The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-11

ticalIy completed with the exception OF lay
ing the track.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Joseph Ramsey. president of the Wabash.
day.
me Big Four will turn out of its shops
at Brightwood this week three new modern
postal cars.
The Pennsylvania has decided to send
some OF is new engines west for service
on the Vandalia.
p II. Ellis has been appointed general
baggage agent for the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, to succeed the late w. Sadd.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana is convert
ing it's old-style parlor into day
coaches and will replace them with new
cars
George II. Prescott, ex-superintendent of
motive power Of the Vandalia lines, was in
the city yesterday calling on old-time
friends.
1t has been decided by the Erie manage
ment to doubie-track its line east Of Mead
VILE Pa. Work upon the improvement will
be begun at once.
In the last fiscal year of the Santa Fe
lines there were handled on the system
5,664. S11 passengers. and each was carried
little more than ninety miles.
Frank Wilson. private secretary to ]. @
Van Wrinkle, returned yesterday from
two weeks Southern trip. He visited
Charleston, S. c., and St. Augustine, Fla.
With the opening of the new offices of
the Wabash at Pittsburg Central Passen-
ger Agent f. II. l.. Tristram and Assistant
General Freight Agent w. d. Holiday will
give a welcome luncheon.
E. c. Kennay, late trainmaster on the
Cleveland division of the Big Four. has ac-
cepted q position with the American
Finance and Trust Company Of New York,
with office at Cleveland, o.
In the twenty-four hours ending at mid
night Sunday night there were handled on
the Vandalia between Terre Haute and In
dianapolis fOrty-one freight trains. averag
ing twenty-eight cars to the train.
Thomas Quill, formerly of Indianapolis,
now travelling passenger agent of the Chi
cago Great Western, will retire Jan. l
from that position and accept position
with Pittsburg insurance company.
Paymaster Cannon, of the Union Railway
and Belt road, yesterday disbursed among
the employees over SIS. 800 October and No
vember being months in which the pay rolls
were the largest in the cOmpany's history.
G. A. Nunamaker, baggage agent of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana, has obtained
three months leave OF absence, and with
his wife and three children passed through
the city yesterday. en- route to Los Angeles,
Cal. Mr.. Nunamaker owns near Los An
geles an English walnut grove of 914 thrifty
trees.
1t is stated that the Wabash will make
extensive improvements at st. Louis prior
to the worlds fair 10 be held in that city.
president Ramsey Is quoted as saying that
pany will elevate Forest Park tracks for
the purpose of giving excellent worlds fair
service.
The Cincinnati. Georgetown & Ports
mouth Railroad Company has filed with the
Ohio secretary of state notice of increasing
its common stock from $500. 900 to 81. 500, 900.
Notice is also given that $4,000 of pre-
| ferred stock has been redeemed. A. NJ.
Comstock is president and r. Z. Field sec
rotary of the company.
The large iron and steel interests in the
Mahoning valley, including the United
| States Steel Corporation the National
| Steel Company. the Republic Iron and
! Steel Company and the Bessemer Associa-
ton are preparing plans for the construc,
! ton of a freight railroad from Cleveland
/ through the Mahoning valley to Pittsburg.
The Western Canada Press Association
will early next month make transconti-
mental trip. According to the itinerary ar
ranged, the party will leave Denver for Los
! Angeles, Cal, Jan. %, via the Santa fe
! Many noted Canadian writer's will be in the
| party which will make side trips from Will
liams TO view the grand canyons of Ari-
IONA.
William Gives Stanley, commercial agent
/ of the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific at
Kansas City will retire on Jan. l TO be-
come traffic manager of the Western Gro
Gerry Company. Mr.. Staley has been in rail
! road service twenty-One years, the last
! fourteen representing the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific and for four years past it's
| commercial agent.
| Ohio will begin 10 operate the Ohio q Little
| Kanawha Railway on Jan. l. road which
| the former purchased last month. The Ohio
| & Little Kanawha Railroad formerly
! known as the GAINESVILLE * Ohio. 1t runs
| from GAINESVILLE to Marietta, o., eighty
! miles. IT has capital of $1,O0O,OOO as COM
mon and $l,250,O00 preferred stock. This
road should not be COMPOUNDED with the
Little Kanawha Railroad, which extends
from Parkersburg, w. Va, to Crestline, w.
| Va. The latter was recently sold TO syn
dictate represented by the Pennsylvania
line, and at various times has been reported
to pass into the hands of the Baltimore &
Ohio and the GOulds. The purchase by the
3. & O. of the Ohio & Little Kanawha
/ rain & Wheeling and OF the Ohio River x
West Virginia Short-line, made earlier in
the the year; gives the Pennsyivania, through
the Baltimore & Ohio, virtual control of
the coal fields of northwest Virginia and
| southwestern Ohio.
George Graves. general superintendent of
the Indiana. Decatur & Western, yesterday
/ received a telegram from NJ d. Woodford,
president of the road stating that fifteen
miles of new seventy-pound to the yard
steel rails were being shipped this week
the way. These rails will be laid on the In
diana, Decatur & Western President
WOOdfOrd being determined to bring this
road up to the excellent standard of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton. Work on
the extension is being pushed rapidly as
men can be employed to do it, and it is ex-
pected to have the thiry-two mile extension
from Decatur to Springfield completed by
Jan. l. The extension is being laid with
seventy pound steel rails, all of which are
now on the ground President Woodford
has great expectations of an increase OF
business that this extension of the l., d. &
w. will bring 10 that road and to the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton * Dayton, as it will open
new territory as a feeder to these roads
and give ii a short line to Indianapolis Gin
cinnati and Southeastern territory.