The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-29
Personal. Local and General Notes.

NJ. L. ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
left yesterday for New York, TO be absent
several days.
Increasing the pay of telegraphers on the
Grand Trunk line has added $4,000 a year
to the company's pay rolls.
The Big Four will send two special sleep
ing cars out of Indianapolis tonight for
Portland, Ore, TO carry commercial trav-
elers.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
city to-day, he being on trip through his
territory.
Frank j. Moore. general agent for the
Nickel-plate has obtained months leave
of absence and left yesterday for the Pa
cific coast.
Two Eastern roads with lake connections
are suspected of shading rates on export
and domestic shipments of -four and are
under surveillance.
w. f. Perrine, assistant engineer of the
Wabash, has been promoted and goes TO
MiIbery. He will be succeeded at Peru by
II. Howard, promoted
+. +. Sawyer, agent of the Pennsylvania
at this point who was called to Danvers
Mass, last week to attend the funeral of
his mother, will return to-day.
The New York Central. with the taking
effect of its summer time table. will provide
two more trains in opposite directions be-
tween Buffalo and New York.
The car builders at the Fort Wayne shops
have organized division of the Brother
hood of Railway Car Men of America I'M
der the name of Summit Lodge.
William B. Leeds, president of the Chi
cago Rock Island Il Pacific who has been
i'll for a week, is reported rapidly recover
ing from an operation for appendicitis.
o. G.. Getzendanner. assistant general
counsel of the Lake Shore, has been given
an extended vacation and has gone TO Eu-
rope for his health. r. j. Jerome has as
sumed the duties of first general attorney
of the road.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey is
preparing to introduce the pension system
of its employees, adopting the same plan
that goes into effect on the Philadelphia Sc
Reading on June 1. The plan will affect
about $500 employees.
The Missouri Pacific has reduced the run
ming time of its fast train between st.
Louis and Denver one hour and a half and
has inaugurated through service on the
Missouri cutoff from Jefferson City via
Lexington to Kansas City.
The machinsts of the Montclare shops
of the Baltimore & Ohio have adjusted the
troubles that led TO the strike several
weeks ago. and have returned TO work at
an advance of D to II per cent. in wages
and the abandonment of the piece-work
system.
The Union Railway Company at Column
bus O., has voted TO install a complete
telephone system connecting with sleeping
cars which placed I'm the station few
hours before their departure, and will also
connect with trains when standing in the
train sheds.
Passenger men connected with the Central
Passenger Association are reported TO be
engaged in a lively wrangle over several
things that transpired at the meeting in
Chicago last week and some are quite pro-
nounced in their expressions as TO the out
come of the fight.
The railroads centering at Columbus. O..
have decided not to close the city ticket
offices on Saturdays at noon. The plan was
tried last year. but IL developed that il was
an Inconvenience 10 the public and a loss
In revenue. and especially affected the Sun
day excursion business.
James G. Everest general agent of the
passenger department. of the Chicago Mil
waukee & St. Paul, who has been quite i'll
for several weeks has so far recovered
that he was at his office yesterday This is
the first illness he has had i'm thirty or
more years of railroad life.
on June l G.. NJ. Hohl will take the posi-
ton of superintendent of telegraph of the
lines of the Burlington system i'm Missouri,
ana a. 7. Perkins. a cousin of former Pres
ident Perkins, will succeed Mr. Hohl as
superintendent of the Kansas City, st.
Joseph & Council Bluffs division.
The sixth annual meeting of the National
Association of Travelling Freight Agents
which will convene in this city next week
will have its headquarters in the Office of
the Wabash lines. opposite the Union
Passenger Station. The committee has ar
ranged programme TO entertain the fra
teruity.
The Minneapolis Journal announces, from
an authoritative source, that the Rock
Island has decided TO absorb the Burlington
Cedar apids * Northern. in which il al
ready owns a controlling interest and make
the / PSI miles of road operated by the Cedar
Rapids an integral part of the Rock Island
system.
The Panhandle has received twenty
eight of the fifty new passenger and freight