The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-21
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

! important part of its system The business
/ of the line, present and prospective, war
| rants large Improvement and betterment,
! and the Importance of Buffalo is fully rec
ognized by the management
The train dispatcher's office of the CleYe-
land and Indianapolis division of the Big
! Four will be transferred from Bellefontaine
TO Union city. The yards at Union city
! VIII be enlarged and the double tracking OF
the line pushed between its present west
ern terminus and Indianapolis.
General Superintendent Hughes, Of the
American Express Company, states that
| OF 1903 was fully 80 per cent. in excess or
any former year, and January was far adj
| yanced before all the packages received
| during the holidays could be delivered.
The. Chicago. Cincinnati & Louisville road
| now has surplus engines, business being
! quite light. The company has ten engines
not in use, and twelve more are expected
in few days. They are all very fine loco
| motives. and the company has refused to
lease these idle engines to either the Penn
| sylvania or the Wabash.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, now
that it has larger freight locomotives in
| service, finds it very inconvenient to handle
many of its trains, they being too long to
| sidetrack and it Is not an uncommon thing
! for passenger trains to have to take sidings
| and let the freghts go by, which more or
! less delays passenger trains.
| The heads of the departments Of the
Glover Leaf located outside OF Toledo are
reporting to the new president with as little
delay as possible, and the announcement
| made by President Shonts that he purposes
| to see what is In his men before considering
| any possible changes has inspired feeling
of confidence among the men generally.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railway
| Company is having thirty-four new coaches
| built, which, it is claimed, cannot be tele-
scoped and which will stand almost any
| shock occasioned by a wreck. The coaches
| are for the Chicago and st: Louis world
fair service. Several of these coaches are
now running in the Florida Limited train.
Frank Fox has assumed his duties as
| station master of the Union Station at ST.
| Louis. Mr.. Fox began railroad business in
| 1876 as a brakeman on the Wisconsin Cen
trail. In 1886 he became passenger con-
ductor for the Chicago Alton, and for
the past four years has been in charge of
the Alton limited between st. Louis and
Chicago.
Harry Bowsher, who represents the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas, was in the city
yesterday. He states that the M, X. d L.
has all its plans perfected for establishing
through service from st. Louis and Kansas
City to Oklahoma City. The company will
have by ten miles, the shortest lines from
st. Louis to Kansas City and forty miles
the shortest line between Kansas City and
Oklahoma.
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Wabash,
has notified the city authorities of Fort
Wayne that he is ready TO meet the repre-
sentatives of the city in company with
representatives of the Pennsylvania, to con-
slider the abolition of grade crossings in
that city. The letter bore the stamp of
sincere desire on the part of Mr. Ramsey
the mayor has called a meeting.
President Harris of the Chicago, Bur-
lingtO & Quincy, and Vice Presidents Will
ard and Miller are inspecting the Missouri
lines Accompanied by General Manager
Levy, General Freight Agent Gray and
General Passenger Agent Wakeley, the
party were in st. Louis yesterday. The
management is considering the advisability
OF inaugurating passenger service between
Chicago and st. Louis during the worlds
The handsome new dining car built ex-
Company of Chicago has been delivered for
final furnishing. The car was built accord
ing to plans and specifications furnished
ledo." 1t is seventy feet long, and the
dining room is provided with ten tables.
each large enough for four people. The car
is we'll planned for observation, and is very
inviting for tourists.
The general passenger agent, assistant
general passenger agents and travelling
representatives of the passenger depart
ment of the Vandalia- Penn ylvania lines
will hold a 'amily gathering at st. Louis
on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this
week to perfect arrangements for the
worlds fair travel, so that when the fair
opens everything will be running smoothly
and the convenience of the passengers over
this route fully provided for
At a meeting of the board of directors
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
yesterday, f. b. Smith, banker of Phila-
delphia was elected member to succeed
Rogers Maxwell, resigned Mr.. Maxwell
represented the Central Railroad of New
, Jersey interests. Other members of the
board We're reelected. E. b. Thomas was
vice president, j. w. Platten assistant to
the president, E. G. Baird secretary and
W. c. Anderson treasurer.
A. l.. Pontious. conductor on the Indianap-
oils and Michigan City division of the Lake
Erie & Western, still feels little anxious
about his destiny, as on Wednesday, the
18th day of the month. there were on his
l train thirteen loaded cars. thirteen empty
cars, thirteen cars with airbrakes 613 tons
of freight and the train order was 113.
Further. John Murphy, the engineer, had
been with the road thirteen years and thir-
teen days, but the destination, said one of
+ the trainmen, was reached without the
slightest accident.
> The lumbermen's excursion from Indian
: apOlis will leave Feb. at p. m. over the
Big Four, will arrive at Louisville at II
coed over the Nashville Chattanooga & St
! Louis. thence over the Western & Atlantic
the Central Georgia and the Atlantic Coast
line, arriving at Jacksonville at 2 O'Clock
Feb. 1S Will arrive at Pensacola Feb IA at
80 a. m. Leave Pensacola 1890, noon, via
? Louisville & Nashville, reaching New Or
e leans Feb. Is at a. m. The schedule has
been arranged, and this line has been desig-
mated the route for the excursion Suffi-
cient time is given at points of interest for
! the party to stop off for a few hours.
A supplement of the mortgage deed Nov
l. 1903. has been filed between the Cincin-
natl Findlay & Fort Wayne Railway Com
pany and the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
! ton Company, the agreement setting forth
: that the total amount of bonds to be is
I sued under the deed of trust and the sup
pIement mortgage shall be 1,15O of 81, OOC
each Two hundred and seventy of the
first mortgage bonds are to be used Ia
! purchase rolling stock for the Cincinnati
! Findlay & Fort Wayne railway; $50 bonds
e of which $50 will be applied for construc-
ton and equipment of the Delphos &
T Northern Railway and the remainder APP
' piled by the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
D ton to improving the line of the Cincin-
r natl, Findlay & Fort Wayne road