The Indianapolis journal., 1903-07-30
Personal, Local and General Notes.


The Nickel-plate has placed an order with
the Dunkirk works for fifteen locomotives
The offices of the Missouri Pacific and
the Denver & Rio Grande at San Francisco
have been consolidated.
In June there were handled at the Union
Station, Indianapolis, 4.491 trains, consist
ing OF 21,l6S passenger cars.
1t is said the Rock Island has secured
control of the Des Moines 81 Fort Dodge
through the recent liquidation i'm stocks of
that road.
Ralph Peters. general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania lines west, left yesterday
with his family for Bayhead, N. j., where
his family will remain for some weeks.
The Erie announces that this week the
new pressed steel cars, 1500 of which were
ordered recently, will be delivered at the
rate Of thirty-ffve per day until the order is
filled.
The 65,OOo-gallon water tank on the Belt
road has been completed and was put into
stand on the Belt road near the Atlas
works.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Mag
azine for July contains much that is of
interest. While answering as an advertising
medium Ii contains much reading matter
of a newsy character.
The Illinois Central has under consid-
Grafton building line from Marion. Ky
to Cave Rock. distance of twelve
from Nashville to st. Louis.
At meeting of the directors of the Della
& Hudson Railroad Thursday Abel
i. Culver. third vice president, was elected
to the office of second vice president in
place of III. G. Young, resigned.
j. Hazard, formerly of Indianapolis. re-
Gently general agent of the Kansas City
Southern. has been appointed division
freight agent of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific, succeeding c. o. Jennings
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 similar r
position with the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific.
The tickets put on sale by the Dayton &
Union Steam Railway at one fare for the
round trip, good in either direction, have
proved effective in holding the travel of
this short piece of road from the interur-
ban lines.
The report of the general manager of
the Indiana Car-service Association for
June shows that $50 cars were handled
by the bureau, an increase of 81 per cent.
over June, 1902 The average detention was
1 $40 days.
The land departments of the Southern Pa
cific and Central Pacific are to be consoli-
dated and placed in charge of the law de-
partment of the Southern Pacific, following
out a policy initiated by the late c. P.
Huntington
The 7:lO p. m. train West from Indianap-
oils over the Big Four makes direct con-
nection with the Missouri Pacific and Iron
| Mountains fast a. m. train out of ST.
Louis, and this connection is building up
quite a business.
BY reducing the fare between Chicago
/ and st. Paul and Minnea polls from S1I so 10
s.. the Chicago and St Paul lines are
weekly losing more than $4,000 on through
/ traffic, says a railroad official who is in
position TO know the facts regarding the
| volume of traffic.
d. F. Crawford. who on next Saturday
will become the general superintendent OF
| motive power of the Pennsylvania lines
i West will take with him from Fort
/ Wayne his private secretary Robert
1 Wiley and his stenographer.
railroad official. speaking of Sunday
excursions, says they are fully as profit
1 able i'm the Western States as in the Cen
| tral Traffic Association territory. He was
/ in Kansas City on Sunday and IL was es-
timated that fully 25.0o0 excursionists were
carried during the day.
| l. D. Knowles has been appointed. gem
! eral agent OF the Missouri Pacific, the st