The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-24


Trains "A. 20 and &c on the Pennsylvania
and Vandalia now run through solid be-
tween ST. Louis and New York.
William Cannon, secretary of the Union
Railway Company, has returned from Wis
1t to his brother in Milwaukee.
w. c. Deppe. assistant general passenger
natl last night and will be in the city most
of to-day.
The traffic offices of the Erie are being
moved from Cleveland to Chicago, and the
principal work of the department will be
done at Chicago after Monday.
Work was begun yesterday on new in
terlOcking plant at the crossing of the Belt
road and Big Four tracks west of Bright
wood. The new plant will cost $4,000.
For Aprl 1O1 roads show an average net in
crease of 147S per cent. and eighty-five
roads in the second week of June show
an average gross increase of 1l76 per cent.
President Ramsey, of the Wabash, has
appointed ]. +. Wright paymaster for the
Buffalo, Detroit & Middle division and S.
NJ. Read paymaster of the eastern and
western division.
John F. Miller. vice president of the
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus, passed
through the city yesterday en- route to ST.
Louis to attend the meeting of the exec
utive committee of the st. Louis exposition.
A. H. Mcleod, freight traffic manager of
the c., H. & D., left for New England
yesterday to attend the fast freight line
present at the graduation of his daughter
at Wellston College.
Along with the increasing Of the passen-
ger equipment of the Panhandle the last
of the freight conductors we'll as num-
Der of firemen. This is largely due to the
increase in motive power.
Charles E. Rockwell, traffic manager of
the MOnon, was In the city yesterday. He
states that their business, aside from that
connected with the Bedford stone quarries,
where a strike is in existence, Is heavy
beyond precedent for June.
number of passenger officials of local
lines will be in the city to-day to look after
| the harvest homeseekers to Indiana. Ex-
cursion rates have been given to Indiana
from Iowa. Wisconsin, Minnesota and a
number of other Northwestern States.
George Blair, commercial agent of the
| Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul, j. c..
| Wood commercial agent of the Indiana,
! Illinois & Iowa, and j. I. Vallery, COM
mercial agent of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy, arrived in the city last
night.
An official call has been issued for the
fifteenth annual convention of the National
| Association of Railway Commissioners, to
be held in Portland, Me-, on July IA. Re-
ports will be submitted by different commit
tees and many important questions dis
cusSed.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Belt
road yesterday received word from the
would be ready to deliver the four new
engines to the Belt Road Company as early
| as Nov. 1, which is sixty days before the
| time that was first agreed upon.
| Friends of George T. whitsley. assistant
| general freight agent of the Erie lines at
| Cleveland, o., assembled at his home on
| Saturday night and presented him with a
| gold watch and chain. He was one of the
officials who goes to Chicago after serv-
| ing the company at Cleveland for many
years.
After twenty years experience as first
! assistant in the passenger department of
| the Cleveland. Lorain * Wheeling, DIR. S.
| A. Townsend is making a tour of the
Southern States and is at present camp
ing in the mountain regions near Ashe-
| vile on the famous 21,000-acre Vanderbilt
ranch.
w. c. Arp. superintendent of motive
power OF the Vandalia. r. L. Ettinger,
mechanical engineer of the Big Four. and
! w. III. Jackson. superintendent of motive
| power of the Belt road, left yesterday for
| Saratoga to attend the national convention
/ of master mechanics and master car
| builders.
The Pere Marquette has sold 5000 900 of
! its AZ per cent. gold bonds, secured by a
/ first lien on the Lake Erie & Detroit River
between Detroit and Port Huron. Mich,
and St. Thomas, Ont. and will be the
connecting link in the Pere Marquette trunk
lire from Chicago To Buffalo.
The improvements now under way for the
| terminal company at st. Louis will cost
| S7O0O.OO0 In addition. the aggregate ex-
penditure OF the Wabash in that city will
/ be ssOo0O00. and the total expenditure on
| terminal transfer expenses, will exceed 500
100000 before the end of the year.
officers of the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific deny the reported sale of the Texas
Island & Pacific and St. Louis & San Fran