The Indianapolis journal., 1904-05-18

]. @. Van Winkle, general superintendent
of the Big -Four. left last night for ST.
Louis.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern is
running six trains daily in both directions
between Cincinnati and st. Louis.
Thomas III. Boorman has been appointed
grain agent of the Lackawanna in Buffalo.
He has been cashier of the road at that
point.
Charles Mordaugh. passenger representa-
tive of the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST Paul,
was in the city yesterday and made ar
rangements for a party of fifty to go to
Star lake.
d. w. Cook, general passenger agent of
the Erie, has issued circular announcing
that he. is now also general passenger
agent of the Bath & Hammondsport road,
and r. NJ. Parker is general freight agent.
j. N Barr, assistant to the president of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul died
was one of the best known mechanical men
in the country. and was for some years
mechanical superintendent of the Erie.
Frank n. Seely, the oldest passenger con-
ductor on the Hooking Valley road, died
suddenly on Monday. He was forty years
of age, and began work on that road when
twelve years old. He was chief officer of
the Columbus division of the Order of
Railway Conductors.
Fully seven hundred Daughters of Re-
bekah yesterday took n special train over
the Big Four and made their annual trip
TO Greensburg TO inspect the Odd Fellows
Home. With each year the excursion to
that place becomes more popular and the
attendance increases.
Benjamin McKeen, general manager of
the Vandalia, and W. c. Arp. superin-
tendent of motive power were in the city
yesterday in conference with Receiver Ma
lott concerning the distribution of new To-
comotives and other equipment the com
pany has lately been receiving.
United States District Attorney Sherman
Mcpherson has begun suit against the
Hooking Valley Railroad for falling to file
"a
interstate-commerce law. The suit is
brought to enforce the penalty provided,
and the sum involved is large.
c. S. Hunt, representing the Lackawanna
fast freight line III the West, with head
quarters at St. Louis, in the city yes
terday. He reports that the business of
the Lackawanna Is showing a remarkable
increase, and the line is extending its
boundaries farther west and northwest.
The Grand Trunk last week made a
general advance in rates, with the expla-
nation that such course is imperative
owing to the heavy expenses of operating
and taxes. Similar action may be expected
from American roads in view of the exten-
| sive improvements being made, and the
falling Off In business.
Stuyvesant Fish. president of the Illinois
Central Railway Company, corrects a state
ment recently transmitted in the dispatches
TO the effect that the salary of John +. Wal
| lace as chief engineer of the Panama canal
will be less than that received by him from
the railway company. Mr.. Wallace's salary
Il
| erto received.
Thomas ]. Foley, general superintendent
| OF the Wheeling and West Virginia Grand
| division OF the Baltimore & Ohio, spent
Sunday with his parents and sisters, who
| reside in Fort Wayne, and yesterday re-
| turned to his headquarters. Mr. Foley is
| a Fort Wayne man, whose rapid rise in the
| railroad world is source of pleasure to
| all who know him.
| The annual examination for visual ac-
| curacy, perception and hearing for engi-
neers and firemen on the Lake Shore road
| started on Monday. Engineers and fire
men will be examined by +. w. Brown
| Assistant Trainmaster Collinwood and l.. j
| Hedges, trainmaster's clerk. and all en-
ginemen expecting TO work after July
| will be required to have certificates
A report is current that a. ]. Smith is
/ TO be made general passenger traffic man
| aSer of the Lake Shore. and that G.. r
| DAILY chief assistant general passenger
| agent ut Chicago. is TO have charge of the
| passenger department as general passen-
| ger agent. Mr. DAILY was formerly passen-
| ger agent of the Lake Erie & Western
| and such a promotion would be gratifying
| 10 his friends.
| General Superintendent Ralph Peters o
I the Pennsylvania Southwest system, con
| firms the report that the Cincinnati &
| Muskegon is TO be equipped with electri,
| power to compete with the inter
J. urban lines. The distance from Trinwa,