The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-18
Personal, Local and General Notes.

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T. S. Rowland has been elected treas
urer of the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy,
vice j. c.. Peasley, resigned.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Western earned
in the first week of April $4S,5l9, an increase
over the corresponding week last year of
$3,97S.
n. d. Finch has been appointed travelling
passenger agent of the Illinois Central,
with office at San Antonio, succeeding c. r.
Ryan.
Harry ]. Rhein, general passenger agent
of the Lake Erie & Western, has gone TO
Buffalo and New York, to be absent sew
eral days.
George Sender. general agent of the Big
Four at Sandusky, who has been in the
city a couple of days, has returned to his
headquarters.
Walter L. Knowles. who was formerly
with the Union Railway Company. is now
at Columbus, o., with the Warrick Cream
cry Company.
On Sunday, April q. the Lake Erie &
Western will inaugurate its Sunday ex-
cursiOnS by running specials from all points
on its lines to Indianapolis.
The directors of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton have declared the regular quar-
terly dividend of Ia per cent. on the pre-
ferred stock, payable May 5.
The Gould party is credited with MAX
ing a bid for the Toledo, St. Louis & West
ern for the purpose of preventing the Van
derbilts securing control of it.
Frank Calhoun. chief train dispatcher
of the Lake Shore at Youngstown. O.. has
been promoted TO and +. l..
Mason I. chief train dispatcher.
Yesterday President Yoakum, of the st.
Louis g. San Francisco, sailed for Europe
to be gone until June. The duties of his
office will be looked after by General Man.
ager Winchell.
The Illinois Central will continue the
work of ballasting its main line with
crushed stone at a cost of $500 per mile.
Over two hundred miles of the main line
are now so improved:
Charles H. Grout. commissary agent of
the New York Central dining car system,
has resigned and on May l will become SUI
perintendent of the dining car service of
the Oregon ShOrt-line.
General Passenger Agent Stone. of the
Louisville & Nashville. has issued a neat
card announcing that the l.. & y. mileage
book is good on seventeen roads, embracing
a mileage of 1903 miles.
1t is said there will be a reorganization
of the traffic department Of the Seaboard
Airline agencies in New York, and that
]. II. Horton. general Eastern agent, Will
be assigned TO another position.
Official figures show that the Big Four
and the Panhandle are now handling the
largest tonnage at Indianapolis in the his
tory of the roads. and the business is the
most varied in character ever known.
Ford Wood, general freight agent of the
Peoria * Eastern. and Samuel b. Sweet.
general freight agent of the Lake Erie *
Western. are in Chicago attending a meet
ing OF freight officials of the Central Traf-
hc Association.
There is no longer any doubt that the
Ohio River * Charleston road will be an
extension of the Detroit Southern. reaching
into the coal fields Of western Virginia
The officers of the road are directors of
the Detroit Southern.
]. B.. Hill, general freight agent OF the
Panhandle. has removed his Headquarters
and a large portion of his force from CO.
lumbus TO Pittsburg, and is rapidly getting
settled in his new quarters. The change
is made that he may be in closer touch
with affairs at Pittsburg.
AS a result of the recent collapse Of the
military pool in the West the Union Pa
cihc has entered into an agreement with
the United States for transportation OF
troops both east and west-bound to the
Pacific coast. This contract is for one
year, dating from June ].
Frank Levison. for some years station
agent OF the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton at T~ontOngemy. while pushing a truck
on the platform at the depot. was attacked
with apopleXy, which resulted in his death