The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-11
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

The Pennsylvania has withdrawn it's demand
for a double pool On Western business.
General Manager John B. Carson, of the L.,
N. A. & c. (Monon) route, has gone to New York.
President Adams, of the Union Pacific road,
has gone West, to be absent three weeks or
longer.
D.. H. Moffat, the president of the Denver e
Rio Grande railroad, began life in Colorado as a
stage driver.
William B. Hoyt, heretofore acting agent of
the Canada Southern line, has been appointed
agent at Philadelphia.
c.. E. Henderson, general manager of the l.,
B. & W., and his wife sailed from New York yes
terday morning for London, Eng.
Locomotive sparks cause about 2 3-16 per
cent. of all the fires occurring in the United
States, according to recent insurance reports.
There are 10, 900 memb ers of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers, and it has paid out
over $500, 900 in benefits during the last few
years.
J. F. Lee, VINO has been agent for the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific in Canada, has been APP
pointed passenger agent of the Canada Pacific
road in Chicago.
Although green peas are in bloom in the east
ern counties Of North Carolina, the roads in the
southwest part of the State are even yet half
blocked with snow.
James Cahill, who has been a conductor on
that road, has been appointed assistant train
master of the Missouri Pacific, with headquarters
at Kansas City, Mo.
A train of cars is plainly heard on the line of
the Atlantic & Pacific railroad at The Needles
for a distance of seventy-eight miles to a place
called Cottonwood island.
The Baltimore & Ohio road is negotiating with
| COMMISSIONS Fink for a percentage in the pas
| senger pool from New York, at the suggestion of
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania road.
Newton a. Turner has resigned as division
| freight agent of the Philadelphia u Reading road
at Philadelphia, and it is stated chat he will ac-
cept the position of general agent Of the Lehigh
Valley at Philadelphia.
Harry Hatmaker, formerly private secretary
| to General Manager Merchant, of the Rochester
& Plttsburg, has accepted the position of private
secretary to President Depew, of the New York
Central & Hudson River road.
Eighteen persons have been murdered in the
French railway carriages since 1860, and the
legislative assembly has called the attention of
| the railway companies to the propriety of adopt.
| ing the American style of carriages, but they
pay no attention to it.
The center of interest in Transcontinenta mat
ters now is the proposed action of the Pacific
Mail company. The overland companies have
reached a point where they practically agree
among themselves. but are now at loggerheads
with the Pacific Mail company.
Henry l.. Bryan, who has just been appointed
master mechanic of the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern road, has been presented with a hand
some gold watch by the foremen OF the loco
motive and car departments of the G., b. & @
shops at Aurora, Ill, with which he has beer
connected.
Judge T. M. Cooley, who has just been chosen
arbitrator of the associated railroads of Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Alabama, is eminehtly
we'll fitted to fiji sach q position. He was borr
! IN New York State, In 1874, and was admitted e