The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-01

cts will go on sale with stop-over privi-
leges. All the roads in this territory will
allow these rates.
Western lines met on Wednesday and
agreed that clergy permits in 1904 should be
good for coast trips, but that all other half
rate permits should be good only 10 FL Paso,
Albuquerque and Ogden.
Warren j. Lynch, general passenger agent
Of the Big Four. will leave on Sunday for
an extended trip through Europe. He will
be accompanied by Mrs. Lynch and will
not return until spring.
In 1903 there were transferred over the
handled at the Union stOckyards 4,229 car
loads of live stock. and for private indus
tries on it's line, 1854 cars.
William Fleming. for eighteen years sec
rotary of the Trunk Line Passenger Com
mittee and for twenty-five years connected
with the Trunk Line Association, will re-
tire from that position to-day.
The new information bureau at the Co
lumbus 90 Union Station will begin opera
tons to-day. Rooms have been fitted up
at a convenient point in the station for pas
sengers to get desired Information.
/. +. Loree, as president of the Rock
Island, will receive a salary of $4,000 a
year. When asked about the statement he
did not deny it. answerin Il get enough to
keep my wife and baby from starvation. y
w. II. Truesdale. president of the Lacka-
wanna. is in Minneapolis on a visit 10 his
sister, Mrs. Joseph Gaskill. Mr.. Truesdale
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Louis, later receiver and then general man
ager until he went to the Rock Island.
Addison r. Smith to-day becomes general
freight agent of the Atlanta & West Point
road and the Western Alabama. Mr.. Smith
has been chief clerk to the assistant traffic
manager. He is only thirty-one years old,
and Will be the Youngest trafhc officer In
the Southeast.
The meridian point on the Northern Pa
ciic has been changed from Spokane, Wash,
TO Trout Creek, Mont, the new Lewiston
terminal. The Idaho division will be ex-
tended east TO and including Trout Creek.
The Rocky mountain division will be ex-
tended to Helena and Butte.
T. A. Mesier, ticket agent of the Michi-
gan Central at Saginaw, Mich, has resigned
and accepted the position of travelling pas
senger agent of the Chicago Great Western.
his territory being the same as was that OF
A. w. Noyes, promoted, which included
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan.
Alonzo E. Robbins, superintendent of the
Buffalo division of the Wabash, has been
appointed superintendent of the eastern di-
vision with headquarters at Peru, Ind.
His territory includes the eastern division
OF the main line and also the line from De-
troit to Tllton, Ill, and between Toledo
and New Haven, Ind.
Representatives of the mechanical de-
partment of the Rock Island were in East
Moline, Ill, yesterday, where the Rock
Island IS erecting the largest engine and
car repair plant in the world. The occa-
sion was the turning on of power for the
pant nnlCHs 81 a DIS COlIDlCltQg VII OC
put in operation to-day.
1t is considered probable that Thomas
Fitzgerald, general superintendent of the
Baltimore az Ohio. has been selected for an
important position in the operating depart
ment of the Southern Railway. Mr.. Fitz-
gerald's ability is highly spoken of in Balti-
more &. Ohio circles, and he would be an
important acquisition to any railroad seek
ing TO strengthen its operating department.
1t is the general belief that some of L. +,
Loree's appointeeS on the Baltimore &
Ohio will follow him TO the Rock Island
1t is said that c. s. Sims, general manager
of the Baltimore 81 Ohio, is slated for al
important place on the Rock Island, anC
that General Superintendent w. c. Loree
of the Baltimore & Ohio at P~ittsburg, will
finally enter the services Of the Rock
Island.
w. T. Noonan, superintendent of the Min
neapolis q st. Louis, will retire from thai
position to-day and will within a few days
go East to accept a position with one of the
large Eastern trunk lines. In his fourteen
years connection with the road Mr.. Noonar
has established an enviable reputation, hC
beginning in a minor position in the operat
ing department. The appointment of his
successor will be announced in a few days.
T. II. Fenner, of the New York, New Ha.
ven & Hartford, has been transferred from
the Highland to the Hartford division, sue.
ceeding c. S. Davidson. who retires to-
day. ]. A. Warner, agent of the company's
freight terminals in Boston. has been pro
NOTED to the SUPPLEMENTARY Of the High
land division and will be succeeded by c.
NJ. Conklin, freight agent in New Haven
His place will be taken by William Z. Nor
gan.
The Pennsylvania Company has offered
reward of 81. 900 for the arrest and conviction
of the persons who attempted to destroy the
bridge which is under construction at Ellis
over the Muskingum river, on the Cincinnati
& M~uskingum Valley road. This is tn,
bridge about which there has been consider
able agitation. The government attempted
TO compel the company to put in a draw
/ hri1Ua OF that nninf as If &c aXna0fad som,
day the river will be made navigable tina
far.
The Northern Pacific has prepared Il
bore a iwo-mile tunnel through the Cas-
cade mountains. thereby saving 1,500 feet o.
climb and descent on all the traffic cross
ing the Cascade. Surveys show that sucl
a tunnel is possible at a point in the Cas-
cades, three miles north of the preSen
stampede tunnel. The saving in power
thus effected will amount 10 more thar
81, O0,O 600 per year on wheat hauled to tn
seasOast, together with $1,000 carloads o
lumber and shingleseynauled yearly from
Puget sound.
General superintendent MCGEE, Of tn
Wabash, announces that the western divi
sion, which has heretofore covered all line
west of the Mississippi river. has been di
vided into the ST. Louis division and tn
western division. The St. Louis division
will cover all lines east of Moberly TO ST
Louis and Hannibal and north to De
MoineS and Ottumwa; the western division
will include all lines west of Moberly L
Kansas City, Omaha and branches. j. S
Goodrich has been appointed Superinten
dent of the st. Louis division, with office n
Moberly, Mo-, and Richard Doyle superin