The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-29
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

I'll. r. Dering, general passenger agent of the
j., NJ. & l. road, win return on Tuesday next
from three weeks Southern trip.
The oldest conductor on the Boston g. Albany
railroad is Herman Fay, who began service on
the road in 1841 as station agent
Samuel r. Taylor has been appointed CONNER
cial agent of the San Francisco line and will look
after its interests in the Southern territory.
W. r. Hayes was yesterday appointed travel
ing passenger agent of the Denver & Rio
Grande road, with headquarters at St Louis.
John T. Douglass, of the Boston traffic office of
the Chicago & Rock Island, has been appointed
New England travelling agent of the company.
E. A Blake, chief train dispatcher of the
West Shore at Syracuse, has resigned. G. f.
Mccoy trainmaster, assumes the duties Of the
Office.
The Panhandle Offices in Chicago will be re-
moved, early in April, to the Traders Building,
Pacific avenue, opposite the new Board of Trade
building.
Some radical changes in Panhandle passenger
circles, affecting Cleveland, Cincinnati, Column
bus, Dayton and Toledo, will be announced in a
day or two.
E. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
line system, is on his way home from California.
He proposes to remain in st. Louis two or three
days of the coming week
sistant general passenger agent of the Fitchburg
Railroad Company, with headquarters at Wor-
cester, Mass, to take effect April J.
G. L. Dickinson, auditor of the L. B. e. W.,
who has been confined at home with malarial
fever for three weeks, was out again yesterday
but still unable to attend to his usual duties
Charles Brownlee, the popular Wabash rail-
road conductor, was married Thursday last to
Mrs. Hunter. charming widow, at her home
in Attica. The newly married couple will take
trip East.
j. j. Byrne has severed his connection with
the passenger department of the Michigan Cen
trail road, and become the general passenger and
ticket agent of the Oregon Railway and Nayiga-
ton Company, headquarters, Portland, Ore.
e. F. Sisson has been appointed Southern
passenger agent of the Atchison, Topeka & San
ia Fe at Chattanooga, covering the territory of
Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis-
sippi and Louisiana, for which points this new
agency has been established
Henry A. Phillips, who has been appointed
division superintendent of the Boston, Barre 81
Gardner railroad, is a son of President Phillips,
of the Fitchburg. The former was with his
father when he came West and attempted to
resurrect the Toledo. Cincinnati & st. Louis
road.
| General Superintendent James NJ. Foss, of the
Central Vermont, prepared little book of in
structions for using the Westinghouse brakes,
which the Westinghouse company's superin
| tendent in South America has caused 10 be
translated into Spanish for use on the railroads
| there.
| Union Pacific investors will applaud President
| Adams's purpose to probe all the affairs of the
| corporation to the bottom, and will be glad of
his assurance that it's affairs are carried on more
in the full light of day than those of any railroad
| company he has had full knowledge of. The
| forthcoming report will be very full.
| Gates Schroler one of the Oldest and best
| kpowu anpiueers on the II NJ e road was
instantly killed sJeffersonville Friday night He
took out from tt a city, Friday evening, the Louis
vile express, and upon alighting from his en-
| CINE in Jefers0nville, inadvertently stepped be-