The Indianapolis journal., 1902-11-05
Personal, General and Local Notes.

NJ E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
returned from the East on Monday.
The pay rolls of the Union Railway Com
pany for October show ASS men employed
in the various lines of work.
The Cincinnai Northern, a Big Four in
terest, Is receiving forty new cars per day
until an order for 1000 is filled.
r. L. Ettinger, mechanical engineer of
the Big Four, has returned from three
weeks vacation, spent in hunting in Mime
sofa.
M. w. Mcguire has been appointed gen.
eral superintendent of the Queen Ss Cres-
cent, and the office of acting assistant gen.
eral manager has been discontinued
j. n; Johnson has been appointed COM
mercial freight agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio at New York, in charge of ast-bound
traffic for import and export traffic via New
York.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
ran the first train Monday over the new
double track between Danville, ILL.,, and
the bridge south of Gessie, a distance of
about ten miles.
John c. Hasler, travelling passenger agent
of the Lake Erie & Western, has been re-
neved and been succeeded by III. Better
man, of the general Offices his Headquarters
to be at Fort Wayne.
One of the new freight engines of the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago on Sum
day hauled thirty-five loaded cars from
Crestline to Fort Wayne, 131 miles, in four
hours and thirty-five minutes.
Local coal dealers expect to receive an
thracite for this market before Dec TO-
The supply of cars and the rapidity with
which they are now unloaded will soon re-
lieve the situation, it is stated.
A. Galloway, former superintendent of the
indianapolis Cincinnati division of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton. has accept
ed position on road in California and
has already gone West to assume his new
duties.
The following changes are announced on
the Lake Shore road: Tracy w. Niles, sup
erintendent of the road at Buffalo, head
quarters transferred to the Detroit division
and II: A. Worcester succeeds Mr.. Niles
at Buffalo.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria Eastern, went to Chicago last
night to attend a meeting of the executive
committee OF the American Railway and
Maintenance of Way Association, of which
he is chairman.
The policy of the Pennsylvania Railroad
of expending 81 of the surplus in improve
ment for each dollar disbursed in dividends
effect of strengthening the market value of
the company's stock and bonds.
The Big Four has leased three locomo-
tives to the Chicago & Southeastern road.
which is being rapidly put in good coEdi-
ton. G. E. Schaff, general manager OF
the Big Four, and president of the c. & S.
E., travelled over the line yesterday.
The new Minneapolis & st. Louis Illinois
apolis is to be called THE North Star
Limited" III the. contest just closed 1O5
persons suggested this name. The prize was
div,1ed between the three who first sug-
gested 1t.
The Chicago & Western Indiana Rail-
road Company, which is composed of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. the Monon, the
Wabash, the Grand Trunk and the Erie,
has filed a $50 000, 900 consolidated bond mort
gage. payable in fifty years at per cent
interest.
Three of the heaviest freight engines on
the Cincinnati. Indianapolis & Western
have been transferred to the indianapolis
division of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day.
ton. and under the arrangement has re-
placed them on the L., ID. * w. road, where
the engines, which were practically new,
were thought too heavy for the track.
II is understood that no general manager
of the Lake Shore road will be appointed
to succeed the late p. s. Blodgett: that w.
H. Marshall. general superintendent will
and will report to w. c. Brown. vice presi,
dent al New York city, and the duties of
II. S. Storrs, assistant general superintend-
dent, will be increased.
Among the fast freight circles of the
East there is considerable rivalry for west
bound traffic. the effort being to shorten
the schedule. An eighty-four-hour schedule
from New York TO Kansas City was es-
tablished some years ago by the Wabash
and other lines have been making the same
time. Now there is effort TO shorten
that time. the Big Four and the Wabash
proposing TO further reduce the time.
The resignation of E. f. Cost as freight
traffic manager OF the Big -Four was yes
terday officially confirmed. II is under
stood that the position will be abolished
George II. ingalls,. recently appointed gen.
eral freight agent. will be at the head of
the freight service. For a young man he
has had considerable experience. first on
the Chesapeake q Ohio and more recently
as assistant general freight agent OF the
Big Four.
shops state that there is a growing dearth
of skilled workmen; particularly is this
40 among competenf boiler makers. black