The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-23
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

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The local travel on the Pennsylvania railroad
adjacent to Philadelphia has increased 80 to 40
per cent. over last year.
In the year 1854, 196 persons were killed when
trespassing on the rights of railroad companies,
walking on their tracks.
Within the last week 30 coo tons of steel rails
ware sold at Pittsburg mills from $265 to $28
psr ton-the latter price generally
The Illinois Rairoader has been removed from
DscAtur, H., to Chicago, and is now published
ssE1+monthly by j. l.. Chilson and NJ. G. Peck.
West-bound travel is heavy. Schoolmarms are
wscding their way nomeward. Hundreds OF
them have been spending their vacations down
East"
Ladies on a number of the railroads kick up
m awful row when they find that their dear
dsxlng pugs and pet poodles have to be put In
Ehs baggage car
o II. Roach, general freight agent Of the
Olio Southern road and c. ". Hindsdale, Of the
eastern division Of the l.. B. s. W., are spending
tia Sabbath in the city.
George X Davis, the wounded express messen-
gpr N the EllettsvilIe robbery and attempted
uEsder, is at Chicago visiting friends. He is
rsqkaiy improving mentally.
il K. Dering, assistant general passenger
aggnt OF the Pennsylvania lines, who has been
resting for couple Of weeks in the mountains
Of geStern Virginia, is expected home tomorrow
The Chicago Rock Island e Pacific company
has mad notices posted along the line of the road
warning persons against walking on the railroad
aEz thus trespassng upon the company
g-a2nds.
f. A Gould having resigned. A II. Lander is
-aH dsct rio tor Of 10
LEAFS & Pacific telegraph line between Chicago
ana Bcment and Fairbury and Streator, with
.Ofco at Forrest Ill.
Hugh Gray who died in Chicago recently, in
tbs seventy ninth year of his age was for nearly
generation the master car-builder of the Chi
.BaPo 81 Northwestern railway, or of lines which
besame part Of that system.
George Boyd, assistant general passenger
arsnt Of the Pennsylvania road, is spending a
mrsaeh with his family at Cresson Heights. Mat
tens of Importance are referred to him as at
hsme-he mingling business with pleasure.
B. e. Touzalin, who has been elected presi-
dgzs Of tho Chicago. Burlington & Northern
lnRy ST. Paul line of the Burlington), and will
hare charge Of the construction of the line will
h&Ts his headq Quarters at the C., b. Il q. build
ing IN Chicago.
The City Ticket Agents Association of Gin
ciHnat has voted to close all uptown ticket
095ges from Saturday evening until Monday
agreement. 1t would be q wise move the
pat of Indianapolis ticket agents to take similar
atsion.
Tho l., 3. & w. excursion to Niagara Falls on
Tuesday promises to be a big affair The train
MA be run in four sections One will leave Spring
6ss6, Ohio, second, Indianapolis third.
Ps9ria, and fourth will pick up the way bust
zf3s The two first sections will make no stops
e<sept for water and railroad crossings.
Che Flctcher-place Church will this week run
ab excursion over the L., B. & W. road to Put
IN Bay and Kelly's Island, taking the steamer
.J2y Cooke from SaEdusGy Tickets will be sold
fsv g. 90, good going Aug. % and returning Sept.
a The executive committee are doing all they
Nsa to make the excursion asuccess, and grand
xi3is e anticipated.
Ihere must be special cause for the numer-
oGs strikes what called the Jay Gould
dizeS- In the nature of things there should be
as more reason why there should be strike on
ffs Gould system than on the Nandalia the Bee
]%ne or the larger systems, the Pennsylvania or
Reading, unless the who work the
Wabash and Missouri Pacific are far more
tRraulent than those of the roads named. and
1t IS not fair to the men to presume that this is
go
Frederick Billings, on being asked about the
cDuning Northern Pacific stockholders meeting,
6si since his return, early in July. from his
of inspection of the road he had been most of
thu time quietly at his home in Woodstock, Vt
that he had neither been issuing circulars nor
soliciting proxies nor scheming in any way
about the election that the thought Of the
Geanection of Mr.. Willard with any movements
fur the next presidency had never entered his
head
The Philadelphia Press, in speaking of the
threatened Wabash strike, says: The indica-
tinns are that the strike will amount to next TO
nothing, which is the most fortunate thing
peeslbie for the men as we'll as for the railroad
Eeupany. Every condition against the
BBscess of big railroad strike at this time and it
Is doubtless TO the strong conviction entertained
10y rejecting workmen that it could not succeed
az a period so unfavorable to railroad finances
chat we owe the failure to make whole hearted
and combined struggle.
4 reporter of the Pittsburg Telegram has
made a careful canvass of the many railroad
Offices IN that city and finds that the freight
Business is beginning to take boom. With the
rgSroads there different seasons for work
and the months business of one year is compared
wssh those coincident periods of previous years.
BY inquiry it is ascertained that 1885 promises
10 distance 1884 IN the amount of freight handled
bF che lines having Offices there The greatest
Improvement is reported from roads having
Sgathern connections, and the Western routes
GONE in for close second place. Northern and
Eastern traffic is not so fair, but the future
seems to have much more in store for those
sessions.
But few general passenger agents are more
extensively known and more highly esteemed in
railroad and business circles than Percival Low
ell who has filed the above position with so much
abiilty Tor four years past. Mr.. Lowell was
born in Newark, n. j.. Nov 1850 Entered rail
way service Aug, 1870, to 1871, successfully
master mechanics clerk, and clerk general
auditors Office Burlington & Missouri River
railway; 1871 to 1872. payrnaster and cashier
road. Burlington. Ia: 1872 to 1873 secretary
TO general superintendent Chicago g. Paducah
RndChicago Pekln & Southwestern railroads sub
sequently chief clerk general freight Office; 1873
TO 1874 general ticket agent and auditor Chca-
60 Pekin & Southwestern railway; 1874 to 1876.
auditor. secretary and general freight and ticket
agent Quincy, Alton e. st. Louis railroad 1876
10 1877, assistant general freight agent and gen
erAi ticket agent Burlington & Missouri River
railroad in Nebraska; 1877 to 1850 general
freight and ticket agent, and 1880 to 1891 assist.
ant general manager road; 1851 to date,
general passenger agent as first above.
John Mcleod. who for many years past has
been identified with the important enternrises of