The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-08
Personal. Local and General Notes.


NJ E. ingalls, president of the Big Four.
will leave tonight for New York, TO be alb
sent several days.
belief prevails that the Toledo. ST.
Louis & Southeastern road will eventually
pass under control of the Grand Trunk.
The Union Pacific, in the year just end
ed sold total of 1926 434 acres of land,
against S76,92S In the year ended June 80,
1901
The Toledo & Ohio Central will erect
a large passenger station and a freight
depot at St. Marys and will build switches
TO several industries.
The Columbus, Lima & Milwaukee road.
recently sold, under foreclosure, has been
recognized under the name of the Column
bus & Lake Michigan.
On Aug. IS eighty glass workers will leave
the gas belt territory the Big Four
and Union Pacific for Stockton, Cal. where
new glass works are being started up.
On Aug. IS the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton. in connection with the Michigan
Central, will run an excursion to Mackinac
with ten days limit at IS for the round
trip.
In July the Pressed Steel Car Company
completed an average of 1O3 cars daily, the
value of the output being IS, 2500OO, and 1t Is
said the output this month Will be even
greater
A. G. Wells, general manager Of the San
Ia Fe coast lines, has appointed j. w.
Hitchcock assistant superintendent. Mr..
Weiss chief clerk.
On Aus. 10 j. N Scale, superintendent of
transportation of the Mobile & Ohio, will
take the position of superintendent of trans
portation of the Southern Railway Com
pany at a handsome increase In salary.
H. Mendenhall. who has been chief clerk
in the office of Division Freight Agent
Diefenbach, of the Big Four at Dayton, has
resigned and accepted a position with the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific al Chicago.
of Fri
Railroad Company at PittsDurg, has re-
signed and will accept a position as gen
eral traffic manager OF the Pittsburg Coal
Company, succeeding Harry Lawrence, who
has resigned.
Much interest is taken in the so-called
hog back" engine designed by Cornelius
Vanderbilt. jr. One of them developed re-
markable speed on Monday, running five
miles in four minutes and fifteen seconds,
hauling five cars.
Travel is SO heavy from the South to
Eastern pleasure resorts that the Pennsyl-
Vania has been obliged to put on second
livering thirty to forty through passengers
TO the Panhandle daily at Cincinnati or
Louisville.
Excursions on the trunk lines are be-
coming quite numerous. The first excur-
sion train ever run over the trunk lines
was by the Lackawanna Aug. Is, 1885, and
the train consisted of fifteen coaches. The
regular rate was then 1925, Buffalo TO
New York, it is now IS.
Henry Shoemaker, who, with NJ. D.
Woodford, controls the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, has returned from pleasure
trip 20 Yellowstone Park, and in company
with Vice-President Zimmerman, made a
short trip over the IrOnton division and left
last night for New York.
George F. Jenckes who has been ap-
pointed passenger agent of the Pennsyi-
Nania at Louisville, has for ten years been
in railroad service and for some years
private secretary TO Harry Miller. general
manager of the Nandalia He is a son
of Rev Joseph Jenckes, we'll known in In
danapolis.
The contract for the construction of the
Knoxville Lafollette & Jellico Railroad
Che Louisville & Nashville extension into
Knoxville, Tenn from Lafolette TO Beaver
Ridge, near Knoxville, twenty-eight miles,
was let yesterday to Mason & Hoge, Of
Lexington, Ky, and Walton & Co, of
Roanoke, Va. 1t involves about one million
dollars.
ger agent of the Big Four. states that the
passenger business of the Big Four in this
territory the first week in August was a
/ record breaker, and the traffic of the month
promises to be very large. On Aug. 10 a
Niagara Falls excursion will be run, and
already nearly every berth in seven sleep
ing cars has been engaged
On Monday the new freight depot of the
Panhandle at Pittsburg was opened for
! business. 1t is built of brick. and is known
| in freight architecture a double decker.
! there being driveways by which freight is
! received in the second story. There are
| twelve powerful elevators for handling
/ freight from one story to another. The
building is $50 feet long by 165 wide
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania is at
] present doing the largest business in its
| history. both passenger and freight. Last
! year on the lines east and west 242 40s. 035
/ tons were carried and this was an increas Sc
/ of 4,33l. 65S tons over 1900, and this year
the tonnage will be considerably in excess
/ of 1901, ii now being handsomely in ex-
1 cess of the corresponding period last year.
The Pttsburg & Lake Erie will within
a few months have the entire system oper-
/ ated by electric signal system. The sys-
/ tenn will be the most complete and serv-
\ iceable in the country. This week the
company has made test of electric sig
\ mailing on the main line, and is satisfied
/ that double the business be handled
/ and more accurately, than under the old
/ methods.
The st. Louis & San Francisco Railroad
/ Company yesterday placed with the Okla
/ homa territorial secretary a copy of a
mortgage between the company and Robert
/ Winthrop & Co, of New York. for 81 ,543
526, bearing per cent; for the purpose OF
/ purchasing new equipment. Included in the
new equipment will be thirty locomotives
and passenger, freight, box, baggage and
! fiat cars.
After having been ordered to pay s23 OoC
| to the widow of former conductor on the
| Lackawanna road the company has just Sc
/ cured opinion from the Appellate Court
I of Pennsylvania which reverses the decision
/ OF the lower court and practically disposes
/ of the case in favor of the railroad com
pany. The conductor was killed in a ca
boose and ii was decided that he was guilty
| of negligence, which contributed to the
accident
Gettysburg is the leading feature of tho
August number of the Book Of the Royal
/ Blue" published by the passenger depart
ment of the Baltimore & Ohio The great
battle is the subject of an interesting
/ sketch by General Huidekoper, accompan-
| led by Typographical map and views OF
prominent places. The general gives an In
teresting narrative of the three DAYS
fight and a description of the monuments
A poem written by w. d. Nesbit, formerly
with the Journal. appears in the number.
Secretary of War Root has made a ruling
on the distribution of transcOntinental mil
/ itary business of an unusual character. The
| government in the past has sent all its
business over bond-aided roads when condi-
tons were equal, and the Central Pacific
coming under that head, has carried about
all of the business. Other transcontinental
roads have objected. and Secretary Root
has decided that bids will be received on
/ military business, all going 10 the lowest
| bidder. When the conditions are equal. or
nearly so. the Central Pacific will receive
two-thirds and competing roads the re-
mander.
ders in this country that an American rail-
| road. according TO reliable reports has beer
! compelled says the Iron Age, to place a
/ substantial contract abroad In order to Sc.
cure satisfactory delivery. The report
! which is not officially confirmed. however
| says an order for close TO 50 900 tons Of stee
| rails for delivery to the Pacific coast has