The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-01
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

recent trip of President Depew of the New
York Central, to Boston via the Hoosac tunnel.
has excited comment in some quarters.
Thomas S. Faulkner has been appointed inn
migrant and ticket agent of the New York Cen
trail road at No. 5 Bowling Green and Castle
Garden, New York.
Oliver P. Bray, conductor on the Vandalia,
who was married on Thursday to young lady
of Efin CHAM, H., is, with his bride, spending
the Sabbath with friends in this city.
The postal clerks on roads running into Column
bus, Ohio, are undergoing the usual annual ex-
animation. The record of most of them is very
fine, many standing 100 per cent. and none being
marked below 80.
c. E. Henderson, general manager of the l.,
B. & w. system, to-day begins his fifth year in
that position. Mr. Henderson has, without
doubt, done as much hard work in the FIVE years
past as any railroad official in the country
Frank Prouty, son of wellknown citizen of
Kalamazoo, Mich, has been appointed master
of transportation of the Panama railroad For
several years past he has been acnndncter on
the Western roads, latterly the Oregon branch
of the Union Pacific.
Eight hundred feet of the Lookout Mountain
railroad has been graded and made ready for the
rails. The total length of the road will be 4, zoo
feet BY May, it is expected people will be
transported by rail to the place abovethe clouds,
where Hooker fought his famous battle.
Arailroad man. who takes no stock in spoilers,
or train agents, so-called, says the best comment
he knows on them is the fact that G. L. Dickin-
son, late auditor of the l., B. q w. road, who is
said to be now residing in Canada, was the man
who placed them on the l., B. q w. road.
Charles c. Wolfe, formerly private secretary
to Mr.. Edison j. Weeks. general northern pas
senger agent of the West Shore, but now private
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the latter to New York city. where Mr.. Paine
assumes the position of second vice president of
the Erie
The New England members of the American
Train Dispatchers Association has formed a
local branch e. A. Smith, chief dispatcher of
Dodge, of the Boston & Lowell road. vice-presi-
dent; H. NJ. Forristall. of the Boston e. Maine
road, secretary and treasurer
F. H. Alexander, of the general Offices of the
Missouri Pacific road, who is to succeed T. &.
Denney, deceased, district passenger agent,
headquarters Indianapolis, will arrive in the city
to-day. Mr.. Alexander is young in the business
and IL behooves the fraternity of passenger men
TO deal gently with him until he learns the ropes
of the ship.
G. G. Eddy has resigned his position of freight
traffic manager of the New York, West Shore &
Buffalo road. He will transfer his services to
the Norfolk & Western, of which road he will
had been rendered the place to be made vacant
on the Missouri Pacific by the resignation of
Mr.. George Odds. but preferred to remain in the
East
The passenger men in the employ of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, at ST. Louis. furnished a magnif-
cent floral design on the occasion of the funeral
of T. &. Denney, late district passenger agent.
1t represented a locomotive off the track and
partly turned over. The floral locomotive bore
the name ''T. G. Denney." and below it were the
words, "Off the Track" profusely surrounded
by flowers
Current Talk published at Cincinnati, says:
Gen. w. b. Shattuc, of the Ohio & Mississippi
railway, has practically demolished the publish
ers of the st. Louis Railway Register in his suit
against them for libel The Register people
printed charges which they must have known
were false, as they were gross imputations upon
the character of a gentleman of known integrity.
and the Register was promptly sued. Now the
publishers cry peccavi, and wish to settle; but
General Shattuck prefers public vindication in
the courts"
The Terre Haute Gazette says: Grand Secre-
tary Dehs and wife, and Frank Arnold returned,
Friday, from New Orleans where they have
been attending joint meeting of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen A
friendly feeling has been established between
the two great organizations During the con-
ventlon they were quite royalty entertained,
banquets being frequently given in their honor.
gates one day this week. On last Monday an ex-
cursion was given to Mobile, where they were
entertained by the mayor, and were given ban
Quet.
1t seems that E. A. Ford. general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg has an excellent war record. Speaking of
this officer the Chicago Sunday Herald says:
Ford is an Ohio boy. and when he was but
twenty years DID, he with two other youngs
sters of the same age raised regiment for
the army, the Forty-frst Ohio, which was
commanded by Colonel now General w. B.
Hazen. All three of the boys had commits
sions in it. Ford stayed with the regiment
until the fight at Stone river. where he was
severely wounded. In his book just given to
the public, General Hazen speaks in the highest
Lietenant Elias A. Ford. When he recovered
from his wounds he was unfit for further mill
tary duty, and therefore, in 1868, he resigned
and went into the railroad business ticket
agent at Cleveland His work there was so
thorough and his executive abilities so fine
that in less than two years he was promoted to
general passenger agent of the Cleveland
Columbus, Cincinnati g. Indianapolis
Soon after he was made general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain
passenger agent of the Vandalia. and in 1881 his
jurisdiction was extended over all the Pennsyl-
vania lines in the West Ford is large hand
some, portly man, and his strong points of
character are capacity for organization and
strict methods In business. Though covering a
vast territory, every subordinate office under his
control is as thoroughly systemized as the head
quarters of brigade, ana Ford is thoroughly at
home in any one>of them. He is an exceedingly
popular man, and is one of the most valued and
trusted officials in the Pennsylvania employ.
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