The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-12
Personal, Local and General Notes.


On Sunday last the Baltimore & Ohio
| Southwestern handled on its line fourteen
theatrical troupes, numbering 453 people.
Merch Baldwin, recently a train dis
patcher on the Nickel-plate, has taken
similar position on the New York Central.
John Hardy, joint agent of the Hoosac
Tunnel line at Dayton and indianapolis,
was in the city yesterday to confer with
Local Agent Parmalee.
The Southern Indiana has just completed
| metallic circuit long-diStance telephone,
connecting all the mines ii operates with
the general offices of the company.
William Green. vice president and gen
eral manager of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern, who has been in the East
ten days. has returned to his headquarters.
The earnings of the Wabash for January
exceeded all former records, the official re-
port showing them TO have been 1850 30.
an increase over any former January of
$141. 525.
E. r. Bonnen, chief clerk in the office
of superintendent of car service of the Big
Four lines, was yesterday summoned to
Carthage by the supposed fatal illness of
his mother.
The Wabash and Santa Fe have given
notice that it is their intention to equalize
rates to important commercial centers
! when lOw-rate excursions are in effect 10
intermediate points.
A number of Indiana roads are now
/ troubled to get water for locomotives, the
supply at the water tanks along the lines
i
/ haul water TO certain points.
! President Hays of the Grand Trunk has
| been elected chairman of the executive
committee of the Central Vermont, which
4 is taken as evidence that the latter is
! fuIl-hedged Grand Trunk interest.
When the Wabash gains entrance to
/ Pittsburg it promises to become an impor-
/ tant line in its coal traffic Men in close
/ touch with the Wabash have secured the
/ best coal fields between the Ohio river
/ and Pittsburg along the line of the extern
/ sion of the Wabash.
7 D. Anthony, for many years assistant
| TO the general agent of the Erie lines at
! Cleveland. o., WILL on Feb. 10. retire from
that position to take position with a
/ work as a stenographer for w. c. Rinear-
| son. then assistant general passenger agent
/ of the Erie, in 1888.
D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic manager
1 of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton. has
/ appointed Lewis NJ. Webb. his chief clerk
| since the retirement of Walter Nichols, as
! assistant general passenger agent of the
/ lines Mr.. Webb is a young man of excel
/ lent character and well informed in this
! line of railroad service.
Rv the sale of the Cecilia branch of the
Illinois Central for $1,000, 600 the latter COM
! pany is released from paying $4,000 per
! annum to the Louisville K Nashville. 1t
/ is thought to be good deal for both In
/ terests as the Illinois Central enjoys
higher credit. as far as bonds go, than does
the Louisville & Nashville.
Josiah Quincy, former mayor of Boston,
/ and party of capitalists are en- route TO
| Mexico. where they will spend month
! making a tour of Mexico with a view of
| making investments. Several of the party
are interested in the building of the Mex
/ leo & Eastern road, projected 1,6OO-miie
/ line to run from Texas to Yucatan.
Property at St Louis covering a total
! area of five blocks yesterday trans
! ferred to George j. Gould president of the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Rail
way companies. The consideration was
/ $50, eco. 1t is rumored that Mr. Gould has
made the purchase for the purpose OF
| building an immense freight house and to
! extend freignJ-yard facilities.
The acquisition of several roads in Can
ada by the Vanderbilt people is attracting
a good deal of attention. The Nanderbilts
have not only acquired the Canada At
Great Northern of Canada. This acquired
the Vanderbilts will prove a formidable
| competitor of the Canadian Pacific for the
| traffic OF the Canadian Northwest.
The Santa Fe people are said to be ne
: gotiating for the St. Louis * Hannibal road.
with a view OF gaining entrance into St.
| Louis. Should the Santa Fe secure the
! road. which is eighty-six miles in length,
to get a St. Louis line, it would have to
build from point on its Chicago and Kan
/ sas City division to Hannibal and thirty
| miles of road from Gilmore TO ST. Louis
Considerable significance is attached to
/ II. G. Clark throwing up his position on the
/ Union Pacific and accepting the manage
ment OF the ChOctaW road, his appointment
| becoming effective Feb. 10. 1t is believed
| that important extensions are contem-
! plated, the company now having about 600
| miles of main line. Mr.. Clark. it is stated,
/ was put in office by the Philadelphia in
I terests in the property.
/ The report of the Pennsylvania for 1901
/ will soon be issued and will contain, it
/ is stated, most remarkable showing of its
earning capacity-one which cannot be sur
/ passed by any other railroad in the coun-
| try. 1t will disclose immense charges
! against income account for improvements,
/ extraordinary expenditure, ETC., and in
/ connection with its allied properties large
/ undivided equities owned by the Pennsyl-
/ vania Company either directly or indirectly.
Through the operation of the pension
/ system on the Illinois Central road 100
employees. in the eight months il has been
| in operation. have been retired, eighty
I two being over seventy years of age; one
I was lightweight years old, and a num-
I Der over eighty years. The age for retire
ment under the companys pension system
/ is compulsory at seventy years. and the
! optional and inca pacitated age of sixty-one
/ years. The company now has on its pay
rolls over g, 0oo names.
Within the last week stock of the Big
| Four has been selling above l05 per share.
| 10000 shares having changed hands. and 1t
| Is exciting comment. as the Vanderblits are
| said TO hold the controlling stock Of the
i road. and why there should be such an adj