The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-21

The executive board of the ST. Louis Ter
minal Company will meet in st. Louis on
the 18th inst. to take up matters of i'm
portance.
E. HI. Rollins. private secretary of Samuel
B. Sweet, general freight agent of the Lake
Erie & Western, has gone to Colorado for
his vacation.
The ST. Louis & San Francisco has au-
thoriZed an expenditure at Oklahoma City
of $4,000 for the construction of a new
passenger station.
F. D. Comstock, treasurer of the Big Four,
and Warren ]. Lynch. general passenger
agent, left on Sunday for Yellowstone Park,
to be absent two weeks.
Eugene Mccain has been appointed fore
man of the shops of the Wabash at Peru.
Mccain is also an expert on air brakes and
will look after that line of service also.
The Indianapolis 81 Vincennes yesterday
issued its time table for Bethany Park,
effective July % to Aug. %. inclusive. There
will be four trains daily in both directions.
1t is stated that the new shops planned
some time ago for the Denver & Rio Grande
at Salt Lake will be built at once and will
be made the principal shops on that system.
A circular was issued yesterday by Gen.
eral Freight Agent Hodgdon, Of the Van
dalia. appointing William Thorne CONNER
cial agent of the Vandalia, with headquar-
tiers at Indianapolis.
F. j. Kimball, president of the Norfolk
| & Western, who was operated on several
| days ago for appendicitis, Is reported on
| the way to recovery rapidly and his family
| and friends are very hopeful.
T. s. Lindsey. assistant treasurer of the
Lake Shore road, died at Cleveland Mon
| was connected with the Lake Shore in vari-
Gus capacities for nearly half a century
| Panhandle trains between Indianapolis
and Columbus running via Bradford are now
hauled by the new Atlantic type of engines
recently received Those running via Day.
| ton are still hauled by Class engines
The Lake Erie & Western has prepared
| plans for the addition to its general Offices
! at Indianapolis and will soon let the con-
| tract. The upper story will be utilized for
! the engineering department. 1t will be very
convenient in every respect and fireproof.
Passenger representatives of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio are proud of the phenomenal
| increase shown from month to month in
\ the companys earnings from its passenger
| traffic, the increase being the largest of any
one of the trunk lines. mileage taken into
| consideration.
| French Lick Springs over the Indianapolis
| & Vincennes and the Monon is proving
profitable and affords through line with
/ out changing cars 1t has been on six
| weeks and each week shows an increase In
| travel over the preceding one.
I John Fritz. n Waterman for the Wabash
| at Williamsport. Ind, on Saturday cele-
/ brated the thirty-third anniversary of his
| first service with railroads and his forty
| ninth year of service with the Wabash. He
| began section hand in 1866. when the
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| Some of the engineers and firemen on the
/ Cleveland K Pittsburg division of the Penn
sylVania are making extra money. In June
/ some of the 1iremen OH that road are cred
| tied with sixty days work and, figured upon
the wage basis of the Panhandle they re-
! ceived over $50 for the months work.
| j. +. Stevens. chief engineer of the Rock
| Island. was in Kansas City on Saturday
making preparations 10 enlarge the Rock
| Island yards at that point. He states that
| they will build in all about thirty miles
| of additional switch track and will before
| this week is out have force of 40 men nj
| work.
| All the Western railroads are calling i'm
their freight cars and distributing them
| among the grain shipping points in the
| Western States, more especially Kansas
All the transportation facilities of the
| roads in Kansas are now taxed to the limit
| Harvesting is progressing rapidly and there
| is a great demand for CARS.
! NJ w Mansfield superintendent of the
| Indian a polls & Nincennes. says that most OF
| the wheat along the line has been harvested
and the crop Is very satisfactory, some
| fields yielding sound wheat weighing 6:
! pounds To the bushel. The corn crop is much
more promising than three weeks ago and
! farmers expecting about average
crop.
John T. Keith, who was last week ap.
| pointed superintendent of the Buffalo d.
vision of the Lehigh Valley road, COM
meuced his railroad career In 1881 as q
brakeman on tho Pittsburg road. and In
1855 war made passenger conductor. He
was then appointed trainmastcr on the