The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-21
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Erie conductors have been ordered to
issue written orders to fiagmen in order to
prevent misunderstanding and accidents.
B. F. Yokum, president of the st. Louis
e. San Francisco, Is en- route to Los An
geles to spend the holidays with his fam
lily.
The Hooking Valley road earned i'm the
second week of December, $97346. IL, an in
crease over the corresponding week last
year of 81, SS9.95.
The New York G. Chicago limited via
the Lake Shore, is now run over the Air
line division and makes no stops between
Toledo and Elkhart.
Waiting maids for women passengers are
now carried on the five-hour trains of the
New York, New Haven & Hartford road
between New York and Boston.
w. H. Sims. after an absence of three
months on account or an attack of typhoid
fever, is at his post again as station mas
ter of the Broad-street station at Philadel-
phia.
1t is stated that Rock Island trains from
ST Louis will be running into Kansas City
by April /. Tracks are now laid to Yer
sailles and the greater part of the heavy
filling is done.
General Passenger Agent Boyd of the
Pennsylvania, states that from January to
October. this year, 10000 passengers took
advantage of the stop-over in Philadelphia
allowed on all through tickets.
The Illinois Central, on Saturday, Joined
the other Chcago-Omaha lines in their
Al w
duced grain rates and issued new tariffs
meeting the Great Westerns rates.
Z. e. Hartman. president of the South
ern Pacific and interested In the Union Pa
cific, is quoted as saying that neither his
road nor the Union Pacific would under
take any new construction work the coming
year.
The New York Central car inspectors
have been granted two holidays monthly
with full pay and repairers will re-
ceive from the company pay and half for
all labor performed on Sunday and legal
holidays.
the Burlington, left, on Saturday, for a
visit to Colorado Springs TO meet Passen-
ger Traffic Manager Eustis, of the c., Il.
& O., who is improving in health as re-
suit of a few weeks stay in Colorado
Officials of the New York Central passen-
ger department state that the circulation Of
the Christmas number of the Four-track
News is 10000 greater than in December.
The New York office has called in from
offices on its lines all surplus copies of the
magazine.
The Michigan Central will receive in jan
uary and February from the Schenectady
locomotive works forty new locomotives
Thirty of them will be of the consolidated
compound type now used in freight service
| and six will be the largest passenger en-
gines in the world.
agent for the Great Northern, says the
| American railroads. In taking steps TO col
| oniZe the country along their lines, have
| unwittingly struck blow TO Mormonism
| and that the Mormon Church Is being rap
| idly disintegrated.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
pany Is planning TO spend considerable
money in improvements to its property in
| 1884, Among other things, IL will relay the
| road between Cincinnati and Gordons-
| VILE $50 miles, with new steel rails weigh
| ing 100 pounds TO the yard.
w. A. Garrett. general manager of the
Queen * Crescent, has had his jurisdiction