The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-08
Personal, Local and General Notes.

G.. e. Schaff was in the city yesterday.
The Vanderbilt officials who were in In
dianapOlis on Wednesday were in Cincin-
natl yesterday.
II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, is in Chicago to-
day. and will be in Peoria tomorrow
General Superintendent E. A. Could of
the Missouri Pacific, says he has not re-
signed and has no intention of doing so.
j. S. McCrea, of the Lake Shore fast
freight line, has been promoted TO freight
agent in Buffalo of the Lehigh Valley
road.
+. c. Fargo, superintendent of the Indi-
ana and Ohio district of the American Elk
press Company, left last night for Florida
for two months stay.
The private car of j. r. Barnard. general
manager of the Peoria & Eastern, which
has been I'm the shops for two months is
again ready for service.
Both the Vandala and the Big Four have
this week run their noon trains to st. Louis
in two sections, owing to the lateness of
their Eastern connections.
w. Z. Stevenson, chief promoter of the
indianapolis Southern Railway. has gone to
New York TO confer with the financiers who
are backing the enterprise.
Russell Harding, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Missouri Pacific, will
go TO Mexico for his health which has
been impaired by attack of grip.
The illinois Central is again running
through drawing room sleepers between
Cincinnati and New Orleans, connecting at
New Orleans with the Sunset limited over
the Southern Pacific.
w. b. Townsend, son of General Passen-
ger Agent II. G. Townsend, of the Missouri
Pacific and Iron Mountain, is now located
in San Francisco as travelling passenger
and freight agent of the line
The Belt Road Company has its four new
engines in service making seventeen owned
by the company, and through the severe
weather they have handled the business of
the Belt with great promptness.
George p. Roe. division freight agent OF
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Ell Paso,
Tex, has been appointed general agent of
the freight department at Kansas City, sue
ceeding Douglas Dallan. resigned
superintendent Robbins. of the eastern
division of the Wabash, has notified Mayor
Maxwell of St Thomas, Canada that the
Wabash would accept the city's offer 10 To-
cate its Canadian workshops at st.
| Thomas.
Edward Dickinson, third vice president OF
the Kansas City, Mexico a. Orient Railroad.
| states that he has not been offered the
| presidency of the Union Pacific, and would
not accept ii under any conditions if it were
| offered as he is perfectly satisfied where
| he is.
The Pennsylvania has received the first
of the new cafe cars the Pullman Company
is building for that road. 1t will be put
| Pittsburg and st. Louis All of the orders
are TO be filled before the worlds fair traf-
| fic starts.
Conductors on the New York New Haven
| & Hartford again uneasy, and have
| asked the officials of that road to revise the
schedule of running hours for the conduct
] ors who have through trains between New
| York and Boston but the management op-
| poses such a change
] During the absence of Warren J. Lynch
| general passenger agent of the Big Four
| who sailed on Tuesday for Italy and the
| British isles, his duties will be assumed by
| his assistant, w. NJ. Ferguson, who viii
| be assisted by c. o. Tangeman and 4. l.
| Horton, also assistants TO Mr.. Lynch.
| Notices have been received of the an.
| pointment of T.. 7. White Superintendent
/ of motive power of the Baltimore & Ohio
| main line, A. kearney superintendent OF
motive power of the Pittsburg and Chicago
| division, and c. "A. Schmoll superintendent
OF motive power OF the Wheeling division
The Pere Marquette is becoming a dis
| turbing element in freight rates affectina
Fl. the Big Four. the Michigan Central and tbs
! Three is by a reduction of freight rate,
4 between Chicago and Minneapolis. Begin
| ming Jan. / the Pere Marquette gave motto,
/ of a cut from 2S TO p cents per hundred OF
| first-class freight.
The Detroit * Mackinac has purchased
| two new consolidated eighty-fve-ton freigh
locomotives. Their size Is one OF the indi