The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-13
Personal, Local and General Notes.


Personal, Local and General Notes.
7. H Perry has just completed his twen-
ty-sixth year of service in the auditing de-
partment of the Lake Erie x Western.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four.
Will. on June IL, deliver an address before
Wabash College students at Charlottesville.
Elliott Reed. manager of the Wells Fargo
office at San Jose for fprty-seven years. has
been retired on a pension. He is seventy
years old.
j. A. Barnard. general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, is arranging his affairs
to go to Benton Harbor for a couple of
weeks rest.
Senator Depew says, abiding to the New
York Central. that Mr.. Vanderbilt is not
selling any stock and will not retire from
active control.
The Pennsylvania handled in May. for
private industries located at Indianapolis,
6,196 loaded cars an increase over May last
year of Isl cars.
INQUIRER: The authorized capital stock
or the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
now is s4O0. 100000. The amount now out
standing Is s203.774.S50.
President Baer, of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad says that company has
three hundred miles of track in Philadel-
phia and it's immediate suburbs.
E. c. Nettles has been appointed division
freight and passenger agent of the st. Paul
az Des Moines road, succeeding w. d. Dav-
EXPORT, who has been made industrial agent.
The new line from Youngstown to Kent.
forty miles in length, is about completed.
Ihls line Will shorten the New York-Chica-
go main route OF the Baltimore & Ohio ten
miles.
The Pere Marquette's summer time table
and through sleeping car service will go
into effect June q. The Point Barques spe-
eial of the Grand Trunk will be put on
June rs.
The Rarnaycp,;t,, Cor,1oo,, hoe ,,,st cop,
pleted its fiscal year. The years business
amounted to s5.5O0.00O, and the company
starts this year with orders on hand to
the amount of over 100000.
A project which is credited with having
the backing of the st. Louis & San Fran
CISCO is the building Of a line of railroad
from Sinton. Tex, to Browns Vile, with
branch up the Rio Grande river.
A Pullman official stated yesterday that
the employees of the Pullman works seemed
Well satisfied with present conditions. They
are given ten hours pay for q nine-hour
day and half holiday on Saturday.
Shops are to be established by the South
ern Pacific at Reno and employment is to
be given to large force of mechanics. The
company has now eight plants on the coast,
where fully 5000 men are employed.
A d. McAlexander, who was with the
tanooga road for number of years, has
been appointed contracting agent of the
Clyde Steamship Company in Nashville.
The announcement of the 500 line on
Tuesday OF one fare for the round trip
from Northwestern territory to New Eng
land points is said to be the move that pre-
cipitated the recent passenger rate diff
Guilty.
The Belt road company has extended the
private switch leading to the Knolke &
Richards iron works, on the South Side, and
greatly improved conditions for handling
the heavy business of that establishment.
They can. If necessary. load twenty cars
per day.
The engineering department of the Phila-
delphia & Reading has made the prelim-
mary surveys for the New York Short line
Railroad. 1t will be shorter than the pres
ent route. and will enable the company
TO run Its fast trains more regularly and
at greater speed
The Hooking Valley road. which has been
the subject Of much attention of late. is
now undergoing an examination by officials
started rumor that the road is to be
turned over to that line or close traffic
alliance entered into.
Passenger Traffic Manager James r.
Wood and General Passenger Agent George
Boyd, of the Pennsylvania were in New
York on Thursday talking over time sched-
ules The changes made by the Wander
bilt lines will probably result in chages by
the Pennsylvania line.
1t is announced that F. D. Casanave, who
recently resigned the position of general
superintendent OF motive power on the Bal
;imore & Ohio on the plea of Ill health.
vania Railroad and will be placed in charge
of the exhibit at the ST. Louis fair.
The officials of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company at Pittsburg have been
machinery they can dispense with along
the various divisions to facilitate the work
on the new tunnel under the North river,
which has been begun on the New Jersey
side. The works will require a large num-
Der of steam shovels and other articles of
construction.
superintendent of motive power said
yesterday that he did not recollect the time
when the roads were in better shape as TO
power than at present. The new engines
received in the last eighteen months are all
in service and in good condition, and large
percentage of the older locomotives have
been through the shops and undergone ex-
tensive repairs. AS consequence both
freight and passenger trains are moving
with regularity seldom known.
Among the many promotions of the Penn
sylvania, effective June 1, none was better
earned than that of Charles NJ. Schafer,
who became superintendent of passenger
transportation. He entered the office of
Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania on
April /, 1877. From that time he advanced
steadily through the stages of telegraph
operator, yardmaster train dispatcher and
division operator. In July, 1901, he was
made superintendent of telegraph i'm the
Pennsylvania office.
William Holdman, master mechanic of
the Remove shops of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, who died on Monday. was one of the
foremost officials of the Pennsylvania me-
chanical department. In 1860 he took DO
sition in the Fort Wayne shops, later going
to Allegheny. In 1867 he was made master
mechanic in the shops at Kane. and was
transferred to Remove in 1880, where he re-
manned until his death He was the oldest
master mechanic in the employ of the Penn
sylvania Company. and was prominent In
the Voluntary Relief Association.
w. H. Marshall, general superintendent
of the Lake Shore and the Lake Erie &
Western, is In the city. Mr.. Marshall states
the Lake Shore people are pushing their i'm
provements in the way of third and fourth
tracks at points on the system where bust
ness is the heaviest. In speaking of the
uneasiness of railroad employees on the wage
question he said that the wages now paid
were all that the roads could pay and
maintain the condition of roadbed and
equipment The time has come. he says,
when the roads would be obliged to decline
further advances.
USED A PUMP HANDLE.