The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-11
Personal, Local and General Notes

In June the Indiana Car Service Asso-
citation handled 35.047 cars with an average
detention OF but 1.59 days.
The passenger department of the Union
Pacific has issued twelve beautiful colored
views of the Yellowstone Park.
The Panhandle will expend 100000 in i'm
provements to its shops at Columbus the
work TO commence next month.
The Peoria & Eastern earned in it's fiscal
year ended June 50 S2,51S. S4S against s.
4ss,303 in the preceding year. and against
S2.3564l6 In year ended June 30 1900.
Negotiations are now pending for the
sale of the Detroit & Toledo ShOrt-line to
the Grand Trunk. and if closed the Grand
Trunk Will have entrance to Toledo.
E. NJ. Neel. formerly superintendent of the
st. Louis division of the Big Four, now
general agent at East St Louis is very
low with dropsy and death is looked for
c. A. Robbins. of the train dspatc Of
flee OF the Pennsylvania lines West, has
resigned and accepted the position of train
dispatcher on the Wheeling & Lake Erie.
The report that Stuart r Knott, presi-
dent of the Kansas City Southern, was to
resign and would be elected president of
the Louisville & Nashville. is not confirmed.
On Aug. 1 the Wabash will put In opera
ton its block signal safety service between
Feru and Detroit. All regular telegraph
stations will be included in the service and
a number will be added.
The lines between the Missouri river and
Chicago and St Louis have their new tar
ifs in effect, which make the rates on live
stock, dressed meat and packing house
products the same, based on 231a cents per
100 pounds.
Frederic Burnett. representing the Santa
Fe passenger department; C. MacSmith.
the Grand Trunk: Col. VIM. Shaw, the c.,
z. G.; Charles Mordaugh, the Chicago.
Milwaukee * St. Paul. and II. Plummer, the
Great Northern. are in the city.
Horace Smith. we'll known in Indianapo-
lis railroad circles. he being son of Ticket
Agent Smith, of Columbus, o., has returned
from South America, where he has been
with an engineering corps surveying the
line for the Guayaquill & Quito Railroad
j. B. Barnes. superintendent of motive
power of the Wabash. is in Fort Wayne.
and denies the report that w 8 Cooper of
the Moberly shops is TO come to Fort
Wayne as master mechanic He intimates
that the shops will continue in charge of
Mr.. Coutatt.
President Jeffery. Of the Denver g. Rio
Grande. now in New York city takes a
bright view OF the future of that road He
says II has had a good year. and with the
additions of income from other sources not
yet included his report will be a very ia
vorable one.
The full programme of the sixth annual
convention of the National Association of
Railway Agents. TO be held at Minneapolis.
beginning July %. is interesting embra cling
both pleasure and work The roads center
ing there show disposition to Handsomely
entertain the delegates and their wives.
John a Henley. who resigned as freight
traffic manager of the Kansas City South
ern. left on Wednesday with his wife for
a six weeks trip through Mexico. visiting
his son. mining engineer. Before he left
his associates in railroad service presented
him an expensive loving cup artistically
engraved.
The fight for business between the South
ern Railway and the Illinois Central al
Louisville promises 20 extend to other
roads. each road acting independently. and
II will be surprise IL the Monon. the Big
Four. the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore
* Ohio Southwestern are not drawn into
the trouble
\ rumor comes from New York that the
Chicago. Rock Island * Pacific is asso-
ciated with the Illinois Central in its efforts
To secure control of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois. \ local railway official saws il will
be a relief when the Chicago & Eastern Iii
nois gets into hands likely 10 hold IT. but he
takes little stock in the above report
Frank Reed general passenger agent of
the Monon. Is elated over the handsome in
crease shown for the fiscal year ended
with June 80 in passenger earnings over all
preceding years. and the net earnings of
the line are evidence that the properly is
well managed. but few. IL any. roads OF its
length making more favorable exhibits
The Twentieth Century train made a rec
ord-breaking run on the Lake Shore on
Tuesday. covering tho seventy-six miles
from Goshen to Stryker in sixty-six min