The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21

poration have been filed for two new rail-
road enterprises, which will aid to develop
northern California. One is the California
and Oregon Coal Company. the other the
Chiko and Northern. The Southern Pacific
is said TO be the controlling factor In both
roads.
over y per cent. of the $1s4, 100000 stock
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern was
represented in person or by proxy at the
annual meeting of the company in Gin
cinnati, at which it developed that the total
number of shareholders had increased 62
per cent over year ago, showing an in
creasing absorption of shares by the in
vesting public.
General Manager willard of the Erie.
has complimented Superintendent Brum, or
the Buffalo division, for the efficient man
ner In which an official special train was
recently handled. and Superintendent
Brum in turn bulletined the fact for the
information of the employees of the trans
portation department. to show that their
good work is appreciated.
The fast limited train that the Great
Northern Will put on next week between
St Paul and Duluth will be known as the
Gopher State Express. 1t will be the fast
est train run in the State of Minnesota.
being scheduled to make the run in hours
and 10 minutes. President Elliot, of the
Northern Pacific, with other officials OF the
company, has been making a tour OF the
system the past week
Arrangements have been made by the
passenger department of the Wabash Tor
and the Pacific coast, as well as the CITY
of Mexico. This service, it is expected, Will
go into operation on Jan. l, and when
the extensions of the Western Maryland
and Northern Railroads are completed the
Gould system expects to be able TO run
solid trains from Baltimore to the Rio
Grande.
The Pennsylvania announces that, eff
fective Nov. 20. an extra sleeping car VIII
be placed in service between New York
and New Orleans in connection with the
Southern Railway, and that also on the
same date through sleeping car service
Will be established between New YORK ana
Jacksonville in connection with the Soutn-
ern Railway. Dining car service Will De
furnished between Washington and jack
sOnvile.
sons of w. +. Brown, who for some years
was general passenger agent or the lndl-
ana, Bloomington & Western, now the
Peoria & Eastern, were in the city yester-
day. All were, in the late seventies and
early eighties, railroad men. but retired
from that service to engage in business at
Columbus, o., and as a result of their eff
forts have become quite wealthy in operat-
ing the Columbus Mill and Mine Supply
Company.
Since George w. Ristine. who has been
for years prominently identified in railroad
circles, resigned from the position of traffic
manager of the worlds fair, there has been
considerable speculation as to which road
would secure his services. it being recog-
and valuable in any department Mr.. Ris-
tine has set these speculations at rest by
sending out a circular stating that he has
decided to open an office for the examina-
ton of reports on railroad properties, en-
bracing physical. financial and traffic con-
ditions.
The educa tional trip of passenger men
connected with the Pennsylvania, which has
been in progress since Tuesday of this
week, will terminate to-day. few months
ago the Pennsylvania people decided TO
have their passenger representatives on the
! lines east and west meet every six months
and make trip over the line, visiting the
more important points, and this week
| Western representatives, including w. w
Richardson, district passenger agent at In
senger agent at Columbus, left Washington
on Tuesday, visited Philadelphia on Wednes-
day and Thursday and New York yester-
day.
| Pennsylvania official says there is not
an employe of the Pennsylvania who does
not mourn the death of the old engineer
| John McCabe, who was killed at PittSburg
on Tuesday by being struck on the head by
machinery projecting from a derailed car
McCabe, he says, was loved by all the
| trainmen and motive power men, and as a
| passenger conductor had become a general
| favorite. What is a little singular ia con-
| nection with his death is that Mrs. McCabe
| was planning pretty surprise for her hus-
band when he would return from his run
J that evening, Ii being a family dinner III
! honor of their thirtieth marriage anniver-
| sary, but instead of that the funeral &C.
CURED yesterday, and was attended by a
| number of Panhandle engineers, he being
/ a member of the brotherhood.