The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-06-15
WAITING ON MIR. FAlTHORN
The Transmissouri Traffic Association
Is Still Without a Chairman.
FruitleSs Effort TO Get the Memlers TO.etter
Annual iieeting OF Irain-I is atcherS-
Electric headligLts-iast lime.

Having forced Chairman Smith to resign
the members of the Transmissourl Associa-
ton are now unable To unite on q man to
take his place. AT least that is the sitna-
tion up to date. A meeting OF the associa-
tion was held at Chicago yesterday for the
express purpose of eleclng a successor to
Mr.. Smith, but it was a dismal failure.
Some of the members did not even take
the trouble 10 attend the meeting or to
send representatives,, and as unanimous
vote is TeQuired to elect u chairman II was
of course impossible to take any decisive
action IN that direction. Alter some DIS
cussIon of the subject 1t was agreed TO let
matters stand as at present with Secretary
McFadden as custodian of the records un-
I'll Sept. Is. unless in the meantime an
other meeting shall have been called and a
chairman elected. Some difference of opin-
ion exists as to whether j. n. FaithOrn
would accept the place If elected. A few
weeks ago it looked as If Mr. Faithorn
would surely lose the chairmanshIp of the
Southwestern Railway and Steamship AS
ISOLATION. because the new plan of Organi-
cation then under consideration dispensed
with the services of a chairman. The new
plan, however, was rejected by the ASSOC
citation, aud as Mr.. Faithorn has made an
excellent chairman, 1t Is probable he Will
be prevailed upon to retain the position,
even If In doing so he should be compelled
TO withdraw from the board of commission
erB OF the w est0rn franc ASSOCIATION.
10 believed that some of the members of the
1ransmissouri Association are purDosely
delaying action until 1t can be dehnlteIy
ascertained whether Mr. FaItborn would
accept or not II elected, and also until the
Western Passenger Association has made
It's selection of a chairman. The latter or
Qanizatl0n meets tomorrow for that pur-
pose.
An Important Question Settled.
An objection to electric headlights hav-
Ing been advanced, that it could not we'll
tor of the Master Mechanic to send an ex-
pert to see what grounds there was for
such an assertion. The Cincinnati, Ham,
ilton & Day ton management on which
road several are In use, offered the greatest
facilities for testing the matter. and the
experts report, which Is quite lengthy, Is
given in the June number of the Master
Mechanic. The pith of his report is that q
few trips on one of the large engines
equipped with this hight will dispel oil
ideas of that kind. On either q single
or double track the approach of an engine
equipped with the electric hight could be
seen In o dense fog quite distance away:
In one case where q second train, fitted
with an electric headlight, was passed on
curve on a double-track piece of road,
the approach of each was made known to
the other while the trains were a great dis
lance apart by the pencil light, which at
one point struck an embankment on the
outside of the curve, and q moment later
was projected across an open field at
tangent from the track. The expert con-
cludes his report by saying, Whatever OBJ
jections there may be to the electric head
light itself, if there are any, do not arise
from any defects as TO its operations on .
double-tTack road"