The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-02-15
RECEIPTS BIZ RAIL PAST TwENrY-youR HOURS.
Wheat, bushels 1000
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

Railway Company, who has been in Boston sew
eral days, win return this morning.
MI. Doherty, commissioner of the Indianapolis
East bound pool, who has been absent from tha
city several days, returned last evening.
+. u. Munson has resigned the position of
master OF transportation Of the Memphis d
Charleston road, on account Of i'll health.
George Alderman, who died in the early para
of the last week, in Philadelphia. was treasurer
of the Illinois Central road from 1856 to 1860.
E. d. Bennett. of Bennington, has been ap-
pointed general superintendent of the B~enning-
ton q Rutland railroad. to take effect Feb. I6.
W. s. Matthias. travelling agent of the c., IL
q D., has resigned, and it is said is to take o pO-
sition on the Cincinnati. Van Vert Il Michigaa
road.
President Wade, Of the Mexican Central,
passed west yesterday, en- route from Boston,
Mass, to Mexico. He expects to be South about
a month.
Commissioners Stevens, Of the Massachusetts
Railway Commission, is spending a month in the
West to take observation of the operation of va.
rious railroad systems.
7. A. Lewis, general manager of the Erie fast
freight lines, and 81. c; Diehl, general freight
agent OF the L.. y. d W., are expected home
from Chicago this morning.
A recent writer on economy shows that
through the curtailment of railroad building be-
tween 1882 and 1884 more than 400, 900 laborera
were discharged and forced to seek employmenfs
in some other kind of work.
In the last issue of the Railway Age appears
an interesting and instructive article on Mexican
railways by Mr.. Emile Lowe. C. E., which con-
tains a large amount of valuable information
concerning the railways of that country.
w. ii. Harrison. general ticket and passenger
agent Of the Columbus, Hooking Valley g. To.
ledo road, has rendered his resignation, to take
effect March 1. Mr.. Harrison is a passenger
man of considerable ability and a genial fellow.
VIM. Hill, formerly master mechanic of the
New York, Pennsylvania 81 Ohio road, who
brought the power Of that road to so near per-
lection that is was considered the best equipped
road, so far as locomotives are concerned, per
mile, of any road in the country, has been.offere6
a position on the Bee.line system, and he has its
acceptance under consideration.
L. G. Cannon, acting commissioner of ths
Transcontinental Association, has, in this ca
pacity, shown so much ability that it is Thought
quite probable in railroad circles that he will,
now that G. w. Smith declines the commissions,
ership, be appointed to that position. Mr.. Cau-
non began railroad life on the Indianapolis, Peru,
and Chicago road, and is in every respect q first
class railroad man. Il
The probabilities are that of the clerical force
of Commissioner Richardson, of the Chicago and
Ohio River pool, a majority of them will be lefs
out in the cold with the removal of the pool
Office from Indianapolis to Chicago. 1t issaidi
that there are so many idle railroad men in
Chicago that many of them will work On very
small salaries, much less~than are cow paid tha4
pool clerks, if they can get something to do.
The directors of the Boston & Albany road ON
Thursday last elected as officers for the ensuing
year: William Bliss, president: James A. Rum
rill, vice president; Augustus L. Sonle, general
counsel; Charles E. Stevens. treasurer; Walter
ii. Barnes, general superintendent; Arthur
Mills, general traffic manager; A. S. Hanson,
general passenger agent; Henry 7. Gallup, gem
eral freight agent, and Myron Z. Barber, au-
ditor.
The freight blockade over the W. and North
west has begun to lift with the coming of milder
weather. 1t will take several days of continuous
good weather and hard labor to move out the ac-
cumulated freight, and the roads are still far from
being IN good working order. But the improve
ment has begun. Dispatches from other pUintas
state that the companies are all taking freight
again, with a prospect of very large Shipments
for the immediate future. Passenger trains have.
begun to arrive, and are being sent out on time.
Clark's Railway Digest says the greatest and
most successful railway managers of to-day
have. with rare exceptions, risen from the ranks.
Let aspiring young men who are still at TIT foot
Of the ladder take courage. In the vast railway
development sure to take place the next ten
years, the most f1attering possibilities are pre-
sented. Every. brakeman. every fireman, and
every message boy of to-day, may, in ten or IF
teen years, be riding in his private car, and
drawing his ten thousand salary, il he possesses
intelligence and is willing to work-work hard,
and work steadily.
MAJOR B. 8. HENNISG.
Descriptive America, an illustrated, geo.
graphical, historical and industrial magaSiimo. in
it's last number describes Florida, it's attractions.
it's enterprises, etc., and also publishes sketches
of prominent men, who have done much toward
bringing the State into prominsnee. OF the
number, Major B. s. Henning Is given favorable
mention. After relating matters connected with
his early life, which show that from a boy up
to early manhood he was an energetic youth,
the position he held so honorably in the service
of his country, during the late re-
bellion, is spoken OF In complimen-
fishes his railroad career, which shows that
at the close Of the war Mr.. Henning accepted.
the position of assistant superintendent of tho
eastern division of the Union Pacific railroad,
and was afterwards in charge of the construction
and paymaster of the line on it's completioa.
from Lawrence to Denver. In 1865 he was
chosen yice-president of the Leavenworth, Law
renee 81 Galveston Railroad Company. From
tendent of the Missouri River, Fort Scott g.
Gulf railroad. with headquarters at Kansas
City, and fastened its completion, and was, also,
appointed by Judge Dillon receiver OF tho
road, which had fallen into difficulties.
In 1879 he resigned both positions to
accept that Of general manager and vice. presi-
dent of the Indiana, Bloomington & Western rail-
road. By his energetic and judicious manage
ment, Mr.. Henning extended the mileage of this
road from 202 miles, which was all it operated
when he began, to about 700 miles. While as,
ISOLATED on this road with Mr.. Austin Corbiu,
then its president, Mr.. Henning conceived the
idea of purchasing the Long Island railroad, and
with Mr. Corbin succeeded in buying the con-
troll of it in 1880, and under his management it
was consolidated, improved and extended, till it
summer of 1882 Mr.. Henning. with others, pur-
chased a contyollinginteres in the Florida Central
g. Western railroad, the Florida Transit railroad,
the Peninsular railroad OF Florida and the Trop-
zeal Florida railroad, and afterwards Of the Fer
nandina e. Jacksonville, and consolidated the
whole, the following year, under the name and
title of the Florida Railway and Navigation
Company, and became the president of the con-
solidated company. This road now owns alto