The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-14
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

Inc hallway Age will be enlarged and otherwise
greatly improved with the beginning Of 1887.
ID. W. Hibbard, general freight agent of the Van
dalia, was in the city yesterday on official business
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the o., L. St. L. s. c..
who was called East by the death of his mother, is
pected home tomorrow.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Penn
syvana lines west of Pittsburg, is expected home
from San Francisco to-day.
ii. K. g. Krake, general freight agent of theAtchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe has been in the city for two
or three days prospecting for business.
The resignation of Mr.. Frank s. Bond as president
of the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific com
pany does not take effect until Dec. 81.
j. G. Pangborn. who has just resigned as asss tant
general passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio will
receive salary of 600 in his position with
patent medicine house.
General Manager McCrea and General Superintend
ent Miller, who have been spending three or four
days in this section, left for their respective head
quarters last evening.
s. W. Eccles. who recently resigned as general
freight and passenger agent of the Denver g Rio
Grande railway has been presented with $500 dia
mond stud by the employees of that road as token of
friendship and remembrance.
The item in yesterdays Journal regarding the come
out of the Indianapolis & Vincennes road the last
few years, ELECTED the remark from General Manager
McCrea that the road getting out of its rags and
beginning to wear quite respectable clothes.
The car-coupler reform does not progress very rap
IDLY In spite of all the talk and tests which have
been INDUCED in for years and the generally admitted
need OF Improvement the practical adoption of any
uniform automatic freightcarcoupler is still remote
Vice-president Thomson, of the Pennsylvania has
written a letter to Commissioner Fink suggesting
that unless the express companies advance rates the
trunk lines shall reduce rstclass rates to point that
will meet the express rates. Commissioned Fink has
referred the letter to the presidents individually but
has not yet formally called presidents meeting.
Passenger are blue the light travel south
ward November last year, business the heaviest
at any times in the The mild weather North
is doubtless of the principal for the
lighter rave Then the low rates to California points
as we'll, have something to do with the matter.
party now go to the Pacific slope about cheap
as to Florida point.
Baltimore exchange states that John Chesbor
ough, assistant general passenger agent of the Van
dala, has declined the position of assistant penara
passenger agent of the Baltimore g Ohio road the
place vacant by the resignation of j. G.. Pang
born. It certainly is highly complimentary to M
Chesborough that the position offered him by <he
management of the B. & o. road
The fifteen or more ticket-scapers at Kansas CITY
profess not to be greatly at tie action of the
One of them tells the Kansas City Times that the
roads acknowledge NAT the scapers are necessary
evils and that tney cannot get along without them,
and projects that the new pool like its predecessors
will go to pieces and the scalpers will again flourish.
A. w. Quackenbush, who has been appointed gen.
eral master mechanic of the western division of the
Wabash, with headquarters at Mobery, No, just be-
fore leaving Peru Ind, for his field of labor.
most agreeaby surprised by the sudden arrival
his residence of number of Mr.. and Mrs. Quacken
bush's friends, who. by the voice of Councilman
Lane presented them with a beautiful and valuable
tea set.
The conductors of the Southern Pacific road seem
to be doing lively business in taking up tickets
bought by the holders from scapers which orig
inaly made out in the names of other parties. In
five days twenty such tickets return coupons of
Grand Army and other excursions, were taken up
the overland trains between San Francisco and Sacra
meno and the holders had to pay fare return and
try to get their money back from the scalpers.
mo more indefatigable could be found for the
place than Mr.. Daniels said an official in speaking of
the assistant commissonership of the Central Traffic
Association. He is treless has unbounded energy
and is devotedly attached to the mission of making
| the passenger department of the association
Whatever measure of success it enjoys is due
largely to the interest which he has inspired in the
meetings. He has characteristic, however which
does not always conduce to the best order at the
| havior of the members. You know the general pas
senger agents apt to drift into personalities in
discussing their mutual grievances and some OF them
sometimes become very emphatic in the arguments ad
/ hominem which they produce against each other. Mr.
Daniels is disposed to allow these rhetorical and dis.
| quieting fourishes full swing"
The Cleveland Leader states that important con-
ference was held on Friday between the Beeline Of
fcials and Messrs. j. G. Fawcett, president Charles
| +. Gunckel, vice-president, and w. V. McCracken.
treasurer of the Louisville Cincinnati Dayton road
| This line is projected from Mddletown o., on the
Decline road down the Miami and Ohio rivers through
| hamilton, o., Lawrenceburg. Ind, and other Ohio
river points to Louisville KY. Its is almost
beelne and will give from central and northern Ohio
the most direct route to Louisville. The lneis graded
as far Franklin and it is said. will be pushed rapidly
to completion. It's grades easy and when done it
will make an important line. The conference Fri
day had reference largely to terminal facilities
Middletown but it is very probable that contract
will be made with the Beeline for close exchange of
business and it is not improbable that the Decline
will control it. that the two lines will work in the
/ closest harmony.
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