The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18


NJ w Simpson has been appointed New
England freight agent of the Big Four at
Boston.
The Brightwood shops will within few
days complete two new postal cars for the
Big Four.
Membership in the Railway Clerks Union
has cost a number of men in the service or
the Union Pacific road the loss of their po-
sitions.
The next annual convention of the Inter.
national Railway Master Boiler Makers
Association will be held in Columbus, o.,
Tuesday May 49,
George w. Graves, superintendent of the
Western division Of the Cincinnati, Indian
apolis & Western. has gone to Mt. Clemens
to be absent two weeks.
L. L. Helmer, a conductor on the Van
dalia, yesterday completed his twenty-nirtn
year OF service. He entered the service or
the Peoria & Decatur branch.
James Buckalew, assistant engineer OF
the Pennsylvania, on Thursday last re-
turned to work after an absence Of two
months on account of i'll health.
The executive committee of the Central
Assertion of Railroad officials has selected
Detroit as the place for holding Its next
annual meeting, on July % and g.
movement is on foot, according to local
freight men, to organize a national associa-
ton of travelling freight agents. A conven-
ton will be held in Cincinnati June and 6.
The Union Railway and Belt Road Com
pany is putting in a switch at East Six
tenth street. 1900 feet in length, for the
Marietta Glass Company, and another side
track for the Schrader works.
F. z. Blaser, superintendent of the Wheel
ing division of the Baltimore & Ohio. will
on Monday go to the Wheeling division;
succeeding u. 3. Williams, who has been
appointed general trainmaster of the Chi
cago division.
j. w. Leonard, general superintendent of
the Canadian Pacific has been appointed
manager of transportation of the entire
Canadian Pacific system, with offices at
Montreal. He will enter on his new duties
on Monday.
Train No. IL, on the Pennsylvania, broke
all records In a run from Johnstown to
Cresson, distance of twenty-four miles.
to the summit of the Allegheny mountains.
1t was hauled by one Of the new Science
tady locomotives.
On June Is the new rules of the Lake
Erie & Western will become effective.
Trainmen on the road and other employees
are are. now being instructed in the rules rules
In use on the Lake Shore.
The Pennsylvania has abandoned the
roundhouse at Fort Wayne, built at the
time the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago
was constructed, and moved into Its new
roundhouse. A new shop will be built on
the site of the old roundhouse.
| On May 1 the car accounting offices Of
| the Burlington & Missouri at Lincoln. Neb,
and of the Missouri line of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy at st. Joseph, will be
transferred to Chicago and merged with
those of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
| The annual report of the mileage bureau
| of the Central Passenger Association shows
| that in the four years the bureau has been
| in operation a total of one million mileage
books of the interchangeable type have been
sold, representing one billion miles OF
| travel.
j. B. Corners superintendent of the Nor
| folk & Western, states that within a few
| months this road will be. one of the best
equipped with motive power in the country.
L
| engines Of the Atlantic type will be re-
| ceived
From a clerical position in a freight
| house to the pulpit Is the experience which
| is about to fall to the Rev. A. l.. Brandon
| burg. Mr.. Brandenburg will tomorrow
| take up his ministerial duties in the Butler,
Ind. circuit. He has resigned his railroad
| position.
| w. c. Stith, of the Missouri Pacific &
Iron Mountain. will become assistant vice
| president of all the Gould lines on May 1.
with headquarters at Chicago. Mr.. Stith is
one of the oldest freight rtafffc officials on
| the Gould system, having been with the
| road twenty-five years
Committees of engineers and fremen of
the, Lake Erie & Western now in Cleveland
| will complete the adjustment of their griev-
ances to-day. General superintendent Mar
shall. of the Lake Shore. states that the
have been practically agreed upon.
With the extension of the Cincinnati. In
dianapolis & Western to Springfield, H.,
there has been handsome increase in pas
| senger as well as freight traffic. the
| through sleeper between Cincinnati and the
West, via Springfield carrying a much
| larger number of people nightly than for
merly.
| The Southern Indiana road has ordered
| ten locomotives of the Baldwin type, three
| for the passenger service and seven for
| freight. The company also has ordered
100 box cars. fifty stock and 400 coal cars
! from the Dayton factory. The business OF
| the road since the extension was built to
| Terre Haute has been increasing beyond
| all expectations.
The Lake Shore Company will next week
| commence the construction of additional
| yards at Plymouth, about two miles south
| of Ashtabula, where sixty tracks will be
! laid, principally for storage purposes. This
| tween Buffalo and Chicago in increased ter
minal facilities. The costs of the yards al
| Plymouth will exceed over 100000.
Tomorrow the Sunday excursions will be
| inaugurated by several lines The Cincin-
| natl Hamilton * Dayton will run one to
| Cincinnati, the Big Four one to Aurora and
| way points, the Vandalia one from Indian
| apolis TO Terre HaUte and the Big Four
| will run one from Nation and way points
| to Indianapolis one from Champaign and
| way points and one from Cincinnati and
| way points.
The Incorporation of the Lake Erie, Ra-
| VIENNA & Southern Railroad on Thursday
has revived the rumor that it will be built