The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-18
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

| RAILWAY GOSSIP.
| Assistant Commissioner Guilford, Of the
trunkline pool, receives $l0 900 year.
| Geo. b. Warfel, agent Of the l., B. & w. at
Danv!lle, ILL.,, is spending the Sabbath with
| friends in this city.
| George r. Blanchard, commissioner Of the
Central Traffic Association is 10 receive $1S,-
| 600 year for his services.
| The c.. l., ST. L. & c., the second week in
April earned $43 $50 48, an increase Of ST. 756 As
over corresponding week, 1885.
/ j. Mccormick, ticket agent st the L., N. A.
| q c. at Chicago has been offered fine position
on the Chicago, Milwaukee, s. St Paul road.
| Tomorrow the mourning emblems will be
| Offices, shops and equipments out Of respect to
the memory of j. II. Devereux, the late Presi
| dent of the road.
| John r. Elder, president of the Shell Beach
road, has returned from New Orleans. He re-
ports M. r. Spellmau, superintendent Of the
| road, as being much better, and able TO attend
| to his usual duties.
| Henry Dawsa an artist of Lafayette has
| been employed by the Union Pacific people to 60
| over the road and take sketches Of attractive
landscapes, which will be illustrated in new
work the road is about to publish.
| Conductor Earharts good fortune still follows
| him. Through the death of a friend he, by be-
| queathment, came into possession of a handsome
| sum of money and now he has fallen heir to T.
600 acres of valuable land in Texas. His good
| fortune, however, does not rattle him. He still
| runs his train on the G., l., st. L. & c., and is
| one of the most popular conductors on the road.
| The Wisconsin Central Railroad Company has
| just issued a very neat, illustrated phamphlet,
giving list of the summer resorts along their line
| of road. The principal of these are Waukes ha,
| Wis, whose mineral springs have made it the
| Saratoga of the West, and Ashland. Wis, situate
| on the south shore of Lake Superior and COM
| handing one of the most superb marine views
in America. The company has erected q mann
| moth hotel there
| John King, president Of the Erie, began as a
| clerk in the Adams Express Office, and began
railroading at the bottom. Some years ago he
married distant relative of the CARROTS. His
management Of the Ohio & Mississippi made
| good deal of money for the Drexel, Morgan q Go.
crowd, and they have backed him ever since. He
made money for himself in the same road and
became rich. He is difficult man to work for.
When he got into the Baltimore & Ohio he dis
charged both Blanchard and Guilford. They
were totally unlike him. They understood vast
~ better than he the theories of rallroading; he
| much better than they the book keeping of rail-
| reading. All three have since reached very de-
sirable places.
| John NJ Osborn, commercial agent of the Wa
bash system. is probably one of the best known
and best posted railroad men In the freight serv
| iee He is now some sixty three years of age,
and entered the railroad service in 1860; to 1857,
clerk Cincinnati. Sandusky & Dayton railroad,
Sandusky, O., e Erie railroad, New York city;
1857 and 1858, general freight agent Cincinnati,
Sandusky 81 Dayton railroad; 1859 and 1860, gen
eral Western agent Erie railroad, Cleveland, O.;
| 1861 to 1865, general freight agent Cincinnati,
| Sandusky & Cleveland railroad; 1860 to 1874,
general freight agent Atlantic & Great Western
railroad; 1875 to lS79 general freight agent To
| ledo, Wabash & Western, and Wabash, ST. Louis
| q Pacific railways; since 1879, commercial agent
Wabash, st. Louis 81 Pacific
| Fl. Fl. Porter, of Chicago, has come into prom
! iuence the last few years as a railroad man. He
| is at the head of the Chicago & Indiana Block
| Coal road which is rapidly taking a leading po-
| sition as north and south line. He is gentle
| man of great wealth and a self made man. 1t
hasn't been more than fifteen years since ne was
clerk in freight Office at a salary of S. week,
| and from this he has, by his own exertiors,
arisen to the prominent position he now occu-
| pies in railroad circles-probably the foremost
in the country. He is a man of great
executive ability, indomitable will and large
| perience. We understand that all the money
for rebuilding the G. 6 G. S.. as we'll as the con-
struction of the G. & l. G., has been furnished
| by Mr.. Porter out of his own funds. He has
cashed all receivers certificates, and. since his
| purchase OF the bonds, nobody has had to wait
for dollar. Every employee has been paid
| promptly and in full, and every cents worth of
| material has been bought for the cash and paid
| for at once. This shows Mr.. Porter's method of
| doing business. and accounts for his popularity
among his employees as well as in business cir
/ ces
| Colonel Herbert NJ. Hoxie the vice-president
of the Gould system of railroads, who has been
| so conspicuous in the management of the strike
lately, is prominently a self-made man. He
| was born in southern Michigan some fifty five
| years ago. He graduated from public school
and then secured situation in country store
some sixteen miles from his home, and every
| Saturday night he walked home to spend
| Sunday with his mother, returning to the
| store on Monday by the same means
of locomotion. He drifted into the railroad
business about twenty years ago and later on
| became associated with Capt. R. Somers Hayes
and DR.. Smith, of this city, in the construction
| of the International & Great Northern railroad
Hoxie is a man below the medium height, with
| a slight stoop. short gray pointed beard and
keen, dark-gray eye. His laugh 10 a most pecu-
liar one. but is rarely heard outside Of the social
circle 1t is here that he Shines for, while lack
ing the SAVIOR fare of the cultivated man of
affairs. his genial disposition and better nature
| is strikingly brought out As a task-master he
| is hard and unf1inching He believes every boy
should be turned loose to fight his own battle in
| this world, without dollar in his pocket, when
ne is thirteen or fourteen years of age.
| indianapolis railway managers have been very
| fortunate in the selection of their master me-
chanics. Among the oldest and most successful
of the number are Black. of the c., H. & d. Tur-
ref, Of the Boe-line, and Swanston, Of the Penn
| sylvania lines. John Black general master me
chanic OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton 8 Dayton
railroad. was born August, 1929 at Alloa, Scot
land. He entered railroad service in May. 1851;
TO March, 1864. locomotive engineer; March,
| 1864. to July, 1892 master mechanic Dayton &
| Union division; July, 1882. to date. gen.
sral master mechanic of all lines of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton rail
road, and entire service of this road.
| W. +. Turref. general master mechanic Of the
Cleveland. Columbus, Cincinnati g. Indianapolis
and indianapolis & St Louis railways was born
| ut Toronto, Ont, April 90 1884 He entered
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