
ity for the statement that plans have been
| completed for extensive car and locomotive
repair shops at Salamanca, which will give
employment of 1000 hands. the Erie event
uaIly abandoning its shops at Meadville
ana Hornellsville.
A. ]. Smith. general passenger agent of
the Lake Shore and also secretary OF the
American Association or General Ticket and
| Passenger Agents, who recently sent out a
extent the perfect safety ticket paper had
been introduced. has received replies show
I ing that IL has been adopted on 15i, 096 miles
of railways and labs miles of steamer
lines.
There Is a growing belief that the Mis-
souri, Pacific. under direction of George J.
! Gould. will effect a combination which VIII