The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-09
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Rush orders have been given for the car
shops of the Wabash line in placing the
passenger equipment in the best order.
w. III. McDoel, president of the Monon
lines, who has been in New York several
days, is expected at his headquarters to-
day.
The Chesapeake & Ohio's gross earnings
in the fourth week of April Increased S43
S53; since July l an increase of $l,7l6,3lS is
shown.
A. r.. Fillebrowne, supervisor of the
Pennsylvania Altoona division has been
appointed assistant engineer of the Pitts
burg x Erie.
The Big Four ran a special car from In
diadarols last night, carrying four fami
lies who &C To Denver 10 recide, the party
nur bering seventeen.
A local passenger association has been
formed at Peoria, ILL.,, with George Alex
ander, of the Big Four, as president and
j. O'Connell as secretary.
Some action will be taken at the next
meeting of the directors of the Louisville
< Nashville looking toward the erection of
a new general office building in Louisville
Ky.
DR.. r. G. Ferran. surgeon for the Penn
sylvania Railroad on Tuesday delivered
lecture before the Pennsylvania Railroad
branch of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation.
w F. herman, formerly commercial
agent for the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts
burg at Pittsburg, has resigned to take the
position of travelling freight agent of an
other road.
Indications are that the special train
made up of day coaches which is to be run
by the Big Four and Lake Shore May Is
from Indianapolis to Buffalo will be well
patrOnized.
The auditors of the several roads running
into indianapolis will to-day audit the
books of Charles StilZ, general ticket agent
of the Union Railway Company, and of
Auditor \innedge.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Western has
notified the officers of the Central Passen-
ger Association that ii has taken its ticket
representative out of Cleveland, thus clear
ing up all possible trouble
II is stated that the contractors who are
70 build the Fort Wayne & Butler road and
the Wabash link between Toledo * Mont
pelier will I'm the next ten days have fully
three thousand men at work.
W. c. Arp. superintendent Of motive pow
er of the Nandalia lines. is in the city. He
states that their shops are running full
time and employing the largest number of
men in the company 5 history.
The private car OF J. a. Barnard. general
manager OF the Peoria x Eastern. has been
rebuilt at the UrDana shops and is a
model car In every respect. Mr.. Barnard
left In Il yesterday afternoon for Peoria.
The Lake Erie & Western is credited with
being one Of the best excursion lines in
Central Passenger Association territory
cursion they are said TO be well patronized.
At the meeting called for tomorrow in
Chicago by +. G. Donnell. commissioner OF
the Central Passenger Association. il is the
intention TO try TO settle the differential
quarrel between the Wabash and a half
dozen Western lines.
So extensive are the Improvements in
progress on the Logansport division OF
the Pennsylvania lines that r. ~. Crowell
assistant engineer on the PittsDurg divi-
sion, has been transferred temporarily 70
the Logansport division.
J. Ii. Mcconnell. who has been succeeded
by s Higgins of the Lehigh Valley road.
az superintendent OF motive power of tht
by the employees OF the mechanical depart