The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-02-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

RAILROAD NOTES.
All the early wabash trains were
on time today.
Operator P. Grower of the Wabash
road. is on the sick list today with the
grip.
]. Ruff, night operator at the Erie
depot, made short business trip to
Chicago today.
E.B. Kingsland, chief engineer of the
Indiana Harbor Belt road, is in Blue
Island on business today.
Harry Mccormick. engineer on the
Monon road. is on the sick list this
week with pneumonia.
Fred A. Pryuns. conductor on the
Lake Shore road, will be the guest
Of Hammond friends tomorrow.
Today is officially set for the open
ing Of the complete line Of the Santa
Fe into searchnght, New.
Fred Collins. Of the Erie yard ONCE,
Will be the guest OF Cincinnati friends
over Sunday.
Two immigrant trains passed
through Hammond today enroute to
Chicago from New York
L
T. Fl. Craig Of the local Chicago.
Indiana & Southern. made a business
trip to Danville last night
F. N Hickok, agent of the Wabash
office, leaves tonight for Mansfield, o.
where he will visit friends over Sun
day.
William Hill, travelling freight agent
Of the Chicago Northwestern road. was
a caller at the Wabash ONCE yester-
day.
r. H. Crosby returned yesterday
from Huntington. Ind. where he had
been spending the week on account Of
his mothers sickness.
c. H Reed Of the Indiana Harbor
office will leave tonight for Danville.
III, where he viii spend Sunday with
friends.
r. ]. Yorok, engineer at the Stand
ard Steel Car company, has gone to
Cleveland, o. where he will visit
friends for couple of weeks.
Arthur Peabody OF the !. H. office,
has returned from southern Illinois
where he has been on business for the
road.
1t is announced that the $50. 900
New York Central. s15.O0O,O00 Lake
Shore and $4,000, 900 Michigan Central
3-year per cent notes offered Satur-
day last have already been sold.
Officials Of the Eastern lines are de-
termined to get their cars back on the
home line, and to accomplish this are
increasing the number of car tracers.
asserting that there has been a great
delay in handling cars of Eastern
lines on western roads.
The Evansville & Terre Haute rail-
roal earned gross in December $685.
O0St earned net @5OtoOis no COII6S-
ponding six months ending Dec. 81, the
e. & I. H. lines earned $1,20S619, net
S572,105.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has de-
cided to install 5000 street crossties
filled with a mixture of asphalt and
rock on the Pittsburg division of the
main line Steel ties of two kinds
are being subjected to experiment by
the Pennsylvania as anything that
promises a possible solution Of the
crosstie question will be welcomed.
The management of the Northwest
ern has opened a campaign of educa-
ton for shippers with respect to load
Ing and unloading of cars. Local
agents are instructed TO use their
shippers to induce them to cease max
ing storage warehouses of cars and to
unload them promptly.
Instructions have been issued by the
Pennsylvania to Its employees regard
ing the handling of persons killed in
|, railroad accidents or IN the company
shops or plants. A circular just posted
says a violation Of this rule means a
the body must not be removed from the
registration district Of the county in
which the accident occurs until the
proper certificate has been issued by
the coroner and the district registrar