The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-04
RAILWAY GOSSIP.


G. E. Henderson, general manager of the l..
B. & w. system, leaves this evening for New
York, to be absent several days.
Dave Flanders has been promoted to be con-
ductor of a pass niger train on the c., l., St L.
& c.. and is now learning the western division.
John Martin, district passenger agent of the
c., l., St L. & c., goes to New Mexico on Tues
day next on a business and pleasure trip COM
bined.
John Walker, jr, agent of the Wabash at this
point having been confined to the house by sick
ness for several days, has abandoned his Eastern
pleasure trip
Samuel C. Hovey late with the Bee-line peo-
pie, has adjusted the differences between himself
and the company and is arranging to go into
commercial pursuits.
E. B. Wingate, late chief engineer of the
Union Railway Company, has gone to Philadel-
phia, and will sail fof Guatemala on the 18th, to
accept government position
Mr.. Lucius Tuttle has resigned as president of
the New England General Passenger and Ticket
Agents Association, and he has been chosen an
honorary member OF that body.
Frank A. Palmer, general agentof the Wabash
road has been presented with a handsome gold
headed cane by the clerks in his Office. Frank
makes friends wherever he goes.
b. FL. Waldron, late general manager of the
l.. f. 81 W., contemplates opening grain Office.
He has secured the services of an experienced
man who will assist him in conducting the
business.
b. Ford, general passenger and ticket agent
OF the pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, spent
New Years in the city, the guest of his son-in-
law, j. M. Greaves city passenger agent of the
same lines.
j. 7. Harrahan has been appointed general
superintendent of the Pittsburg division of the
Baltimore g. Ohio with headquarters at Pitts
burg. David Lee has been appointed master of
transportation of the same division.
The veteran railroader Captain David Nye,
general superintendent Of the North Pacific
Coast railroad dropped dead, Dec. %, of heart
disease at San Francisco Captain Nye entered
the railway service in 1914 as brakeman.
A. Anderson, chief clerk of H. r. Dering, as
vania lines, is the only man left of the passenger
department. at Louisville, and he is worryinglest
something will come up to squeeze him out.
A. Donaldson, late auditor of the Ohio & Mis-
sissippi road, holds the important position of
assistant to the president of the Erie road. In
his selection President King showed good judg-
ment, as but few railroad men have a better
record or are more competent for such posi-
ton than Mr.. Donaldson.
Alonzo P. Jones, the Old Colony railroad
official, who few days since committed suicide
at Boston by drowning, leaves an estate esti-
stocks and bonds. His health became impaired
through close attention to business, and of late
he has been subject to fits OF extreme melan-
choly.
E. V. Debs, of Terre Haute, secretary and
treasurer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men, who is elected member of the coming
Legislature, has arranged to spend his entire
time during the session at Indianapolis While
here the Indianapolis Brotherhood will tender
him banquet. Mr.. Debs is very popular with
h. Dn14 L,r1x Lo, H.
their cause.
With the coming in of the new year several
changes have occurred on the Chicago & West
Michigan road. j. K. V. Agnew is
appointed general superintendent of this
railway, in place of Mr. A. M Nichols
charge of the operating department. and should
be addressed upon all matters pertaining thereto.
Office at Grand Rapids, Mich. The position of
assistant general superintendent is abolished.
The funeral of the late Daniel M. Boynton,
general agent of the Wisconsin Central road,
occurred at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago, on
Friday afternoon. The Inter Ocean says the
parlors were crowded with ladies and gentlemen,
many of whom had sent beautiful floral trib-
utes. The funeral under the auspices of
Thomas oficiated, while the Chicago Quartet
provided appropriate musical selections. The
remains were Inferred at Graceland.
Col. John Lee, president of the Cleveland, In
diana & St Louis Railroad Company, has been
busy at Anderson, Ind, the entire week signing
the bonds upon which he expects to raise the
money to build the road from Noblesville to
Paris, Ills A few years ago Mr.. Zion, then
president of the road, which went under the
name of the Anderson, Lebanon 81 St Louis
signed million dollars of bonds and shortly af-
ter died from grief over the failure of his enter
prise to materialize
The Yardmasters' Association held their an.
nual meeting last evening, and elected officers
for the ensuing year, Joseph Averille. Van
dalia, president John @. Hicks, c., l., St L. &,
c., vice president; Hugh Curley, c., st. l.. &
p, secretary and treasurer. 1t is ten years
since the association was organized and from
this local organization grew the national asso-
citation, which now has some 1900 members
The local association begins the year under very
favorable auspices-money in the treasury and all
petty jealousies buried.
George p. Evans, who was, on Dec. 81, ap.
pointed receiver of the Louisville, Evansville &
st Louis (Air-line), announces that there will
be no changes made in the officers Of the com
pany-at least not Immediately The operation
of the road will be brought within the most
economic management consistent with the
preservation of the property in good condition
Friends of the road regard the receivership as
greatly in the interest of the road This is the
first appointment of a railroad receiver by Judge
Gresham, since assuming his present position,
has appointed, and he has shown excellent iudg.
ment in the selection.
William Lorenz, chief engineer of the Phila
delphia 81 Reading railroad, who died so sud
denly the early part of last week, graduated as
an engineer with high honors from one of the
leading universities of Germany, his native
country. He came to America in 1848, and, af
ter teaching school for awhile. in 1850 became
rodman in the engineering service of the Read
ing railroad, and rose to be assistant engineer,
in charge of the Lebanon Valley railroad, with
his oficesat Lebanon. Subsequently he was made
principal assistant engineer under Chief En-
gineer Charles Z. Byers, and at the death of
Mr.. Byers, in 1871, became his successor.
Wnnlan,s Fair Assnciatinn