The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-08

George w. Boyd, general passenger agent
OF the Pennsylvania lines East. is on va
cation.
1t is announced that the spring time table
or the Pennsylvania will become effective
on Sunday.
The Erie will build a new roundhouse at
Gallon, which will have capacity for fifty
locomotives.
A. ]. Cassatt, president of the Pennsyl-
vania, who has been at Aiken. s. c., on a
vacation. returned on Wednesday.
General Manager Hayes. of the Grand
Trunk, Is drafting an old-age pension plan
for the employees of that company.
A III. Sellers has improved so rapidly
from his recent severe illness that he ex-
poets to be at his office by Monday.
Among other improvements contemplated
at the outer yards Of the Monon at In
dianapolis Is the erection of coal chutes of
mO0ern design.
+. K. Mcs ier. the newly appointed repre-
sentative of the Chicago Great Western in
this territory, is in the city acquainting
himself with business men.
The Big Four passenger men will meet in
Cincinnati on Tuesday to perfect the time
schedules Tor the coming summer, includ-
ing the St Louis fair trains.
The Monon handled on its Indianapolis d.
vision in the forty-eight hours ending at
Der of loaded cars in the roads history.
The Missouri. Kansas & Texas road has
placed an order for thirty locomotives with
prising ten each of freight passenger and
switch engines.
+. z. Newhall, superintendent Of the
Pacific Express Company. with headquar-
tiers at Toledo, was in Pittsburg We'd
nesday to secure city offices for the COM
p8ny in Pittsburg and Allegheny.
The Pennsylvania has put a large force
of men at work making excavations for
the big shops which were described in the
Journal recently and which the company
proposes to erect at Trenton, n. j.
The Baltimore & Ohio has ordered three
dining cars from the Barney & Smith Car
Company for May delivery. These cars will
weigh 10000 pounds each and be seventy
feet long and nine feet eight inches wide.
F. L. Rodman. for three years past gen.
eral yardmaster of the Cincinnati Hamilton
Dayton at Toledo; passed through the
he will become trainmaster of the Cotton
Belt road.
The PENNSYLVANIA has commenced the
O.. recently purchased by the company for
the local Y. NJ. c. a. 1t will be fitted with
dining room, lunch counters. reading room
and modern bath rooms.
The Norfolk & Western, ii Is stated, will
establish through passenger service be-
tween Norfolk and St Louis by way OF
Columbus. o.. as soon as the exposition
opens, and the panhandle and Vandalia
trains will run through without change.
Frank Reed. chief clerk in the motive
power offices of the Pennsylvania COM
pany in Fort Wayne, has been rendered
the position of general motive power clerk
for the entire system of the Rock Island
He has decided TO accept, and Will assume
his duties on April H.
H. NJ. Schart master mechanic OF the
Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton, who was
killed on Tuesday at the yards in Dayton
was buried yesterday He was forty-sever
years of age and was master mechanic OF
the Detroit Southern at the time Joseph
Sherwood was superintendent
The situation between the Vanderbilt
lines and the Pennsylvania and the Chicago
Great Western and Chicago * Northwest
ern because OF irregularities in grain rates
both east and west, is unchanged, anC
those in close touch with the road say
there Is no prospect OF an immediate set
Element.
SAL. 1872 q decrease as compared with March
1903. of S59.0Si. The decrease was wholly
due To the troubles from high waters, which
checked the movement OF freight Since
July / the road has earned 81. $500, an in
crease over the corresponding period las
year of s17O1c6-
In continuation of the plan for the opera
ton of the st. Louis x san Francisco Rail
road further changes have been made in tn
executive officers as follows: G II Boggs
assistant TO the president; X. r. Ham
mond. second vice president. vice Mr.
Boggs; A S. Dodge third vice president
vice Robert Mather. elected first vice presi
dent.
The following named directors were elect
ed at Richmond. Ind, yesterday by tn
stockholders of the Cincinnati. Richmond 4
Fort Wayne Railroad: Joseph Wood. Jane
sscCrea. j. j. Turner Pittsburg; j. II. +
Hughart. L. j. OBrien, w. X. Shelby
Grand Rapids. John +. Miller, Henry Il
Robinson. Richmond Ind; David Stude
baker. Decatur, Ind: j. w. Hunter. For
Wayne, Ind.
The Big Four and the Cincinnati, Ham
Ntop e. Dayton announce that they Will be
gfnt their Sunday excursions between In
diahapolis and Cincinnati on Sunday. Apr
u. This Is earlier than Sunday excursion