The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-18
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Monon earned in the first week of
June 1884, an Increase over the CORE
spending week Of 1901 of $4961.
The Chicago & Alton announces a twen-
ty-dOllar rate TO Colorado common points
June p to July Is. the lowest rate ever
offered.
The Lake Shore road has inaugurated
new train service between Fort Wayne and
Jackson, Mich, connecting at Jackson for
all points north.
In the ten months of the present fiscal
year of the Chesapeake & Ohio shipments
of coal increased over last year 537 1873 tons
and of coke % per cent
w. w. Mediary, for twenty years agent
of the Pennsylvania lines at Columbus and
well known in railroad circles. buried
yesterday at Columbus, o.
Robert j. Fisher. who was elected one
of the directors of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton & Dayton, is treasurer of the Bass
Foundry and Machine Company.
c. l.. Mckay will leave the service of the
Mobile x Ohio on July l to take the vice
presidency of a bank. He has been con-
nected with the road twenty-three years.
Passenger agents are busy working I'D
sion to California Aug. /. The rate is less
than one-way trip, with long limit and
stop-over privileges.
George Rockwell. formerly assistant gem
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania,
was in the city yesterday route to Terre
Haute to witness the graduation of his
daughter from the Polytechnic School.
Otis Robinson. chief clerk in the office of
the master mechanic of the Chicago & AL
ton at Bloomington. ILL.,. accompanied by
his wife, is visiting his parents, who reside
in this city. He was formerly employed on
the Big Four.
The Erie Railway has created an indus
trial department with headquarters in
New York. The object of the new DEPART
ment is to give all possible encoura cement
and TO aid manufacturers who may desire
to locate anywhere along the lines of the
Erie.
Six of the young men who attended Pur-
due have already taken positions in rail-
road shops a. Fort Wayne. All the work
they do at these shops counts as machine
work at college. and is credited TO them as
though they had done the work at Pur-
due.
The fastest speed was attained by the
Pennsylvania special on its first trip be-
tween Cove and Duncanon a short dis
tance west of Harrisburg where four
miles were covered in two minutes and
thirty-one seconds. or speed of $50 miles
an hour.
The new fast train over the Big Four
arrived yesterday morning seven minutes
ahead of time The Boston and New York
sleeping cars carried thirty-five people. and
several additional got on at this point The
Cincinnati sleeping had seven pas
sengers.
Thomas +. Watt passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west. announces two
personally conducted tours to the Pacific
coast. The first will be run Aug . tickets
good until Aug. 81. returning via the Cana
dian Pacific. The second will he run Sent
and return by the Northern Pacific
w. II. McDoel, president Of the Monon.
returned yesterday from New York and
tomorrow will make an inspection of the
line He is expected I'm indianapolis on
Friday. Doubtless something will now be
known as to the coal road which the Monon
contemplates building TO a connection with
the Indianapolis x Nincennes.
r McHattic master mechanic of the
Grand Trunk. has contributed an instruc-
tive and carefully prepared article on
Modern Locomotive Managemert The
article deals chiefly with the achievements
of the last twelve years i'm locomotive de-
velopment. and he takes the position that
the limit as TO size has been reached
George Bender. general agent of the Big
Four at Sandusky. was i'm the city vester-
day to see his son graduate from the
Manual Training High School. The son
will so to New York 10 accept a position
I'm the office of the superintendent Of
road. where his brother Guy Bender. is
assistant engineer.
The roads running into the Union Sta
tion az ST Louis will unite and protect the
public from fraudulent practices of the
ticket scalpers in that city Their plan is
TO secure men whose duty shall he to
watch the scalpers offices located in the
vicinity OF the station and report persons
who are supposed TO have bought tickets
from scalpers
officials OF the Pennsylvania and the
Baltimore Ohio are TO be given another
hearing to-day before the congressional
committee in relation TO the plans for the
new union station 10 he erected at Wash
ington The proposed Improvement will
cost the Pennsylvania alone IS Ono. 600 and
the Baltimore & Ohio 5000 more than II
II carried out its plans for an independent
passenger station.
Controller Grout. Of New York city. has
begun a crusade against the New York
Central 10 get compensation for the privi-
leges that corporation enjoys and makes
inadequate returns The controller saws
the New York Central must pay for its
tunnel privileges as much as does the