The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-26
rumors that President Yoakum, of TIT
frisco l. shortly. q retire


rumors that President Yoakum, of the
Frisco, is shortly to retire.
General Manager Robertson, of the ST.
Louis Terminal Association, has announced
to the employees that the duties heretofore
performed in the office of Superintendent
Kearney will for the present be assumed
in the office of the general manager.
The selection of c. Z. McKim, general
perintendent of transportation of the Chi
cago Rockland & Pacific, is causing much
President Loree purposes to secure the best
qualified men for positions on the Rock
Island.
Albert Treub formerly chief clerk to the
superintendent of the Vandalia main line,
went to Chicago with General Manager
Miller, of the Rock Island, and has been
transferred to New York as private secre-
tary to William b. Leeds, chairman of the
board of directors Of the Rock Island.
The Louisville & Nashville has let con-
tract for a $4,000 freight depot at Hop
kinsville. The building will be of brick,
lis feet long and sixty feet deep. The rail-
road situation at that point is one of the
liveliest in the State. The Illinois Central
and the Louisville & Nashville are rivals
and competition is very sharp.
The Big Four and the Lake Shore have
a new form of ticket for excess fare. 1t Is
a coupon gummed at the top, to be at
tached to the regular passage ticket This
will form a coupon to the regular coupon.
The conductor detaches this coupon as a
and the use of the trains accommodations
II. E. Nettleton, assistant superintendent
of the New York, New Haven 81 Hartford,
has resigned, which resulted in the promo
ton of r. NJ. Fitzmorris to his position
and r. r. Pollock from assistant superin-
tendent of the Highland division to su-
perintendent of the Northampton division
He is succeeded on the Highland division
by L. Mickham.
X S. Finch, stakeholder in the Atlantic
& North Carolina Railroad Company, has
filed a petition in the Federal Court at
Charlotte, n. c.. for the appointment of a
receiver for the road, alleging that the
stockholders have received no dividends
Governor Aycock recently refused TO lease
the road. stockholders desire that the
property shall be leased.
1t is estimated that it will require s73.-
100000 TO complete the plans and carry out
the extensions and improvements of the
Gould lines in the East and 600 to
extend the Western system. The Gould
policy for the Missouri Pacific is emphatic
that it shall not be shut in. curtailed or
abbreviated by either encroachments of the
Hartman, Santa Fe or Rock Island ex-
tensions or purchases.
The contracts for building the second
track of the Big Four and the ST Louis q
San Francisco between Litchfield, H., and
Warden, a distance of twenty miles, and
from Poag ILL.,, to Brooklyn, fourteen miles,
have been let the first to the Mccarthy
Brothers, of Chicago, and the second 10
the Warehouse Construction Company, of
st. Louis. The contracts call Tor the COM
pletion of the work June l.
The Pacific Express Company has extend
ed it's service to Cincinnati over the new
Chicago, Cincinnati Louisville Railway,
connecting with the Wabash at Peru, Ind.
A. p Singer, for many years connected
with the United States Express, has opened
an office for the express company at Gin
cinnati at 1913 Main street and expects to
have through service between Chicago and
Cincinnati inaugurated within sixty days.
The New York New Haven q Hartford
is re sewing new equipment 1t includes
ninety locomotives, 1900 freight cars and
many thousand tons of rails. requiring
81. O0c 600 in payment. all of which was pro-
vded for independently of borrowing of
funds. 1t is said the addition to freight
equipment will meet all requirements and
largely reduce the payment for foreign
cars. which last year cost the company
81, 300 0o.
IL is said that the Des Moines & Fort
Dodge road. now operated by the Rock
Island. will change ownership at the next
annual meeting. to be- held at Des Mones
in June. The lease of the Rock Island on
the road expires next January, at the same
time a mortgage of Sl.500000 held by the
Chicago. Rock Island * Pacific viii fall
due and the road will be necessarily sold
cheap and be absorbed by the Greater
Rock Island system.