The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-07-09


practically the same time, and that at
least one-half the concessions should not
have been asked or granted
Personal, Local and General Notes.
II. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton az Dayton at Indianapolis, Is
In Chicago attending meeting of general
freight agents.
f. c. Nash has been appointed CONNER
cial freight agent OF the Buffalo, Roches-
ter & Pittsburg at Philadelphia succeed
ing Comfy Jenkins, resigned.
The Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville is
reballasting the road from one end to the
other. Two steam shovels are used in the
work, one at Bedford Ind and one at Peru
Ind.
w. d. Peet has been appointed chief clerk
in the office of the auditor of the Chicago
Cincinnati & Louisville Railroad at Rich
mond, IND, to succeed ]. +. Donovan, re-
signed.
The railroad Y. NJ. c. A. according to
reports presented by the recent triennial
conference In Topeka, has increased in
membership in the last three years from
Al, 794 to 81, DDS.
The Pennsylvania Company will within
a few days begin work on the track ele-
walton in the east end of Cincinnati. The
plans have been completed and include
twenty-eight crossings. The work will cost
about s1.5OO.OOO.
The Northern Pacific announces special
round trip rates to Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland on account of the fourteenth an
nual session of the Transmississippi Com
mercial Congress, which will meet at Seat
tie Aug. Is to 81.
The receipt of both freight and passenger
engines by the Panhandle the last few
the orders mas ba~e b neary ana seTera OF
twenty-five III GA freight engines, was COM
pleted on Monday.
Miss Lulu Taylor chief stenographer in
the office of j. Q. Hicks. of the Big Four.
hn ran1 axN1
tive position with the Central Union Tele-
phone Company. Miss Brand. of Superin-
tendent Paquette's office. succeeds Miss
Taylor.
sion of the Pennsylvania, has been appoint
ed train master of the entire line, with
headquarters at Brownsville. Mr.. Shank
has been with the Monongahela division
since 1893 as telegraph operator. and since
1899 as train dispatcher.
The Lake Shore road will build new pas
senger station at Westfield to cost $4,000,
and the depot now in use will be moved and
used as a freighth0use and freight Offices.
Both improvements are much needed,
great has been the increase in business Of
the company at that point.
Local lines have sold more tickets at
their outside offices in the last ten days
than In any former period in their history.
In three days within the last week the Big
Four sold at its outside ticket office over
$4,000 worth of tickets, and several of the
other roads have had proportionately large
sales.
The division officers Of the Baltimore &
Ohio are making a thorough inspection of
the entire property, and when the reports
are completed and turned into the several
superintendent they will be forwarded to
head officials with recommendations regard
ing the roads condition, its needs and the
urgent necessity of Improvement at once
During the next two months the Pam
handle will receive from the American Car
and Foundry Company 600 new freight cars.
The order consists of twenty-five all-steel
gondolas. sixty-fve all-steel fiat cars, 40
steel underframe box cars of 100, 900 pounds
capacity, forty horse cars and nineteen
stock cars, 70 be delivered in July and Au-
gust.
1t is stated that the earnings for the Erie
Railroad for June will be found to make a
showing fully as favorable as those for May,
when the increase in gross was upwards of
100000 and In net upwards Of 100000, as
compared with the corresponding month Of
1902 The opinion prevails that the road
has entered upon an era of permanent pros
perity.
w. r. Laird, representing the Chicago
Greast Western, was In the city yesterday.
He states that the company is getting
everything in readiness to open it's Omaha
line. Tickets and tariffs are being printed
the intention to open the line to local traf.
fic Aug. /. and by Sept. 1 to all classes of
traffic.
Stockholders of the Rogers locomotive
works have elected as directors William
Haveron. F. B. Lowell, E. II. Norton,
stephen Peabody, j. d. Probst, Robert
Prum, ]. II. Smith. Sir William Van Horn
years master mechanic of the Jeffersonville
Madison e. indianapolis.
Col. w. NJ. Shaw. district passenger agent
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy who
was taken suddenly Ill on Wednesday of
last week at Cincinnati. has not improved
to the extent his friends had hoped. He is
permitted to see none but members of his
family, and his physician says If he recov-
ers IL will be at least two months before he
will be able to attend to the duties of his
position.
A special train bearing President Under
wood. of the Erie. made the fastest run
ever made on the Erie Tuesday. The dis
lance from Hunting to Hammond is 122
miles, and ii was covered in 121 minutes
with fve-minute stop for water. A stretch
of sixty-four miles was covered in fifty
nine minutes. Engineer McIlvaine was at
the throttle. with instructions to make
Western connection in Chicago.
r. III. Bell, travelling freight and passen-
CERT agent of the Canadian Northern. an
nounces that through passenger service be-
tween Winnipeg and Port Arthur will be
inaugurated by that road next Monday
AT Port Arthur the Canadian Northern
madam Pacific and the Northwestern Trans
portation Company and open a new scenic
route for the travelling public and the
extensive llilcS VI ittlSut
Pulaski Leeds, master mechanic of the
Louisville & Nashville. who was shot last
week and seriously wounded by dis
charged employee, was at one time master
mechanic of the Indiana, Decatur & West
ern shops, and was brought west by H. d.
Hammond. deceased, then president OF
that road. and he had the credit OF intro
ducing the Grant locomotive, one Of the
fastest passenger engines in service, size
OF train considered. in the Western States
St Louis ticket brokers will be able to
continue doing business in nontransferra BILE
and any other kinds Of transportation until
next October. despite the injunctions re-
Gently ISSUED against them by the judges
of the st. Louis Circuit Court. Judge Vail
liant of the Supreme Court OF Missouri.
has made this possible by directing writs OF
prohibition TO issue restraining the circuit
Judges from enforcing their injunctions. and
ordering them, well as the railroad cor
porations interested. to show cause at the
October term why the writ OF prohibition
should not be made permanent.
Passenger officials OF roads In Central
Traffic Association territory have had
strong support given them in arguments in
favor OF low excursion rates TO Eastern
summer resorts and to points Of interest by
the fncrea sed travel caused hv the Low