The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-05
Milwaukee road. with headquarters at

Milwaukee road. with headquarters at
Defiance. o.
Robert S. Logan has been appointed as
sistant general manager of the Grand
Trunk. He was formerly with the Wabash
at st. Louis
A. W. Noyes, representing the passenger
department of the Chicago Great Western,
and w. I. Laird, of the freight department
are In the city.
George L. Bradbury ex-vice president and
general manager OF the Lake Erie & West
ern. who has been in the city several days.
has returned to Chicago.
]. J. Turner, general manager of the
Vandalia, was In the civ yesterday to
confer with Receiver Malott as to improve
ments the coming year to that property.
The engineering department OF the Chi
cago division of the Big Four has sent in
requsition for thirty-eight miles of new
steel rail, weighing eighty pounds to the
yard.
On Monday a large floating gang will be
set at work on the Indiana, Decatur az
Western laying twenty miles of new steel
rail. The rail weighs seventy pounds to
the yard.
p. III Combs goes TO New York city to
represent the freight and passenger de-
partments of the Cotton Belt, and will be
succeeded at Pittsburg commercial agent
by -. w. Halle.
Wilbar M. Robertson, passenger conduc-
tor the Louisville division of the Penn
sylvania lines, who has been quite i'll for
two weeks. is so much better that he ex-
poets TO resume work on Monday.
The Lake Shore turned the Southwestern
limited over to the Big Four at Cleveland
yesterday over two hours late, and one OF
the new engines then made up thirty-nine
minutes between Gallon and Indianapolis.
Stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad, for
the first time in many years, sold on
Wednesday at $50 per share. Much of the
buying of this stock of late IS thought to
have been wholly speculative in character.
II is not definitely settled whether G. l..
Peck who succeeds John +. Miller as gen.
eral superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Southwestern. system, is to have his head
quarters at Columbus, o.. or at PittSburg
j. H. Lothrop, who was left without a
position by the consolidation Of the Union
Pacific and Oregon Navigation offices I'm
Portland. has been appointed general agent
III New York city of the Oregon Naviga-
tons Asiatic steamship line.
A syndicate of Big Four men a few weeks
ago purchased quite block of that COM
pany's stock at SIS per share, and when it
advanced to SCI so they sold out Had they
held It three weeks longer they could have
disposed of 1t at $3.50 per share.
Willis L. Gray. of Bloomington, who has
been succeeded by J. III. Barrett as gen.
eral superintendent Of the Chicago & Alton,
has been appointed general manager of the
Kansas City Southern Railroad, formerly
| the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf road.
That portion of the Illinois Central road
extending from bingham. ILL.,, to Switz
| City, Ind, eighty-nine miles, will here
after be operated as the bingham district
OF the Peoria division of the Illinois Gen.
trail, and under the jurisdiction of officers of
| the latter division.
Tt is announced that the district pas
senger agency of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul has been transferred from VII
Transport to Pittsburg, and henceforth the
passenger and freight agencies of Pittsburg
yyi11 ho w
Pott, district passenger agent, In charge
The following changes became effective
on the Louisville & Nashville on Jan. 1:
J. III. c. Clark. travelling freight agent.
| headquarters at Pittsburg, vice ]. p. Bo-
| ling, resigned; j. +. Hartbough, travelling
| freight agent, with headquarters at Chi
cago. vice Clark, transferred; o. o. Wander
| berg, travelling freight agent at Kansas
| City, vice Hartbough, transferred.
1t is said at Milwaukee that there is
more foundation for the rumors of a lease
| of the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad to the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern than the persons interested care
| to acknowledge. In this connection Presi-
| dent Roswell Miller's qualifying statement,
| mo lease has been made yet" Is regarded
as significant.
A circular announces that William A. Sui
| Ivan, formerly with the Big Four as agent
| at Indianapolis, has been appointed conf
| mercial agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
with headquarters at Washington. The
| traffic of Philadelphia and Baltimore is
under his supervision. j. r. MacMurdo
| succeeds Mr.. Sullivan as travelling freight
| agent of the c. & o., and w. o. Snyder
| goes to Clifton Forge as freight agent.
| A company of Tennessee and Chicago
capitalists is preparing to construct rail-
| road from Louisville. Ky, TO Port Royal,
| S. C. Those interested in the project have
| organized themselves into the Louisville
| & Port Royal Railroad Company, which
/ has been chartered with a capital OF
| 100000. Surveys will be made within the
next two or three weeks, and next spring
| the promoters expect to have the work
under way.
| The annual meetings of the operators
| owning the main line of the Vandalia will
occur next week for the election or direc-
! tors and corporate officers for the coming
| year The meeting of the st. L., ". & T. II.
will be held at Greenville, ILL.,, on Tuesday.
| and that of the T. III. 81 /. at Terre Hautc
1 on Wednesday. Reports of the operations
under Receiver Malott, which have been
| published in the Journal, will be read for
| the information of the stockholders.
| The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Com
pany to-day brought suit In the United
| State Court at Atlanta, Ga. to enjoin the
| sale of the Georgia Railroad office build
| ings in Augusta. which were levied on by
/ Sheriff OConnor last week at the order
| of Controller Wright. The levy was made
| because the Georgia Railroad Company re-
1 fused to pay state, county and city taxes
claimed by the state on sSsS'9O0 worth of
|! debentures of the Atlanta & West Point
/ Railroad. which Controller Wright claims
is owned by the Georgia Railroad Com
| pany.
Prominent members of the railway broth
| erhoods say that I'm much of the mat
/ ter which appeared in the newspapers re-
| garding their intentions of asking legisla-
| ton they are misrepresented. They say the
| brotherhoods do not intend to work against
| the interest of the railways. The move
ment for a 2-cents.a-mile rate or the eff
| forts to fix cheaper freight rates would be
| opposed by the representatives of the
| hro a their nari
| ence having taught that the greater the
| earnings of railways the moro liberal are
the corporations to expenses and improve
| ments. and as a consequence the greater
the earnings of all employees. They say
that officials have no reason to expect that
| measures hostile to railway interests will
| emanate from men who live in the railway
centers.