The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-03

Sheridan. free from crossings OF other roads
and above grade of the highways. Express
trains can then run sixty miles an hour
with perfect safety
Jay McCracken. cashier of the Pennsyl-
vania Company at Fort Wayne. will leave
this week on an extended vacation. He will
spend a month OF the time at FL Paso,
Tex. w. J. Haas. formerly at indianapolis,
viii have charge of his work
The first passenger train to go through
10 Nashville over the Nashville. Chatta-
nooga & St. Louis since last Friday left
Chattanooga yesterday morning. all bridges
having been repaired. Regular freight
schedules have also been resumed.
George G. Clark has been appointed gen
eral agent Of the Wells-Fargo Company In
San Francisco. to succeed II. w. Titus, re-
tired on account of i'll health. and s. A
Butler, formerly assistant superintendent,
has been appointed as his assistant.
Warren j. Lynch. general passenger
agent of the Big Four. was in the city
assistant general passenger agent, con-
corning improvements TO the ticket office
at Washington and Meridian streets.
c. Z. Schaff. general manager of the Big
Four, spent yesterday in the city in con-
ference most of the day with General Su-
perintendent Van Wrinkle, superintendent
of Motive Power Garstang. and other Of
ficials of the mechanical department.
c. w. Bradshaw, roadmaster of the
Louisville & Nashville at Columbia, Tenn.
has been appointed superintendent of the
Owensboro and Nashville division. vice J.
r. Wheeler, transferred to the South *
North Alabama road at Birmingham.
The Big Four handled on its system in
March 1876, 30l passengers against 400. I'll in
March last year. 1t is evident that the troll
ley lines are not cutting into the Big Four's
business very seriously, it carrying 1850
more passengers than in March last year.
]. F. Hedden has been appointed super
intendent of the Central New England
road, vice w. j. Martin, resigned. The po-
sition of general traffic manager has been
abolished and the duties will be looked
after by D.. a. Geraty, general freight
agent.
Rates on wheat flour for export will be
advanced April IA to the basis of ny cents,
Chicago TO New York. For six weeks it has
been but 10 cents, and this enabled West
ern millers to handle export flour with a
little profit, which they cannot do with a
1715-cent rate.
George w. Kittredge, chief engineer of
the Big Four, was in the city yesterday,
coming here from Cleveland. He states that
the company has already commenced the
work of laying the second track on the st.
Louis division, and will lay twelve or fifteen
miles at once.
Machinists employed i'm different railroad
shops who are members of the Interna-
tlonal Association of Machinists are plan
ming TO demand a nine-hour day and an in
crease OF l212 cents per day in their wages.
This statement is made upon information
of z. j. Colon, who is vice president of the
AiNNAOAAOl VI bdiAALdllOI.
Chairman Pratt, of the Southwestern
Passenger Bureau, who has been at French
Lick Springs, has returned to his head
quarters. He states that the lines which
have withdrawn from the association will
pay their proportion of the expenses until
something more definite is known as to the
legality of the organization.
The Mobile & Ohio, which has been closed
to traffic on account of washouts since last
Thursday, will not be open for business
until SATURDAY, night. Superintendent
Clarke says 800 feet of trestle has been
washed away near Enterprise. Miss, and
that several miles of track has been turned
upside down and carried into a swamp.
President S-haughnessy, of the Canadian
Pacific, has asked for an appropriation of
$l9, 100000 out of the proceeds of the new
issue of stock. OF the sum $40, 000,00 90 is to
go into new equipment, 100000 for en-
largement of the company'S shops at Mont
real, $1.5O0.Oo0 for improving the track and
100000 for grain elevators and terminal
Improvements.
Marvin Hughitt, president of the Chi
cago & Northwestern, denies that he is to
retire in favor of w. X. Vanderbilt. Mr..
Hughitt has been in fact. if not technically,
and since 1887 its president. The story of
his life for half a century is almost synoni-
nous with that of the telegraph and rail-
roads in the West, he beginning as a tele-
graph operator at Auburn, n. Y.
John c.. Hassler, who has been relieved of
his position as Muncie city ticket agent of
the l.. u. x w. by the appointment Of Har-
ry i. Green TO the joint agency Of the l..
+. & w. and Big Four roads at the new
union station, has been appointed travelling
passenger agent of the Fort Wayne divi-
sion of the l.. e. & w. and for part of the
main division. This position is a new one
created by the l.. +. * w. TO increase the
business on the Fort Wayne division.
President Edwin S. Hooley. of the Ev-
ansville 81 Terre Haute, discussing the af-
fairs of the company. said yesterday: "On
Saturday next a party of directors, includ-
ing myself. will leave this city TO make a
thorough investigation of the Evansville
q Terre Haute We will be accompanied
by a representative of an auditing COM
pany, who has been asked to make a thor
ough investigation of the property. AS
soon as this examination is completed a de-
tailed statement Will be issued"
The natural beauty and grandeur of the
Michigan inland region is fast becoming
| famous. For many years the Grand Rapids
q Indiana has presented the attractions OF
this section for pleasure resorts, and now
the Cincinnati, Hamilton az Dayton and the
Michigan Central have awakened to the
| fact that they have an inlet by the Macki-
nae division, direct by rail, to the vast
chain of inland lakes and are planning to
| stimulate travel TO these pleasure resorts
the coming season.
| sylvania, was shocked last Saturday when
a stranger stepped up TO the ticket window
and insisted on paying for four trips. New
| Castle TO Sharon. amounting to 81. 10. which
he said he beat the road out of four years
ago. He said he had become a Christian
and his conscience SO troubled him that he
wanted TO end It by paying that sum. He
| declined to give his name. The agent finally
consented 70 receive the money and turned
it in to the treasurer of the company, ac-
| companying it with the above statement.
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