The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-06

The Wabash has placed in its observation
cars and cafe cars a library of 100 volumes,
all well-selected novels and essays.
The report is again current that Joseph
Ramsey. president of the Wabash. will be
placed at the executive head of all Gould
lines.
w. II. Doel. president of the Monon lines,
who has been East for a couple of weeks.
is expected at headquarters. Chicago, to-
morrow.
w. J. Fitzgerald. local superintendent of
telegraph of the Big Four lines. is on a
Western trip. and will visit Salt Lake City
before returning.
Travel over the Panhandle of late, east
bound. has been so heavy that Train 20 is
daily obliged to take an extra coach
through to P~ittsburg.
The fast mail on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne q Chicago recently made the run
from pittsburg to Chicago. 46S miles, in
eleven hours. hauling ten cars.
John F. Miller, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Cleveland. Akron &
Columbus. was i'm the city yesterday. look
ing after some private interests.
Harry Miller. general manager of the
Nandalia, and Superintendent McKeen. OF
the main line, were i'm the city yesterday,
in conference with Receiver Maiott.
With new equipment received last month
the Baltimore & Ohio. including the Balti-
more Il Ohio Southwestern has i'm service
&c. 1884 freight cars of all descriptions.
ID. 6. Edwards. passenger traffic manager
OF, the CINCINNATI, Hamilton & Dayton lines.
who has been East ten days, will return
to-day to his headquarters, at Cincinnati.
G. +. Schaff. general manager of the Big
Four system, who has been out on the
lines most of this week. will return to his
headquarters from Cleveland this morning.
About 400 miles of the Illinois Central
between Chicago and New Orleans is now
double tracked, and the remaining mileage
is being so improved with all possible
speed.
The Big Four was notified yesterday thar
the last ten of 200 new box cars contracted
for in April will be delivered to-day, max
Ing the freight equipment of the Big Four
20.162 ears.
Monon Engine Ill has just come out of
the shops and will make its initial trip to
Chicago with Train 80 this afternoon. The
two engines of this type have made won
derful records for speed.
John Magee. passenger conductor on the
Big Four. has the sympathy of many
friends in the deaths in his family of late.
I'm the last hirty days he has buried his
wife. then his mother and this week his
daughter.
The Blue-back Guide for September is
i'm. The book will contain changes not
shown i'm other guides. 1t will contain
this month time tables of the electric inter
urban lines.
passenger agent of the Chicago. Milwaukee
& St. Paul. has been elected president of
the World storage Company. just or
ganized. which will do a general tourist and
transfer business.
4 rate war is on between the Toledo G.
Ann Arbor and the Pcre Marquette roads.
The former advertised n 81 excursion from
Toledo to Frankfort. This was met by the
Pere Marquette. and the Ann Arbor then
made the rate - cents.
Northwestern lines are beginning to feel
a shortage of cars, and predictions of trait
fc officials are that, even with the large
amount of new equipment now being de-
livered, there will be serious COMPOSITIONS at
terminals before this month ends.
The most perfect stretch of four-track
road in the world is said To he found on the
river division of the P%ittsburg. Fort WAYNE
* Chicago, and daily over that piece of
road phenomenal runs are made with fast
trains of the Pennsylvania Company.
II. H. Kingston. general traffic manager
the house for nearly four months as a re-
suit of an operation for appendicitis on
Wednesday he was able to be at his Of
flee part of the day. and will soon be fully
restored in health.
George Lowell. general superintendent of
the Monon lines. was i'm the city YESTERDAY.
He thinks the handsome increase i'm earn
ings shown from week 10 week is suf-
icient evidence of the roads great pros
perity. Its increases In net earnings are
more remarkable than those of it's gross.
The official report Of Charles Stilz. gem
eral ticket agent at the Union Station.
shows that the revenue from sale Of tickets
I'm August was the largest of any month in
| the history OF the Union Station. and $l5.-
357.65 ahead Of those Of August. 1909. which
was the best months exhibit Of last year.
For the purpose of heading of trolley
projects the Santa Fe is now selling sea-
son tickets at half a cent "A mile between
| Los Angeles and the surrounding California
towns. and the Southern Pacific is prepar-