The Indianapolis journal., 1904-05-31
Personal, Local and General Notes.

j. B. Hill, general freight agent of the
Pennsylvania lines west, spent yesterday
in the city.
George A Cellar, superintendent of tele-
graph of the Pennsylvania lines west bur-
led his father on Saturday.
Two trains of passenger coaches carrying
West Point cadets passed through Indian
apolis on Sunday night. They came West
via the New York Central.
City freight depots were closed yesterday
and the outside ticket offices at noon. The
order was quite strictly observed and no
local freights were run.
The conductors. brakemen and baggage
men OF the Grand Trunk are comforting
with the officials Of the various depart
ments relative to an increase in wages.
Charles III. Schlacks. who has been ap-
pointed vice president of the Denver & Rio
Grande. to succeed Russell Harding, has
selected j. p. Andrews as his assistant.
j. c. Stubs, third vice president of the
Southern Pacific and traffic director of
the Hartman lines, and Z. o. Mccormick
are on an Eastern trip, and spent Sunday
in Philadelphia.
At an expense of $4,000 the Lake Shore
and the New York Central have provided
thirty-two new latest-patent Pullman cars
for re-equipping the Twentieth Century
Limited and the Lake Shore trains.
An impression prevails that the strike
on the lakes is nearing its end and that
coal traffic will be resumed before the close
of the week. The warfare has been of
General Superintendent George W.
Creighton, of the Pennsylvania, who has
just returned from several months spent
in California, has decided to spend June at
Atlantic City before resuming his duties.
The various subsidiary corporations of
the Pennsylvania, of which Robert Smith
was treasurer, have followed the action of
the Pennsylvania in accepting his resigna-
tion and electing Henry Tatnall as his sue
ceSsor.
On account of the long limit to t;olyotS
| sold at reduced rates on account of Dec
Grafton day the passenger business for the
| last three or four days in Central Traffic
Association territory has been heavier than
| in any former year on such an occasion.
An interesting and successful test was
| made Saturday the Peoria & Eastern
| division of the Big Four of the tractive
power of a locomotive of the battleship
| type. 1t was started out of Springfield with
| fifty-fve loaded cars of 1860 tons making
a train nearly half mile long.
| The b. & o. book of the Royal Blue, pub
lished by the passenger department. has
| just been issued for May The manage
ment Of the words fair has set apart a
| special day for the annual meeting of the
| funny men, OF each of whom striking car
toon is given in this publication
1t is understood that A A. Brown. who
recently rendered his resignation as super
| intendent of telegraph of the Pennsylvania
on the southern line OF the Illinois Central
| which includes the lines between Memphis
| and New Orleans.
| Officials of the New York New Haven
| & Hartford express the opinion that the
| strike will be over within another week.
| o. NJ. Shepherd, superintendent saws there
| is no difficulty found in securing new men
TO take the places of strikers. An instance
| of this is the application of 1900 men TO
| take the places of 500 strikers In New
| York alone.
| The telegraphers' union would likely or
der a general strike if compelled to spell
| out the name of dining car which ar
rived on the Pennsylvania lines west from
| California as a part of the equipment OF
| a Methodist convention movement The
| name is Quanixintoconotzin. and is of Az
tee derivation. The car is the property of
the American Tourist Association and will
seat forty people.
The contract between the Wabash and
the Lake Shore whereby the Wabash
| trains into the Union Station at To-
| ledo expires two years hence, and il is
understood that President Ramsey and his
| associates expect to have the Toledo cross
| town line completed before the ex-
piration Of the contract. In the meantime
the Wabash will be pretty much at the
mercy of the Lake Shore i'm the operation
of its trains through Toledo.
The through sleepers from New York to
st. Louis put on during the expo
sition period by the Lehigh Valley
and the Big Four. are proving
very popular. They are hauled on
the fastest trains-the Black Diamond