The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-26
Personal, Local and General Note

Personal, Local and General Notes.
Indiana Car Service Association, is in St
Louis.
George Bender, general agent of the Big
Four at Sandusky has been in the city a
day or two.
G. A. Deane, who represents the Mis-
souri, Pacific in this territory. has gone to
his headquarters at St. Louis for two or
three days.
T. ]. Clark has been appointed travelling
passenger agent for the Chicago, Rock
Islam & Pacific. with headquarters in Chi
cago. succeeding w. F. Crawford.
William Hodgson, general freight agent
of the Vandalia, was in the city yesterday
and held a conference with Receiver Malot
regarding the business of the company.
Clarence H. Rolf has been appointed sue
cessor to Miles Todd as travelling agent
of the White Line. Other changes are
rumored in representatives OF this line.
the Chicago. Peoria & st. Louis, has
abandoned steam roads and taken charge
of an electric line leading out Of Chi
cago.
Arthur Eollis has been appointed joint
freight agent of the Pennsylvania and the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie at McKee's Rocks
succeeding w. ]. Young, who resigned last
week
four years spent s21.0O0.0O0 in betterments.
The road is doing very heavy business,
it's traffic continuing large beyond pre-
cedent.
NJ. W. Mansfield. superintendent of the
indianapolis & Vincennes. has returned
from a trip over the line. He says the
wheat crop. is very promising the whole
length of the road.
George l.. Bonney has been appointed
superintendent OF the Iron Mountain sys-
tenn of roads in the South. and c. r. Evans
takes the same position on the Interna-
tional & Great Northern.
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, was in the city
yesterday looking after some financial mat
tiers in connection with the Cincinnati In
dianapolis & Western road.
The rumor has been received that the
sumo control OF the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas. Such a combination seems entirely
logical, but is not generally believed.
In the week ended May % there were
transferred over the Belt road 2l.63S cars;
Belt road engines handled at the stock
yards 1877 carloads of live stock, and for
private switches on its line 1889 cars.
Superintendent Morrison. of the Edgar
Thomson steel works, will retire from that
position June 1 and will be succeeded by
A c. Linkey. Mr.. Morrison is said to
have accumulated slO.OOOOOO while in the
employ of these steel mills.
Western lines are making prepare lions TO
carry thousands of harvest hands TO various
parts of the West next month. Several of
the lines have announced one cent mile
as many as 10000 men are wanted.
The Sunday excursions were a surprise to
the passenger officials Usually the first
two or three Sundays they have not been as
well patronized as later on but this year
from the outset they were very popular,
which is taken as evidence that the people
prosperous.
T. II. Carter. mechanical engineer of the
Louisville & Nashville. was in the city
yesterday route east to contract for
machinery for the new shops OF the l.. &
N He will stop at Altoona and examine
new machinery purchased by the Pennsyl-
vania for its new shops at that point.
The earnings for March of l24 roads, fur
nshed officially. show better results than
do estimated earnings. The 124 roads re-
porting earned in the nine months s1,059-
252 Gil. an increase OF $7l.SS775l The ex-
penses were 715.479.o42. an increase over the
corresponding period last year OF So. ll6, 100.
Thomas Wilt, who for several years was
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania at
Indianapolis, now city passenger agent at
Chicago is in the city. He states that H.
r. Dering. assistant general passenger
agent has not yet fully recovered his
health. but is at his office most Of the time
Arthur Mills, vice president and general
manager, and E. w. Johnson. Great
Western agent Of the Merchants Dispatch
TRANSPORTATION Company. were In the city
yesterday calling on freight men, Mr.
business in its history. and again moving
its business on actual schedule time.
Records were broken Monday morning
when the Lake Shores twentieth century
limited. hauled by Engine 6os. ran from