The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-25
Personal. Local and General Notes.

freight agent OF the MOnOn, was IN the
city yesterday
The Illinois Central has sold 100000 of
it's 3z per cent. bonds, due in 1851 TO En-
gliSh parties at par.
Horace Eddy, of the claim department
of the Pennsylvania. has been transferred
to the law department
Charles III. Hunt. general agent of the
Lackawanna at st. Louis. will be in the
city to-day business trip.
William Hogdon, recently appointed
freight agent of the Vandalia, is in Pitts
burg attending meeting of Pennsylvania
freight officials.
]. A Barnard. general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern. is in Cincinnati in con-
ference with President ingalls, in relation
to Improvements of the P. & E.
S; c. Baker. representing the st. Louis
the city arranging with the managers of
the Shiloh battlefield excursion party.
e b. Hutchinson. claim agent of the
Pennsylvania at Indianapolis. left yester-
day for Spokane TO be absent three weeks.
He goes TO look after private business.
James Pond, general passenger agent of
the Wisconsin Central. who has been spend
ing a few days with his wife at French
Lick springs. returned home yesterday.
S. c. Clark, Southeastern freight agent
who represents the Lackawanna line at
Terre Haute, were in the city yesterday.
Carey Ferguson, chief clerk of the freight
claim agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio, is
visiting friends in the city for few days.
agent for the Big Four at this point.
Passenger representatives of Chicago
lines reaching Colorado common points at
their meeting on Monday decided to make
the eolonist rate. $50 During the closing
of the season last year the rate was
dropped to SIS.
The Veteran Employe Association of the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania has
decided to hold its annual meeting at
kennwood Park on May q. Each mem
Der of the association must have served
at least twenty-one years on railroad.
President Ramsey of the Wabash. sailed
for Europe on Tuesday on the Kronprinz
Wilhelm on account of the illness of his
daughter. She is suffering from typhoid
fever at Cairo, Egypt. He was to have
left New York for st. Louis last Saturday,
The Monon earned In the second week of
March Sl02,3 12, against $S3S43 in the CORE
spending week last year, and against &c.,
~ in the corresponding week of 1901. This
is the first time in the history of the road
that one weeks earnings have exceeded
six figures.
The general manager of the Union Pacific
has closed contract with Chicago COM
pany for the construction of twenty-five
water purifying plants between Omaha and
Salt Lake City, the work to begin at once.
The order is the largest of its kind ever
given and contemplates an expenditure of
at least s1,500,000.
Residents of the northern part of Cali
fornia are said to be much pleased over
the report that the Great Northern is to be
extended to San Francisco. Surveying
parties are reported to be al work run
ming lines from Santa Rosa north and
south, which are intended TO connect Port
land with the Golden Gate.
The Lake Shore officials have ordered
thirty-five engines from the Brooks loco
motive works for delivery in August. The
order calls for ten passenger, hve switch
ing, fifteen freight engines and five freight
ers of the 100 per cent. type. This order
will have the effect of turning over more
Lake Shore engines to the Lake Erie &
Western.
The situation between the officials of the
New York. New Haven & Hartford and
employees is improved. The New Haven
officials have announced to the grievance
committee their desire to adjust wages
satisfactorily, and the fact that the griev-
ance committee has accepted the PROPOSE
ton to postpone decision is taken to mean
that no trouble will occur.
Orders have been issued by the Pennsyl-
vania Company forbidding playing of cards
and drinking liquor on any of its cars on
the western division of their lines. Several
other minor things are included in the
order, but the conductors look for more
trouble In enforcing the order concerning
cards and liquor than any of the other
details. The order does not include the
Pullman or chair cars, covering day
coaches only
s. E. Cotter, superintendent of the east
ern division of the Wabash, is employing
men under him. and in doing it makes him
self popular with all the roadmen. For
some days past he has been riding con-
tinuously over the line on freight engines
and cabooses. and is always on hand to
discover causes of delay. Occasionally he
rides on the Continental Limited and other
passenger engines.
The annual meeting of the Cincinnati &
Muskingum Valley Railroad Company. was
held in GAINESVILLE, o., on Tuesday at the
office of Superintendent c. NJ Bennett. An
increase CT 1,224 in gross earnings and
net increase of 1928 was reported. The
ensuing year: James McCrea, Joseph
Woods and j. j. Turner, Pittsburg; l.. l..
Gilbert. Salem, o.; James Buckingham,
John Hoge and F. A. Durham, GAINESVILLE.
G. B. Bennett superintendent.
Elijah Canady. an old engineer on the
Wabash, who retired three years ago on
the introduction of the color-blind examin-
time of his retirement and for three years
previously he depended entirely on his
fireman to tell him the color of
the signals at the different points
blind and is residing with his daughter at
Lafayette. He was an engineer on the
Wabash for fortytwo years, and left the
service with a clean record.
Inc arrangements Tor dividing the Chi
cago division of the Santa Fe are prac-
tically completed. General Manager Hugh
Nudge, General Superintendent j. Z. Hur-
ley and Superintendent F. t. Dolan. of the
Chicago division, went over the route be-
tween Kansas City and Fort Madison,
spending considerable time at Muscatine,
where the new assistant superintendent will
be located Considerable speculation is in
dulged In as to the new assistant superin-
tendent, but 1t is understood that he will be
trainmaster and probably z. A. Austin
of the eastern division.
ID. NJ. Parry, president of the National
Manufacturers Association, expects a
large attendance at the annual convention
to be held in New Orleans April r. A spe-
cial train will be run from Detroit, one
from Cincinnati and one from indianapolis.
the latter going over the Pennsylvania and
the Louisville & Nashville The Detroit
and Cincinnati trains will 60 over the Queen
& Crescent from Cincinnati. The Chicago
delegation will come via Indianapolis Join
ing the Indianapolis delegation on arriving
here. Ii is expected by Mr. Parry that the
vention yet held
passenger official who was in the city
yesterday said that railroad men do not ex-
pect to see regular schedules of three and
one-half days from New York to San Fran
cisco for a long time to come March %.
1900. a special train on the Atchison. To-
peka & Santa Fe started on a run from
Los Angeles to Chicago, which took fifty
three hours and thirty-six minutes. actual
running time, after deducting the time for
stops, which added three hours and tWen-
ty minutes. Twenfy-hour trains to Chi
cago now run by the New York Gem
trail making the above runs, with stops-a
six minutes. This amounts to about six
hours less than three and One-half DAYS