The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-01

this line, and have opened Offices ct Clay City,
Coal City, Somerset, Newberry, Petersburg,
Washington, Somerville Buckskins, Elberfeld,
and other points.
e. f. Cost formerly secretary to General Man
ager Steiner Of the White line, and lately chief
clerk with the Decline in this city, will leave to-
night for Chicago, where he viii have charge Of
the freight department Of the Big Four.
Israel NJ. Parsons. of Vincennes, has been
appointed trainmaster of the Nebraska division
OF the Union Pacific railway. 600 miles IN
length, with Headquarters at Omaha, Neb. At
the present time he Is acting superintendent OF
the division.
There is trouble between the lines north and
south of the Ohio river over arbitrary charges
The latter don't like to take their own medicine,
administered by the Northern lines, and meet
ing is to be held at Chicago to see if the trouble
can be adjusted.
A bridge ron the c., l.. St L. & @. railroad,
near Lawrenceburg Junction, gave way yester-
day while workmen were engaged in digging for
the abutments of q new bridge, and all the
trains between Indianapolis and Cincinnati were
run via North Vernon.
Thirty-fou years ago on Friday July 2, 1852,
the first passenger train on the Central railroad
of New Jersey reached Phllipsburg Peter De-
Camp, the engineer, Is still in the employ OF the
company. having charge of the dollhouse at the
Elizabethport shops. William Davis and John
Alpaugh we're the fremen Davis has since re-
tired, but Alpaugh is now master mechanic in
the Central shops at Phillipsburg
Engine No 134 has been completed at the
Philadelphia s. Reading Coal and iron Com
pany's shop, In Reading. and passed inspection
on a trial trip. It was built for speed and made
fifty miles in forty EIGHT minutes, including two
stops. One mile was covered in forty-five sec
onds The boiler of the engine is of i've
eighths-inch steel, and carries pressure of $50
pounds to the square inch Another locomotive
Aoein hoe hoay yalafaA md
three more are being built
Bloomington Paragraph: Conductor Moore
OF the Alton, is the possessor of Ever-colored
pointer dog that is somewhat Of a railroader in
mis- nature. He makes the caboose his home.
While OH the road he takes great interest in
Watching the caboose and contents, and as the
engine whistles for the stations Is right at the
heels of the brakemen, climbing out through the
cupola window and running with them from
brake to brake till the train Is stopped The dog
is very sure-footed, and can tell tramp at sight
and &c them is perfect terror.
Coils & Levy say: "Mr Elijah Smith, presi-
dent of the Oregon a Transcontinental. still re-
mains in Portland, Ore, and has repeatedly
postponed the election of the Oregon Navigation
Company for some mysterious reason. 1t may
turn out by and by that the Union Pacific peo-
pie have made him an offer to exchange Union
Pacific stock for the Northern Pacific stock
owned by the Oregon e. Transcontinental COM
pany, share for share, coupled with guarantee
ment with the Oregon Navigation"
The ST Paul g Manitoba and Canadian Pa
cihc railways have issued q joint circular
nouncing the opening of the rev transconti-
mental line from ST. Paul and Minneapolis via
their roads to Vancouver, B. c., and all Puget
sound and Pacific coast points. At Vancouver
direct connection will be made with steamers of
the Canadian Pacific. Navigation Company for
Vancouver and Puget sound points. Connec-
tons will also be made there with steamers of
the Pacific Coast S. s. Company for San Fran
cisco, Alaska points, and all ports on the Pa
cific coast Later connections will be made at
Vancouver with steamers for Japan, China. and
Asiatic points.
Everitt st. John, the newly appointed assist
ant general manager of the Chicago. Rock ISL
and & Pacific Railroad Company, halls from the
State of Connecticut where he was born on the
4th of Feb 1874 His first connection with the
railway service was in 1862, when he was eight
cen years old. He then entered the general
ticket Office of the Quincy g. Toledo Railroad
Company, at Quincy, ILL.,, as clerk on o small
solidated with the Great Western railroad when
Mr.. st. John was given clerkship in
the general ticket department. at Spring
field. Ill In July, 1868, he went into the service
of the Chicago & Rock Island road remaining
there until November. 1864, when he became
chief clerk in charge of the general ticket de-
partment of the Chicago, Rock Island 81 Pacific.
He continued in this position until September,
1869, when he was promoted to the position of
general ticket and passenger agent, which he has
filled ever since until his late promotion to the
responsible position of assistant general mana
ger This promotion is we'll deserved, and no
expression but one of general approval is heard
concerning it. The original qualities of mind
which he possesses have been developed by hard
and constant work in various positions, from
the lowest round of the ladder up through vari-
GUS gradations of promotion until to-day he is
widely known as among the best railroad men
in the country. well capable of handling success
fully complicated system.