The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-04
RAILWAY GOSSIP.


American Express stock is now up to ninety
nine. the nearest to par it has ever been
Fred w. Sanger has been appointed Western
agent of the l., d. g. S. road, heal-
quarters Decatur. III.
Paymaster Shepherd, of the Wabash system.
is again on his rounds, paying for August Slowly
he is gaining time on the back pay.
L. Golf. yardmaster of the Pennsylvania lines
at this point, has resigned. His duties will be
looked after by j. W. Grennen, in addition to
his duties as trainmaster.
j. d. Baldwin. secretary of the Order of Rail
way Conductors, is preparing his annual report,
which will show healthy increase in member
ship and in financial way.
William J. Leahy, who since last spring has
represented the West Shore road as agent at Nj
agara Falls has been appointed assistant ticket
agent of the road at Syracuse, in place of H. w.
Crate.
O. M Shepherd, who was educated on Western
roads is acting president of the New York,
New Haven e. Hartford road during the absence
of President Watrous, who is now in Europe for
a few months tarry.
j. N Mccullough, vice president of the Penn
sylvania lines, can afford to spend the remainder
of life in more ease than he has the last thirty
five years, as he is reported to be worth fully
four million dollars.
Ford Wood. assistant general freight agent
of the Indiana, Bloomington Il Western road,
yesterday returned from his bridal trip, and last
evening was receiving hearty congratulations
from his old-time bachelor friends.
A number OF delegates to the old reliable Con-
ductors Insurance Association left last night for
Denver via Chicago. The Chicago 81 North
western road will this morning send out
special train to take the delegates through to
Denver
The l., D. & S., in connection with TIE Wa
bash road will On Tuesday next carry passen-
gers to st. Louis and return from Roachdae
and points west of there on their line at 81 the
round trip, tickets good to return Thursday
First Passenger-"Why does this train make
such an intolerable creaking noise, whenever it
attempts to slow up?" Second Passenger--"In
order to protect the passengers from the voice OF
the brakeman when he calls out the stations"
John Grabner, an old-time engineer on the
Bee-line, now B. successful business man at
Warsaw, Ind, has been spending a few days
with his brothers-inlaw. Paul and Buck Quigley,
both of whom are now engineers on the Bee
line
A railr DAD track to be laid without wooden
ties is to be put down in Albany, running across
the wagon bridge to Greenbush. It is to be laid by
a new process requiring longitudinal sleepers
made of iron, and called by the inventor a triple
chair
1t is said that the proposed passenger pooling
agreement will contain clause authorizing and
iustructing Commissioner Fink to purchase any
and all tickets that he can obtain at anything be-
low tariff rates and return them to the company
issuing them, collecting the full schedule price
from the company for all such tickets so re-
turned.
1t is understood that under the consolidation
scheme of the Red, the White and the Midland
lines, j. H. Steiner will be made Western super
intendent, and his territory will be considerably
enlarged. Mr.. Steiner has looked after the in
limo in fnN
number of years, and ranks among the most
capable of the fastfreight line men.
William Bole, who for fourteen years has
looked after backing all the Panhandle trains
into the Union depot, has been discharged for
color blindness. AS during this time acct
dent has occurred to train, it seems like strain
ing point to discharge so old and reliable an
employee Railroad employees feel that this color
test has been carried to an extent not called for.
Two tiny boys, with good voices and clever
mimicry, have been singing on Western railroad
trains. They said to sympathetic questioners
that they were working their way alone from
San Francisco to New York. and one passenger
estimated their receipts in single day at $40
He also discovered that they had a manager and
treasurer in the person of their father, to whom
they slyly rendered up the money
George B. Sherman, who has been appointed
general manager of three of the consolidated
fast freight lines, was Connecticut boy He
entered railway service in 1865, and up to 1868
was clerk of the Merchants Dispatch at Louis
vile, Ky. From 1868 to 1871 he was agent of the
Dispatch at Louisville. In 1871 he was appointed
Southwestern agent Of the Merchants Dispatch
In 1877 he received the appointment of Western
agent; IN 1852 that of general Western agent
which position he held until March /, 1884, when
he was appointed general manager of the Red
line. His latest promotion is deserved one.
Eve wait to see the time when strikes shall
no longer curse the land" said Grand Secretary
of fho
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen of North
America, in Philadelphia, Thursday last, and
Grand Master Arnold also expressed himself
very happily as to the relations of capital and
labor. The men who work on railway locomo-
tives have sound heads as we'll as stout
hearts, and the influence of the Brotherhood of
Flremen, whose membership is a. $50, is whole
some in many respects. A remarkable fact in
the record of the organization is the payment, in
twelve years. of $44 900 for the relief of disabled
members, and $271, 764 to the families of mem
bers who have died.
Of late the Railroader has treated its readers
to several well-written editorials, which, were
railroad men to heed. they could profit largely
thereby. The habit of treating, which is so
prevalent among railway officers and employees,
was alluded to in recent number as follows:
1t sometimes requires moral courage to refuse
to drink when invited, and still greater degree
of this enrolling element of true manhood, to
refuse to treat This unfortunate practice of
treating mas PROBABLY done more than
all other causes combined in this
country, to wreck the lives of good men and
send them to the dogs socially, morally and
financially. First of all refuse to be treated and,
most of all, refuse to treat. Then, if there are
those among your associates so thoughtless and
uncharitable as to misconstrue your motives you
can reply with this burning truth, that silences
criticism and wins for you the respect of all
risht-thinking people, even among the intern
perate. 1t is your highest and most sacred duty,
first of all, to provide for those dependent upon
you, rather than to administer to your associates
the poison that wrecks their lives Refuse to
treat or be treated, and all men whose good
opinions are worth having will respect you more
highly"
Charles Watts, superintendent of the second
and fourth divisions of the Chicago, st. Louis IL
Pittsburg road. is coming into prominence on
the Pennsylvania lines, so ably is he handling
these divisions. Probably he is one of the strict
est discinli tho panr.r.-l.rnx,;a