The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-13
Personal, Local and General Notes.

II inspecting the property.
1t was pay day yesterday with the Union
Railway Company. The disbursements
were $3.50.
c. l. Hilleary. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four. has returned
from an extended Southwestern trip.
DIT. j. NJ Eells, of the voluntary relief
department of the Panhandle, who has
been i'll for some time, has returned TO
duty.
The earnings Of the Hooking Valley for
the first week of October were $l5I6l3. a..
an increase over the same week last year
OF $6151.13.
The order to reduce the force OF shopmen
on the Vanderbilt system has caused the
discharge OF about five hundred employees
at Buffalo and Depew.
j. II. Rothier has been appointed car
service agent of the Detroit Southern, with
headquarters at Springfield, O., vice T..
NJ. Bauer.
1t is stated that W ~ winchell. vice pres
ident and general manager OF the St Louis
* San Francisco, viii go 10 Chicago ana
become prominent in Rock Island affairs.
The trade leagues of Philadelphia have
passed resolutions commencing as bene-
tit TO Philadelphias commerce the Wa
bashs contemplated entrance TO that city.
The division engineer of the Erie, who
last week inspected the work in progress
on the Portage bridge, says that when
finished it will be the strongest structure
in the coun ry.
Colonel Harding, a director of the Sea-
board Airline, and one OF the largest Stock
holders, passed through the city yesterday,
accompanied by his family en- route TO the
Northwest over the Big Four.
The veteran engineers of the Erie will hold
a meeting at Youngstown to discuss the
question of pensioning employees, and will
| likely take action similar to that of the en-
gineers of the New York Central.
Robert W. Baxter, who will retire on Oct.
Is as general superintendent of the Ne
/ n iCfn fnn mir ri
been In the service forty years, and has held
very responsible positions for thirty years.
The Toledo Southern Railway Company
has been Incorporated TO build a road from
Toledo. to Hunler, on the Detroit Southern.
1t is evidently planned that the Detroit
Southern is to reach Toledo over this new
line.
Vice President Greene, General Superin-
| tendent Carthers and o. p. McCarty, gen
eral passenger agent or the Baltimore d
| Ohio Southwestern, left yesterday for
! Baltimore TO attend the general time-card
| meeting.
The Big Four lines proper handled in the
| first week Of October 80 SIG loaded cars, an
| increase of Isis over the corresponding
| week last year. The Peoria & Eastern
| handled 4,74S loaded cars, an increase of
l,244 over last year.
On Oct 20 the passenger officials of the
Vanderbilt line will meet in New York TO
| discuss time tables. and Oct. q the
| passenger officials will meet for general
| conference regarding the passenger service
| OF the Vanderbilt lines.
George Greser, cashier in the office of d.
j. CULVER, ticket agent of the Big Four at
! Cleveland has rendered his resignation to
accept a position inspector for the Trav-
elers Insurance Company. He is succeeded
| by Ray Lawrence, a young man from Adri-
| an, Mich.
| The fall session of the American Railway
| Association will be held at Masonic Temple,
! Richmond, Va, beginning Wednesday, Oct.
| q. The next annual meeting of the ASsO-
citation of Railway Superintendents of
| Bridges and Buildings will be held at Que
bee Oct. 20.
| The Wabash will re-establish its South
| ern route between Chicago, Los Angeles
and San Francisco, and new through
| service has been arranged from Chicago to
| Galveston. The Pacific coast service to be
| restored was very popular, and new Sleep
ing cars have been built for all the serv-
| ice.
| Oct 8 was a red letter day with the
| Lake Erie a. Western. it handling on that
| date the largest number of loaded cars in
the roao history. Notlce TO that effect
| has been posted on the door of the general
| superintendent office, giving the number
| of cars handled, both loaded and empty
| 2,ISS loaded, 475 empty.
| While the Chicago e. Northwestern has
put ban on women stenographers because
| they interfere with promotions of men,
| the Southern Pacific is not only employing
them owing' to their Willingness to work
women as telegraph operators for the same
| reason.
| The injunction suit of the Wabash Rail-
road Company against certain unions of the
railroad employees, which attracted much
| attention few months ago, was dismissed
| on Saturday in the United States Circuit
Court at the request of both plaintiff and
| company and the employees have been ami
| cably adjusted
The Big -Four announces that ii is now
operating dining cars la carte on the
following trains; No; II: Cincinnati to
! No. 16 Chicago to Indianapolis, and St.
Louis to Cleveland; No. is, indianapolis to
Cincinnati, and No. 10, Cleveland to st.
Louis. All others are operated on the
table de hote plan.
| The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Philadelphia & Reading Company
and the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and
| Iron Company was held Monday. The old
| board OF directors was reelected meet
| ing of the directors of the Reading Com
| pany will be held on Wednesday. 1t is
| expected dividend will be declared on the
second preferred stock.
| John Rech, ticket agent at the uptown
| office of the Pennsylvania will retire on
| Thursday and be succeeded by George III.
Whiting, ticket agent at the Union Sta
| tion Mr.. Rech has been in railroad serv-
| Ice in Indianapolis since 1871, and has made
| many friends by his correct and prompt
| methods. Mr.. Rech proposes to engage in
commercial pursuits, he having declined
| two good offers ticket agent.
| According to the annual report of Presi-
| dent II. +. Whitcomb, of the Wisconsin
| Central, the total increase in the gross
| earnings for the last year amounted to
| more than 10 per cent, or $610,393 while
| the expenses increased S31 per cent. or
| $3226D. The net earnings increased Is. SO
per cent, or $2S7,773. The gross earnings
| OF the road were S6,651S62, and the net
earnings, S2,445,S69. The net surplus at
the close of the year was $717,623.
b. G. Winchel. vice president and general
| manager of the Frisco lines, will become
| the third vice president and the executive
| head of the Rock Island system in the West
| Thursday, with headquarters in Chicago.
was made yesterday by President Leejs
| The offices of First Vice President Warren
and Second Vice President Robert Mather
| will be removed to New York, leaving Mr.
| Winchel in full control of the Western lines
of the Rock Island system.
| As a result of the visit of A. T. Cassatt
president of the Pennsylvania, and other of
| ficials of the line it is probable that a new
/ union station will be erected at Chica GO
| commensurate with the business of the sew.
| eral roads interested. Mr.. Cassatt is said
| to have recognized the need of more room
| for the passenger service of the five roads
using the union station, and assured those
/ interested that as soon as certain improve
! ments under way on the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn had been completed Chicago would be
| attended TO.
A steam railway from Madison to Greer
| Bay, by way of Oshkosh, is assured: q
| syndicate has been formed and the capita