The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-06-08
Personal, General and Local Notes.

III. Corbett has been appointed CONNER
cial agent of the Minneapolis & St Louis
with headquarters at Indianapolis.
President Shonts, of the Toledo, st. Louis
d Western. who has been East for week,
mas returned TO his headquarters at Toledo.
The Vandalia is rebuilding its main tel
egraph line the whole distance through the
State of Illinois, and the work is well ad-
vanced.
The Illinois Central people have decided
to enlarge their shops at McComb, Miss
and when completed will give employment
TO $50 men.
Train IL, the Big Four, left Cleveland
on Monday forty-fye minutes late, hauling
eleven passenger cars, and arrived at In
dianapolis time.
The newly-elected board of directors of
the Chicago d Eastern Illinois met in New
York Monday and organized by re-electing
the outgoing officers.
K. G. Walsh has been appointed engineer
of the maintenance of way department of
the Chicago, Peoria e. ST. Louis with head
quarters at Alton, Ill.
f. f. Woodruff chief clerk to General
Manager Marshall, Of the Lake Shore road
has returned from a vacation of two weeks
spent in the Northwest.
"A. j. Davidson, recently elected a direc-
tor of the Evansville & indianapolis Rail-
way, has been elected president of the
company, vice b. +. Yoakum, resigned
The sections of double track on the
This second track and block Signals add
much to the safety and celebrity with which
trains can be moved.
Isaac Underwood, who died at PennvilIe
Ind, or Monday, was one of the first direc.
tors of the Grand Rapids & Indiana and
first vice president of the Toledo, ST. Louis
d Kansas City road.
The Illinois Central has contracted for
$50 gondola steel cars, 100000 pounds capac-
ity, in addition to a contract for go placed
short time ago with the American Car
and Foundry Company.
w. l.. Darling, chief engineer of the Rock
Island, LETT St Louis yesterday to inspect
the new Kansas City and ST. Louis line
which is nearing completion and over part
OF which train service was inausurated
on Monday.
The Big Four will carry the West Point
cadets from ST Louis TO Cleveland to-
morrow. At Cleveland they will be trans
ferred to the Lake Shore for transportation
east They travel in two special trains of
fourteen cars each.
Freight traffic to st. Louis and through
that city for the South and Southwest is
now being moved without any delay, the
troubles caused by the flood and conges-
ton of business the last few months hav-
ing been entirely overcome.
While the full tide of travel to the worlds
fair at st. Louis has not yet set in the
increased movement is more Than sufficient
TO Offset the decrease in the volume Of
freight Vandalia and Big Four trains
are heavily loaded in both directions.
JOnn D hershey mas Oeen appointed gen.
eral freight agent or the Santa Fe gulf
line. with offices in Galveston He has
been assistant general freight agent. and
fIas the distinction of being the Youngest
general freight agent in the Southwest.
The c., H. & ID. night train to st. I,ouis
now runs via the Wabash worlds fair sta
ton before reaching the Union Station
This gives those who want to stop at no.
tells near the grounds an advantage as IL
saves much Inconvenience, time and
trouble.
The big engine of the Baltimore & Ohio
10 be exhibited at the fair has arrived M
St. Louis. Ii weighs 3S4, 900 pounds on the
drivers, and when in working order weighs
223 tons, complete 1t will be used after
the fair in handling heavy coal trains in
Pennsylvania.
T.. Il. John, who was appointed road
master of the central division of the Poem
sylvania Railroad Company to succeed
Richard Darlington. pensioned has been
transferred 10 Washington, ID. c.. and the
position TO which he was first appointed
will be filled by j. G. Smith.
The shuttle train service on the Wabash
affords passengers entering St. Louis a
very convenient means of reaching the
worlds fair. as the service Is frequent and
highly satisfactory to the public. During
the continuance OF the worlds fair some