The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Vice President Rea, of the Pennsylvania,
is expected home to-day from hasty trip
to London.
Edward Zurp contracting agent of the
Big Four i'm Kansas City, is seriously i'll
with typhoid fever.
d. G.. Reid, chairman of the board of d.
rectors of the Chicago, Rock Island Il Pa
cific. is spending few days at Richmond.
The Norfolk & Westerns net earnings for
the year were $500, OIL, an increase over the
corresponding twelve months ending June
80, 1902, of s960,034.
S. b. Liggett, secretary of the Pennsylva-
MIA lines West, who has been spending
month at Eastern resorts with his family,
will return to-day.
An order has been promulgated by the
presidents of several important roads to
heads of departments that, beginning with
Aug. 1, they retrench expenditures.
William Shaw, once the largest owner Of
stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad, when
he died, a few days ago, had disposed OF his
stock with the exception of 10000 shares.
General Manager Barnard, of the Peoria
& Eastern, has not decided on man for
engineer OF maintenance OF way In place
of NJ. A. Neville, promoted to superin-
tendent.
General Passenger Agent Daniels of the
New York Central, has had Ave large pho
tographs of Niagara Falls scenery taken to
be used at the offices of the company as adj
vertsements
The double-tracking of the Santa Fe be-
tween Pueblo and Denver, a distance of III
miles, which has been under contemplation
by the officials for some time, has been post
poned for the present.
III. Nj. Bronson, general passenger agent
of the Big Four lines, returned from Chi
cago, where he went to arrange with the
Pullman Company for sleeping cars for
excursions during the next thirty days.
j. p Morgan, a conductor on the Pennsyl-
vania lines West, has gone to Pittsburg TO
attend meeting of the executive board or
the Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief AsSocla-
ton, expecting to be absent several weeks.
c. Z. Schaff, general manager of the Zig
Four, was in the city yesterday. He Is
gratified over the manner business keeps
up, and so far as the Big Four is concerned
its business Is limited to cars and power.
T. E. English, who has been in the office
| of the general superintendent of the Erie,
| and formerly trainmaster of the Big Four,
has been appointed acting superintendent
| of the Erie's Mahoning division, with head
| quarters at Youngstown, o.
w. A. Miller travelling passenger agent
| of the Big Four's Cairo division. was run
| day night by passenger train. He was a
young man and had been passenger agent
| of this division only three months.
One of the new Atlantic type locomotives
| OF the Panhandle on Tuesday, hauling
Train % from Richmond to indianapolis,
ran sixty-nine miles in sixty-four minutes.
| The thirty-four miles from Knigfftstown to
| the Union Station were covered in thirty
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is
| increasing it's force the line under pro-
| cess of construction from Delphos to Man.
dale. being determined to complete 1t be-
| fore winter sets in. The c., III. x ID. will
| then have the most direct line from Fort
| Wayne TO Cincinnati.
T W. Demaree, the new superintendent
| of motive power of the Northwest system
| of the Pennsylvania lines west OF Pitts
burg will take charge at Fort Wayne to-
| day. and c.. l.. Wall, the new assistant en-
| rive in that city this morning.
Odicial notice will be issued to-day APP
| pointing r. III. Wallace, clerk of Assistant
| General Passenger Agent Huntington. of the
| Erie as division passenger agent on the
| eastern end OF the system. j. ID. Anthony,
| formerly travelling passenger agent of the
| Erie will be Mr. Huntington's chief clerk.
NJ d. Schaff, superintendent of the Peoria
| a Eastern, who yesterday retired from that
position. expects TO take more important
position with a Northwestern line. The re-
| mort that there was friction between him.
| self and the men employed on the Peoria &
| Eastern General Manager Barnard says. is
| not true.
The Travelling Engineers Association will
| hold its annual meeting in Chicago Sept. s,
| and T. and IL promises 10 be the best ever
held w c. Thompson. secretary of the as
| sociation is division superintendent of mo-
! densburg and has prepared an extensive
| programme.
George w. Mudd. master mechanic Of the
| Wabash shops at Moberly, Mo-. was called
| into the machine shop day or two ago,
where all the men were assembled. He
| feared he had a strike on hand. and while
l he was pondering over the matter. one Of