The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-02

Col. j. H. Best yesterday retired as gen.
eral agent of the Kansas City Southern az
Quincy, ILL.,, and the position is abolished.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton * Dayton in
February made the best record of any In
dianapolis line in arriving at indianapolis
on schedule time.
Stock of the Monon continues TO advance.
TIL buying seems TO be of an inside char
acter and cannot be traced to any partic-
ular syndicate or road.
Traffic over the Baltimore & Ohio lines
continues heavy beyond precedent, every
available locomotive is In service and a
congestion of business cannot be prevented.
d. X. Yoder, an engineer on the Penn
sylvania lines, Is out again, after a severe
attack of grip. Mr.. Yoder has been In the
employ of the Pennsylvania for hfty-two
years.
The Pennsylvania Company has the plans
and specifications prepared to change the
route OF its tracks at Hagerstown, lnd., 10
escape the heavy grade leading to the town
from the east and west.
Jacob Wagner, Of the Logansport divi-
sion, n fiagman, has been laid Oft under
the Pennsylvania pension plan on account
OF age limit, and has been placed on the
pay roll of pensions for life.
b. Fowler. representing the passenger
department of the Illinois Central sout1. Is
In the city. He states that the increase in
the company's business on Its Southern
line Is a gratifying surprise.
Train 81 of the Monon, which makes the
run from Chicago TO indianapolis In fouy
hours and forty-ive minutes, was late an
arriving last month but once. and then was
delayed by a freight wreck.
In the month OF February there were
handled on the Big -Four system 12l ITO load
ed cars. against III, 907 in February, 1900;
on the Peoria * Eastern 16,3S0 loaded cars,
| against 16, 905 in February last year.
The passenger. agents of the Pennsyl-
vania, the Philadelphia Il Reading and the
| Baltimore 4 Ohio have agreed to make the
"a ooapUar 20 fae 70 RufnlO during tho month
OF May n single fare for the round trip.
Train IL over the Big Four. from ST.
Louis. yesterday hauled n carload OF pris-
oners from the Indian Territory en- route
10 Columbus, q. They were carried In the
prison car OF the Missouri. Kansas q Texas,
A movement Is on foot To secure appro-
priations from the Great Northern Rail-
| way 20 establish railroad branches OF the
Y. NJ. G. a. along that line. President Hill
has expressed a willingness TO aid the
cause.
George w. Ristine. former president of
the Colorado Midland, has been Installed
Freight Association. which has heretofore
been under the management or II. Ill.
COPYRIGHT.
Train 20 has become so heavy that OF late.
unless track conditions are very favorable.
IL Is hauled east from indianapolis by two
locomotives. This train hauls from ten 20
twelve cars, several OF them being Pullman
sleeping ears.
The Transcontinenta line Will, on April
l.. advance rates on hops from the Pacific
coast TO Eastern markets TO 81 per 100
pounds, and after hat date the maximum
carload OF dried fruits and canned goods
will be $1,000 pounds.
w. Il. Green. superintendent of the south
crn division of the Kansas City Southern,
yesterday retired to accept similar service
with the Santa Fe. and Is succeeded 1y
l. G. BeVard. on the Kansas
City Southern, promoted.
Frank Bronson. mechanical engineer of
the Peoria * Eastern shops at Urbana.
was i'm the city yesterday. visiting his
father. III. NJ. Bronson, assistant general
passenger agent Of the Big Four lines.
last evening going 10 Washington.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
is calling in all Of it's old policies and is
suing new insurance policies 10 conform
10 the laws of Indiana. The change Is made
t. comply with every State and Territory I'm
the Union and every province In n
e.. S. Perkins. division freight agent OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, has
been appointed manager OF the coal and
coke traffic Of the Pennsylvania lines west
OF Pittsburg. with Offices In P~ttsburg. IA.
II. Lowry. Mr.. Perkins's chief clerk. sur
ceeds him.
a. j.. Cross. freight contracting agent OF
the c., Il. x O.. and one OF the best known
men in his position I'm the United States,
IL dead M his home In Riverside. a suburb
of Chicago. He was In his sixty-seventh
year and had been with the Burlington
road twenty-six years.
Tn Chicago. Burlington & Quincy I'm Feb
ruary let contracts for improvements IL