The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-03
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

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E. P Wilson's salary as general passenger agent of
the Chicago s. Northwestern road is to be 81, $500
per year.
Walter Nichols district passenger agent of the Bee
line ct this point was yesterday called to Cleveland
business matters.
The wages of the freight train crews on the IT, N.
A. & @. road, engineers excepted advanced on
| the 1st of this month
The twentythrd annual convention of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers will be held in New
| York city. commencing Oct. 90
The frequency with which the officials of the North
ern Pacific changed is matter which there
| is sharp criticism in railroad circles.
William s. Baldwin, general passenger agent of the
L., N. A. 8 9. road, who, on Nov. l. takes position
with the Pullman Car Company, through the change
doubles his present salary.
| A correspondent of the Railway Station Agents
Journal suggests that the agents association should
cooperate with the Y M c. A. in establishing station
| reading for the employees.
DIR. w. S. Webb, son-inlaw of the late W. H. Van
derbilt and president of the New York Central Sleep
ngcar Company, two miles of the west shore of
Lake Champaign below Burlington.
Milt. Alexander who has been associated with the
general passenger department of the l., B. & W..
cred his connection with the company last week. Mr..
Alexander intends going into business In the city.
| Jack Hardesty, formerly superintendent of the
Union Railway Company has accepted the position of
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an important position, as some 400 cars are handled
| there daily
The occupants of thrythree pieces of property be-
longing to the Union Railway Company were Yesterday
notified that they must vacae the premises by Oct s.
| as the company would then commence to tear down
the buildings to clear the ground where the Union
Depot will stand
The one place in the country where the most rail
road trains pass is said to be the Union Depot Eliza
BETH N. J. A man put for the purpose lately,
and counted up 1926 total for the week, and in
l 1ox-n &c
at the street level, too
There good authority for saying that is by no
means settled that E. A. Mccormick will succeed VIM.
S. Baldwin general passenger agent of the L. N "A
& c. road. No questions his ability, however.
There are but few brighter in the passenger
| ice Than young Mccormick.
The higher official of one of Indianapos's leading
systems of roads and of company which boasts that
they strictly maintaining rates patted of the
representatives of the passenger department on the
shoulder and remarked: boy, don't you let any of
| the business get away from you"
Since his return from Europe President Garrett of
the Baltimore q Ohio railroad is said to look like
prosperous young English landlord His voy
age has tanned his cheeks, which present rudy
trast to his light yellow kers trimmed close and
cut in the English ''sideboard" fashion.
Trustee Davis of the bondholders of the Tndianapo
lis Peru & Chicago road, is in the city. That he is
somewhat uneasy the future of the f. p g @. is
quite apparent the Wabash to get hold of the
division lying between Indianapolis and Peru the 9TH
er two divisions will be at the mercy of the Wabash
| people.
1t is said that the decree of sale almost shut out the
| Waring Bros, altogether. They not allowed
cent for rental although nearly all the rolling
stock used belonged to them for ten years. and
| was out in service of the road One gentleman
says they win not get much more of the sale than
enough to pay the salary of Mr.. L. Gens while here
Col. M. A. Downing, of this city, is now giving his
undivided attention to the st. Louis cable road of
which he is general manager An idea of this road as
an investment may be formed from the fact that in
September the earnings fell but So 600 short of pay
ing the fixed charges for the year. and the stock is
getting toward the figures of the Beltroad stock
| its palmiest days.
| company at Cincinnati spent day two last week
in the city taking in the fair. 1t is year since
he came West to accept the position of assistant gen.
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines and in
that time he has caught to the Western ideas of
railroading remarkably WELL and is looked upon as
rising man in railroad circles.
NJ E. Ingalls, is highly pleased with his investment
in this city, the Fletcher & Sharpe Block now known
as the Ingalls, Block AS fast as practicable Mr. In.
gals purposes to convert the building into block
be wholly occupied for railroad Offices At distant
day the offices of Superintendent Sherwood will be
moved to that block, the freight needing more
| room at the city freight depot
| The Terre Haute Express says: IA great deal of
effort has been made to learn the of surplus
in the hands of Receiver Conklin of the Illinois Mid
land AS he has had only the bare operating expenses
to pay it has been given out that nice little surplus
was accommodating, but has been able to learn
how large it is. To some Mr.. Conklin has said that
he had about enough hand to pay the taxes and to
| others that he had none at ALL"
| The passenger conductors and brakemen on the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul road will put on new
| uniforms Oct "a. Conductors are to wear suits of
dark blue coats cut rock pattern and caps to match
| buttons and cap trimmings of gilt. Brakemen will
wear gray suits. sack coats caps in the meteria
The buttons win be of white metal and trimmings of
| gray. The railway company will give each brakeman
his first suit. Conductors expected to buy their
own suits.
In Russia there thirty railroad schools in
tended for the instruction of employees above lower
| grades, such engineraen and roadmasters. These
first established in 1869 and until this year they
were conducted by the railroad companies under state
supervision but they have become government schools
under the direction of the Minister of Transportation
The course lasts three years. beginners must be be-
tween the of fourteen and seventeen years
| of railroad employees preferred.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says: There is very little
doubt that Mr.. Austin Corbn went into Reading with
the sole idea of using it outlet for his Western
lines may be several years before the entire scheme
is carried out for great deal has be done mean
! while Not only is the Reading in bad financial
plight, but the l., b. 81 W. Is also badly off. Both
properties undergoing reorganization, and until
they have been placed on a sound financial basis Mr.
Corbn will have little time to plan extensions his
| roads,
| The railway companies everywhere ara realizing
every day and that it is their interest as
well their duty to support Railway Mems Christian
| Associations Here is the opinion of Hon. Chauncey
| M. Depew. president of the New York Central: II
! familiar with the workings of the rail
road branch of this association. The re.
| suits hardly be overstated. On the lines
| with which l connected loo, 900 men are en-
poyed, and they represent half million people
in their families. The effect of the establishment of
one of these societies at a railroad center is marked
and immediate The character of the service begins
to improve. Salaries and wages, which have been
than wasted spent upon wives and children
and the surplus finds its way into the savings bank
and from there into the homestead"