The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-22
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

with the Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany.
C. H Chappell, general manager of the Chi
cago & Alton, is confined to his room with rheu-
matism. AS soon as able he will 60 to Hot
Springs Ark.
Ira Bramwell, welknown in indianapolis,
was yesterday appointed contracting agent of
the Erie & Pacific Dispatch and South Shore
line, headquarters Chicago.
c. W. Smith, vino Dec. /, takes the general
managership of the A., T. & st. Fe road,
writes a friend here that he has decided to make
Topeka, Kan, his headquarters.
Messrs. c, Vanderbilt, Depew, Roberts, Thomp-
son, Garrett and the Morgans met in Phla
delphia Friday, and there is much speculation
over what was done at the conference.
The new hospital of the Denver & Rio Grande
railway at Salida, Colo, was formally opened
last week. and is said to be of the most COM
plete institutions of this character in the coun-
try
Columbus o.. is said to have the most pros
porous railway branch of Railroad Mems Chris
tian Association in the country. General Man
ager McCrea, of the Pennsylvania lines, has
done much toward making it success.
James McCrea, general manager of the Penn
sylvania lines west Of Pittsburg, John f. Miller,
general superintendent of the same lines 1.-THE P.
Fit W. & G. excepted) were in the city last
evening, en- route from Louisville to Pittsburg.
President J. F. Joy, Vicepresident Fl. NJ
Hoxe. Treasurer Smith, Thomas e. Tut, re
ceiver, and Superintendent Stevens, together
with several directors of the Toledo. Wabash &
Western railroad, went to New York Friday
night
The roads composing the Richmond and Dan
vile system, of which e. B. Thomas is general
manager, show, with the exception of Virginia
Midland and one other, the best average results
for the year of almost any group of roads in the
country.
The passenger agents of the railways center
ing at Buffalo have formed an organization sim
liar to that of the Indianapolis agents, known as
the Buffalo Railway Passenger Committee" and
have elected Peter c. Doyle as chairman and
Edison j. Weeks as secretary.
The Wabash road announces that freight
agency has been established at Collamer, 1nd
on the Detroit and Indianapolis division of this
railway, with r. j. Emerson as agent. Freight
shipments for this point may be received with
out requiring prepayment in future.
A meeting of general passenger agents is to be
held at Atlanta, Dec. 2, for the purpose of organ
| izing the Southern passenger committee an
association similar to the Central passenger COM
mittee, which is doing good work in this sec
ton in bringing about better maintenance of
rates.
The pass question has its humorous side A
Chicago road derives some added traffic from
new cemetery started about year ago, and
lately received application for trip pass from
a prominent physician, who based his request
upon the ground that he had worked up good
business for the graveyard" He got his pass.
In Southwest Virginia there thirteen coun
ties where the roar of the railway has never yet
been heard and the people live their uncouth
lives in ignorance of the events of the outside
world. Very little money circulates among
them, the products of the farm being used as
the medium of exchange in most business trans
actions.
The members of the executive committee have
selected St. Louis, Mo-, as the place for holding
the biennial meeting of the ExpressInens Aid
Society on the second Wednesday in February,
1886 The bylaws of the society provide that each
division shall be entitled to representation of
one delegate for every twenty-five members or
fraction thereof
Superintendent Taylor, of the P, G. & ST. L.
division of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg, is as boastful as Charles Watts supern-
tendent of the Chicago division of the c., St L.
& p, regarding the high moral tone of their
employees. Both discharge man when they
bling dens or houses of ill-repute.
H. j. Adams, who represents the Erie fast
freight lines at Kansas City, was in the city yes
terday, and rendered his resignation, to take eff
feet Dec. l. Manager Lewis has not as yet de-
cided as to who will be his successor. Mr..
Adams has accepted the position of general
western freight agent of the Chicago & Alton
road, headquarters to be at Denver, Col.
Presidents and general managers on many
roads are setting excellent example to EN-.
ployees by disseminating the carrying their
private cars Intoxicating liquors, even dispensing
with wines. While officials Of roads use intoxi-
eating liquors carry them on their private
they with poor grace enforce rules of
total abstinence on the part Of employees
Indianapolis Division, No. IL, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers have what they
call private insurance association, which is
carried ON independently of the national organ
ization, which is doing much good Whenever
a member of the Division is unable to work, he
is allowed $40 per week, and in case of death his
friends are given 800 for burial expenses
The old locomotive Portland, has been con-
demned and cut up at the shops of the New
Brunswick railway at McAdams junction, N.
B., by order of the mechanical superintendent,
G. A. Haggerty, after thirty one years active
service. This locomotive was built in 1854 by
the Portland company, at Portland, Me-. for the
Maine Central road, and was the first built with
a link motion.
Hon. Donald A. Smith, director, and Mr. Van
horn, vice-president. of the Canadian Pacific
railway, have arrived at Montreal after driving
the last spike in the through line of railway to
the Pacific coast, at Coal Harbor. A project
for the establishment of line of steamships be-
tween the Western terminus of the road and
China and Japan is under consideration, and
will be carried out as soon as practicable.
The New York Sun says: ''It would be moth
ing surprising to learn some day that instead of
Mr.. Vanderbilt controlling New York Central
and It's Western outlets, the control of these
companies is in the hands of English capitalists,
and that Mr.. Vanderbilt and his agents have
simply to do what the Englishmen order them
to- If this be SO, and the fact became known
among our Irish legislators we might have
very lively time in Albany, as we'll as in Wash
ington, regarding railroad legislation"
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen, in
the preamble of their revised bylaws and con-
stitution, say: "We recognize an identity of
interests between members and their en-
ployers, and it is made special object of the
brotherhood to bring them in perfect harmony
with each other. Benevolence is the principal
object of our existence, and, in our hazardous
calling, it is almost daily brought into requsi-
ton by the husbandless and fatherless whose
protectors have gone down at the post of duty"
The veteran paymaster of the Chicago, Mil