The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-04
AFFAIRS OF THE AILWAY
Personal and Local.

The /. g. St. l.. train men are being examined
los week on color blindness.
John Browning, l., N. A. e. @. conductor, is
sF duty for a few days recruiting his health.
Judge Roach was yesterday appointed trustee
II the Belt road mortgage bonds, vice Conrad
Baker. deceased
nnaxtractive below 121c to New York on grain,
saA f7ic on provisions.
Commissioner Fink proposes to remain in
Europe until the trunk-lines work more in har-
messy. he may as well arrange to spend the
wsussr abroad.
t. Il. ingalls,, president of the c., L.. ST. L. 81
g. sslegraphs he will be home on Saturday. the
sopser weather causing him to cut his vacation
oas week short.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania road,
zsaaotsd as saying of the recent break in rates:
~aOw we are at sea again, and the situation re-
mzSas about as it has been heretofore
Mr.. Charles whitley has been appointed
agent of the Great Eastern line at Black Rock,
y. r.. vice r.. Norman. Mr.. James Richie has
bezn appointed agent at Portland, Me-, in place
Of Dir. Whitley.
The passenger conductors seem to have again
fallen into hard rows. Eight have been dis
rhxryed this week on the Chicago 81 Rock Island,
0S tA1 AfsR0 Jaw "a w ~ -
fha c., St. L. & 2. road.
e. is said that a meeting of all the prominent
railroad magnates in the country will be held
in the East this month to discuss the problem
IF transportation in a broad way, and, if posi-
BIZ agree upon a general policy.
The Indianapolis Eureka lodge of the Brother
head of Locomotive Firemen has chosen VIM.
HGgo, of the Vandalia, as their delegate to
represent the lodge at the coming annual con-
ysntion in Philadelphia, Sept. 81
Charles McCammon and Charles Clayborn are
s~eArning the L., n, A. & c. road to take con
saetorship of passenger trains. Both gentle
snen came off of the Hannibal d st. Joe road.
MeCammon was formerly a conductor on the
Wabash, and Clayborn, ten years ago, was train
boy on the |. 81 st. L. road.
In the way of encouragement to the Union
Railway Company to build a new union depot,
Sealper Frey offers to pay them ST., 900 a year for
neatly fitted up room in the building for a
seaaping Office. This will hardly materalize, as
Gsneral Ticket-agent Donough would never con-
sent to such an arrangement
The Fandalia people do not contemplate an
eassy reinstatement of the electric locomotive
3eadlight. It's expense of maintenance proved
ZOO great a drain on the Golfers. Exchange.
I&ls is untrue. AS soon as the finances of the
Fsndalia will justify. all their passenger loco
motives will be equipped with this light
Charles Crockett, who for the last twenty
years or more has run the c., ST. l.. g. P. ac-
SLoAA wv hA
Richmond, has been dropped, owing to defective
eyesight. If his vision was deficient it was an
impossibility for a man to get over the road on
hes train who was not in shape to pay his fare or
show a ticket or pass.
The following notice comes from Chairman S.
y Person. of the central passenger committee:
~1an accordance with the resolution adopted at
she July meeting in New York, the next regular
meeting of the central passenger committee will
be held at the Gait House, Louisville, on Tues
&a~ Sny4 q AMI A ~ - chic nntrn h
resignation of Mr.. Pierson as chairman will be
sonsidered.
C. s. Wheaton, grand chief of the Order of
Railway Conductors and editor of the Railway
Conductors Monthly, is in the far West on
oslcial business. Five years ago, when Mr.
Wheaton was elected grand chief, the order
numbered 1000 conductors; now there are over
$4,000 men in the order. 1t is estimated that
there are 81. 600 conductors on the steam
su@ds in the United States and Canada and Old
Mexico. Besides editing the Rail way Con-
aaetors' Monthly, Mir. Wheaton spends all his
CINE in travelling around the country visiting the
gsrious divisions.
The Chicago Times says: ''The height of alb
s&mrdity is reached in a recent dispatch from
Indianapolis, which says that agents are of the
opinion that unless there is a prompt restora-
ton of rates at Chicago utter Generalization
viii follow at st. Louis, Peoria and Indianap-
Ola AS at the two former places there has
been no such thing as quoting tariff for two
xnCDLnS. L0lS QepenQeDco on chicago Tor SCu6O-
ing up is very ludicrous. What the agents
really mean is that with the Chicago roads com
Psting for business on equal terms and as low
rates, pirating elsewhere will not prosper"
wants McHenry to Tread on His Coat-TaiI.
Without Mr.. James McHenry, the Nypano
stockholders in England would probably die of
3aanition, says the Cleveland Leader. His delic-
sous way of making his existence known by all
manner of pleasant little surprises keeps their
minds active and gives occasion for frequent
explosions of futile wrath. Mr.. C. E.. Lewis has
Issued a lengthy and unusually violent and
abusive circular denouncing those who are seek
Ing TO obtain some Investigation into the mode
IN which the company's affairs are administered
and its resources employed. With respect to the
litigation which is going on to secure those
objects, Mr.. Lewis is judiciously silent. but
promises to give some details on a future occa-
ss0nA The Financial News has the following to
gay respecting this circular:
N c. Z. Lewis. M. p, chairman of the
vesiRg trustees of the New York, Pennsylvania
IL Ohio Railroad Company, reinvigorated by a
Summer sojourn at Homburg, has issued one of
his periodical pronunciamenti against Mr.. James
McHenry. With his old-time agility MIR. Lewis,
having slapped the floor, bounds into the air and
invites Mr.. McHenry once again to tread on the
SAil OF his coat No doubt Mr.. McHenry will
promptly respond to the invitation. The public
is not deeply concerned in the opinion Mr.. Lewis
may hold of Mr.. McHenry. or that Mr.. McHenry
may hold of Mr.. Lewis. and as for the New York,
PENNSYLVANIA & Ohio proprietors, they must
feel like invoking a plague on both their houses
and praying for the happy period when Mr..
MeHenry will cease from troubling and Mr..
Lows will give them q rest"
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Items of - Cheering Character.
The Edgar Thom son steel works lie still run
ming double turn ~ al departments.
Travel on all the railroads leading to or
running through the city is very good just at
present notwithstanding the recent advance in
tArOugh rates.