The Indianapolis journal., 1885-07-05
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

soon.
Ex Revenue Collector Jackson, of the Pitts
burg Pa, district, has dropped into the treasur-
ership of the proposed Pittsbure & Northeast
eru railroad
The Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen, of
Huntington, ran an excursion to Lake Maxim
kuckee July 4, via the C. & A. railway, and
are reported to have had grand time
Judge kerhune of Boone County Circuit Court,
Lebanon, Ind, on Friday reversed the verdict OF
the jury of s. 600 in the case of Cones VS.. G., l.,
St L. & c., and rendered judgment for the
company.
Some twenty travelling passenger agents,
most of them accompanied by their wives left
for Boston last night to attend the annual con-
vention of travelling passenger agents of the
United States.
Conductor II. u. Hunter has been appointed
assistant organizer Of the Grand Lodge, Brother
hood of Railroad Brakemen. and was in st.
Louis last week for the purpose of instltutng
lodge in that city.
The Locomotive FIremen's Magazine for July
Is out, and is unusually interesting number.
The leading editorial is article entitled When
q Hundred Years Are Gone, and is very we'll
written and entertaining.
Tn e employees of the c., L. st. T. & C. road.
who, with their friends, picnIcked yesterday at
Zionsville Ind, filed train of nine coaches,
They had grand time, as they usually do on
their annual picnic excursions.
c. E. Henderson, general manager of the T., B.
Il W., returned yesterday from the Niagara
Falls meeting. He seems confident that the
Central Traffic Association is to prove valuable
aid in restoring and maintaining rates
President Roberts, Of the Pennsylvania lines,
is spending few days at New Enuand pleasure
resorts. But few men have important inter
ests on their hands as does he, and ne occasional
lY is obliged to break from duties for
rest
Mr.. Thomas Flynn, who for the past ten years
has held the position of chief detective officer
on the Grand Trunk railway, has been promoted
TO the responsible position of general
claims agent on the Chicago g. Grand Trunk
and the other lines west of the st. Clair river.
Mr.. A. w. Davies has ceased to be the car &C.
countant of the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio company, on account of the transfer of the
car records of that road to the Office of the New
York Lake Erie & Western at Jersey City. Mr..
Davies has been in car-servlce work for twenty
four years
Mr.. Jas. I. Gardner, general superintendent
of the Rochester 65 Pittsburg railroad, has had
locomotive No. converted into inspecting
conveyance by having ooited to the pilot, in
front of the boilers a passenger coach seat, from
which he claims he can get better idea of the
condition or the road than by the usual method
of inspecting from "a
The new double ender locomotive engine
"Grover Cleveland" which has just been built
by the Mason locomotive works, of Taunton
for the Nantasket Beach railroad was put in
service Thursday last. The boiler and other
work above the forward wheels is placed on a
swivel to avoid the strain when turning curves
She has two headlights.
Thomas Thatcher of New York, who has been
appointed receiver of the Missouri, Nebraskf &
Iowa railway by Judge Love, in the fedeI al
court at Keokuk, Ia, has appointed II. f. Clark,
late agent of the Lackawanna line at St Louis.
superintendent and general manager of the road
The general offices of the road will be ia Keokuk
Judge Love orders that immediate possession be
given to Thatcher
Several presentations were connected with the
recent convention of car accountants. Mr.. K. N
Luce, of the Chicago & Northwestern was the
recipient of diamond stud, in recognition Of mis-
attentions in respect to the trip by special train
from Chicago and he was afterward presented
with the Office of president of the association.
Mr.. w. A. Moody, the retiring president. was
the recipient of a handsome gold-headed cane.
Mr.. Charles Francis Adams president of the
Union Pacific railway says thathe has but little
faith in railway commissions He seems to think
it is a Utopian view of the subject which finds
in the appointment of commission a solution
of the difficult problem of railway transporta-
ton. His opinions are entitled to careful con-
sideration, for he was himself among the ablest
railway commissioners the country has known.
Frank Felter has filed suit in the Cass Cir
cult Court asking damages of the g., st. L.. u
p. company to the amount ef $40, 900. His com
plant sets forth that on the 9th of last March
the plaintiff sustained very serious injuries at
the Panhandle depot while acting brakeman
on a passenger train. The coach was backed
into Wabash freight, and his injuries inflicted
through the acts of others, and not by any care
lessness on his part.
President John Newell, of tho Lake Shore
road, sailed for Europe yesterday. 1t is stated
that he goes in the interest of the Vanderbilt
roads important financial mission, the
nature of which has been we'll guarded. A con-
ference of the Vanderbilt managers was had
week ago, at which Mr. Newell's journey was
determined upon. There is much speculation in
New York regarding the object of the same, but
no facts have been ascertained.
Should the organization of the Central Traffic
Association effect such grand results as are an
ticipated for it, the credit of bringing about the
rate restoring scheme should be given to M E.
ingalls,, president of the c., L., st. l.. & c.; j. II.
Devereux, president of the Beeline, and G. E.
Henderson, general manager of the |. B. & W.
The three have labored earnestly to harmonic
matters, and the success of their scheme means
better times with railroad interests, and with
that an Improvement in business generally.
Among the many dispatches received by Mr.
st. John, of the Rock Island, congratulating him
upon his appointment to the position of assist
ant to the general manager was the following
1.-THE members of the Press Association of MeXi-
co, at this moment 1926 p N.Y. enjoying the
hospitality of yourself and your railway at din
ner in the dining-car Palace take this oppor-
tunity of extending to you their most sincere
and hearty congratulations upon your promotion
Of assistant to the general manager of this mag
nifcent railway"
Mr.. H. Collbron, general freight and passenger
agent of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas
Pacific Railway Company, gives notice that the
freight and passenger departments of the asso-
eated roads in this system have been consoli-
dated. All communications should be addressed
to Mr. II. Co!lbron Mr. Barnard Brown has
been appointed commercial agent with resi-
dence at New Orleans, and will have special
charge of the local freight and passenger bust
ness of the New Orleans g. Northeastern rail
road. Mr.. l. Hardy has been appointed com
mercial agent with residence at Vicksburg, and
will have special charge of the Vicksburg &
Meridian and the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pa
eifc railroads local freight and passenger busi
ness