The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-12
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

MS interests III the smell Beacn rOdu.
Salaries are reduced in all departments of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company.
NJ. NJ. Mounts, master of transportation of the
c., II. & I. road, has gone to Morrow, o., to
| spend the Sabbath with friends.
The Nevada & California railroad has dis
charged all its white employees that held places
that could be filled by Cinnamon.
The Delaware. Lackawanna 81 Western Rail
road Company has subscribed $40, 900 for the
proposed Y. M. c. A. building at Scranton, Pa.
John Ferguson, chief clerk at the Union rail
way ticket Office, has obtained a ten days leave
OF absence, and left yesterday for New Orleans
to visit the exposition. This is the only time he
has been off duty in eight years.
1t is said a handsome sum can be raised to
purchase a good library for the Railroad Mems
Christian Association, providing the Union Rail
way Company will arrange a cheerful attractive
room for the association in the new Union
Depot.
George o. Manchester, formerly with the
Atchison, and recently with the Oregon Railway
& Navigation Company in New York, has re-
turned to the employ of the Atchison company,
and is performing the duties of executive clerk
for President Strong.
Conductor A.. d.. Douglass, of the Ogdensburg
& Lake Champla1n, has been presented with a
ring in which his initials are set in diamonds. by
the passengers VINO were detained with him two
days In a snow blockade in March, in recognition
of his efforts for their comfort.
Mr.. w. E.. Lewis, recently appointed general
superintendent of all the line operated by the
Mexican Central south of San Luis Potosi, in
Guiding the Zacatecas railroad, was at one time
telegraph operator at Owego, and is well and
favorably known on the Erie lines.
Day K. Smith, having resigned his position as
superintendent of the South Park division of the
Union Pacific, on account of ill health, was pre-
sented by a number of friends along the line
with a purse containing $500 in gold. The pre-
sentation was made at Como, Col, and was &C
companied by a very fiattering testimonial of
esteem.
There is to be a new deal for the passenger
agents in the Transcontinenta Association roads.
General Agent Cannon is preparing a twelve
page circular defining the restrictions and limi-
tations respecting overland passenger business,
the regulations to be framed in accordance with
the recent enactment by the Transcontinen tai
Association.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company is endeavOring to secure control of the
Jersey Central railroad property, mainly for the
double purpose of shutting the Baltimore g.
Ohio Railroad Company out of New. York, and
to prevent the Pennsylvania South Railroad
Company from making its connections with the
haroor of New York.
f. M. Dasher at last seems to have dropped
into the niche he is to fill. In the few weeks he has
filled the position of theatrical passenger agent
of the c., l., st. l.. d G.. road he has made an
excellent record and bids fair to develope into a
first-class passenger agent. Bert, as he is best
known, possesses the qualifications for such a
position, is full of push and has a timber tongue.
Arbitrator Bogue must be one of the busiest
men IN Chicago. He is one of the arbitrator to
fix the percentages for the TranscontineEta AS
ISOLATION. He also belongs to the arbitration
committee which has to fix percentages for the
Pacific Coast Association. He has, besides, to
fix percentages Tor the Southwestern lumber
pool, the Northwestern Traffic Association, and
the Central Iowa Association.
The conductors of the New York & New Eng
land railroad have organized a social club, off
cered as follows: President, Lewis Holmes; sec
rotary and treasurer, z. G. Gay; executive COM
mittee, NJ. w. Crowley, Il. S. Richardson. d.
Foley, III. G. Grant and G. F. Ingalls,. They
have a. nice suite of rooms in the company's
building at No. 224 Federal street, and are now
fitting them up in a handsome manner. They
have already purchased an upright piano, and
have received from Colonel w. W.. McKim the
nucleus for II library.
James Bernhard has been appointed inspector
of the train service of the New York Central
Sleeping-car Company. Among the improve
ments lately made by the New York Sleeping
car Company is the adoption of handsome
uniforms for its conductors and porters, to be
bility of Disgusting the uniform, each con-
ductor carries a big gold badge. firmly attached
to the left breast of the coat. The porter wears
a badge of silver, instead of gold. This company,
which is the old Wagner company, is giving very
satisfactory service; in fact, never before as ac-
ceptable as at the present time over the /. & st.
l.. and Bee-line, and it is stated the service is
equally satisfactory over all lines upon which
they operate.