The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-05-30
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Ralph Peters, general superintendent of
the Panhandle, has returned from a trip
to the East with his family.
BY agreement the outside ticket Offices
will close at noon to-day, and will, until
September, close every Saturday at that
hour.
p. b. A. Scofeld, agent Of the Vandalia
lines at Brazil. has been appointed superin-
point.
Vice President Lisman, of the Detroit
Southern. will sail this week from New
York for a three months trip in the Brit
ish isles and on the continent.
George S. Mckee, formerly master me-
chanic of the Wabash, now superintendent
Of motive power of the Mobile & Ohio, is
visiting friends on the Wabash.
Joseph D.. Harris, assistant superintend-
G t of motive power of the Baltimore &
>chanic at Newark, have resigned.
On Thursday the shopmen employed by
the Pennsylvania Company at Fort Wayne
raised a pole 110 feet in height, from which
now floats a beautiful United States flag.
George w. c. Day. assistant trainmaster
of the Pittsburg division of the Baltimore
& Ohio, has been appointed division oper-
ator. succeeding the late P.'S. Rhoades. de-
ceased.
A. Newman has been appointed travelling
Industrial agent of the Chicago Terminal
Transfer Railroad Company, with head
quarters at the Central passenger station,
Chicago.
The Big Four has issued a special folder
advertising its through service. new trains,
etc. between ST. Louis and the East, and
the famous Knickerbocker, all finely equip
ped and fast trains.
W.. II. Potter. who has been connected
with the Pennsylvania in various capacities
since 1876, and superintendent of the Toledo
division since March /. 1895. will retire from
that position on July l.
L.. T. Garfield, formerly with the Lack
-oxr rafron1 hos 1ooiHa1 70 onna-t tho
position of superintendent of motive power
of the Mexican Great Eastern with head
quarters in the City of Mexico.
Edgar L.. Sommers, general Western
Chicago, will on June 5 take the position of
freight traffic manager of the New York.
New Haven & Hartford, with headquarters
In Boston.
w. p. Elliot, who has been connected with
the Pullman Company for over thirty years,
and in late years their ticket agent at the
Union Station. will retire June /. The Com
| pany will pension him during life at $3.50
per month.
The showing made by the railroads re-
porting April earnings are uniformly
favorable. The figures are all the more
significant in view of the fact that COM
parison is now being made with a period
of heavy traffic.
The Order of Railway Conductors at the
recent meeting at Pittsburg definitely set
tied the question of removing headquarters
from StudI INdDlQS- IL NOle SHOWING tnaI
Cedar Rapids had many friends as the loca-
ton for the headquarters.
The report from Wheeling that the Penn
sylvania officials have decided To extend
the Cleveland < Pittsburg from Bellaire to
Marietta. a distance of eighty miles, on the
north bank of the river, following the old
Ohio Valley route, is denied.
The Big Four and the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton and Dayton are dividing the business
of hauling coal from the Ohio river to the
Indianapolis gas works. the contract call
ing for LOO cars of coal. By dividing the
business equally better rates are secured.
The Big. Four now has eight trains dis
tributing ballast and two special trains on
construction work on the system. Yesterday
the company forwarded ten cars to Pitts
burg to be loaded with new stel rail. 10000
tons of which are TO be delivered in June.
On Tune | the Lake Shore will add an
other car to the twentieth century limited.
the Chicago and New York twenty-hour
train. The twentieth century will then be a
sfx-coach train between Chicago and Cleve-
land and a Seven-coach train between
Cleveland and New York.
Henry c.. Murphy for thirty-one years an
employee of the Wabash, twenty-five years
OF which was spent at Lafayette. died at his
home on Thursday. He retired the night
before in the best of health. but on arising
i'm the morning was seized with cramps
and expired in a few moments.
1t is understood that T. F. Barton. master
mechanic of the shops OF the Illinois Gen.
trail at Paducah. Ky, will be transferred TO
the Burnside shops at Chicago. ILL.,, TO sue
coed r. r. Place, who has resigned. and
master mechanic l.. Rova. of the Illinois
Central shops at ST. Louis. goes TO Paducah.
George Wolf has been appointed traffic
manager and assistant to the president
of the Nebraska, Kansas & Belt Railway
| Company. Mr.. Wolf has been connected
with the operating departments OF different
railroads for twelve years. being on the
Big Four first. then the Erie and of late
the Chicago * Alton.
| w w Pfrhardcnn district pacsapgar
agent. Pennsylvania lines, on Thursday
night rode ON the engine which hauls the
| fast mail from Richmond TO Indianapolis,
. the engine reaching a speed OF 81 miles per