The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-09
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

A. N. Morton has been appointed general
agent of the freight department of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific at Des Moines.
Elijah Smith, president of the Fort Wayne
Cincinnati & Louisville road, is president of no
less than ten railroads and improvement com
panies.
George Westinghouse, the inventor of the
air-brake, is at work upon burner which will
make practicable the use of natural gas as an
iumnant as well as fuel
William Caldwell, travelling passenger agent
of the West Shore, New York & Buffalo railway,
who was in the city yesterday, says the West
Shore people are not half so mean as their com
petitors look upon them as being.
r. Stockhouse has been appointed general
freight aud ticket agent of the Rock Island &
Peoria railroad in place of Mr.. A. N, Morton, re-
signed Mr.. StockhoSse has been for some
years past cashier and paymaster of this com
pany.
H. A. johnson, formerly commercial freight
agent of the Missouri Pacific road in Chicago,
has been appointed to a similar position on that
line at Atchison in place of Mr.: l. A. Emerson,
who has been appointed general Western freight
agent of that road at Chicago.
c. K. Lord, general passenger agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio f. A. Ford, general passen-
ger agent of the c., st. L. & P. lines, and other
general passenger agents interested meet next
Tuesday in Chicago to endeavor to bring the
suicidal passenger rate war to an end.
j. O. Phillippi commercial agent for the
Santa Fe road at Chicago, has been appointed
assistant freight agent of that line, in place of
Mr.. Joseph Leeds, who has been appointed
general freight agent, in place of Mr. Fl. c. Bar
low. Mr.. Phillippi left for Topeka yesterday.
G. E. Cain has resigned the position of road
master of the Third, Fourth and Seventeenth
districts on the Wabash system, to accept the
position of general roadmaster middle division
The following changes in jurisdiction are an
nounced r. A. Houghton, Toledo to Peru; A.
B. Adams, Peru to Tilton and Cairo State line,
Rantoul and Covington branches; F. Sullivan,
Detroit and Michigan City branches
B. F. SCHNEIDER, conductor on the c., Fl. & l.
road who went as delegate to the conductors
annual meeting, held in BOSTON, was with the
party of conductors who visited Plymouth, ac
cepting the eourteses Of the Old Colony Railroad
Company. Pilgrims Hall was opened to them,
d courtesy which is seldom extended to visiting
parties, and Conductor SCHNEIDER had the pleas
ure of sitting in one of the chairs brought over
on the Mayhower.
Geo Tyre, passenger conductor on the c. l.,
St L. q c., who for twelve years has filed the
position of chaplain of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotive Engineers and who declined the posi-
ton this year, has been presented, by the broth
erhood with an elegant gold headed cane, and
his wife with complete elegant silver tea serv
ice Mr. Tyre, before being passenger con
ductor was an engineer for many years and in
all positions held has dore efficient and faithful
service.
Judge Cooley and Messrs. G. F. Swift and
Samuel Allerton, the arbltrators chosen by the
trunk lines and the joint executive com
mittee to determine the relative rates on
live stock and dressed beef, held a meeting
in Chicago on Friday. Judge Cooley, after
finding that Messrs. Allerton and Swift could
not agree, made the award alone, deciding that
the dressed beef rate should be 70 per cent. of
the livestock rate. Thus the dressed beef rate,
with the present livestock rate at 20 cents, will
be 30 cents per 100 pounds, an increase of 10 per
cent. over present rates If the cattle rate is 40
cents the dressed beef rate under Judge Cooley's
decision will be 20 cents. Judge Cooey's award
is per cent less than the rate recommended by
Commissioner Fink short time ago, but, as
already stated, is 10 higher than the present
rate
H. B. Hammond. of New York, president Of
the indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield Railway
Company. has a very large library, and one de-
partment he calls his railroad library, in which
there are 480 volumes. All legal decision of in
terest or importance which have been rendered
in this or foreign countries may be found in this
library, all writings Of prominent. legal or rail
road men relating to laws for managing the
financial interests Of road for maintaining its
! physical condition, etc Then there are books