The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-02-14
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

Traffic Manager Skinner, of the Bee-line.
writes that he will leave Los Angeles about May
h. and reach Cleveland prior to JuneL
John Hagerson. superintendent of the Litch-
held car works. has resigned. and takes position
with the Missouri car and foundry works.
w. b. Jerome and o. Fl. Jenkins, representa-
lives Of the passenger department of the New
York Central. spent yesterday in the city.
In Canada there a 8 nineteen divisions Of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and
tweBty-one divisions of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Firemen.
pool on all business to Little Rock, which will 60
INTO operation soon as tho question of percent
ages can be settled.
e The Illinois Central has declared semi annual
dividend OF per cent. AS with the r.. H. 81
stockholders OF the former never fail to get
their semi-annual dividend.
G. Fl. Chappel. general freight agent of the
Cbscago. Alton road is still at Hot Springs,
but rapidly improving in health. He hopes to
return to Chicago by May l.
Commissioner Mdgley has called meeting of
khe Southwestern Association, to be held in Chi
ssgo Feb. 23 at which it is understood action
will be taken regarding lumber differentials.
George Darling late general manager of the
White line, now general utility man of the New
servce twenty-nine years, commencing on the
Beelinein 1857
1t is said that thesrecent buying Of e., G., &C. e. T.
stock WAS on information that the old suit of the
St Louis, Alton & Terre Haute against it for
@6s0, 900 back rent will be decided in few days
IL favor of the c., c., G. 6 ].
Z. A. Lewis, late general manager of the Erie
lines, who month ago went to Riverside, CAL,
will to-day start for home. His numerous we'll
wishers will regret to learn that his health has
rot improved as a result of the trip.
The Merchants and Manufacturers Association
Of Cincinnati has established transportation
department., similar to the Chicago Freight Blu
rean, and 10 is proposed to place it in charge of
thoroughly experienced railway man.
A member of a ticket-brokers firm at ST Louis
and Kansas City testified in court that his firm
has been the agents and handled the tickets Of
the Chicago 81 Alton road since 1879 at times
carrying stock of the value of $4,000
John Bruntop, late superintendent of the Bee
line Brightwood Home. leaves for the West in
day or two for permanent residence He has
sold his old home in Beefontalne and leaves
the Bee-line after faithful service on it over
thirty years.
The Terre Haute Car and Manufacturing Com
pany OF Terre Haute, Ind, has opened an Office
at 81 Dearborn street. Chicago under the man.
Agement of L. G. Burgess. late of the Ajax
Fofge Company, of Chicago, who will act as
general agent
VIM. Wheelwright, an American built the
FIRST railway in South America, from Caldera to
Copiapo, Chilli. in 1851, and is the father of the
railway system in the Argentine Republic as
well as Chilli statue has been erected in his
honor IN Santiago, and another stands in Buenos
Ayres.
The natural propensity of labor is to unite for
ITS own protection and for mutual assistance and
support Railway men have not been slow to see
this, and three of the most powerful and benefi-
hRnf NIo as
are those of the locomotive engineers, railway
conductors and locomotive firemen.
The Legislature of Massachusetts is still
working On the labor problem. One feature is
obliging all corporations to pay employees week
~. minority report of the labor committee
excerpts railroads, which are to be allowed to pay
10ftnightly. with six days in which to make up
the payroll after the wages are earned.
The salary of conductors on the New York
-CeEtrai sleeping car has been raised to 500 per
month"; that of porters, to $40. It would be
better to advance the latters' salaries to such
salaries as would justify the company in prohib
iting them from accepting '.perks," as they are
called from passengers This reform will come
In time.
" T. Malott, vice-president of the Union Rail-
way Company, returned from Pittsburg yester-
day, where he had been to confer with officials of
the Pennsylvania lines regarding the new Union
Depot enterprise. AS result Of this conference
Mr. Maott seems quite confident that the
needed improvement will be commenced within
q few weeks.
The Grain Receivers Association and the Chi
cago Freight Bureau 6nNt yesterday to discuss
der the operation sof which Baltimore grain
houses are given an unfair advantage over Chi
cago in the handling Of Nebraska and Iowa
grain. The facts were talked over in a general
way, but no decisive action was taken.
General Huidekoper, well known in Indianap-
oils railroad circles, has recently become vice.
president and general manager of the Metropoli-
tan Bell Telephone Company of New York He
had been suggested in connection with the prob
able management of some important railway in
terests. but it seems has finally determined to &C
cept the position named better selection
could not have been made
The Railway Master Mechanic says: "Surely
the whirgig of time has brought round its re-
venges for the car-coupler inventors few
years ago they were happy if the janitor of the
general offices would examines their models To
got up stairs was hopeless. But now they sit
with general managers and presidents in the
qaaet inside rooms or give orders at the shops to
the workmen who are fitting up cars with their
couplers."
The largest steam pumping engine in the
world If that at Freidensville. Pa, used to pump
water out of zinc mine. It was built at Mer-
xick's foundry, in Philadelphia in 1870. at cost
OF nearly 81. 900, 600. Its parts were so heavy
that all the bridges along the line of the North
Pennsylvania railroad from Philadelphia to
Center Valley, strengthened to insure
AGAINST accident. Its cylinder has diameter Of
ll0 inches; the piston rod is fourteen inchers In
diameter
The Railway Age saws the struggle of the Bal
timore IL Ohio to effect an entrance into New
York is likely to become one of the most notable
ia the railway history of this country. Congress,
the Legislature of New Jersey the press, the
pther railways whose interests would be affected
by such entrance, and various Cities towns and
ind localities, to say nothing of individuals 'too
Numerous to mention" are becoming mixed up
with the fight At such time the world is af-
fcrded excellent opportunity for studying the
seifsh phase of humanity
A new invention now being put on tho mar
ket. is head-rest for travellers 1t consists Of =
plush cushion hung upon strong white wires, and
made so thatt fits over the top of the seat back
Upon this soft, shapely cushion the tired traveller
may rest his weary head without getting cramps
IN the bones and stopping the circulation in his
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