The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-01-30
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The earnings of the Santa Fe for Deem
Der show a net gain of $2300OO. and for the
last six months gain of $2,46l6OO.
The earnings of the Chesapeake & Ohio
increased in the third week of January 49,
$50; since July l the increase is $5S43SO.
Superintendent Graves and the new gen.
eral road master of the Indiana, Decatur ~
Western, are on a three days trip over the
lines.
The promoters of the Cincinnati. Rich
mOnd &5 Muncie expect to run through
trains from Cincinnati TO Chicago on
Feb. 10.
w. H. Wylie, a former engineer on the
Panhandle. has invented spark arrester
for locomotives which is said to be the most
satisfactory yet designed.
In the twelve hours ending at p. m. on
Sunday thirty-seven freight trains were
sent out from Fort Wayne without any
thing approaching a blockade.
Every passenger train on the Union Pa
ci1c will be given an additional man, so
that one of the crew can devote his atten-
ton wholly to the duty of 1agman.
The Monon earned in the third week of
January 1892. an increase over the cor
responding week last year of $500. Since
July 1 earnings have increased $272, 697.
John Irwin, formerly with the Southern
Pacific. has been appointed assistant super
intendent of the second and third divisions
of the Denver & Rio Grande, vice w. ID.
Lee.
William Paul has resigned as general
foreman of the Wabash shops at Fort
Wayne, and will be succeeded by w. F..
Yergens, recently with the Grand Trunk at
Battle Creek.
]. b. Hill. general freight agent. and his
corps Of clerks, thirty in number, Will
change their headquarters from Columbus
to Pittsburg on April l. The move is made
in order TO centralize the freight offices.
l.. w. Welsh. who will on Feb. retire as
division superintendent OF the Missouri.
Kansas q Texas, has held that position
fifteen years 1t is understood that j. a.
Davis, superintendent of two other divi-
siOns, will take charge of this division also.
The Southern Pacific has been expanding
money literally in improvements to the
property, and Will do even more this year.
In 1899 it put into improvements ST. All, 900;
in 1900. s., 252 goo; in 1901, $l0.326,O0O making
a total in the last three years of so, O55, 900.
Trains u and 10 on the Wabash will not,
after Sunday, run west of Fort Wayne, but
will continue in service between Fort
Wayne and Toledo. and Trains II and IA.
between Butler and Toledo, will be taken
off.
An impression prevails in railroad circles
that the Minneapolis & st. Louis, of which
Russell Sage is one of the largest stock
holders will be sold either to the Illinois
Central or the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cifc.
ton & Dayton are said to be in the best
condition in many years. Many of the old
engines have been replaced with new ones,
and no road running into indianapolis has
fewer late trains.
The PENNSYLVANIA on Monday put large
force at work on the elevation of it's tracks
through Wilmington, Del. Twenty-seven
houses have been purchased by the COM
pany, which at once to be removed to
make room for the improvements.
John r. Dye, general solicitor of the Big
Four. said yesterday that the Peoria &
Eastern must be well managed portion OF
the Big Four system, assigning a rea-
son that he had less litigation 10 look after
on that road than on any portion OF the
lines.
The relations between the passenger de-
partments of the lake lines and the rail-
roads are likely to continue unchanged for
this year. despite the fact they are some
what strained over the payment of COM
missions by lake lines to railroad ticket
agents
notifications are made in February, the
minimum grain load of all roads in the
Central Traffic Association will be $4,000
pounds in cars of $4,000 pounds capacity.
and $4,000 pounds in cars of 10000 pounds
capacity.
Joseph w. Breen has made a proposition
TO the city of Baltimore to give $500 bet
ter than will the highest bidder for the
Western Maryland road, and also post a
forfeit not to sell the road to any interest
directly or indirectly connected with the
trunk lines.
The Illinois Central has contracted with
the Baldwin locomotive works to build an
engine to run daily between Centralia and
Chicago, distance of 5O4 miles. The en-
gine will have eighty-inch driving wheels.
fire box seventy-two inches wide and the
tank will carry 1000 gallons Of water.
Benjamin McKeen, superintendent of the
Nandalia; BushrOd Taylor. superintendent
OF the Louisville division OF the Pennsyl-
I'll
Chicago Great Western; T. f. Sweat, the
Illinois Central, and G. Thomas, the
Georgia Central, were in the city last night
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Wabash
is expected in Pittsburg to-day to let a
number of contracts for entrance of the
road into that city. Among contracts to be
from Jewett TO Pittsburg and the substitute
ture of the bridge at Mingo over the Ohio
river.
A. j. Smith, secretary Of the American
Association of General Ticket and Passen-
ger Agents, has called a special meeting in
New York city on Feb. IS, 10 consider the
organization of a fraternal society and
other matters which should be acted on
The request to call the meeting Is signed
by seventeen general passenger agents.
Myron J. Carpenter president Of the Chi
cage * Eastern Illinois, says that company
will this year erect at DOltOn a combined
Young Mems Christian Association restaur-
ant and lodging building for the railroad
men whose headquarters are at that point
il being the most important of the division
points on the system. The estimated cost
of the building is $1,000.
The Cleveland Leader saws: ''It is stated
here on good authority that the passenger
engineers on the Lake Shore Railroad were
not included in the recently reported settle
ment of the wage scale in Chicago. The
passenger engineers are 10 have another
conference with the officials OF the road
soon. At the same time the wages OF the
yard engineers may be fixed The conduc.
I ha not vat tod tk,oE-
Warren j. Lynch general passenger agent
or the Big Four, has been appointed general
passenger agent of the Cincinnati Northern
succeeding Mr.. T &. NJ. SCHNEIDER. who re-
Gently resigned. With the Cincinnati North
ern added, Mr. Lynch viii be general pas
senger agent OF four distinct lines the 9TH