The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The new passenger station of the Penn
sylvania lines at Cleveland was opened for
business on Monday.
w. E. Cleverdon has been appointed
travelling auditor of the Lake Erie & West
ern, with headquarters at Muncie.
Aged and disabled members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are
to be pensioned by that organization.
The Indiana Car Service Association
handled in May 3S.715 cars with an avera pc
detention OF Loo days, against 81, 299 in May
1901.
G.. A. Dobbins, Southeastern passenger and
freight agent of the Santa Fe, is very i'll
at a hospital in San Francisco. but it is
thought he will recover.
VIM. j. Janney, travelling passenger agent
of the Santa Fe. is visiting his brother-in-
law and wife, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Zell,
on Massachusetts avenue.
f. L. Clark on Monday succeeded A. T
Cuddenback, resigned, as traffic auditor of
the Erie. Mr.. Cuddenback had filled the
position for thirty-five years.
The Pennsylvania and Vandala are fgur-
ing on further shortening the time between
Pittsburg and St Louis. but will not be
ready TO do so next Sunday.
A d. Murray, general agent of the ST.
Louis & San Francisco. was i'm the city yes
terday. He was accOmpa MED by travelling
Freight Agent c. c. Spaulding.
On the Pennsylvania the new fast trains
have the right of way all the distance be-
tions of the line d speed of 50 miles an hour
is made.
The Missouri Pacific made rate of s. for
the round trip between st. Louis and Kan
sas City. and the Wabash at once met il
and gave notice that it will meet all such
reductions.
The Vanderbilt special. consisting of three
private cars, was hauled last week from
Indianapolis TO Cincinnati in two hours
and forty minutes, making no stop; dis
tance, 10 miles.
Friends of c. B. Ryan. Western general
passenger agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
who will retire from that position on Sat
urday will give him a banquet Saturday
night at Cincinnati.
Passenger officials of the Lackawanna
lines are surprised that the passenger earn
ings are now IN excess OF the correspond
ing period last year. when the Pan-Amer-
lean Exposition was in progress.
II. G. Reed. who was general superin-
tendent of the Milwaukee Lake Shore &
Western in the seventies, and later con-
sulting engineer. died last week at Braiden-
town, Fla, aged seventy-four years.
The PENNSYLVANIA has arranged for a
series of ten excursions TO Niagara Falls
this season. The rate Will be $40 round trim
from its farthest point. scaling down as the
distance shOrtens, and the limit will be
fifteen days
The most novel train service i'm the world
is the system OF fast express trains lust in
augurated by the Philadelphia & Reading
between Philadelphia and New York. q
train leaving both cities from a. m TO
p. m. every hour on the even hour
The Lake Shore Company. with the omen
ing of the Chautauqua division. will run
special trains from Buffalo and other
points, and preparations indicate that the
road expects 10 make IL an important event
OF the year June - has been fixed upon
for opening the line.
on account of the rough crowds that get on
at certain stations on Sundays on the Hook.
ing Valley road, the officials have decided
10 discriminate against three of the stations
where the men who take the train airs
noisy. boisterous and drunk. and will not
stop al these stations.
on Saturday. June p. the New York Cen.
trail Will put on its Saratoga limited passen.