The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-13
Local, Personal and General Notes.


NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent of the
indianapolis * Vincennes, has gone to
Pittsburg.
Trainmaster Quimby. of the Monon, is in
the city for the week to look after the
train service.
A. L. Robbins. superintendent of the
Buffalo division of the Wabash, was in the
city yesterday.
w. c. Arp, superintendent of motive pow
er of the Vandalia, was in the city yester-
day en- route to Philadelphia.
Plans have been made for a new union
station at Benton Harbor to be erected by
the Big Four and the Pere Marquette.
Charles Peddle. purchasing agent of the
Vandalia, has gone to Louisiana to pur-
chase a years supply of lumber for the
road.
President Fish, of the Illinois Central,
says he will not stop until he has the road
double tracked from Chicago to New Or
leans.
Warren Wright, who died last week.
aged seventy-nine, had been general freight
agent of the Great Northrn road nearly
tweny-SiX years.
The Illinois Central expects to nave its
new system of dfspatchfng trains by tele-
phone in practical working order over the
entire system within sixty days.
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York on Saturday were six swiss
guides, who have been engaged by the Ca
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on the line of the railroad.
In April there arrived and departed at the
Union Station 4.474 passenger trains,
against 1882 in April. 1901. on these trains
were handled in April this year 25,075 cars,
against %, 723 in April last year.
d. w. Gaylord. Of Cincinnati, travelling
passenger and freight agent for the Va
tional Railway Company of Mexico, has
been promoted to commercial agent, with
headquarters at the City of Mexico.
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Locomotive Engineers will convene in Nor
folk, Va, tomorrow in international an
nual convention of the order. The Eastern
and Central States are included in the or
ganization.
George Lowell. general superintendent of
the Monon, was In the city yesterday, going
to Louisville in the evening. He reports
that business requires all the company
equipment to handle II.
n. w. Taylor. general freight agent, and
w. H. Coleman, assistant general freight
agent of the Vandalia, were in the city yes
teTday to attend the funeral of Caesar
Rodney, for many years freight agent OF
the line at this point.
The new passenger engines of the Santa
Fe are hauling twelve-car trains over the
steep mountain grades and making SEIZED
ule time. These engines weigh 209, O0O
pounds. and the tank carries ten tons OF
coal and 600 gallons of water.
Eighty men thus far have been dis
charged from shops of the Union Pacific
who belonged to labor unions and have
been accused of tampering with locomo-
tives of the company built by the Baldwin
locomotive works, a %nonunion establish
ment.
1t is stated that the Leeds syndicate has
secured control of $1,000, 900 of the stock of
the Chicago q Northwestern, and has made
formal application for representation OF
road. as shown by Poor's Manual, is sci.
100000.
An incident which excites comment is the
selling of several thousand shares of the
New York Central stock by DR.. Webb. He
was last week elected a director of the
Lake Shore Company, and is said TO be or
the best of terms with the Vanderbilt
family.
The May number of the Cincinnati. Ham
ilton * Dayton Magazine contains an ex-
cellent description of Mackinac island and
the attractions for pleasure seekers. The
c., II. * d. now runs the finest trains
that go out of Cincinnati to Michigan pleas
ure resorts.
An official of the Pennsylvania says the
company has never had the matter of z
seventeen-hour train between New York
and Chicago up for consideration and thaI
the report sent out from Chicago TO that
grounds 10 base 1T on.
r.. W. Hutchinson, chief florist on the
PENNSYLVANIA lines west, is now, with Z
force of men, decorating the stations along
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Among other things. ne is planting vine:
which grow rapidly and will hide watch
boxes and hand-car houses.
President Kimball, of the Norfolk &
Western. says the report that the com
pany is buying control Of the Detroit South
ern is premature and for the most par
false, but that ii doubtless has been tenta
lively considered by various roads. win,
to it's excellent position as a coal road L
the lakes.
w. c. Shoemaker. the new superintendent.
of the indianapolis division of the Cincin
natl, Hamilton * Dayton was in the city
yesterday. c.. II. Waldo, superintendent o.
car service OF the lines. accompanied him
and in the afternoon on a special trair
with a number of local railroad men mad,
a trip over the Belt line.
The proposed consolidation of the At
lantic Cost line and the Plant system wa.
definitely settled at the stockholders meet
ing Of the Atlantic Coast line in Richmond
Va. yesterday. June is was named as IN,
date of another meeting 10 arrange the de
tails. 1t is said there will be no change il
the Atlantic Coast line officers.
The Fuller syndicate. which represent
the Wabash, which has just obtained con
troll of the Western Maryland. is now nego
tiating for the Maryland * Pennsylvania;
road, and the stock has advanced In tn
last few days 81 per share. The road i
eighty miles in length, extending from Bal
timore 10 Cardiff, with a branch from New
York 10 South Delta.
The Pittsburg * Lake Erie is now erect
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