The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-26
FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES
Officials May Establish Branch
Of the Railroad Y. NJ. G. A.
President McKeen Taking an Active
Interest in the Matter-World's Fair
Tickets May Be Extended.

The officials OF the roads centering here
were among the first to organize a railroad
branch of the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation, but were unfortunate in the selec-
ton Of a secretary TO look after its inter-
ests. and it became a weaklmg. and about
three years ago passed practically out of
existence. Since that time dozens Of
branches. several in this State have been
organized. and are now flourishing, but
Indianapolis is far behind for so important
a railroad center The Journal has good
authority for stating that VIM. r. McKeen,
president of the I. III. & ]. Vandalia), has
an open hand for the establishing of a
branch at indianapolis, and the Pennsyl-
vania Company expresses a willingness to
aid in the matter. President Ingalls,, of the
Big -Four. will keep pace with the other
lines, as is evidenced in his remarks at
the opening of branch of the Y. NJ C. A.
at Clifton Forge on Sunday last. In the
course of his remarks he said: II never
had very much of opinion of the Young
= Mems Christian Association until we tried
II on the Chesapeake & Ohio. 1t seemed to
me, as watched 1t in Cincinnati and New
york and Boston, that it was got up for
iot or men who couldn't do anything else
and wanted TO go around the country draw
ing a. salary and making speeches and keep
ing themselves prominent before the public,
and they built very nice buildings. 1t did
not seem TO me there was any chance for
the poor working fellow to get any show
at II; Nevertheless, we started a building
at Hinton, and 1t was a great success
Then We built one at Handley; then one
at Gladstone, or helped to, and now we
are here, and from doubters we have be-
come great believers. The question is
why Is IT that IL has been such a great
success here? 1t may be that it has been a
success In other places and that / was
mistaken, but / know that it has been a
great. success with us. The reason is it
mas fllled want among the people and the
employees OF this railway, and the men
themselves, and the people in the villages
ana cities where 1t was located, and all
@sSe taken an interest in it. What people
8ad the world are hunting after now is
sle sublime, or something that no man can
sse, put they are looking after something
n railroading, or in anything else: some
sh1ng that the everyday, hard working
toiier5 or this world can use. Now, that is
e4actly what We have found in these build
ings and in the Y. NJ. G.. A. 1 will give Won
an instances: l stopped the other night nj
Handley. We have established there with
the help of the employees, a building TO
which the members of this association can
go; they obtain fair meal for a nominal
sum; tney get a lunch for a very moderate
sum; cup of coffee for cents: they have
as looked over the table the other night
nearly all the literature of the country to
READ; good BOOKS and sleeping rooms /
stopped there the other night, as / said !:
about as bad night you find in the
summer. 1t was raining hard, and, as
ana IL looked cheerful and comfortable IT
looked little brighter than my own cI1h
where l occasionally CO. at Cincinnati
more homeiike and pleasant"
The Atchison Annual Meeting.
The Boston and New York directors of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe are in
Topeka, Kan, to attend the annual meet
Ing, which Will be held there to-day. No
changes in the management of the road are
expected The present officers will be re-
elected, anu George c. Magound will con-
tinue as the ruling power of the system
In regard 10 the trouble of the road with
us employees because of it's Temporary in
aoility TO meet its pay roll. President Rein
hardt said yesterday that the company was
no worse on financially than its neighbors
The company'S troubles were wholly due
TO the financial stringency but the outlook
Is now promising, and the affairs of the
company showed signs of Improvement
It's obligations and its owners are working
In harmony.
still Going to the Fair.
General passenger agents have of late
been looking for worlds fair business to
drop of with a sudden drop but it stiIl
keeps up as heavily as at any time during
the past month. The Burlington is now
running all it's trains from beyond the Mis-
souri, river in three and five sections, and
the Erie yesterday started an excursion
train from New York with fully one thou
Sand passengers aboard. The same con-
ditions obtain on other Eastern and Vest
ern lines, and while the fall may come ar
any time, IL Is keeping up far over the
limit set for 1t by the majority of railroad
men,