The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-30
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

VII. Firth, general agent of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy road, is in the city on of
fetal business
The vandalia people are stringing second tel
egraph wire between Terre Haute and Logans-
port specially for local service.
George F. Davids, general yard-master OF the
Bee-line has so far recovered from his recent Sc
we're illness as to be about again.
r. P Oxley, foreman of engines at Brightwood
on the, Bee-line has also joined the retiring
fraternity. His resignation was accepted yes
teriay.
Complaint is made that the men in charge OF
the Western Union telegraph Office at'the Union
Depot on the night service are not attentive to
their duties.
The PENNSYLVANIA Company. has this week lex
discharged fifty employees at It's shops IN 70
lumbus, o., andthe remaining force are working
nine hours per day.
superintendent are hoping that the large body
of snow and ice will continue to go off gradu-
ally, yet they are taking precautionary meas
ures to protect their bridges should there DC
flood
II p Wolfe assistant general passenger agent
of the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific road, ana
one of the most popular passenger men IN the
Northwest, died suddenly at his residence in
Chicago on Sunday night, OF pneumonia
W. Hutchinson, an old employee of the Chica-
go and & Northwestern Company, late master
mechanic of the Galena e Madison division, has
been appointed to the superintendency of the
Northwestern shops at Council Bluffs, La, to
take effect Feb. i.
The Bee-line people are negotiating for a lease
of the corner room under the Bates House which
is soon to be vacated by Mr.. Marcy The friends
of the Bee-line will be gratified to see them open
fine offices ON that corner and become more ag-
gressve, more especially in their passenger bu-
siness
H. D. King, chief clerk of the Wabash freight
Office at this point, who was first to discover and
expose Willard, the cashier, in his forging Of
paper and defalcation, has been discharged
This would seem a poor mode of encouraging
clerks in exposing the irregularities in the office
where employed.
Thirteen prominent railroads in this country
now pay their employees by drafts The Indiana
Bloomington & Western and the Chicago & AL
ton were the first roads to introduce this method
of paying employees which is becoming popular
with the latter and protects the roads against
-defDulting paymasters
General Passenger Agent ST. John of the Chi
cago G. Rock Island does not favor the transfer
of Perry Griffin from the agency of that road at
Columbus, o., to the position of joint passenger
agent of the Kankakee & Seneca line, head
quarters indianapolis. This is quite a disap-
pointment to Mr. Griffin and his many friends in
this city
The passenger department of the Wabash, St
Louis & Pacific road have published book of
some forty pages, illustrated with diagrams,
which, with the carefully prepared reading mat
ter, makes it valuable work to persons who
have any idea of locating in the Southwest 1t
is really an. encyclopedia of the attractions and
inducements the Southwest offers to parties de
string to locate there.
G. L. Branham, master mechanic of the Bee
line at the Union shops, as well as j. K Lape at
the Brightwood shops has been relieved. The
treatment changes at the Brentwood shops of
master mechanics has had dem0ralizing effect
One of the old employees remarked yesterday
that they had been under three master mechan-
les in the last three years. All were good men,
Mr.. Lape, the last relieved, being of the
most faithful and Woodworking master mechan-
les he had over worked under