The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-02
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Pennsylvania is planning to erect a
$4,000 plant, purposing to build their own
steel cars.
Samuel p. Carver, travelling agent for the
Baltimore & Ohio, died in Akron, o., last
week Of typhoid fever.
The report from Manchester, N. H., that
the American Locomotive Company will re-
move it's plant from that place to Science
tady is denied.
l.. T.. Westry, for nine years superintend-
ent of the st. Louis a. Western, has been
appointed general superintendent of the
Coupila & Pacific.
l.. E. Johnson. president of the Norfolk
& Western, spent Sunday in Toledo. Mr..
Johnson was for many years in railroad
service in that city.
+. w. Wolsey. assistant land commissioner
of the Northern Pacific. John d. McName,
land attorney. and Carl Simmons. land ex-
aminer, have resigned.
Yesterday was the ~quietest Sunday in
many months at the Union Station, there
being but one excursion into the city and
but one from the city.
1t is stated hat all lines RUNNING east
from Omaha will meet the Chicago Great
Western reduction in local grain rates from
Omaha 10 Minneapolis and Chicago.
DIR. Grant Goodman. medical examiner
for the Panhandle at Elwood, Ind, has
been transferred To Columbus and Pittsburg.
He will divide his time between the two
points.
Xix "obGol A1ROA ohOno lldL Tic
line earned gross in September. 1928. $50;
operating expenses were $1,523,554; net earn
ings, $7l6. 132. The net earnings since July
l were $l,9lI ,634.
are prohibited and a dismissal of all now in
service has been ordered on the ground that
they are an obstacle TO the observance Of
civil-service rules.
M. c. Carroll. general freight agent of the
New Orleans Belt and rmin Company,
has resigned and on Dec. l will become con-
nected with the Harroun Elevator Com
pany, OF st. Joseph, Mo.
1t is announced at the general Offices of
the Pennsylvania lines west that the work
OF rebuilding the Panhandle bridge across
the Monongahela river at Pittsburg will
be completed in thirty days.
The joint passenger committee of the
Trunk Lines Association has ruled that the
Chicago-St- Paul lines must pay full proper
ton of their Eastern connections on tickets
sold AT cut rates during last summer.
Engineers of the Baltimore < Ohio have
prepared plans to be submitted at the next
meeting OF the directors for extensive inn
provements to the terminals in Baltimore
and enlargement of the shops at Montclair,
at an estimated cost of about s9.0O0.0O0.
A telegram from Henry Dering. assistant
general passenger agent OF the P~ennsyl-
vania at Chicago. reports that the favorable
turn TO his Illness continues and that he
rode out Saturday for the first time in many
months.
The Lake Shore road VIII try the expert
ment Of running Sunday excursions during
the winter and will inaugurate the service
by running a special from Cleveland to To-
ledo. This is a line OF traffic not yet un-
dertaken. and much passenger equipment.
IL is claimed. is idle during the winter
months.
President Newman, OF the New York Gen.
trail. says that existing conditions OF bust
ness are so a5normally good that conserva-
tive railroad men hesitate about reducing
forces. The Erie is handling more traffic
boths ways than Is usual i'm the fall. Freight
Traffic Manager Joyce, OF the Pennsylvania.