The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-27
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local. anu UeneraI notes.
s. Morse, assistant passenger manager OF
the Southern Pacific, is on an Eastern trip,
and will reach New York to-day.
Train 5 on the Panhandle now hauls
sleeping car between Pittsburg and Louis
VILE via Indianapolis, shortening the time
over one hour
On May % and 80 local lines will sell tick
cts TO points within a radius of $50 miles
at a rate of one fare and one-third. good
to return May 81
The statement is made that the Chicago
Great Western will undoubtedly ally itself
with the Gould system II il does not be-
come a Gould property.
The transfer house of the New York Cen
trail burned last week at Buffalo was GOO
feet long and joined at each end with 800
foot covered platforms, and was built in
1875 Ii will take some days to ascertain
the value of freight consumed.
Travel on the Knickerbocker express on
the Big -Four is so heavy that il is pro-
posed TO add another sleeping car to the
train, running ii to Buffalo If not farther.
+. r. Garrison, ticket agent of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton q Dayton at Fort
Wayne. and r. j. Hamilton, agent of the
Nickel-plate at the same point, are in the
city.
Banking institutions closely connected
with the Big Four are picking up the Peo-
ria & Eastern per cent. income bonds, 4
per cent. interest being practically as
sured.
W OfK is Delng DuSheQ on the 0OuDle-dTCl
bridge over the Vermilion river on the
Peoria & Eastern. Each arch is sixty feet
in width. and the structure will cost over
500. 600.
a. B. Todd, formerly in the mechanical
department of the Pennsylvania lines, has
been appointed master mechanic of the
shops of the Santa Fe at Winslow, vice S.
T. Park
The Pennsylvania. which is making ex-
tensive improvements at Fort Wayne, has
been compelled TO go to Chicago TO secure
laborers. not being able TO get a sufficient
force in Fort Wayne.
The Lake Shore will put on a new
through train, which will be run in the in
terest of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, and
will haul a sleeping car from Pittsburg to
Boston, new departure.
The Big Four has closed deal for prop
erty at Springfield, O., on which ground
il is understood it will erect shops that will
answer for the Big Four and the Peoria &
Eastern'S eastern division.
The Big Four and the Lake Erie & West
ern planning to establish larger joint
yards at Muncie and erect a larger freight
depot adopting the same plan as was put
in effect at Lafayette on April l.
Two electric systems of lighting coaches
are being tested on the Pennsylvania
When the best of the two has been decided
upon all through trains of the Pennsyl-
vania will be equipped with electric lights.
On Sunday night the special train carry
ing the Dayton excursonists was hauled
from Hamilton TO Indianapolis, 100 miles.
in $50 minutes, making two complete stops
and passing two trains at showdown speed.
Under the head of What Does the Pur-
chase OF the Monon Mean?" the New York
Commercial publishes map which includes
the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton, 652
miles of road, making the total of the COM
bination 1857 miles.
Fast runs on the New York Central are
becoming very frequent. Last week Train
So, consisting of nine mail cars, was haulc 4
from Syracuse to Buffalo. 149 miles. in les
minutes. and the Auburn division an
/ other covered "a miles in 81 minutes.
Thomas Bell. of Stratford Ontario, is be-
Iieved to be the oldest railroad man living.
He has been out of service ten years and
is now So years old. For forty years he
ran engine and never had a serious ac-
cident TO his engine or the train he was
| hauling.
on the Panhandle over the Big Darby river
is now on the ground. and its construction
was commenced yesterday. This completed
| the Panhandle will be double track west
from Columbus TO UniOnville, a distance of
| twenty-five miles.
The appointment of Ira D. Mccormick
as assistant manager of the Harlem di-
vision of the New York Central is taken
I to mean that the road is preparing for an
/ installation of electric power. as Mr.. Nc
! Cormick is an expert in that line and is
said TO think the project feasible.
There will be five opportunities for cheap
| trips to the Pacific coast this season. the
! rate i'm each case from indianapolis 10 Pa
| cific coast points being S54.15. \ rate of
| $54.l5 TO Portland. Ore. is available until
| June I. good TO return on sixty DAYS limit
! The other rates will be similar.
The Boston & Maine. now operating the
| Hoosac Tunnel line, has purchased six large
| passenger engines to haul fast trains each
| way between Boston and Albany. and will
| then be in shape 10 compete more success
| fully for west-bound business. The engine
| proper weights $4,000 pounds, and is in
| tended for high speed.
F. H. McHenry. for several years chief
| engineer of the Northern Pacific and one
OF the receivers Of that property. returned
| TO st. Paul yesterday from a six months
/ trip in China and the East and left at
/ once for Montreal 10 become chief engineer
| of the Canadian Pacific, which position he
will assume on June l.
| Mr. Stoors. assistant general superin-
| tendent of the Lake Erie & Western. has
placed two coaches at Upton to take the
place of the depot burned. Upton is so i'm
] portant a junction point for the road that
| Mr. Stoors has recommended that in re-
building the depot a much larger structure