The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-07
Personal, Local and General Notes.


On March l twenty employees of the Chi
cago * will be retired on
pensions.
The Southeastern Passenger Association
will create a bureau for clerical and inter-
changeable mileage tickets.
]. ]. Brooks. general counsel. and John
w. Renner, controller Of the Pennsylvania
Company, were in the city yesterday and
returned TO Pittsburg last night.
The directors of the Philadelphia & Read
ing Railroad Company have declared a
sem1-annuaI dividend OF 2 per cent. on the
first preferred stock, payable March 10.
Greenvflle. N. j.. is said to be the most
important freight terminal in the United
States. 1t is the principal delivery and re-
ceiving point of the Pennsylvania lines for
New York.
c. S. Rhoads. superintendent of telegraph
of the Big Four, who has been i'll with
pneumonia for a couple of weeks, is so
much improved that he expects to be at his
Office to-day.
The manner the New York Central has
kept Its trains moving through the recent
heavy snow along it's line is favorably
commented on in railroad circles. Trains
were delayed but little.
The Texas Southern announces the COM
pletion of its line to Marshall, Tex. where
connection is made with the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas. and regular train service VIII
be inaugurated on March /.
Pierce Landers, division roadmaster of
the Wisconsin Central, has been called here
TO see his father. who is road foreman of
engines of the Indianapolis e. Vincennes.
and who has been seriously i'll.
The new air brake now in use on the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy is giving per-
feet satisfaction. Trains can be stopped
with 1t in three-fourths the distance that
they can with the older devices.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific an
nOunces that Ii Will give StOp-Over privi-
leges on first-class tickets at Glenwood
Springs and Salt Lake City, an innovation
uIfnh fH nom e n frnx 4 On $50
AS soon as the necessary equipment can
be secured the Santa Fe purposes to put
on a third train each way daily between
Chicago and San Francisco. Traffic over
this line is % per cent. heavier than in any
former year.
The Chicago & Alton management has
contracted for equipping its Western di-
vision from Kansas City to Roodhouse
with electric block signals. When the work
is completed there will be liz block signals
between the points named.
Two blocks of real estate in what is
known as Greenwich village, New York.
have been purchased by the Jersey City &
New York Railway Company. which plans
to operate a tunnel railway system between
New York and Jersey City.
Telegraphers of Atlanta. Ga. are arrang-
ing for a national speed test March 1. the
test to begin in that city. The competition
will require $40 words. and contestants will
be given the message to be sent but a few
minutes before they begin work.
Captain II. d. Patrick, father of the de-
PENDANT in the Rice murder trial, now in
progress in New York, has rendered his
resignation as freight agent of the Houston
* Texas Central and been succeeded by s.
A. Patrick. a son of the retiring freight
agent.
The report is revived that the Pere Mar
quette road will secure control of the Lake
Erie & Detroit and extend it TO Buffalo by
building lis miles of new road. Besides
connecting with the trunk lines at Buffalo
1t would give the Pere Marquette entrance
to Canada.
A Baltimore paper still insists that there
is a fight of large proportions among the
higher officials Of the Baltimore & Ohio
lines, which will result in the resignation
of one of the managers and of several un-
der officers who are taking sides with the
factions.
The Toledo. St. Louis & Western will re-
ceive at Frankfort this week five heavy
new freight locomotives ordered some time
ago, Of which the road is greatly in need,
it's traffic of late having been so heavy that
time has not been given To keep locomotives
I'm good condition.
Charles Hogle. travelling passenger and
freight agent of the Mexican National,
Cuff & Oklahoma, c. j. Amour, CONNER
cial agent OF the Southern Railway, and
J. +. Thompson. commercial agent of the
Santa Fe. are in the city.
The Superior Court at Cincinnati yester-
day sustained the recent lease of the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad 10 the Southern
Railway for a period OF sixty-five years
Judge Dempsey dissented from part of the
holding of Judges Smith and jackson. The
case will be carried 10 the Supreme Court
Plans for a new double track bridge over
the Missouri river at st. Joseph have been
completed. and IL will be one Of the finest
structures OF that class. With its comDle-
ton the Chicago, Rock Island d Paci6c
will send most OF its Kansas. Oklahoma.
\ Indian Territory and other Western bust
ness via st. Joseph.
na1.fr,ora DaDar st.+o- a.. .--
in the future OF the Western Maryland has
been intensified by the introduction In the
Maryland House of Delegates OF a bin 10
charter a new railway company to build a
line paralleling the Western MARYLAND
nearly its entire length. TO be known as the
Baltimore, P%ittsburg q Western.
Travelling freight agents OF the Western
lines who visit indianapolis state that a big
traffic for Western roads Is assured at least
for another year. Merchants I'm all parts of
the West. they say. seem to be well sold