The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-21
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

Mrs. Hammond, wife of Fl. B. Hammond re-
ceiver of the l., d. & S. road. is seriously i'll at
their home in New York, and her death at any
hour would not be surprise.
Commissioner Blanchard again gives notice
that Mr. George H. Daniels has been appointed
assistant commissioner of the Central Pacific
Association, in immediate charge Of the passen-
ger department.
General John Fl. Oevereux. late president of
the Cleveland, Columbus Cincinnati b Indianap-
oils railroad, was descendant through twenty
six generations of Robert D'Evreux one OF the
Norman conquerors.
President Sloan, of the D., L. & W., has writ
ten to Commissioner Fink that his road is not
cutting east bound rates, and that he is resolved
to carry out all its pledges undertaken when the
reorganization of the pools was set on foot
George NJ Bogue yesterday formally rendered
his resignation as permanent arbitrator of the
Southwestern Railway, Northwestern Traffic and
Central Iowa Traffic associations. The growth
of his private business is the reason assigned
A. B. Southland. late traffic manager Of the L.,
N. A. % g. road, is arranging to engage in COM
mercal pursuits. Railroad positions are becom-
abilities, if once out Of the service. to re-engage
in it.
Gen. Phineas Pease, whom the court handled
so roughly for alleged preferences to shippers
when receiver. has. 1t is stated. retired from
railroad life, and connected himself with an iron
heavy structural work.
With all the conflicting stories told about the
unfortunate Philadelphia Reading corporation
it is difficult to get at the truth, and perhaps the
only satisfactory way to treat an interested
reader is to give the gews about it as it comes
from all sources. and allow every one to sift
out for himself the wheat from the chat.
The car builders who went from Jeffersonviie
to Pullman, ILL.,, under the inducement Of good
wages say that the Pullman Car Company pay
$40 for carpenter work in building freight car,
and as it takes four men two days to build car
it only amounts to ST. per day for each man.
The Jacksonville men will soon return home.
AS evidence that summer is near at hand, we
note the enterprise of the railway lines leading
to the Northwest which are already preparing
for business to the summer resorts The first in
the field this year is the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, which has announced it's reduced
rates of fare to the many pleasant places on its
line
The Northern Pacific Express Company has
issued the following circular to the public: Mr.
E. r. Wadsworth has been appointed agent for
this company at Chicago Office. SO Clark street.
He is authorized to receive and receipt for
freight, money and valuables consigned to the
territory reached by the Northern Pacific Elk
press Company"
The trunk-line executive committee held an
important meeting at Commissioner Finks Office
on Friday all of the roads being represented.
what was done, but in the fact that it was, after
full discussion, decided that no new legislation
was needed to correct the slight Irregularities in
the rate situation.
In the Buffalo Express a writer remembers
George M. Pullman, Che palace-car millionaire,
as he lived at Albion in his young manhood His
mother and two sisters were dependent upon
him for support, and he was diligent in caring
for them When he WAS not at work he was
somewhat "dandifed' in appearance, and was a
great social favorite
1t is certainly to be hoped that the report of
coming meeting of transcontinental railway men
is well founded. The war now going on is in
excusable and wasteful. Every honestly
interested in the success OF any one OF the roads
concerned has reason to regret the present con-
dition of affairs, and to favor an immediate ad-
justment of the troubles
Frank Reynolds, general stock agent of the
c., st. l. g. p, has just. begun his thirty first
year of railroad life, he entering railroad service
on March l. 1856, on the Beeline. Mr. Reynolds
is one of the bestknown men among live stock
dealers in the West, and unless competition cut
rates the line he represents invariably gets its
full share of the business.
The committee of eleven appointed by the
committee of nineteen Central Traffic Asso-
citation percentages met again Friday at Com
missioner Blanchards Office, but did not succeed
in doing anything final. The committee found
that its labor was difficult one, in which some
clever arithmetical work was necessary, percen-
tages being required for no less than 200 points.
The rumors of threatened strike at the
Wason Car Manufacturing Company works,
Springfield, Mass, unfounded. The work
men asked for an increase OF pay, but when told
that the scarcity of work would not warrant it,
expressed satisfaction at the verdict and returned
to their benches. Employment is now given to
300 workmen, but the full capacity of the shop
is 1000.
NJ Mounts master of transportation of the
c., H. q /. division of the O., FL. e d. system,
is proving very efficient man for the position.
He has held it some two years and half He
has made the road popular with shippers made
warm friends of the employees, and matters move
along very smoothly. In the meantime the
physical condition Of the property has been
greatly improved
The Atchison Topeka g. Santa Fe manage
ment is an enterprising one, but its managers
will doubtless have their hands full If they carry
out all the plans and schemes which the pur
veyors of news arrange for them. We presume,
however, the newspapers will not refHse to give
them all the time they want and will also allow
them to have something to say about new con-
struction. well as the matter of leases and
consultations.
Now that the strike is practically over on the
Texas Pacific road and that the receiver will in
all probability be able to continue running the
trains he has started, what little bottom there
was to the Missouri Pacific strike drops out, and
the trains on that road may be expected to start
in few days. No such serious strike has been
attempted in this country for slight cause,
and the reports that the engineers will stand at
their posts until personal violence is resorted to
to prevent them from running trains and that
the grand master of the Order of Locomotive
Firemen has advised the 6remen to stick to their
duties certainly favorable to an early settle
ment of the trouble
The New York Central people say that their
Western connections are sending forward east
bound freight taken locally to Buffalo, to New
m ttaak "a I'm ne <haiv
western connections has also asked permission
to send East by the Lackawanna, as the shippers
insist that their goods must go by that route
1t is argued from this position by the shippers
that the Lackawanna must have some secret ar
rangements for rebates made in New York, as
there is no evidence of cutting west of Buffalo
The officers of the Lackawanna profess to be ig-
norant of any arrangement which would lead