The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-05
RAILWAY GOSSIP.


the Canada Southern, was in the city yesterday
official business
The O.. L, st. L. 8 G. earned in November $2o6,-
447.14, against 1914, 678.11 the corresponding
month 1889. Increase this year, $11, 769. o..
A. Keene has been appointed acting agent of the l.
q y. at Worthington vice w. T. Catterson, who goes
to California for the benefit of his health.
Jim Reed, general agent of the G.. B. & O.. and
one of the most popular men who travel for the
Northwestern lines spent yesterday in this city pros
pecting for business.
George Stevens, superintendent Of the eastern di.
vision of the Wabash system is one of the fastrsing
railroad men of the country. General Manager Tai
mage says he has few, IL any, supefiors
1t is stated that e. @. Murphy formerly superin-
tendent of the l., p & c. is applicant for the
position after the company is reorganzed which
ganzation, it is said will be effected the present
week.
On Wednesday next District Passenger Agents
ST. F., leave with party of thirty-one Pacific excur
sionists. They will accompany the party far To-
peka.
O. M. Barker superintendent of the United tele-
graph lines is in the city looking for better quarters
for their central office 1t is quite probable that he
will rent portion of the recently occupied by
the First National Bank
S. T. Stevens ticket agent of the c.. II. & l. at Con-
nersvlle has been granted four months leave of alb
that he may learn shorthand AID type-writing
j. d. James, formerly with the O. ST. L. & P, fills his
position during his absence.
General Manager j. D. Laying, of the West Shore
railway, the editors of the Railway Age that
there is foundation for the published in
of the daily papers that he is to the position
general manager of the New York Central railroad.
0. B. Grant former private secretary of r. O. Nc
Kenna who recently appointed engineer of main
of way the j., M. 81 l.. is taking hold of
his new work in a manner which means success and
capable is he proving to be that his early promo
ton will not be surprise to those who best know him.
It is stated that B. S. Fitch who recently resigned
general freight agent of the Eastern division of the
Newport News e Mississippi Valley will not again
enter railway work but will in the per anti
business in New York. Mr.. Ftch's many friends in
Western railroad circles will wish him in his
new ventures.
John F. Miller is about closing mis- first year as gen.
ers superintendent of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg and the excellent condition of the proper
by, the superior discipline all divisions and the
handsome increase in business and in earnings all
attest to his efficiency to I'll the position. AS Vice
president Mccullough puts it, the company could not
have made better choice there never better
man filled suit of clothes.
Mr.. Addison Hills the new assistant to the presi-
dent of the Lake Shore road, is veteran railrCader
He is seventy years of and has been rail
way work since 1887 He has been with the Lake
Shore 81 Michigan Southern and its predecessor the
Lake Shore railway, since 1868, thirteen years as
general freight agent, and since 1881 as assistant
manager. Mr.. Hills is father of Lucien Hills of the
Bee-line, who is well known in Indianapolis railroad
circles.
The Philadelphia Record says ''The new president
of the Reading Company, who had gone out of his
way to intercede for combination, received some
what of backset in the curt notice issued on Mon
day, that if the Baltimore Ohio company cannot go
to New York over the Reading tracks it will 90 over
its own line. Has not Mr.. Corbin enough work on
hand to extricate Reading from the mre of one com
bination without pungiug IL into another combina-
ton for the repression of trader
General Manager Mcleod. of the PHILADELPHIA &
Reading expressed surprise at the rumored strike on
that road. He SAYS: ''Since the new management
in cutting down in salaries has been going on
and good many necessary dismissals made It is
object of course to conduct the business as eco
noically possible, and TO this end salaries that
lo.xa hno,, ksY1,n 10
Judgment they beyond what the company could
afford to pay, have been reduced Much of the cut
ting has been done in the salaries of higher officials
and have been transferred to lowerprced posi-
tions."
In commenting upon the appointment of Ed Gallup
assistant manager of the Lake Shore system the Rail
way Age says: Mr.. Gallup is fortyfour years of age
and has been in railway service since 1S69or three
years passenger agent of the Ohio & Mississippi at
Cncnnati year general agent of the passenger
department Kankakee line. at Chicago; FIVE years as
Joint passenger agent of the Pittsburg Cincinnati
St Louis railway and Kankakee line pool at Chicago
and since 1878, with the Boston g. Albany as general
passenger agent assistant general superintendent and
general superintendent respectively He established
his reputation as a traffic in the West and West.
ern railway proud of his promotion"
What railroads that have headquarters in Indianap.
oils or in there, require their employees to keep
their bills where they trade paid up9 Are there any
railroad officers who discharge their men after thew
| have been garnished three timesl LAWRENCE
l. When man enters the employ of either of the
roads running in here he is expected unless some mis-
fortune overtakes him, TO pay his bills promptly
q On the Pennsylvania lines and on the c. L. St
L. & c.. if mans wages earnished second time
it is sufficient grounds for his dismissal from the en-
ploy of the company. Now that the roads pay their
men with so much regularity the officials are much
more strict about their employees paying their bills
than formerly. Sickness of the employee his fam
lily is about the only they will accept for the
| non-paynent of current bills.
reporter of the New York Tribune met John G.
Gault manager of what is known the Erlanger sys
tenn of roads, and had a talk with him, the pth of
which that Mr.. Gault brcklayers appren-
| tee in New Hampshire before he went West to seek
his fortune He had wide experience in the railroad
| business in the Northwest before assuming his pres
emit position He is what the people term an odd fish,
always saying queer things and telling stories Chat
ting about his railroad Mr.. Gault said: Our line
runs through none but Democratic States but we
never hear ANYTHING about politics We are there for
business and it's business nothing with u.s. I never
knew until got this road why the majority of the
people in the South Baptists, but when saw the
rombigbee river rise fifty feet in fifty hours and
spread out over the country, giving everybody hap
tism whether he wanted it not thought saw the
reason for the general prevalence of that faith.
wrote home to my wife, and told her that if she
coming South she would have to give up the Episcopa
liam creed"