The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-09
Personal, Local and General Notes.

There are five lines in competition for
West Baden, Ind, business, and steady
business to that point is expected for sixty
days.
S. A McKenny has been appointed west
bound agent of the Lake Shore & Lehigh
Valley roads at Indianapolis He arrived
yesterday.
The Merchants Dispatch Transportation
Company has opened an agency at Kansas
City and T. L. Bingham has been appointed
the lines representative.
All lines have discontinued the running of
personally conducted excursions to cali
fornia except one, which holds a ten-year
contract, and that will expire in September
The resignation of Vice President Josenh
Price, of the Grand Trunk. on account of
i'll health, has been accepted, but he has
consented to remain On the board of di-
rectors.
Complete figures of the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad for 1893 show that the gross earn
ings for the entire system increased $1S,-
GIG, 800 over the earnings of the previous
twelve months.
Traffic officials of Western roads are
holding daily conferences in Chicago in
reference to the Western grain rate war,
but have not fixed upon date for hold
| ing a general meeting.
Plans have been prepared by the chief
engineer of the Pennsylvania for a pas
senger station to replace the present one
| at Cape May. 1t will be of buff brick and
| terracotta, and its cost will be $4,000.
The February issue of the monthly bull
| letin will contain as its leading article an
account of the fine building the Big Four
Railroad Company has just opened to its
men at indianapolis as a department for
| the Y. NJ. c. A. work.
The management of the Rock Island has
| adopted the standard code for the opera
ton of trains. The standard code simpli-
| fies and greatly improves train operation
and has been adopted by nearly every rail-
1 way in the United States.
| At a recent meeting in St Louis IL was
agreed by all lines not to allow any line to
| announce an official route to any meetings
| or convention. This is done to stop the
"grafters," who always demand several free
| round-trip tickets for the leaders.
The shipments of coal and coke over the
| Chesapeake & Ohio for the six months
| ended Dec 81 were 2.746.512 tons of coal an
| increase over the corresponding six months
of 1902 of 1,517.e74 tons; of coke. 1850 tons
| an increase over last year of 34,57 tons.
The proposed consolidation of the mile.
| age bureaus of the Western, TRANSMITS
| souri,, Southwestern and Trans-Continental
Railroads has been abandoned, owing to the
| inability OF the roads TO come to an un-
Outstanding regarding the issue of uni
| form tickets.
| The roads that have so far reported De-
| cember earnings show gain in gross OF
| something over per cent. and in net z
| little less than 1 per cent. but for the
| first six months of the fiscal year gros:
| earnings show an increase of IL per cent
and net a little less than 10 per cent.
ST. Paul lines have asked the Pullman
Company for a dollar upper berth between
St Paul and Chicago, the price of lower
| berths to be g, as at present This viii
be the first break in the old Pullman sys
tenn. A one dollar rate for upper berth
will meet the popular demand for cheaper
sleeping accommodations and would all thD
| Pullman cars
J. H. Maddy. late chief clerk of G.. L. Pot
ter. third vice president OF the Baltimore &
Ohio, has been promoted to special agent
bat will continue to look after the publica
ton OF the Book Of the Royal Blue 1t i