The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-25
Personal, Local and General Notes.

]. c. Pond general passenger agent of
the Wisconsin Central. will be in the city
to-day.
Arthur Mendenhall. assistant train master
of the Panhandle, has been confined to his
bed for several days on account of illness.
Engineers j. III. Deer and B. Hanna. of
the Big Four, are at a Martinsville sani-
tarium undergoing treatment for rheuma-
tism.
ID. I. Lawrence. of Buffalo, n. Y, gen.
eral manager of the National Dispatch and
the Great Eastern line, was in the city
yesterday.
has been taken of Capt Henry Stoll of the
Pennsylvania police force. and the twenty
eight men under his control.
Engine PIP. of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, new. heavy passenger engine.
did not perform satisfactorily and has been
rebuilt at the Lima shops.
f. T. Dolan, superintendent of the Colo
RADIO division of the Santa Fe, on Tuesday
succeeded F. w. Egan as general superin-
tendent of the Colorado g. Southern.
II. G.. Stiles. general agent of the Cincin-
nati Hamilton & Dayton, is spending two
or three days on the Cincinnati Indian
apolis & Western division of the former.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon, was in the city Yesterday. He
says the road is doing the heaviest freight
and passenger business in its history.
The Big Four has resumed laying Sec
ond track from Bellefontaine west, 1t be-
line from Cleveland to St. Louis eventually.
W. G. Bayley. superintendent of the Gin
cinnati division of the Big Four, and
Charles Myers, of the claim department, left
last night for Sandusky to spend few
days.
PS. Crawford. who has run an engine
for twenty years the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago, died at Allegheny this
week after suffering for three months from
hiccoughs.
The Pennsylvania will, on Aug 2, put on
an additional evening train, in connection
With the xandsia; between Columbus it. bus and
train on the Big Four.
E. r. Conroy. who held the position of
assistant engineer of maintenance of way
on the Richmond division of the Panhandle
has gone to Kansas City to accept a SINH
lar position on the Rock Island.
The president of the Crescent Construc-
ton Company. which has the contract tor
building the Indiana. Logansport & Chicago
Railroad, says he will have the line COM
pleted from Indianapolis to Indiana Harbor
by December. Ee5.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
subdivided its Lima master mechanics dis
trict and placed j. f. Gould In charge of
the Lima shops and the Findlay, Fort
Wayne & Western branch. Mr.. Gould comes
from the Queen * Crescent.
w. A. Pratt, assistant to the chief engi-
neer OF the PENNSYLVANIA, who has been
abroad for the past six weeks, returned on
Wednesday greatly benefited by his vaca-
ton. Next month Chief Engineer Brown of
the same company, will go abroad.
II is understood the ultimatum in the mat
ter of reduced passenger rates from ST Paul
to Chicago is differentiai for the Wiscon-
sin Central. The trouble is, the Chicago &
Rock Island. If the Wisconsin Central is
ganted differential, will expect to share it,
The Union Pacific announces that an or
der has been placed for thirty-one new
passenger engines, embracing both the Pa
ciic ard Atlantic types. The enormous In
I crease Iva traffic over the road has necesss-
tated the purchase of nearly sixty locomo-
| tives TINS year
Horace @. Clark Is to be superintendent of
| the Wabash. with headquarters at Deca-
! tur, his jurisdiction extending over the ST.
/ Louis and Chicago division of the system.
| He has been in charge OF the Omaha d.
vision of the Missouri Pacific and now re-
turns to the Wabash
| The medical officers of the local yolun-
| tary relic. department of the Pennsylvania
Company are busy making examinations Of
| the mel employed by the company, there
bSing such an increased demand for wo~k-
ers that the company is employing a large
/ number oil new men.
Joseph West. IS years DID, one of the old
| est men connected with the Baltimore e
| Ohio service. having been an engineer fifty-
! two years. was recently retired under thu