The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-26
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Wabash directors have authorized
the payment of the regular 3 per cent semi
annual interest on the debenture bonds.
Houston. Tex, has established a freight
bureau, and the man who gets its manage
ment will receive salary of 5000 year.
On Friday a train of eleven cars was
hauled on the Michigan Central from St
Thomas to Windsor, 112 miles, in 100
minutes.
On July J. S. Hershey will succeed j. H.
freight agent of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe.
On Sunday the Chicago & Northwestern
reduced the running time of its express
trains between Chicago and Sioux City two
and one-half hours.
c. B. Peck has been elected manager of
the Texas Car Service Association, and
will enforce the per diem system for freight
cars of foreign lines.
On July 1 forty points on the Southern
Railway-the old Louisville. Evansville &
st. Louis and its branches-will come under
control of the Indiana car-service bureau.
Joseph Ramsey. president of the Wabash.
is in Pittsburg looking after the attempt TO
prevent the Wabash getting into Pittsburg
over the tracks of the Pittsburg, Carnegie
q Western.
NJ w Mansfield, superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, and the Indian
apolis Terminal, was in Pittsburg yester-
day attending a meeting of the transporta-
ton officials.
The Monon is still spending money freely
on its main line in eliminating curves re-
ducing grades and laying heavier steel and
its track will soon be equal to that of any
road in the country.
The local agents and yardmasters met
yesterday at the Board of Trade room and
perfected plans for introducing on July
the per diem charge for the use of cars
when on freight lines.
The Pennsylvania Company has put on
a through sleeping car line between Pitts
burg and PetoSkey in connection with the
Grand Rapids & Indiana, via Fort Wayne
the car running daily except Sunday.
John C. Young, well-known civil engineer
died I'm Detroit on Tuesday, aged seventy.
He had been connected with the engineer
ing corps of the Grand Trunk for twenty
five years, and was an expert in his line of
work
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, be-
tween Indianapolis and Cincinnati, has for
three years gone over the road daily. and
twenty days without interruption.
The officials of the Lake Shore are seek
ing to improve their dining-car service.
which now has the reputation OF being the
best in the country. J. r. Smart suDerin-
tendent of that department. and other Of
ficials are considering the matter.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton has
under contemplation some changes In its
time schedule, taking out the stops of an
Indianapolis to Cincinnati in three hours.
the same time that Train g now does
+ Passenger officials of the Vanderbilt lines
were in conference yesterday in New York
considering further improving the service.
Warren j. Lynch. of the Big Four. n. ].
Rhein. of the Lake Erie & Western. and
Charles DAILY. of the Lake Shore. are now
I'm the East
Commencing tomorrow the Chicago Mil
waukee e St. Paul will establish weekend
service from Chicago and Milwaukee to
Wausau. Merrill. Tomahawk Minocqua
Plum Lake and Star Lake. A sleeping car
At $50 p. m.
on July 1. when the Atlantic Coast-line
will absorb the Plant system. il is stated
that 3. w. Wren. for years the popular