The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-30
Personal, Local and General Notes.


Importance in the operating department
The Northern Pacific has introduced
novel feature on its North Coast limited, by
which the passengers can have their clOtn-
Ing pressed while they sleep.
On Jan / E. o. Brown chief clerk to the
general freight agent of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford. will take the posi-
ton of commercial agent in New York
NJ. Z. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
will sail for England on Jan. 16. He Will
be accompanied by Mrs. ingalls, and his
son Fay. and expects to be absent three
months
Charles NJ. Browning. the traffic manager
of the Louisville q Atlantic, will retire on
Jan. L and be succeeded by II. r. Smith,
chief clerk to the general manager of the
property.
Frank Brainerd, yardmaster of the Wa
bash at Peru will be a candidate for mayor
of Peru. Mr.. Odum. the present mayor.
was Wabash employe before entering on
his duties as mayor.
L. d. Wright is the oldest active member
of the Y. Nj. c. a. at Fort Wayne. He
has been employed in the Wabash shops
at Fort Wayne fer thirty-eight years and
is now seventy-eight years of age.
w. ID. Bishop, sr, chairman of the board
of directors of the New York New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, is critically i'll of
heart trouble at his home in Bridgeport,
Conn.
1t is stated that President Stickney and
his associates of the Chicago Great West
ern. have not abandoned the idea of build
ing an extension from Omaha to Denver,
upon the fate of which hangs the Sioux
City extension.
Perry Griffin. district passenger agent of
the Chicago, Rock Island 81 Pacific at
Philadelphia, will act in a similar capacity
for the St Louis & San Francisco Mi
Griffin represented the Rock Island at In
annapolis for many years.
NJ. Green, son of W. NJ. Green vice presi-
dent and general manager of the Baltimore
q Ohio Southwestern, who has been in his
fathers offices for some months, has ac-
cepted position with the Lubrig Coal Com
pany as secretary and treasurer.
c. G. Waldo, general manager of the Gin
cfnnau, Hamilton & Dayton, will this week
complete thirty years of railroad service.
He began as telegraph operator and freight
and ticket agent with the Rome, Water
town q Ogdensburg at a station in New
York
The Louisville & Nashville will reduce its
one-fare tourist rate to Florida If the
Queen * Crescent does not withdraw its
tickets giving passengers the privilege Of
going by one route and returning by an
other.
James F. Higgins, general freight agent
pleted his twenty-sixth consecutive year in
the company's service, twenty-four OF
which he has occupied his present position,
and he has lost but thirty days during
the period.
Train service was begun yesterday on
the Arkansas Valley * Western Railroad.
extending from Enid. o. T, to Tolsa, L. T.,
40 miles. The new road is operated under
the management of the ST. Louis & San
Francisco. and will eventually be extended
to Alva, o. T.
At meeting OF the reorganization COM
mittee of the Denver & Southwestern Rail-
way Company yesterday the time for de-
posting bonds was extended TO JAM II,
1901. After the above date no bonds will
be received except upon the payment OF d
penalty OF $40 per bond.
A q n
ter. superintendent of the Eastern division
of the Wabash, will, take the middle divi-
sion and ii Is understood that e. A. Rob-
bins, of the Buffalo division, will succeed
Mr.. Cotter the Eastern division. Mr.
Robbins was formerly with the Vandalia.
President Mellen, of the New Haven road,
has transferred the advertising department
to the office of the general passenger agent,
and Maj. Isaac Bromley, who was in charge.
VIII hereafter have the title of press agent
and devote himself exclusively to the news
paper interests of the company.
While the Big Four proper seldom handles
fewer loaded cars than at the present time,
the Peoria * Eastern. owned and operated
by the Big Four. is doing the best business
which were received in the last thirty days.
are coming in fine play The road is now
handling from 70o to 500 loaded cars per day,
which Is a heavy business for its mileage
AS a bid for the Duquense way franchise,
the Pittsburg, Chicago & Western, the local
end of the Wabash system, offers the use
of it's main line to other railroads that may
wish TO enter Pittsburg; This offer is based
on the condition that the city will give the
Pittsburg, Carnegie K Western the right to
use the elevated line along Duquense way,
built by the Pennsylvania, which is also
applying for similar franchise.
An electrical engineer is in conference at
Chicago with prominent railroad men con-
corning an invention by which it is claimed
head-on and rear-end collisions can be pre-
vented by wireless telegraphy. Briefly de-
device consists Instrument
which is placed on the top of the locomo-
tive cab, which instantly notifies the en-
gineer as soon as another lOcOnfitive or train
approaches on the same track within mile
A railroad official, in speaking of the re-
tirement of William Il. Leeds from the
presidency of the Rock Island, said that it
road circles that Mr.. Leeds's position as
president of the company was not perma-
nent. 1t has been number of years since
he has been in actual touch with railroad
operations and his success as a tinpIate
maker and his position as one of the actual
owners of the Rock Island has made his eX-
ecutive connection with the company more
or less nominal
of its terminal station at ST. Louis in
front of the main entrance of the fair
grounds at an outlay of $4,000. Eleven
tracks have been laid, branching off from
the main line of the road at Union avenue,
leading from there to the main entrance
of the fair. The arrangement will be a
very convenient one. Nnen a train Is an
nounced the gate of that particular COM
partment will be opened and passengers
will proceed To the platform and thence
to their trains From this it will be seen
that crowding will be avoided and pas
sengers will not be allowed admission to
any compartment unless the train for which
they hold tickets has been announced in
a sign over the entrance.
The following was given out at the gen.
eral offices of the Glover Leaf Railroad at
Toledo last evening: William a. Reed
chairman of the board of the Toledo St
Louis & Western Railroad, authorizes the
statement that there is no truth in the
story printed in the Chicago papers TO the
effect that. owing 10 irregularities in the
management the resignation of BENJAMIN
Norton, president had been accepted Mr.
Norton presented some time ago his resig-
nation TO the board, asking to be relieved
at their convenience, but no successor has
vet been appointed His management of
the property has been highly satisfactory,
as the results show. The board has the
fullest confidence in Mr.. NortOn's integ-
rity and ability.
O. p. McCarty. general passenger agent Of
the Baltimore * Ohio Southwestern, has
issued a circular, In which he says: Dur
ing the year 1903 the United States has
forged steadily forward in material devel-
opment at home and abroad. and this period
has been marked by a continuance of a
general and unprecedented financial and
commercial growth of our people The
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has kept
pace with the times, and improved its road
bed, motive power and equipment TO meet
the demand of its increased traffic both
passenger and freight. and in anticipating
the worlds fair business has placed adj