The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-20
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle.

ing machinists can come to the office and
get their pay checks, and that they Will
not again be employed by the Santa Fe.
j.. j. Ferritor, superintendent of the Wa
bash. with headquarters at Peru, and the
new telephone company at that point are
at war, and he has ordered all the phones
belonging to that company removed from
the buildings and depot of the Wabash.
The telephone company thus loses about
two hundred subscribers.
John Chesborough assistant general pas
senger agent of the Vandalia, was in the
city yesterday. He thinks the service or
the Vandalia under its present schedule
is the best divided for both day and night
service of any time schedule ever used on
that road there being six trains daily
each way, at good hours.
1t is stated that the New York Centrarss
pension system will be held up. The bill
to permit the company to organize a relief
and pension department did not come up
closed, but will be brought up at the next
meeting. In spite of this fact, some old
employees have been pensioned condition
ally.
New York, New Haven & Hartford, has
rendered his resignation, and his son. Rob
ert. was elected his successor The di-
rectors at the same meeting also author
lied President Mellin to go ahead with
the work of four-tracking and widening
the cut at New Haven, at an estimated
The Cincinnati Car Manufacturing Conn
pany, at Winton Place, has shipped twen-
ty-seven double track. open trolley cars
over the Cincinnati Hamilton q Dayton
The consignment was valued at Sl30,OoO.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & DAYTON took
them to Toledo and turned them over TO
the Michigan Central.
Chief Engineer Cleveland of the Lake
Erie & Western, who has been In Cleve-
land for some days looking into the mat
ter of curtailing expenses on the road.
has returned. 1t decided to make
some reduction in forces. but not SO gem
eral as. had been contemplated. until it is
better known what the increase or busl-
ness the last few days means.
June / has been fixed upon for the estab-
fishing of the Jersey Central Dispatch,
tween Chicago and the East. The new
fast freight line will be established for the
purpose of connecting the Philadelphia *
Reading and the Jersey Central, which are
owned by the Central and Lake Shore in
terests with the West, over the New York
Central
The passenger department of the Penn
sylvania announces that the road will, on
June 5. run special train to Atlantic
City for the accommodation of the Amer
lean Medical Association, which holds its
According TO present arrangements, Pull
man sleepers will be furnished for the
special train. and the delegates will return
on regular trains of the Pennsylvania at
their pleasure.
An official of the Panhandle, who has
been connected with 1t from his boyhood.
said yesterday that he has never known
the time when there was such perfect
punctuality in train Servxice as since the
1st of May. With the exception or an oc-
other division over which the Panhandle
has no control, the trains are arriving
and departing on time, and the officials
are loud In their praise of the trainmen
who accomplish these results.
s. p Shane freight traffic manager, c. L.
Thomas. general freight agent, George Il.
Whitsley, assistant general freight agent,
H. w. Forward, assistant general freight
agent. and d. L. Wells, J. III. Hackett
]. l.. Henderson, c.. F. Osborne. s. w.
Morris, J. B. Cochran and c. w. Clark,
general agents of the freight Department.
and G. H. Leonard, who succeeded A n
Stewart as general live stock agent of the
Erie, arrived in the city last night and will
to-day hold a meeting at the Claypool
in relation to the interests of that line
regarding the freight service.
Charles A. Thatcher. a lawyer living at
Toledo, has brought suit against the Penn
f for Harley e Madison who met with am
injury on the railroad, and he secured for
his client settlement from the company
injury, the agreement being that the set
Element should be made through the at
torney. Instead the, company paid the
$1,000 to the client, Madison. The latter
did not pay the lawyer his fee, and collec-
ton was impossible because Madison is
insolvent The attorney now sues the
railroad company for his fee of 1900,
claiming that 1t was the fault of the COM
pany that he was unable to collect il.
The Columbus, Lima az Milwaukee,
which extends from Lima, o., to Defiance.
is a unique road in many respects. The
business of the road is purely local, and
il has neither depot nor station agents
The conductor of the one train which runs
over it, is 1.-THE whole thing in the trans
portation department. A telegraph line
and the operator, that is necessary, is not
known on the road, communication be-
being
by single line of telephone. Formerly
the road had two engines, but one of these
is now out of repair. When an engine
gets out of repair the services of a black
smith at Continental called for. The
one train does not run every day. but
makes a trip when business demands.