The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-21
Personal, Local and General Notes.

IT III. Kennedy has been appointed agent
at Holder. ILL.,. vice, H. b. Carlock. granted
leave of absence.
The Lake Erie & Western has AGO men
employed at its shops in Lima, and will
drop but twenty-eight.
M E. ingalls,, president, and George In
gals, general freight agent of the Big
Four, are in New York.
President Ramsey. of the Wabash, says
the Pittsburg line of that company, which
will cost $20,C0O,000, will be completed by
April 1.
Mr.. George ]. Charlton, general passen-
ger and ticket agent, and Mr.. d. Bowe. as
sistant general passenger agent of the Chi
cago 81 Alton, are in the city.
Assistant General Superintendent Boomer,
of the Lake Erie & Western, is on the
northern Ohio division becoming acquainted
with the line and its agents.
The International Car Workers at their
annual convention in Hartford, Conn.,,
voted to change the headquarters OF the
organization from Buffalo to Chicago.
l.. w. Price. travelling passenger agent
of the st. Louis & San Francisco, has
been appointed division passenger agent of
the road, with headquarters at Joplin.
b. l.. Winchell, who has been appointed
third vice president of the Rock Island
system and the executive head of the
road in the West, has arrived in Chicago,
and on Monday assumed his new duties.
The Lake Erie & Western is now loading
daily an average of LOO cars. The Lake
Shore is liberal in providing the road with
cars, which aids it in doing heavy bust
ness.
The contract for the construction of a
new union station at Atlanta, Georgia, has
been awarded to Guide Walker, of that
city The cost of these new improvements
will be 100000.
The wife of A d. Mcleod general
freight agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
a. Dayton, died at Cincinnati on Monday.
The remains will be taken to Baltimore,
Nd, for burial.
The Lumbermen's Exchange of Phila-
favoring the Wabash entering that city
with it's lines and will offer every en-
couragement to the project that is prac-
teal.
Jelico to Knoxville, Tenn, the Louisville
a Nashville will push the construction of
its new line of eighty-two miles, by which
it will secure a short line from Cincinnati
10 Jacksonville. The distance is 912 miles.
The voting trust of the Detroit Southern
has sanctioned the traffic alliance with the
Michigan Central road instead of the Pere
Marquette, in the belief that the tonnage
TO be derived from the Michigan Central
is greater than that of the Pere Marquette.
Three trains carrying General Manager G..
L. Peck and his assistants, who are on an
inspection of the lines west Of Pittsburg.
in the best possible shape. section men
and yardmen have been working energeti-
caly to get things in order
The American Express Company has
filed with the division superintendent of
New York city plans for stable for
the company. to cover the entire block
from Forty-second to Forty-third street.
east of Third avenue. The building will
be of ornamental brick, $50 feet front and
200 feet deep, and will cost $4,000.
1t is stated that the Panhandle authori-
ties have decided to run their fast trains
through town limits at reasonable speed
Nd hQi m a cd hn
question will be tested in the courts AT
several towns on the line the company has
been annoyed by the arrest of its engineers
and has decided TO test the question.
Wall street has concluded that Pennsyl-
4 vania railroad interests now have virtual
control OF the Hooking Valley road The
certificates are secured by the deposit OF
Sc 92i 200 of Hooking Valley stock, and the
certificates are guaranteed one-third for the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati. Chicago & st. Louis
one-sixth each for the Lake Shore, the Bal
timore & Ohio. the Chesapeake & Ohio and
the Erie. IN case of default of any gran