The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-27
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Last week there were loaded and I'M
loaded at the Big Four city freight depots
1.S69 cars.
c. A. Garcelon, general manager of the
Pullman Company, is in the city and will
remain to-day.
& Eastern, there being handled on the line
$50 loaded cars.
On April the Michigan Central will adj
vance the pay of its section men and fore
men 10 per cent.
H. NJ. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, has been in
Chicago for a couple of days.
Ford Wood, general freight agent of the
Peoria & Eastern. left yesterday on an
Eastern trip. including Pittsburg.
w. f. Crane has been appointed general
manager of the Jacksonville q st. Louis.
He has been general freight agent.
Charles c. Curtice. city passenger agent
of the Vandalia at st. Louis, is in the city
to attend the Scottish Rite banquet.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Western will
build a depot at Button. Ind, of the same
style of the one recently built at Marion.
Central Passenger Association lines have
decided to grant no more concessions in
rates for sailors because they have been so
abused.
The Big Four. with the taking effect of its
spring time table, will put on "A line of par
lOT cars on the recently acquired Cincin-
natl Northern.
Trainmen on the Missouri Pacific have
petitioned for an advance in their wages,
and the management have their requests
under consideration.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the Grand Rapids d Indiana will be held
April 2 at Grand Rapids, when seven di-
rectOrs are TO be elected.
On the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
200 miles of new heavy steel rail is being
distributed. and 100000 new ties will be put
under the track in the next sixty days.
Section men on the Wabash have asked
for an increase in pay. Those who re-
ceive $1.10 in the country want $1.35, and
those in the cities, who receive SIPS, want
$l.5O.
The business of the American Express
Company has so increased that it has
leased the large room adjoining its depot
room near the Union Station, on South
Meridian street.
The Commissioners of Huntington county,
Indiana, have granted the petition for a
subsidy election on April so to vote aid to
the Dayton, Union & Huntington road. The
sum of S1l6.0OO is asked.
The Dunkley Transportation Company
has closed a contract with the Michigan
Central by which it will establish a new
lake line between South Haven. Mich, and
Milwaukee. The first boat will start on
tomorrow.
General A.. w. Greedy. chief signal officer
of the United States army, on Monday
evening delivered a lecture before the rail-
road branch of the Young Mems Christian
Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Philadelphia.
c.. L. SwindeIl. general passenger and
ticket agent of the Port Arthur route.
passed through the city yesterday after
noon en- route to Baltimore with the re-
mains of his wife, who died on Monday at
TeXarkana, Tex.
The new fast train between Pittsburg and
Chicago, which has not been on quite a
year. is already a seven-car train and is
making a fine speed record. When late,
many miles in succession are often covered
at siXty-five miles an hour.
One of the new Atlantic type of engines
on the Wabash hauled the Continental
Limited from Tilton to Decatur, seventy
one miles, in sixty-one minutes on Monday.
Twelve miles of the distance was covered
at a speed of eighty miles an hour.
w. G.. Brownlee, of Montreal. has been
made superintendent of the western divis-
ion of the Grand Trunk Railroad. with
headquarters at Detroit, TO succeed f. w.
Egan, who. il Is reported. will become gen.
eral superintendent of the Denver & Rio
Grande.
Edwin Hawley. president OF the Iowa
Central and Minneapolis x St. Louis roads.
said yesterday ii was true that he and his
associates had acquired control of the Colo
RADIO & Southern Railway. Just who his as
sociates are Mr.. Hawley declined TO say
at this time.
the railroad branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association to purchase a site
and erect a suitable building. subscriptions
are said 10 be coming in literally. Ii is
understood that the Wabash will make a
handsome donation.
Alden Speare, OF Newton, Mass, who
died on Sunday at Pasadena. Cal, was
Identified with a number of Western lines.
was a director OF the Santa Fe. the Mexican
Central. the ST. Louis a San Francisco
and one of the principal owners Of the
Connecticut x Passumpic road.
Philadelphia has an association known as
@ nfNHn ~AnWn
third year of its existence. The order is
social and beneficial in its purposes, and