The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-08
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

john Il. Elder, president OF the Shell Beach
read left last night for New Orleans. He ex-
poets to be absent ten days.
Superintendents Stark, of the c.. III. & D.,
and Woodland. of the L., N. A. & c., were in
khe city on official business yesterday.
Il w. How has been appointed assistant gen.
eral freight agent of the Atlantic system of the
Southern Pacific, with headquarters at New
Orleans.
Stoughton A. Fletcher, of this city, was the
conductor of the first passenger train which de-
parted from the Union Depot, which was in the
year 1888. 1t was run East over the Decline.
III. c. Diehl, general freight agent of the l., B.
s. W., and M. Doherty, pool commissioner are
expected home this morning from a weeks hunt
Nng expedition.
Ed Padgen, passenger conductor on the c.. FL.
81 D., returned from North western trip yester-
day, much improved in health. He takes his
train again to morrow.
ID. NJ. Kendrick. general passenger agent of
fhe New York Central road, is still in poor
health. and it is feared will be obliged to retire
from his present position
NJ. f. ingalls,. president of the c., l., st L: q
C, and V. r. Malott vice president of the Union
Railway Company, will return this morning from
Aweeks inspection and pleasure trip.
The Indiana Train Dispatchers' Association
holds It's annual meeting at Up. NJ to day in the
hall of the Brotherhood of Engineers Members
from all parts of the State are to be present
nual reception at Downing Hall. Terre Haute,
Hn the Both. A number of railroad employees at
Indianapolis have received invitations to be
srasent.
A girl sixteen years of age discovered broken
rail in the track of the Des Moines, Osceoa &
Southern road, near Weeks, Ia, recently, and
signaled an approaching freight train by waving
her handkerchief
Chief Engineer Briggs, of the Mexican Central
road. has resigned, and the engineering depart
xnent has been abolished, the work being trans
ferred to the superintendents department..
Trains are reported to be running regularly
again.
J. III. Devereux, president of the Decline sys-
tenn, sailed yesterday for Europe. He expects
to be absent eight or ten weeks Although
large, portly man, his weight is now down to $50
pounds. His physicians think mis- poor health
the result Of overwork.
The marriage of A. E. Touzalin and Miss Ida
Miller daughter OF Justice Miller, of the United
States Supreme Court. is expected to come off in
January. Mr.. Touzalin is widower in the
prime of lfe railroad man of prominence in the
Northwest and millionaire
The troubles between Mr. George M Pull
man and the other stockholders of the Central
Transportation Company has got into the
courts in the shape of bill in equity filed by
chat corporation against Mr.. Pullman and the
Philadelphia Trust Company
Round house rumor has it that G. NJ Ben
Chicago division of the c., st. l.. & P, is
to be transferred to the p, G. & ST. L. division,
and that L. F. Loree. of the l. & ", will succeed
Mr. Bennett on the c., ST. l.. 81 P.
James Day, the venerable clerk employed at
che Wabash freight Office here says the Toledo
Blade, has gone to Peru, Ind, to enter the com
pany's hospital Mr. Day is about seventy years
OF age sufferer from asthma, and feels that
his days for active duty are nearing an end.
Mr.. Jacob Romeis, who for twenty nine years
Aas been connected with the Wabash, St Louis
Pacific road as baggage master. passenger con-
4uctor general baggage agent and depot master
was elected d member Of the Legislature at the
recent election in Ohio, and in consequence has
severed his connection with the railroad.
A locomotive engineer with a record of forty
years OF uninterrupted service and accident
is not a man to be met with every day. Such
one is Saxon of the name of Hence, who has
just gone into retirement During his forty
years of service he travelled over 253, BAT geo
graphical miles, distance equal to forty seven
Journeys round the earth.
Several of the station agents on the Toledo
Nincinnati 81 st. Louis narrow gauge road have
grown weary waiting for their wages for last
May and June, and have refused to turn railroad
money over to the receiver until their claims are
satisfied Judge Gresham, however, issued an
order commanding them to surrender the money
and to present their accounts to the road.
General George B. Mcclellan who died recent
Iy, was civil engineer by profession. He was
at one time treasurer of the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company. Later he was chief engineer of
the Ohio q Mississippi road and afterwards
president of the eastern division of that road
lie superintendent the construction of the Hud-
son River railroad bridge, near Poughkeepsie
N. Y
General Manager Hickson, of the Grand
Trunk railway issues monthly journal "for
private use of company's employees only, and not
for publication which contains numerous an
nouncements, instructions and cautions in re-
gard to the operation of the road lists of deaths
IN the Grand Trunk Railway Insurance and
she staff, and an ''offense record in which the
names OF offenders. their occupation, location,
punishment and offense set forth.
"Uncle Billy" Williams of Williamsburg. Pa,
aged seventy-seven years, has for thirty-two
years been in the service of the Pennsylvania
railroad as night track walker and in all that
time he never missed being on duty more than a
dozen nights until last winter, when he was laid
ap for several weeks with rheumatism There
was never an accident on his section of the road
Srom anything being wrong with the track and
calculation shows that in his thirty-two years
OF service he has walked nearly 125, 900.
The best evidence that railway men are now
rs . class, temperate men is the fact that dis
charges for 1ntemperance on great railways
are already rare In the ''offense record" for
september of the Grand Trunk railway, which
employs probably Ii. 600 men or more, out of
eighty four ofenses specified only one is given
ms 1ntemperance," this being in the case of a
porter VINO was consequently dismissed We
venture to assert not only that, at the present
aAy, railway men temperate men, bat that
no other industrial vocation can show so large
proportion OF temperate men. The Young
Mons Christian Association, with its numerous
railway branches, is a noble coadjutor in this
great work.
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