The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-15
left on three weeks pleasure trip yesterday.
While absent he will make q trip over the North
ern Pacific

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Mr. S. e. wilkinson Of Peeria. H., grand
master Of the Brotherhood of Brakemen, deliv-
cred lecture before large number of brake
men, at the firemens hall. Lngansport, on Thurs
day evening. Mr. Wilkinson Is pleasant and
entertaining speaker.
Weekly payments are not satisfactory to the
employees On the Old Colony road. A paper has
been circulated among the employees OF the Old
Colony Railroad Company, asking them TO au-
thorze the pay master to draw their salaries each
week and pay the same to them at the ena Oh
each month.
G. P. Huntingten says this good word for his
fellow railroad manipulation: II am not inter-
ested in any of Mr.. Goulds lines, and we have
nothing in common. but will say this much
about him, that In all my dealings with him
never dealt with squarer man, though there
are many people who have different opinion OF
him.
Allis e. Talbot, ticket scalpers, and President
Mackey have bucked horns. The seapers are
making it pretty warm for the E. & I. a., as
some of the connections of Mackeys roads are
working with them. The conductors the r.
e T. FL. are sometimes puzzled to know whether
the tickets offered win be acceptable to the OH
GERS or the road.
Secretary Sanger, of the Yardmasters Mutual
Benefit Associations yesterday took from the
hands of the printer the proceedings OF the
twelfth annual convention, and also publishes
the constitution and rules Of the order. re-
vised by committee appointed for that pur-
pose and whose report was approved OF at the
last annual meeting
W. H. Holabird, for several years past onefof
the most successful travelling passenger agents
OF the Atchison, Topeka e. Santa Fe railroad,
and well known in Indianapolis railroad circles,
has removed to San Diego. Cal, and is now
manager of the Coronado Beach company, which
is developing an extensive and promising prop
erty lying across the bay from the city of San
Diego on the ocean shore.
The reorganization of the Texas Pacific under
the Fleming plan is generally regarded as de-
feat for Jay Gould 1t leaves him and the Mis-
souri, Pacific out in the cold. However, it is
said that Mr. Gould does not take SO active
interest in railroad affairs as formerly and
shows very little of the adroit aggressiveness
that once made him SO formidable. It ia said
that Mr.. Tilden's death left strong impression
on his mind, and that for the present. at all
events he is not at all disposed to show fight
A school car Is the novelty low fitting up st
the Union Pacific shops at Omaha says an ex-
change, for the instruction of engineers and all
trainmen along the company's system 1t con-
sists of passenger car in which are set up boil
er, Westinghouse air pump and twenty one
cylinders. The whole apparatus of the air brake
is thus placed in full view in one car, and the
school wheels is to be taken to each station
and the men then drilled until they fully under
stand the principles of the air brake and how to
handle it In emergencies.
The ninety,ninth birthday of Colonel George
l.. Perkins, the veteran treasurer of the Nor
witch % Worcester railroad, was celebrated at
the Fort Griswold House, Groton. Aug. 5, says
the Boston Traveller, by a complimentary BAN
Duet and ball rendered by his associates and
friends. Colonel Perkins has been treasurer of
the Norwich 81 Worcester road for half a GEN.
fury, and is probably the oldest active railroad
official in the country. He is bale and hearty,
straight as an arrow, and attends to his daily
duties with regularity which has characterized
his whole business life.
A very singular shipment of freight is report
ed from Chattanooga On Thursday last car
load of soap was delivered by the Louisville 81
Nashville to the Evansville q Terre Haute road.
The Car was handsomely decorated. and upon
either side bore large canvas stretched from
end to end. upon which was beautifully depicted
an ideal picture of the North and South. There
could be seen yawning chasm, through which,
in torrents, poured stream of blood. On one
side of this fearful stream could be seen dark
visaged, long haired man. dressed in gray; on
the other, one who was clothed in blue. One
represented the North; the other the South.
Their hands were closely clasped across the
scription "Fhis is the hrst carload of soap made
IN the South and shipped to the North"
AS q matter of engineering history the fourth
railroad built in America was built for transport
ing stone for the monument at Bunker Hill
In 1909 the first experimental track was laid cut
in Pennsylvania by John Thompson, father of
John T. Thompson. who was afterward president
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, and constructed by John Somer-
Leiper of Philadelphia It was 1870
feet in length, graded one and one half inch to
the yard gauge four feet, sleepers eight feet
apart The first carriage propelled by steam in
America was the "Eructor Anphibolis' in 1901
The engine was for dredging the harbor of the
Delaware, etc. "Eructor" is from latin root
for beching; "Amphibolis" is from the same root
as our "amphibian," ''of doubtful or double
kind" in English this was "Beching amphib-
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Of the introduction of the locomotive subsequent
to 1882, our readers are familiar.
Chilled cast-iron wheels were introduced in
1886. and have ever since been the standard con-
struction in the United States. In 1888 lap
welded tubes were made in Philadelphia. In
engines were built with the fire box specially
adapted to burn anthracite coal. In 1846 steel
ax1es were first uaed in this country In 1854
'frebrick defectofs in the fre-box were
others on water Tubes. In 1855 cross
tubes in the frebox were used in several
engines, but they were soon abandoned. Steel
was used for boilers In 1861 and in 1862 steel
tires were imported from England The high
tempered English steel first tried for boilers
failed the freboxes made of it cracked in fitting
IN, and had to be taken out and replaced by cop
per- American homogeneous steel was tried in
1862 with success, and in 1856 this metal became
generally used. Steel tubes were first used in
1868 In 1870 steel fireboxes, with vertical cor
rugated sides, were made.
Grand Chief Arthur, in his address at the
union meeting of locomotive engineers, held at
Denver Sunday last in the course of his re-
marks, alluded to the publishing OF the record
of members. He said l hold in my hand the
Engineers Magazine. This publication to-day
has circulation of 10. 900. It finds its way into
the homes of thousands of engineers it Is known
not only in this country but in India and in
various parts of Europe. SO we have gone on as
an organization ever keeping in view that other
people have rights as we'll as we. Applause.
The names of those who have been expelled
for drunkenness. idleness, incompetency, are
that it is unfair, unjust and unchristian for a
society to publish the names and records of its
members to the world. But we hold that the