The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-23
Personal. Local and General Notes.


Fred Hicks. city passenger agent of the
c.. II. & D., returned from Baltimore last
evening.
Charles c. Mordaugh. travelling passenger
agent of the c., nj. & st. p, was in the
city yesterday
A surevy will soon be made of the pro-
posed Memphis &, Shreveport Railroad.
which Will make a line of go miles
The Denver Rio Grande is to build a
cut-on from Littleton to Sedalia and an
other from Castle Rock to Monument
The franchise granting the Rock Island
tne rgnt 10 enter the city of Houston
Tex, has been revoked by the City Council
Canadian roads have agreed to advance
the rate on pulp wood TO thesUnited States
cent per hundred pounds, beginning
Benjamin +. Penrose has been Amounted
freight and ticket agent of the p. G.. c. &
st. j.. at Unionville, o., vice p E. Ham,
mond, resigned.
1t is expected the two new car ferries I'm
course OF construction for the Pere Mar
auette win be ready to go into commission
about the first of November.
NJ. l.. Griffin has been appointed travelling
passenger agent of the Big Four in place of
wright L.. Jordan. deceased. The appoint
ment becomes effective on the 1st prox.
The, Lackawanna reports that during last
month its earnings from passenger BUSH
ness were $4,000 larger than for August.
lSsz-the largest. in fact, for any month in
the roads history.
1t is reported that W. H. joyce formerly
freight traffic manager of the Pennsylvania
will take a similar position with the Wa
bash. assuming the duties now performed
by Milton Knight, vice president OF that
road.
III. i. Miller. general manager w. G
Downing. superintendent of main line and
w. e. Arp. superintendent of motive power
OF the L. n. & l.. were in consultat' On over
routine matters at the Office OF the receiver
yesterday.
1t is said w. r. Powe general agent at
CINCINNATI OF the Frisco, will go to Cape
Girardeau about the 1st as general freight
and passenger agent of the ST. Louis
Memphis & Southwestern and the ST. Louis
Gulf roads.
The ticket agents of the city report a de-
crease in the volume OF travel. which, after
the almost unprecedented rush of the past
summer, is quite agreeable to them what
ever the heads OF the department NAV
think OF it.
Louis H. Ackert, trainmaster of the
train at GreenviiIe, Miss, Monday night
died yesterday. He was a brother OF Chas.
H. Ackert general manager of the South
ern Railway at Washington.
w. @. Neimyer has been appointed gem
Steamship Company. and will have charge
OF all passenger and freight traffic destined
Tor transpacinc ports originating in the
greater part or the middle West.
The Panhandle will receive this week
from the Schenectady locomotive works
the lasr or the engines ordered for this
year. IL is shifting engine OF the SIPS
type. During the year the Panhandle ha :
added sixty-fve new engines 10 its equip
ment.
The new freight Yards of the Lake Shore
A Michigan Southern at Elkhart. Ind and
Collingwood. o., have been opened. They
are said 10 be the largest and best eouip-
ped freight yards I'm the United States
The former has sixty and the latter seventy
miles OF trackage.
1t is reported that the Southern Pacific
and the Denver * Rio Grande are 10 have
a new connection through the mineral lands
OF New Mexico and Arizona. The line az
projected. Will run from Durango on the
Denver * Rio Grande. in the extreme south.