The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-06
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

two visiting old-tlme friends.
Mr. r. D. Waite railroad editor of the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, is off for a months vacation,
which he will spend in southern California.
The New York Central and West Shore in
junction matter has been settled in New York.
sThe legal proceedings have been withdrawn.
j. T. McCsllen has been appointed master car
builder of the E. 6 T. H. road Mr.. McCallsn
is an old White line agent who was left out in
the late consolidation.
G. G. Coehrane, general freight agent of the
N. Y, & o. and G. S. Sawyer, general man
9ger of the Continental line, were in the city
yesterday on official business.
1t is stated that owing to the hostility of Geo.
l. Seney. principal stakeholder of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia q Georgia system, President
Thomas will soon tender his resignation.
1.-THE best sermon / know on the stability of
rates and the general improvement in earnings"
said General Manager Beach. of the Bee-line, is
The great demand for Friday we were l,5I5
ears short of our orders.
By a contract made with the Atlantic d Pacific
recently +. j: Lincoln and W. Stackpoie have
occurred control of all the railroad hotels along
Abe line from St Louis to the Pacific coast,
distance of over ], 400 miles.
Peace has it's price. 1t costs the New York
Central just 81, 000 900 year to restore the non
competitive state of local and through transpor-
hation that existed before the West Shore road
rTas built, that being the sum that it guarantees
as interest to the West Shore bondholders.
railroad official prominently interested in
4he Beech Creek railroad, is authority for the
statement that j. V. Williamson has finally
agreed to accept the reorganization scheme pro-
posed for that company. This action. if trne,
leaves only Mr.. Gowen on the outside The
committee having the matter in charge will meet
in New York next week
1t is now stated that the position of district
passenger agent of the L., n. A. 81 G. is not to
be abolished with the retirement of Maj. Robert
Emmett, but that j. ID. Baldwin, brother OF Gen
eral Passenger Agent Baldwin, of the L., N. A.
& c., will be appointed to the position, and that
w. NJ. Gerard of New Albany, will succeed Mr..
Baldwin az Indianapolis agent
The Council Bluffs Railroad Reporter says:
'"fhe ballot box is the only route by which rest
from Sunday labor can be obtained. The great
railway world knows Sabbath, and If, by
force of circumstances or through ambition,
roads do violate the laws Of God and man, they
should pay for it, by allowing the men who sin
for them extra pay for Sunday labor"
Surveyors under engineer George Ford yester
day began running line for new railroad from
Akron TO Chicago Junction, which is to complete
the Baltimore & Ohio line from Pittsburg to
Chicago shortening the Baltimore q Ohio's pres
ent route between these points by forty miles.
The survey is taken up from the western ter
minus of the Pittsburg, Cleveland 81 Toledo
w
An order reducing the number of brakemen on
passenger trains on the Erie railroad went into
effect yesterday Heretofore, through express
trains. a rule, have had baggagemaster and
three brakemen, and local trains have had
baggagemaster and two brakemen. Under the
new order but one brakeman is allowed on local
trains and two on the heavy through trains,
which have as many as nine or ten coaches.
What would New Jersey do without its rail
roads? The State realized from its railroad tax
this year as follows Pennsylvania, $406. 857;
Reading, 1918. 079; Erie, -$104, 807, and Lacka-
wanna, $254.999. The aggregate valuation of
these four systems is $158 $50 O56 and the total
4axes paid by them is 81. 084, TAP. These four
companies control So per cent. of the entire rail
road property of New Jersey, and pay "a per
cent. of the total taxes.
Grave charges were made public recently
against the management of the New York, Prov
-fueuce s. Boston railroad. Indignant stock
holders" were represented clamoring for an
Investigation of the cOmpany's concerns, and
sensational Developments were predicted. The
management says the attack them is wholly
R~oundless and all the accusations trivial. For
ahirty years. it is said, there has never been a
dissenting voice in the companys management.
Being asked by Buffalo Courier reporter
what he thought of enforcing the penal code
against the ticket scalpers who obstreper-
GUS in that city, Mr.. W. r. Busenbark, of the
Michigan Central, said: 'As the law stands to-
day we could lock mp every man on the street
who is traffcking in tickets. There is nothing
personal in the feeling of the passenger agents,
and they don't want to go far that. But
this demoralizing Of rates and putting every
thing out of joint has got to be stopped"
On Thanksgiving eve thirty of the employees
of the Iowa 81 Dakota division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee e. ST. Paul railroad, accompanied by
their wives called at the residence Of George w.
Sanborn, late superintendent Of the division.
When he made his appearance (having retired
for the nighs3, Conductor Hoxie, on behalf of all
the employees OF the Iowa e. Dakota, presented
him, in q neat and feeling speech, with beauti-
ful solitaire diamond stud. They then presented
Mrs. Sanborn with twenty four solid silver knives
and Jerks, and then called for Bonnie" the only
daughter of the family, and daughter of the di-
vision and presented her with diamond pin in
beautiful, chaste setting
John G. Gould, the New Haven, Conn,
InNchiHist and musician, has constructed full
Aedged locomotive which is twenty inches long
from the cab entrance to the catcher tip, or
thirty three inches long with the tender Gold
mounted steel bands circle the brass boiler from
which a steam pressure of 100 pounds can be
developed. A miniature steam guage within the
cab registered as high as sixty pounds of steam
BY other signs the constructor can easily tell
when his pet is laborug under greater pres
sure 1t took about one year to build the loco
motive, and, estimating the value of the small
tools he had to make to model the intricate
machinery and the value of the material of
which the locomotive is made, the cost of the
whole thing was about $400.
The heads of passenger conductors of the New
York Central continue to fall in the basket thir-
tyfDur having already been discharged and their
places filled with freight conductors. 1t is said
fhattwenty-e more freight conductors are in
training for service. and that that many
more passenger conductors are to be relieved.
Among the discharged men is Andrew Getman,
VINO has been with the road twenty-seven years,
and who gained considerable noteriety some
years ago by receiving vote of thanks from the
United States Congress. in recognition of his
heroic act in saving his train with heavy load
Of passengers, from being wrecked. Another
OF the discharged men is Philip Kinney. who had
been IN the service of the company for thirty
years
Dec l. Superintendent Toucey, of the New
York Central, issued a significant order reading
As follows: Conductors at terminals must re,
port for duty thirty minutes before time of de-
pArtare of trains. They must see that their mas.