The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-11
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

J. ii. Sessions, general agent of the L, R&
w. at Columbus, Ohio, is in the city.
John F. Miller, superintendent of the G.. St
L. & P. road, will return from Texas on the 18th.
j. H. Drake has been appointed general
freight agent of the Richmond & Danville road.
The employees of the Vandalia shops at Terre
Haute will give a ball at Turner Hall On the
evening of February.
James McCrea, manager of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, was in the city yester-
day. on official business.
w. III. Van Tassall, superintendent of the
Ohio Southern road, is spending the Sabbath in
the city with d-timef friends.
George Hall, agent of the Red-line, in New
York city. and we'll known in Western railroad
circles. died on Thursday last.
Thomas Barry, general passenger agent of the
Cincinnati, Washington s. Baltimore road, was
in the city yesterday on official business.
1t is said that Mr.. Webb, son-inlaw of Will
lam e. Vanderbilt, will succeed MIR. Tillinghast
as president of the Wagner Sleeping-car Com
pany.
III. p. Radley, for a long time connected with
the Pekin road, at Joliet, Ill, has been appointed
auditor of the Indiana, Illinois g. Iowa railroad
at Kankakee.
}. @. Van Wrinkle, agent of the Decline at this
point, has gone to Chicago for a three or four
days visit to friends residing there. His wife
accompanied him.
George M. Loosely. late travelling agent of the
Chicago, Rock Island g. Pacific railway at
Peoria, has resigned to take a situation as cashier
in a bank at Rock Island.
G. B. Kinnan has been appointed general
agent of the passenger department of the North
ern Pacific railroad, with headquarters in New
York The appointment goes into effect Jan. Is.
The Rocky Mountain Train Dispatchers' AS
ISOLATION holds a meeting at Denver, Jan. ID, to
arrange for the annual meeting of the American
Association of Train Dispatchers in that city in
June next.
The last number of the Railway Age contains
an extended article by W. K. Alderman,
formerly president of the Illinois Central, which
is full of good points regarding the regulation Of
railway rates.
Edwin Taylor, formerly of Indianapolis, now
residing in Evansville, has reached the position
of president of the Evansville 81 indianapolis
road, operated by the Evansville 81 Terre HautO
Railroad Company.
President Mutt, of the Atlantic & Pacific road.
passed through the city westward on Friday
night. He will spend the better part of a month
looking the properly over, and will in the mean
time decide what further improvements are ed
visable.
Master car-buiider e.. d. Carter, of the Wanda
liza shops, Terre Haute, who has been in Califor-
MIA for some weeks, seeking better health, is re-
ported to be rapidly improving. He is stopping
at a country town about twelve miles from Los
Angeles.
Samuel Brown, formerly in the train dispatch
er's office of the L., N. A. & G. at Lafayette, and
who left there to accept a position on the Denver
d Rio Grande railroad, was presented with q
$3.50 diamond pin by the employees of that road
on New Years day.
Captain II. S. Williams has rendered his resig-
nation as superintendent of the New Orleans &
Northwestern road, which position he has filed
ever since the opening of the road. H.. Griggs,
the present master of transportation, will be ap-
pointed to succeed Captain Williams.
c. j. Hepburn, late general superintendent Of
the c., FL. g. D.. system, with his family, who
have been spending the holidays with friends in
Chicago, have returned to Cory, Pa, at which
place he will make his permanent residence. Mr..
Hepburn S friends will be glad to know that he
is slowly but surely recovering the use OF his
lower limbs.
John Black, general master mechanic on the
c., Ell. e. d. road, this week commenced his
twenty-ninth year in service of this company,
having accepted that position in 1856. Mr.. \
Black is considered one Of the most competent
master mechanics in the country, and has in
vented several useful devices in the way of inn
provement to locomotives, which have been
quite generally adopted.
M. T. Donahoe, New England agent of the
beo-i1n0 system at Boston. MASS, suffered the
loss of his watch with other personal effects at
the recent burning of the hotel in Portsmouth,
N. II. In consideration Of his loss, as we'll as a
testimonial of esteem, a number of friends at
Somerville, Mass, of which city Mr.. Donahoe Is
a resident. last week presented him with O hand
some gold watch and chain.
It is understood that should President Keim,
of the Philadelphia 81 Reading road, be reelected.
he would shortly resign in favor of Robert H
Sayre, one of the new board Of managers. Mr.
C4run r-4n e.. 800 - LL@
of the Lehigh Valley system, and is now the
president of Vaderbilts South Pennsylvania
railroad. He is regarded as one Of the ablest
railroad managers in the country.
A rumor is current that parties interested In
the Lake Erie & Western road are in a quiet
manner inspecting the Toledo, Cincinnati g ST.
Louis road, main line, and should their report
prove favorable an attemptis to be made to So
cure control of the property, convert it into q
standard gauge road and make it a part of tho
Lake Erie q Western system. BY such a move
the Lake Erie & Western would become one Of
the most important roads in the Middle States.
j. K. v. Agnew, who has just been promoted
from the position of assistant superin-
tendent of the Chicago g. West Michigan road to
that of general superintendent, has been in rail-
way service since 1863. He filled the positions
of operator, assistant train dispatcher, CHIEF
train dispatcher and train master on different
Michigan roads until 1881, when he was ap-
pointed assistant to the general superintendent
of the Chicago & Grand Trunk road. During
the same year he was appointed assistant super
intendent of the eastern division of the Atchison,
Topeka q Santa Fe. In 1883 he returned to the
Chicago and Grand Trunk as train master, in
October, 1884, he received the appointment Of
a~ssistsnt general superintendent Of the Chicago
q West Michigan, and has now been promoted
to general superintendent.
AT the recent Chicago and Ohio River pool
meeting an informal discussion was had relative
to a reduction of the expenses of the passenge.
departments of the several lines in the pool. All
the gentlemen present spoke earnestly in favor
OF such a reduction wherever it was feasible. A
discussion was also had in regard to the perma-
nent maintenance of passenger rates, and as the
agreements recently adopted by the Western
and Southern roads have proven sohighly accept
able to all Interested, the subject was submitted
to q committee composed of Messers. j. c.
Tucker. Karkakea line. Frank Van Dusan c.