The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-12
RAILWAY GOSSIP.

Natehez. jackson q Columbus road has tend
| cred his RESIGNATION to take effect Jan. l.
President Robert Garrett, Of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad. has been elected trustee of Johns
Hopkins University in place of his father.
Hugh g. Barklay has been appointed general
| agent Of the L., NJ A & G. freight department
at Mobile. Ala. in place Of c. w. Gorringe. re-
| signed.
| L. B. Hull late chief train dispatcher of athe
| Champaign e Western road has been appointed
train dispatcher on the Cairo. Vincennes &
Chicago road.
| The clerks of the presidents and general man
| ayers are now passing through the most trying
| time OF the year-that of filling out the ANNALS
| for next year
William r. Hartman has been appointed SUI
| perlntendent of the St Louis g. Central Illinois
| road. and W. R. Church, general freight and
passenger agent
The friends of the present management of the
| New York & New England continue confident
that the outcome of next Tuesdays meeting will
De favorable to the retention of President Clark.
At the annual meeting of the Boston g. AL
Dany, Mr. Merriam. of Springfield, true TO his
past record presented motion to the effect that
the directors be instructed to discontinue the
running OF Sunday trains. The motion was lost.
u. j. Grammar, manager of the Maekey sys-
tenn of roads running out of Evansville was in
the city yesterday. He looks upon the advance
In bound rates ordered for the Goth as being
very unwise move on the part of the roads in
terested.
1t is said tina. Jay Gould's son George is only
twenty-five years of age, and that he was only
eighteen or nineteen when he made vice
president of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and a director in most Of the Gould prop
critics.
Captain Hennessey. special detective of the
Vandalia, is suffering from the injuries he re-
ceived by slipping on the sidewalk when walking
home from train, on Thursday night, in a
hurry. His ankle bone is broken and he received
other injuries.
train on the Chicago, Burlington 81 Quincy
railroad, in charge of new engineer and q new
conductor. came to a place near Fulton, Ill,
where several short tracks branched off from the
main line. They wanted to go to Fulton and did
not know which track to take, so they hunted up
farmer and inquired the way.
j. ". Sherwood, one of the most popular and
efficient railway superintendents in the country,
has just entered his seventh year as general su-
perln,endent Of the c., l.. ST. L. s. c., "Big
Four road. He was promoted from the posi-
ton of master Of transportion in 1879 Mr.
Sherwood commenced service on this road in
1864
The Philadelphia Press says: ''The greatest
excitement has been created among the en-
ployes of the Jersey Central branch of the Read
ing railroad by the spasm of economy which il
is passing through. The engineers have called
upon the executive committee OF the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers to assist them
In decided protest against the action of the
company.
By mere coincidence Vice president G. W.
Smith, of the Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe
President George Sealy, of the Gulf Colorado g.
Santa Fe; w. S. Davis, secretary and treasurer
OF the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe; Judge
Waldo, OF Santa Fe. the new Mexican counsel
of the Atchison and General Manager D. B.
Robinson, of the Colorado Midland railroad.
were all in Boston Thursday, and called upon
President Strong.
The New York division Of the Baltimore g.
Ohio is to be under the control of W. Irwin. SUI
perintendent of the Baltimore and Philadelphia
division, and that official said yesterday: "Reg-
ular trains will not be started for ten days at
least. for the best of reasons, that it would be an
lmposs6lty to arrange q time schedule and
other prelminaries short of that There are
other matters preparatory to putting the line in
operation that will also require time.
Lucius Tuttie, general passenger agent of the
Boston Lowell road, has accepted the position
of general passenger and ticket agent of the Eric
road. Mr.. futile was formerly general passen-
ger agent of the Hartford. Providence g. Fish
kill, New York q New England, and for several
years prior to the acceptance Of his present posi-
ton was the general passenger agent of the
Eastern road, and. as such was one of its most
valued officers. He takes hold on the Erie
Jan. l.
Pennsylvania railroad locomotive engineers do
not believe that there is any likelihood of their
joining the Knights of Labor in body. One of
them said: 'The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers is strong enough for US. We have no
need for further protection, and / cannot see
what we should gain by joining the Knights of
Labor. Chief Arthur is not in favor Of Joining
the Knights of Labor, and, as far as my ac-
auaintance goes, neither are the PENNSYLVANIA
railroads engineers
First-class trn.n-dispatchers are in good de-
mand. The Terfo Haute Gazette says: 'sDur-
ing the past ten days three applications have
ceen made to Colonel r. B. Woolsey, of the
Vandalia, for train dispatchers The Minneau-
oils & st. Louis wanted two. the Missouri Pa
cific one and the Mobile 81 Ohio one Tnis surely
speaks well for the Vandalias system of dis
patching and shows that the good work which
has been done in that department. for the past
four or five years has become known abroad as
we'll as at home. It is seldom that force is
found 80 thoroughly competent. as that of the
Vandalia. All offers for positions made to the
dispatchers here have been declined. the boys
holding to the old adage that rolling stone
gathers no moss"
George Noble, general manager of the Texas
& Pacific railway. who died at Dallas, Tex, Dec.
4, after an illness of only few days, of hux,
was fifty -six years old. He commenced railway
work when quite boy in the service of the
Pennsylvania railroad, remaining with that
road till 1868, when he went West to look after
some mining interests Three years later he
was appointed superintendent of the eastern di-
vision of the Kansas Pacific, which Office he
held till 1874 when he resigned to accept the
SUPPLEMENTARY of the Texas e. Pacific In
May, 1881, he resigned to give his attention to
private interests, but on JAN l, 1885, he returned
to the Texas & Pacific as general agent for the
receivers This position he held until few
weeks ago, when he was promoted to tho general
management of the road.
John F. Miller general superintendent Of the
Pennsy lvania lines west of Pittsburg on Thurs
day night dem onstrated that he was a very eff
ficiept official in emergencies. A few days ago
the City Council of New Albany passed an ordi-
nance giving the j., M. & l. company privileges
as to crossing certain streets with a second
track. Mr.. Miller learned that change of
heart had come over some of the councilmen, and
that a special meeting had been called for Fri
day night to rescind this action. Not proposing
to be outgeneraed by the friends of the L.. N.
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