The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-13
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

| The employees Of the Boston g. Lowell rail-
road are being vaccinated at the rate of about
fifty per diem.
The Baltimore 6 Ohio Railroad Company will
extend ST. 40, 900 bonds maturing Oct l, for fifty
years at per cent
Mr. Il. c. knight, who was elected one Of the
Philadelphia Reading reconstruction trustees,
has decided to accept the position.
| e. l.. Dickinson. late auditor of the T., B. &
W. road is said to have written a friend that
| ne Will remain in Canada for the winter.
The Baltimore & Ohio train men are ordered
to have their uniforms made hereafter by
tailor who is to have monopoly of suiting
them.
Albert S. White, assistant general freight
agent of the Decline system, dropped in from
Cleveland last night to spend the Sabbath with
his family
| w. >. Baldwin, general passenger agent of the
L., n. A. & c. road, left last night to attend the
meeting OF general passenger agents, to be held
| In New York on the 10th.
| The announcement is made of new pooling
| arrangement between the Canadian Pacific and
| the Manitoba roads which shuts all the United
| otates roads from Canadian traffic.
| resident Roberts and other prominent officials
| OF the pennsylvania railroad, who are out on a
| .ul " Inspection, yesterday passed over the
| Plttsburg, Charleston q Virginia division
On the continent of Europe railway loco
| motive engines give only short low whistle
on approaching station. In England and this
conntry their screeching can be heard for several
| miles.
| L. NJ Harris. late trainmaster of the L. N A.
| o. o., has accepted position as passenger con.
| ductor the main line. Other changes in
passenger conductorships are expected soon to
| follow.
1t is an open secret that many of those promi-
nent in battling against the sale of the South
pennsylvania and Beach Creek corporations
nave refused to testify voluntarily, in aid
of the Attorney generals suit that they have ap-
| parently demanded
The Westinghouse Air-brake Company, OF
| Pittsburg, will, at meeting shortly to be held,
increase its capital stock from 5000 900 to 49, 000
OOU from the ssurplus, with annual divdeds of II
per cent The company has heretofore paid a
| dividend of go per cent. year.
| One OF the English railroad companies has
| supplied all its employees with red neck hand
| kerchiefs, the wearing of which is compulsory
The object is the providing of red flags,
which can be employed in the event of any sud-
den accident or the arrangement of the regular
signals.
William Shelford, engineer of the Great. East
ern railway of London, and consulting engineer
of the Winnipeg & Hudson's Bay railway ac-
companied by r. j. Mooney, his assistant has
arrived at Winnipeg. Manitoba, for the purpose
of investigating the feasibility and cost of build
ing railway to Hudson's Bay
The railroad people say that the appointment
of James McCrea to the position of vicepresident
and manager Of all the Pennsylvania lines west
OF Plttsburg Is just the right thing, and tnat he
is the right man for the right place. In his new
position he will have 2 600 miles OF the best
equipped roads in America under his control
A New York paper. so to speak, "rubs it in"
on Western roads in the following manner: "If
fha frt LIMA
an iron-clad agreement that will hold the lot,
the Middle States roads will not be able to do
much cutting, and their shares respectively will
be what the trunk-lineS choose to give them, be
it much or little"
The last week the bulls on the New York
Stock Exchange have experienced up hill work
In their efforts to advance railroad stocks. The
chief trouble that the bulls have to contend with
is the impossibility of inducing railroad man
| ayers to maintain freight rates at figures that
! Will enable their roads to earn an income for
| their shareholders.
d. McCool, general manager of the st. Joseph
| 81 Grand Island road, has issued the following
| notice: 'By direction of the president assume
control of the operations of this company All
rules and regulations now existing are continued
in force till further orders Frank Milligan is
hereby appointed general freight and passenger
agent to succeed A. A. Cover, resigned"
Those in position on the c., B. & G. to know,
state that the arrangements with the ST. Paul,
very large business and being forty-six miles
shorter than any other line from Chicago to ST.
Paul and Minneapolis. they hope to make it one
of the most profitable pieces of property con-
rected with the Burlington system.
The Chicago & Rock Island is said to be about
to secure the st. Joseph S Western (the news
papers are mixed about the title and cell it tho
St Joseph & Grand Isand.) The Rock Island is
building from Gallatin to St Joseph, and the
Joseph & wes este will come in very handy
across the Missouri river at st. Joseph, which is
nearly mile long.
G. W. Stevens, the efficient superintendent of
the eastern division of the Wabash system. is
reported to be in good spirits over the outlook
for the Wabash. He states that the main line
track and equipments in a better condition
than for the past twelve years. The branches
are also being put in good condition as fast as
possible. The Eel River branch has been prac-
ticay rebuilt, and the l., p. 81 G.. is being
brought to the same state Of efficiency.
Frank Harriet, general freight agent of the
Baltimore s. Ohio, says that there is one singular
state of facts In the East President Roberts
and Vanderbilt are, metaphorically, lying down
in the same bed together hobnobbing at water
ing-places, and their roads are on the most
amicable terms while in the West the agents of
the Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt roads are flying
at each others threats, engaged in deadly strife
for what little business there is going and are
apparently irreconcilable The Baltimore 81
Ohio is merely spectator, acting conservatively,
but taking no active part in the contest
An old engineer gossips thus pleasantly of
early railroading in the South through the At
lanta, fGa.} Constitution: II can remember
when passenger train was almost as trouble
some to manage cart hilly road. I
was one of the first engineers that took a train
over the State road. Thesengine was about the
size of an ordinary stationary farm engine, and
the cars were almost small as those used on
narrow-guage roads. There were no breaks in
those days. When the train drew near sta
ton speed was gradually reduced, and when the
station was reached train hands, armed with
blocks of wood, would jump off and chock the
wheels"
The curtaiment of expenses recently ordered by
fI,a Of T1a.a