The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-05
Personal, Local and enera Notes.

Vice President Green, of the Pennsyl-
vania. has returned from his summer va
cation.
I. H.. Mummert, general manager of the
Indiana Car Servioc Bureau, has returned
from New York.
J. Q. Hicks. general utility man of the
Big -Four. is on a ten days fishing expedi-
ton near Warsaw, Ind.
Morgan Drake and j. l.. McMerchan have
been appointed train masters of the Chi
cago & Atoms western division.
j. c. WinaDs, passenger agent of tho Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton at Fort Wayne,
has returned from San Francisco.
The earnings of the Hooking Valley road
for August were $569, SS4.S1, against $552, 073. 80
in August. 1902, an increase this year of
$l7,S11.01.
George Grover, superintendent of the
western division of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, with his wife, is taking a
trip.
Gross earnings of the railroads Of the
United States increased more than $50, Co.,
900 during the first six months of 1908. and
the net $40, 100000.
J. l.. Pierce. who represents the Mer-
chants Dispatch at this point, is in Colo
RADIO looking after mining interests in which
himself and several other Indianapolitans
are interested.
The Norfolk & Western has begun the
construction of a fine office building at
| Roanoke, Va, and will also aid the Y nj.
G.. A. i'm the erecting of a $4,000 building
at Portsmouth, o.
Fort Wayne has a prominent organization
known as the Ladies' Society of the Brother
hood of Firemen. The organiza-
tion frequently gives suppers to the fremen.
and is quite prosperous.
B.. r.. Horn, chief pattern maker of the
Panhandle shops, has returned from Las
Vegas, n. NJ, whittier he went some months
ago i'm search of health. which has improved
somewhat by his sojourn in that place.
The growth Of passenger rafic with the
Big Four is illustrated by the official figures:
In August, 1898, there were handled on the
| system proper 652, S03 passengers: i'm August.
1905. ISL .245. an increase this year of To-. 4i2.
A. j. Young. formerly assistant general
freight agent of the Lake Erie & Western,
P Plate ' comna msna Was i OF tb the cif Nat Hesiard .in
the guest of Samuel b. Sweet, general
freight agent of the l.. f. & w.
c. T.. Smith has been appointed general
yardmaster of the Toledo & Ohio Central
resigned. MIR. Smith holds the position of
agent at Corning, and will perform the
duties of general yardmaster in addition.
The latest move of the Pennsylvania to
embarrass the Wabash, IL is stated, was
made this week, when Baltimore e. Ohio
engineers began a survey for a line to par
allel the Wabash through Marion and Mo-
~nongahela counties, West Virginia, and
Green county, Pennsylvania.
c. v. Williams. general freight and pas
senger agent of the Louisville a. Evansville
boat line, was in the city yesterday. He
says the line is 200 miles in length. in
GLIDING the prettiest portion of the Ohio
river. and that its passenger business this
season has exceeded all records.
The Grand Trunk has secured terminal
facilities in Milwaukee and will be operat-
ing trains to that city by Sept. Is by means
of a car ferry from Grand Haven. This
is the second railroad to decide To establish
terminals in in the past three
months, the other being the Wabash.
The Merchants Dispatch brought West
for the Love Bros cotton mill of this city
this week six carloads of cotton. POS bales.
The cotton had been TO England and then
returned TO this country, so much better
case of a shipment of cotton. except from
| Southern States. 10 indianapolis.
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Rock
I Island & Pacific for the fiscal year ending