The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05
Personal, Local and General Notes.

w. H. McDoel, president of the Monon.
has gone TO SOmerville, S. c., for a two or
three weeks stay.
J. a. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, will go to Chicago to-
day to be absent until Saturday.
The Monon has placed an order with the
Haskell & Barker car works, of Michigan
City, for 200 boxcars, so 900 pounds capacity
The increase in travel over the Southern
Railway in February was phenomenal, be-
ing 40 per cent. in excess of February, 1901.
A special train of fourteen cars. carrying
the Eighth Cavalry, en- route from Cuba to
Fort Riley, passed west over the Big Four
yesterday.
s. D. McLeish has been appointed agent
of the Merchants Dispatch at Evansville,
Ind, vice Elmer j. Wright, transferred TO
other duties.
As a result of the recent conference of
officials with trainmen of the Erie lines
increase has been made in pay of conduc-
tors and brakemen.
The auditors office of the Cleveland. Lo-
rain e Wheeling has been removed to Bal
timore, where it will become a part of the
main offices of the B. & o. system.
Wabash passenger earnings are reported
to be increasing as fast as its freight earn
ings and President Ramsey says the com
pany has one of the best passenger de-
partments in the United States.
The conference between officers of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford and a
satisfactory adjustment of the differences
as to pay, hours and schedules.
The authority of Warren ]. Lynch, gen.
eral passenger agent of the Big Four, and
of Z. F. Cost, freight traffic manager has
been extended over the Cincinnati Northern
road. now operated as Big Four line.
The Santa Fe is rebuilding its line in
Texas, laying 135 miles of seventy-,ive-
pound steel rail and putting in thirty-sIx
new steel bridges preparatory TO introduce
ing heavier locomotives on its Texas lines.
H Seymour. lieutenant of the Pennsyl-
vania police force, has been promoted to
"A captaincy and will be stationed at Buff
falo. His territory will include five di-
visions of the Pennsylvania lines, covering
500 miles.
Negotiations for the acquisition of the
Lake Erie q Detroit by the Pere Marquette
are reported TO be off. The former has a
charter that will permit it TO build from st.
Thomas TO Buffalo, ia miles, and ii proposes
TO do so.
The Panhandle seems the only one of the
roads centering at PittSburg that was not
damaged the last week by high waters
An official of the road says they are having
no trouble and their trains get through
without difficulty.
The Pittsburg & Western shops at Allie
gheny have been abolished, all the work
now being done at the shops of the Balti-
more q Ohio: The work formerly done at
Allegheny Will be distributed among the
B. & o. shops and the former dismantled.
In a decision handed down by the SUI
preme Court of Ohio. in a case against the
Big Four il is held that a railroad cannot
charge fare on a fraction Of a mile, and
which will compel every road in Ohio. If
the ruling is respected. TO revise it's train
sheets.
With the reti' ement of George w Lewis
as superintende at of the Kentucy division
OF the Chesa peake & Ohio, II. G. Boughton,
superintendent of the Greenbriar division.
succeeds Mr.. Lewis and II. Pierce. of the
maintenance of way department succeeds
Mr.. BoughtOn.
Regarding the report that the Southern
Railway wants the Monon a gentleman
who Is closely identified with the latter
says banking interests connected with the
Southern Railway would not have disposed