The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-07
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

tuc louS0. III tu6 modutltuS LU6 new union
depot matters are at a stand-still.
F. W. Ownby. immigrant agent of the Denver
q Rio Grande road, at Chattanooga, having re-
signed, that Office has been abolished.
Commencing with to-day the Evansville &
Indianapolis parlor cars will run on the day
trains of Sunday the same as other days.
Grand Secretary E. v. Debs, of the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Firemen, is spending a few
days il New York, in the interests of the asso-
citation.
Mr.. j. W. Carey, late general ticket agent of
the Lake Shore road, at Chicago, is still confined
to an asylum, without showing any signs of re-
covery.
The Decline Gazette fer February is out.
and is as bright and newsy as ever. A. J. Smith
has turned the editorial work largely over to Z.
A. Cairns.
J. P. Nourse. general passenger agent of the
Central Iowa, is in the city. He comes with E.
A. Jones, who will represent the road at this
point. They will locate their office tomorrow.
The Northwest officials say it is not true that
the Northwest, Rock Island and st. Paul com
panies are about to plunge into a great war, and
these points have been circulated for speculative
effect.
C. s La Toilette, Western passenger agent of
the O.. l., St L. q c., witt his wife, left Friday
Tor Washington, d. c.. to spend Sunday with his
cousin, who is a member of Congress from Wis
cOnsin.
John B. Gilbert. of Van Horn, Ia, until re-
Gently q conductor on the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul road, is said to have become violently
insane. because he was discharged without an
investigation.
The Railroad Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton at Topeka, Kan, issues q monthly journal
known as the Waybill. For February it re-
ports !, 236 visitors to the ROOMS and a total at
tendance OF 1859 at meetings, receptions and
classes.
FL. W. Mallett, who for some time was stenog-
rapher for L. A. Lewis. deceased, left yester-
day for San Diego to accept a position with E. S.
Babcock, who was formerly with the e & T. Fl.
road, and is now superintendent of q steamship
company.
J. IN. McCulloch. vice-president of the Penn
sylvania Company, speaks of Ell. B. Hammond,
receiver of the l., d. & s., as q very venerable
old gentleman. The amusing feature of the re-
marks is that Mr.. Hammond is a younger man
than Mr.. Mccullough by twenty-six years.
The Wabash people give notice that they. yes
terday, under order of the United States Court,
ceased to operate the line between Pattonsburg-
and Council Bluffs, known as the Council Bluffs
q st. Louis railroad, and that that road will be
in the possession of Mr.. T. McKissock, receiver.
Mr.. P. D. Cooper. we'll known as many years
general superintendent of the Atlantic & Great
Western railway. but whose health has been
tering in Florida. and has been writing q series
Of very interesting letters to a prominent Wis
consin journal, giving his impressions of the Pc
ninsula State.
A railroad official. who met E. B. Thomas in
New York, Wednesday last, says Mr.. Thomas res
marked to him that he was happy as a June bug;
in excellent health, and had gained twenty pounds
in the last few months. On the Richmond q Dam
vile system, of which he is general manager.
everything was moving smoothly. and earnings
were on the increase.
The proceedings for the foreclosure of the first
rnnrfgay n hapd0 of tho Ch;ncvo e. A flan%tc road
recently begun at Indianapolis, are said to be in
the interest of the Erie road. 1t is said that the
control of the bonds has been secured by the
friends of the Erie company. with q view to GUST
ing Jewett and putting the line in the hands of
a receiver friendly to the Erie.
John Beck has held the throttle of Northern
Central engines for thirty years. He ran the
pilot engine which preceded Presiden. Lincoln's
funeral train on its way to Springfield. He
drew thousands of Union soldiers during the war.
and fell, with his engine. through a temporary
bridge that had been constructed in place of a
structure burned by the rebels.
1t is said that Austin Corbin has unloaded his
holdings of the Philadelphia IL Reading road.
realizing SOS, 900 profit on his deal in the last few
days. The belief gains favor that the Journal
was not far from correct in saying Mr.. Corbin
was one of the ~shrewdest railroad men in the
country. He has a Yankee like method of doing
things, but they invariably come out all right.
Mr.. Isaac Fl. McEwen, having resigned as Sec
rotary and treasurer of the American Train Dis
patchers' Association, to accept the position of
private secretary to the general superintendent
of the Erie railway. Mr.. e. j. Peabody, of Mar
ion. Ia. a dispatcher on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St Paul road, has been chosen secretary and
treasurer OF the Train Disratehers' Association.
James S. Clark has resigned as general passen.
ger and ticket agent of the Louisville, Evans
VILE d st. Louis, and it is stated that he will
accept a similar position on the Gulf, Colorado e.
Mania En road Vhn amn1Avac of tina forrnnp
road at Louisville presented Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
with a handsome silver service of sixty-two
pieces. Mr.. Clark was for ten years on the l.,
D.. d S. road, and is well known in Indianapolis,
and his numerous friends will be pleased to learn
that he was so kindly remembered.
The Railway Ages says no class of business
men more thoroughly appreciate the fact that
this is an age OF inventions. and that few things
are SO perfect that they may not be improved
upon, than do the railway people of this coun-
try; still we apprehend that even they will be
surprised to learn that an ingenious Philadel-
phian has recently invented a copy-book. in which
not only ordinary business correspondence but
way bills, manifests, statements, ETC., can be
copied without the use OF ietter-press, brush or
water bowl, and in much less time than by any
system heretofore practiced. Not only this, but
the work is done by the new book as we'll, and
with as permanent results, as it has ever been
done in any of the old ways.
Charles e. Pugh, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines east Of Pittsburg. who has
taken so much interest in the establishment of a
relief association. is but forty-ive years old, and
has risen through every grade of promotion. won
by ability and the force of his own talents, from
a brakeman to his present responsible position.
It is said that brakeman Pugh showed such
marked ability in his then humble station that
everybody on his trains always tried to disem-
bark by the steps where he oficiated. He has,
also. been a station agent, a passenger conduct
or. and, in 1864. became the train dispatcher OF
the Philadelphia division. From 1870 to 1879 he
was general agent of the Pennsylvania railroad
for Philadelphia. then became general s~uperin-
tendent. with headquarters at Altoona, and has
been general manager since Oct. j, 1882.
In a recent issue of the Philadelphia Press ap.
pear cuts and brief sketches of a number of the
prominent officials of the Pennsylvania lines
east of Pittsburg. Among others it gives a
sketch of the general officers of the passenger
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