The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-18
RAILWAY GOSSIP.


N. E. ingalls,, president Of the @. Isl g
G., is expected homo from Colorado this l. n
ing.
j. A. Perkins, agent of the Union and Green
lines at Milwaukee, Wis, is spending the Sab
bath in the city.
The National Association of General Baggage
| Agents meets IN semi-annual convention at M
agara Falls, N. Y, Wednesday, July 81.
Wabash passenger conductors say that there
| are but two spoilers on the whole system now,
ana they are very well known to them.
VIM. King, ticket agent of the Wabash local
once, mas gone to Wakesha on a two weeks
pleasure trip His wife accompanied him.
w. r. McKeen, president Of the Vandala, and
| party returned yesterday from Lake Gogebic.
where they have been fishing and hunting sever
| al days.
The New York Central s. Hudson River Rail
road Company has issued order prohibiting
the sale OF liquors at any depot restaurant on
their line
President R. R. Cable, of the Rock Island
road, has gone to Watch Hill, where he viii
spend his annual vacation. He will be absent
about three weeks.
The report Is in circulation that the Erie road
has bought the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, and
| will issue new bonds to the amount required to
cover the transaction.
Colonel Gray. division freight agent of the
Pennsylvania lines. has put in the last week get
on the road between Indianapolis and Colum-
bus, o.
| At one point on the Cascade branch of the
| Northern Pacific the railroad describes horse
| shoe, which is two and quarter miles around
| and only l,500 feet across the hill at the open
/ end Of ii.
" L. Malott, general manager Of the Union
| railway and BelE road, has gone to Oakland q
| pleasure resort, north of Detroit. Mr.. Malott
will return in two or three days. His family
| will remain there several weeks.
| Four hundred and fifty eight members of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers attended
| union meeting of that order at Kansas City,
| Mo-, Sunday last. Grand Chief Arthur was
present and talked TO the boys an hour or more.
G. j. Waller, general passenger and ticket
agent of the Mobile 81 Ohio road has resigned to
| go into the insurance business in Chicago. He
has been connected with the road fifteen years.
ana for the last six years has held the present
position.
The competing passenger agents at San Fran
cisco, who have several times organized local
association only to see 1t go to pieces under the
stress of competition, have again formed an or
ganization entitled the San Francisco Passenger
Association.
The Railway Age says: "All of the railways
centering in Chicago have joined in an agree
ment'to close their local freight-houses in that
city at P. NJ. Saturdays, thus giving their
hard working employees little deserved rest-an
excellent idea"
Pierce III. Ryan, formerly a passenger conduc-
tor on the La Crosse division of the Chicago
Milwaukee q st. Paul railway. but for year or
more resident of California, has been appoint
ed by President Cleveland to lucrative land of
fee in that State.
George Northrup, who for twenty-one years
has represented the Pennsylvania lines at Louis
vile, has suffered paraytic stroke and is I'M
htted for duty. His friends have made him up
purse and sent him to Hot Springs, hoping he
will be benefited there.
Trainmaster Howard, of the L.. N A. & G.
railway, has issued an order prohibiting the use
of intoxicating liquors by all employees, while
either on or off duty This order has created
quite commotion among those Of the men who
insist upon taking an occasional drink when not
on duty.
The Railroader says 1--WE are convinced that
a great majority of railway employees are in
favor of the true principles of temperance 1t
only remains for the arrangements to courage
ousy enforce rules of temperance with all grades
OF officers as wei! as employees, to aid in carry
ing forward to glorious contamination, this
grand and benefcent reform"
The managers of the Pennsylvania railroad
are reported to have become satisfied that the
running of Sunday trains is disadvantage. AS
an experiment. they discontinued good many
excursion trains and some regular passenger
trains. AS a result, all freight trains except
those carrying live stock and perishable goods
have been ordered off from o'clock on Saturday
night till midnight on Sunday, and all repairing
work on Sunday has been stopped. Further
changes are to be made in this direction The
men found to be worth more, and the liabil-
| lty to accidents Is lessened.
II lis stated that the negotiations between tbs
Baltimore d Ohio and JERSEY Central for traffic
contract, are SO nearly completed that everything
will be settled at the next meeting President
Little, of the Jersey Central saws that the ar
rangement contemplates the operation of the
| Jersey Central, Reading and Baltimore g Ohio,
| as one line. Jersey Central officials can make
through rates to Chicago, Louisville Pittsburg
| Washington, and other points on the Baltimore
d Ohio system under certain restrictions, and
| the Baltimore 81 Ohio can make through rates to
| points on the Jersey Central
According to a writer in a French industrial
journal the greatest inclination on any European
| railroad worked by ordinary locomotives is on
| the the two miles between Engheim and Mont
morency, near Paris, being 45 feet in the 1000,
| or an angle of % 50, Grades of 50 feet to the
| LOCO, or %, found several roads. The
| grade of the Simplon road, the highway over the
Alps with tho least slope, is only 81 to the 000
| the maximum slope that be Travelled on a
| highway being set down as 1892 or TO. The
| grades on cable or cog wheel railways are, of
course, considerably greater that On the road
up the Swiss Rigi from VitzEian is, in the steep
est part, $50 to the 1000, while the maximum on
the Mount Washington railway is estimated at
800 and 375, this latter being the steepest rail
way with a central toothed rail, and the steepest
of any kind in the world, except the cable road
up the cone of Mount Vesuvius. which has the
extraordinary inclination of $50 to the 1000
The railroad of General George j. Magee of
Watkins running from Corning to Geneva and
| Lyons north and from Corn south to the semi
| bituminous coal regions Of Tiogo county, Penn.
sylvania. is managed on strictly teetotal princi-
| pies under the name of Fall Brook Coal Com
| pany. 1t employs over 1000 men in its mines
! and on its railroad. The correspondent says
| that over three years ago the company adopted
| q rule that any employee who was known to use
Intoxicating drinks would be discharged from the
| company's service. The rule is known as Rule
No IL Since then the company discharged
over 300 of it's railroad hands and nearly as
many other employees for violating the rule At
| first the company re-empoyed discharged men
on satisfactory evidence that thew had reforunad