The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-13
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The voluntary relief associations of the
Pennsylvania lines now have 5000 mem
bers.
G. F. Butler has been appointed general
agent of the Norfolk & Western, with head
quarters at Chicago.
The Illinois Central has large force en-
gagged in putting in an electric block sys-
tenn from Cairo to Fulton.
o. P. McCarty, general passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
spent Sunday with relatives in this city.
The Wabash on Oct. Is will remove to its
new offices at Kansas City, both freight and
passenger departments occupying the new
quarters.
ern Railway, who has been abroad for six
weeks recuperating his health sailed for
home on Saturday.
The Hooking Valley road earned in the
first week OF October s127.679.14. a decrease
compared with the corresponding week
last year of s2,0s45l.
The Susquehanna Transcript is authority
for the statement that the Erie Company
has made provisions to supply coal to its
employees this winter.
The total income of the Great Northern
road for the year ending June 30 last was
$40 600; surplus over all charges and divi-
dends, 2,1l6,OOO an increase of 1885, 900.
P. s. Blodgett, general manager of the
Lake Shore road, who has been danger
ously i'll for some weeks shows signs of i'm
provement and 1t is thought will now re-
cover.
The directors of the Atlantic Coast Line
have called a special meeting of the stock
holders at Richmond, Va, Nov II, to take
chase.
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Wabash,
arrived in Pittsburg on Saturday, where
he will spend two or three days looking
after the interests of the Wabash in that
section.
George Ely, who for thirty years has
been in the employ of the Lake Shore road,
the last twelve as conductor of the fast
mail train, has been appointed travelling
conductor.
Pittsburg & Lake Erie may decide to
jump its gentlemen's agreement with the
Cleveland & Pittsburg and shorten its time
between Pittsburg and Cleveland.
Considerable interest is taken in the cleo
ton of directors of the st. Joseph & Grand
Island road, which occurs Oct. q. An i'm
preston prevails that it will be shown that
the Union Pacific will control the property
C. B. Adams. of the Central Railway of
New Jersey, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the entire Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific, vice A. r. Swift who retired on
Friday after thirty years service with that
road.
The Southern Indiana road earned In Sep
TENDER $1,000, an increase over the same
month last year of $14,4 44. Since July l the
road has earned $203.S4 an increase of $11,-
947 over the corresponding three months of
last year.
Col. S. F. Gray, Western general freight
agent of the Pennsylvania Company, will
leave to-day for Philadelphia to attend the
meeting of the Association of Traffic Off,
Gals of the Pennsylvania lines East and
West to be held Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company let a
contract last week for the new bridge at
Fort Perry, which will be one of the
heaviest structures of the kind on the road.
ic m he foI xx,tfh IN f1I,t he
at cost of $3.50, 900 aside from the masonry.
A. B. Stickney. president of the Chicago
Great Western, who has for some days
been West inspecting the road, returned
the entire system. inspecting the track ter
minals and everything pertaining to the
property.
Z. w. McKenna. formerly superintendent
of the Louisville division of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, but more recently with steel
company in an official capacity, has just
returned from European trip of several
weeks, on which he was accompanied by
his daughter.
President Blair. of the Little Kanawha
road, has asked for bids for the construc-
ton of the extension of the Wabash lines
through West Virginia. The work is to be
burg TO huntsville, the other from Burns
Vile to Buckhannon.
The Chicago & Northwestern has issued
| circulars announcing that two personally
conducted excursions have been ADDED TO
| each weeks schedule. Now the road runs
| five such excursions each week out of Chi
| cago four from Los Angeles and San Fran
| cisco and one from Portland, Ore.
! The management of the Choctaw, Okla
| homa & Gulf will on Oct. Is remove the
| trainmaster, train dispatcher and roadmen
| from South McAlester to Haileyville. Three
hundred men are affected by the order.
| This brings Division Superintendent s. III.
| Barnes to Oklahoma City as his headquar-
| terS.
The Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburg
| & Lake Erie have adjusted their difficulties
| concerning improvements west of New Cas-
| tie. The two lines are very close together
| for nineteen miles west to Youngstown, and
| the troubles have become so pronounced
that they have found their way into the
/ courts.
The health of William B. Leeds. presi-
| dent OF the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
| cific, is so impaired that his physicians
have ordered him to Hot Springs, w. Va.
! for a complete rest His health has not
| been as satisfactory his friends could
wish for some time, and 1t caused some
| uneasiness as to results.
Passenger Traffic Manager Edwards, OF
| the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and
| General Passenger Agents Lyncn, of the
| Big Four, and Rhein, of the Lake Erie &
| Western, went to Chicago last night to jor
| the general passenger agents on a specia
train over the Grand Trunk road to the
| annual convention to be held this week In
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