The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-19
Personal. Local and General Notes.

w. G.. Pennell, general agent of the Big
-Four at Columbus, o., was in the city yes
terday.
The Empire State express was hauled. on
Friday. 149 miles in al minutes. making
one stop.
on April s the Chicago and Florida spe-
Gals will be taken off, after a most sue
cessful season.
The Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie is In
the market for ten locomotives. seven
freight and three passenger engines.
A monument is to be erected in Philadel-
phia to the memory of Matthias Baldwin,
the founder of the Baldwin locomotive
works.
j.. c. Stubs, traffic manager of the Harri-
man roads. is en- route TO California. where
he will meet other Southern Pacific Off
Gals who preceded him last week.
The Pennsylvania is receiving new mo-
tive power at the rate of three engines
per week. This includes both Western and
Eastern lines, two a week coming to lines
west of Pittsburg.
1t is stated that after April Is the train
now running between Chicago and Terre
Haute over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
will be run through to Evansville over the
Evansville & Terre Haute.
Warren j.. Lynch. general passenger
agent of the Big Four. is on an extended
southern trip. On Sunday he was in New
Orleans and was very handsomely enter
tanned by his railroad friends.
S. Parmeley Premise was yesterday
elected a director of the Missouri Pacific.
Mr.. Premise is a sOn-in-law of j. d. Rookie
Teller and is the second Rockefeller repre-
sentative in the Missouri Pacific director
ate.
George II. Van Tassell. one of the oldest
engieers on the New York Central. brought
the Empire State express into New York
on Monday, and on his way home dropped
dead He had run an engine on the road
for thirty years.
George w. Kittredge, chief engineer of
the Big -Four. left yesterday for Chicago
10 attend the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Railway Engineer and Maintenance of
Way Association. of which he has been
president the last year.
r. S. Logan, until recently general man.
ager of the Central Vermont system. has
Hays, of the Grand Trunk, vice j. f.. Dali
rymple. resigned. Mr.. Logan was with Mr..
Hays on the Southern Pacific.
The Central Passenger Association has
decided to abolish the excess baggage cou-
good deal of baggage has been shipped at a
discount. After April l full rates will be
charged everybody on all excess baggage
B. w. Wren. general traffic manager of
the Plant System, accompanied by his
three nieces. travelling in his private car.
is on an EXTENDED trip. Mr.. Wren esti-
mates there are some 10000 tourists III
Florida at present. and it has been a busy
season with their lines.
III IlllNllulk a hdhC hllt viii VAN VI
two new trains each way between Cleve-
land and P~ittsburg. and has ordered twelve
coaches and four baggage cars or the most
modern design. the coaches to seat eighty
four passengers and TO cost $4,000 each.
being of the same pattern as those QUILT Tor
the Big Four last year.
J. j. Merrill, formerly superintendent of
transportation Of the Kansas City South
ern, was in the city yesterday, the guest
of J. r. Cavanaugh, superintendent of car
service of the Big Four. Mr.. Merrill was
on his return from Mexico, where he rep
resented Boston capitalists interested in
the building of, large mileage or new rail-
roads.
In commenting on the rate cutting now liz
progress between Western lines. Pau Nor
ton. vice president of the Santa Fe. said:
IF the United States attorney can succeed
in keeping stable rates and do away with
rebates and secret cutting he will have ac-
complished what the railroads have sought
to bring about against very serious OBJ
stacles."
Sup-erintendents of the Erie lines have
issued orders that all employees in the pas
senger service shall be neat appearing in
their uniforms and caps keep boots BACKED
and face cleanly shaver; In fact. they must
be neat in every respect or they will be
deemed unfit for the passenger service. The
Erie has always maintained a high stand
ard i'm his respect and is yet seeking 10
improve the service.
The ultimate retirement of w. W. Wentz,
general superintendent of the New Jersey
Central. is said to be indicated, so poor is
his health, and the appointment of Acting
Superintendent NJ. NJ. Richey is expected.
WHO will succeed Vice President Warren,
who will retire on June ], Is still unsettled,
1t is stated that Mr.. Warren has accepted
"A position on the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Rail-
way Magazine, for March, contains an ex-
cellent picture of Lewis M. Webb, recently
appointed assistant general passenger
agent. Mr.. Webb commenced railroad serv-
ice az a clerk in the passenger department.
of the Big Foul in 1892. Two years later
he left the Big Four and accepted a clerk
ship with the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton, and by close attention TO business has
won "A deserved promotion.
The board of managers of the Union
Railway Company held a meeting yester-
day, j. a. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria x Eastern, acting as chairman.
The business was largely routine. After the
meeting those present examined one of the
three new locomotives, just received, which
are the heaviest switching engines in the
city, the engine proper weighing l33,Oi
pounds. They are Schenectady build and
will haul sixty loaded cars over the Belt
road with ease.
BY May / the Lake Shore will nave COM
pleted at COllinwood, a suburb of CIeve-
land. the largest locomotive repair shops
in the world and the best equipped. The
old shops at Cleveland will be abandoned
and l.S00 men will be employed in the new
and 800 feet wide. constructed of steel, with
brick walls. Near by is an immense store
house 500 feet long and three stories high
Next year it is proposed TO erect near by
a car-repair shop on an extensive scale,
Locomotive lifting cranes Of 100 tons ca
pacity are among the equipment of the
shops.