The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19

increased the chances Of accident are largely
reduced. and the comfort Of both passengers
and employees has been much enhanced. step
toward safety and comfort is the employment
on some lines, of traiDmen,' whose duty ii il
to collect the fares, thus leaving the conductow
perfectly free to manage his train
The passenger agents of railroads running
west from Pittsburg held o meeting In New
York, on Thursday last, and fixed uniform rates
for passenger traffic. Deputy Commissioner
Pieison says that passenger rates are being set
tied on all Western roads. but that the competi-
ton In freight-carrying remains as keen as ever.
nj. e. ingalls,, who presided over the commit
tee OF seventeen, appointed to organize the Mid
ole and Western States pool, is complifnented
on all sides so much skill tact and patience did
he display in settling perplexing questions, as
they arose. and it is said but for his efforts at onp
time the sitting of the committee would have
broken up undervery nnpromising circumstance
Josephus Collett. president of the Tesee Hauts
81 Southeastern ard a half dozen other railroad
interests has returned from California in excellent
health The Terre Haute Gazette says: Owing
to flaw in the advertisement of the sale of tho
Texas & Northern railway in which no is in
terested, and of which Mr. Leitnaker will take
charge, it has been readyertsed ard the sale
postponed until the LIST of june
A new Georgia railroad company has a majoe
for president, acolonel-rather in contravention
of military Pank-for viee-president colonies fog
treasurer and chief engineer and captain for
secretary The board of directors includes two
captains, three majors, four colonies, tive
judges and solitary untitled citizen, who
must fell awfully lonesome. 1t is reported.
however, that the untitled citizen aforesaid
furnishes nearly all the capital the colonies,
etc, taking a share or two each.
During his address at Terre Haute Sunday
last, Grand Chief Arthur of the Locomotive
Rrot 1srnla al a M nj qr In.
speaking of old engineers, he said, a AIR. Lyman
eighty-one years of age was still running an en-
CINE on the New York Central. Mr.. Galway, n
man over seventy four years of age. makes two
trips day between Washington and Baltimore.
on the Baltimore IL Ohio. He has been In the
employ of the company forty-seven years, run
ming the first engine over the road.
AT the annual distribution of prizes to the
apprentices school of the Brooks locomotive
works, which took place In Dunkirk n Y
few evenings since, NJ l.. Hinman awarded the
prizes upon the reports of the instructors as fol-
lows: To William H. Stckney, for proficiency
in drafting. position for the year in the draft
ing room of the shop to Charles III. Brown, the
first prize for regularity of attendance profcien-
cy In studies, and rapid progress, 500; TO Will
lam Foss, second prize, $75; William L. Gunther.
third prize, $50; Thomas Meakim, fourth prize.
$25; John Hefferman, fifth prize, SIS.
The stockholders of the Atchison, Topeka s.
Santa Fe Railroad Company held a meeting al.
lOpche, anu unanimously el6cteu II. hurr, II.
III. Cheney, c. r. Goldman, G. X. Halliday s. A.
Kent, "A. w. Nickerson, E. B. Purcell, Warren
Sawyer, l.. f. Percy, George o. Shattuck, Al
den Spears, w. b. Strong and w. #. Wharton,
directors to for the ensuing year The directors
dent; y. Wilder, secretary and treasurer &. Z.
Goodwin, assistant treasurer; "A. A. Robinson
general manager and chief engineer; J. r.
Whitehead comptroller and general auditor,
George w. McCrary, general counsel; a. G.
Clement, auditor; A. A. Glazer transfer agent
The Massachusetts directors were elected execu-
tive committee.
1t would be strange to see anyone but a Van
derbt enthroned at the Grand Central Depot
says the Boston Commercial Bulletin, but strange
things have happened before our day. 1t may
be that the vacant niche in the front of the sta
ton, which was designed to hold statue of the
founder of the Vanderbilt family, will be filled
by marble image of Jay Gould. / confess to q
doubt, for have seen there, as gazed at the va
cant space, the wild eyes and flowing beard OF
Cyrus w. Field, and again the rubicund face and
radiant prcboscis of j. Pierrepont Morgan 1t 10
certain that these men have had more to do with
New York Central than any Vanderbilt in this
last few years Must the niche be always empty
because no fit successor to the old Commodore
has yet appeared.
AS Joseph W. Sherwood, superintendent OF
the Cincinnati, indianapolis. st. Louis g Chi
cago road, has just closed his fifth year i'm that
position. which he has held so creditably to hfn-
self, and so satisfactorily to President ingalls,,
brief sketch of his railroad life will not be ous
of place. Mr. Sherwood was born in Nashville.
Tenn, April 2 1850. Entered railway service
IN January, 1864, telegraph operator and sta
tion-agent for the Indianapolis, Cincinnati &
Lafayette railroad at Delhi, o.; was train
masters clerk for the same road about three
years; was a passenger conductor on the White
Water Valley railroad four years; superintend.-
ent's clerk of the indianapolis, Cincinnati 81 La
fayette road one year. then master of transport
tation, and since March, 1880, superintendent D.
the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, ST. Louis & Chi
cago railroad.
.e On the first day-of May, f. w. McKenna b
sifsrrs .h yearas superintendent of the JsfH5i-
sonyille. Mad n & indianapolis roadz221iosit;or
he has filed with much But few young
men stand so high in the estimation of their
superior officers as does Mr.. McKenna. His rail-
road has been one of success Mr.
McKenna WAS born in Pittsburg, Pa, on Oct. "a
1848 He entered the railway service in May.
1862; to June 1864 he was messenger and OPP
orator on the Pennsylvania railroad; from june
1864, to August. 1865, on United States military
railroads in Virginia. from April, 1866, to De-
cember, 1869, operator bill clerk and supern-
tendent's secretary on the Pittsburg. Cincinnati
q ST. Louis railway; from January 1870. to Feb
ruary, 1871, train dispatcher; from February,
1871, TO April. 1880, superintendent of the Indi-
annapolis & Nincennes railroad, and from May.