The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Frank j. Gould, accompanied by his wife,
is touring all the Gould lines. On Sunday
they were in Salt Lake City.
For the first time in many weeks every
train from the East arrived on tine yes
terday at the Union Staten.
Paymaster Cannon, of the Belt road and
Union Railway Company, yesterday dis
bursed S1S,970 as wages TO employees for
February.
George Bender, general agent of the Big
Four at Sandusky, accompanied by his
wife. is in the city to attend the funeral
of a relative.
S. J. Sagru was yesterday installed as
travelling passenger agent Of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, with headquar-
tiers at Fort Wayne.
h Santa Fe has awarded a contract for
100 locomotives to the Baldwin locomotive
works, most of them of the heaviest type
of passenger and freight engines.
The Baltimore & Ohio is utilizing the
property ii secured several years ago on
Staten island in charging its yards. When
completed they will have a capacity of
5000 cars.
A proposition has been submitted TO the
Western roads to make the same summer
tourist rates to South Dakota points as
are made to Colorado and Utah, and favor
able action is looked for.
Lieut.. H. s. Harrod, of the Pennsylvania
police force, left for Buffalo yesterday,
where he goes to install the Pennsylvania
police force on 500 miles of new territory,
Ol NnlCH nt II " Dt III Cll6l
NJ. Z. ingalls,, president of the Big Four.
has extended his Florida trip to Cuba and
has been joined by his son, Albert Ingalls,,
superintendent of the Cleveland and In
dianapolis division of the Big Four.
The Panhandle has completed on the In
dianapolis division, just west of Columbus,
a new double arch stone bridge which cost
$4,000 and is said to be the best piece of
stone work on the line west of P%ittsbury.
At the meeting of the Interstate-com-
merce Commission in Louisville March ID
charges made of irregular practices on
the part of the Big Four. the Monon and
the Chesapeake & Ohio will be considered.
On March % the terms of E.. B.. Morris,
Thomas De Witt Cuyler, James McCrea
and Lincoln Godfrey as directors of the
Pennsylvania expire. and it is understood
that all will be reelected for a term of four
years.
B. F. Wyley, Jr., general passenger agent
of the Atlanta a West Point Railroad,
his resignation as general passenger agent,
to take effect March Is. His future plans
are not known.
NJ. w. Mansfield said yesterday that their
line was now better cleared up of freight
than at any time in the last twelve months.
The road handled lib loaded cars last
week, the largest movement in the roads
history In any one week.
The increase i'm freight traffic of the Big
Four at Anderson has been so great that
the company will erect a second freight
house at that point, utilizing the present
station for outbound business and the new
building for inbound freightS.
The Lake Erie * Western will Jointly
with the Pennsylvania build "A road at
Hartford City, Ind. which will connect
with all the principal industries of that
city. which in the busy season load from
twenty-five to thirty cars per day.
r. r. Blythe has been appointed agent
of the Panhandle at Minerva. vice c. G..
Rhodes. resigned; J. j.. Whitstone, agent
at Yellow Greek. vice H. G., Winter, re-
signed, and w. II. Daniels agent at Sum
mitsville, vice j. II. Whitstone. transferred.
Henry Fink. who last week rendered his
resignation as president of the Norfolk *
Western. began his railroad career i'm 1851
and has grown old In the service. He is now
over seventy years old apd tenders his res
ignation that he may retire from active
service
The Book of the Royal Blue. published
by the Baltimore & Ohio. for March con-
tains an article of interest on the remodel
ing of Washington in the twentieth cen
fury, and an article entitled How Har-
per's Ferry Fell is of more than ordinary
interest.
c. +. Schaff general manager of the Big
-Four. J. \. Barnard. general manager of
the Peoria * Eastern, and j. b. Cockrum.
general solicitor of the Lake Erie & West
ern. are at Peoria to-day attending the
annual meeting OF the Peoria * Pekin
Union Railways
on May 1 all passenger and freight Offices
of the Missouri Pacific, the Denver & Rio
Grande, the International & Great North
ern and the Texas Pacific i'm New York city
will be removed from their present loca-
ton To 80 and 30 Broadway. The Gould
lines will then all be in the same building.
In 1901 the Pennsylvania road (proper)
purchased 127 locomotives at an average
cost of $4,000 each and increased its power
10 per cent by the heavier weight of the
engines purchased. The rOa6 has 1.179 pas
senger cars, adding III TO the number dur
ing 1901. and has in service 50. 500 freight
cars. dding 2.SlI last year.
The Peoria * Eastern will expend S4.0Oo
in improvements AT MooresVfile in enlarg-
ing the yards and shopts AT that point. $780,
900 at Urbana in further charging the