The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-04
is so much improved that he expects to be

is so much improved that he expects to be
at his office next week
Henry Ulrich has been appointed general
yardmaster of the Panhandle at Aenia,
vice F. Genier. transferred.
II. ]. Rhein. general passenger agent.
and Robert Case, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Lake Erie & Western.
were In st. Louis yesterday.
j. p. Smith, passenger conductor on the
81: Louis division of the Big Four. has OBJ
tanned two weeks leave of absence. He
left last night for Kansas City.
Traffic is so heavy with the Lake Shore
road that IL has called on the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie to return the fourteen locomo-
tives borrowed a few weeks ago.
c. F. Houghton, assistant general super
intendent of the Big Four, and William
Garstang, superintendent OF motive power,
returned yesterday from Georgian bay.
Leon Weick. assistant chief baggage
agent of the Lake Shore, who retired from
the position on Sept. l, had been in con-
tinuous service of the company for nifty
years.
Baltimore & Ohio. sailed for Europe yester-
day to be absent six weeks. He was &C
companied by George F. Randolph, for
mer b. e. o. official.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
Union Station in August were this year
$40, 748.5S in excess of those of August. 1901.
in which month the sales were the largest
in the history of the station.
lnOf1dS GdrTlBdn, WHO mas UteH JOiIl
Southern passenger agent of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio at Huntington,
w. Va, has resigned, and it is understood
the vacancy will not be filled.
George Rosbrook, general agent of the
Vanderbilt fast freight lines at Albany.
n. Y, accompanied by his wife, was in
the city yesterday. They were guests OF
l.. j. Baker, general agent OF the Wander
bilt lines at this point.
Private Car s99, of the Chicago & North
western, is now on the Eastern roads, and
attracts a good deal of attention. The car
is seventy-seven feet six inches long. Is
painted a canary color, and Is splendid
Speciment of car building.
The superintendent of motive power of
the Vanderbilt lines held meeting In New
York city on Tuesday and agreed to adopt
the American Railway Association in con-
Struction OF locomotives and cars.
Neil NJ. Loney, who on Sept. / became
assistant master mechanic of the Pennsyl-
vania lines at the shops in Fort Wayne
graduated from Purdue University a few
years ago after serving an apprenticeship
and taking thorough collegiate course.
On Oct. 1 the pay of engineers on the
Lehigh Valley will be advanced. Engi-
neers who receive S11.3712 per round trip.
under the advance will get $l3, and on local
trains the pay will be advanced 90 cents
per day, engineers receiving 1915 per day
More locomotives are now in service on
the middle division of the Pennsylvania than
ever known before, and still the company Is
unable to handle all the freight. There are
now in service on that 40 miles of road
2l4 engines, and twenty-five more could be
used to advantage.
Holders of the j. p. Morgan Co. re-
ceipts for preferred and common stock of
the Monon can now receive new bonds or
cash Tor their receipts properly lndorsed.
Holders who have decided to to take cash
will receive interest at the rate of 4 per
cent from July 1 to Sept. 2.
The Lackawanna has commenced grading
for the new shops to be built at Scranton.
Pa. There will be two large brick build
ings, 80 by 400 feet, and "a number of
smaller buildings in connection. The COM
pany will increase its yard room at that
point by putting in eighteen tracks, an av-
erage of one mile in length.
An informal meeting OF the trunk line
officers was held in New York on Tuesday,
and arrangements were perfected to main
freight east-bound from Missouri river
points. The trunk lines, Ii rs said, will de-
mand their full share of the regular, and
any Western roads making cuts will have
to stand losses.
Charles X. Monor, jr.. who has been pri-
vate secretary to William Nicholson, gen.
eral manager of the Central Railway clear
ing house at Buffalo, has resigned and ac-
cepted position as chief clerk in the office
of ex-senator Charles A. Towne, of New
York. The position carries with it largely
increased responsibilities and handsome
increase In salary.
Inc 1rult shipping season being now prac-
tically over the following statistics become
of interest: The Illinois Central handled
this season 1,192 carloads of peaches, against
1850 last year, 1,414 carloads of water
melons. against 1,029 last year, 152 car
loads of cantaloupes against seventy-seven
last year, and los carloads of pineapples,
against eighty last year.
1t is stated that no train in the country
makes greater speed than does Train No.
Al, over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton. This train leaves Indianapolis, If on
time. at 2:45 p. m, but as 1t waits for Van
dalia passengers fifteen minutes, if it has
any, il frequently makes the run from In
dianapolis to Cincinnati in two hours and
forty-five minutes, and, If pressed, in two
hours and forty minutes.
The headquarters of the freight depart
| ment Of the Southern Railway have been
removed from Washington to Atlanta. a
much more convenient point. The South
ern Railway is now one of the largest
systems in the country, and Atlanta is
| really a hub of the system. 1t is presumed
| that the moving of the headquarters of
| the traffic department foreshadows the con-
.centration of all the general offices in due