The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-13

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The New York Central earned in October
1850. 29l07. an increase over October, 1882,
Of $50. 1850.
DR.. w. w. Bruce has been added to the
surgical corps of the Vandalia, with head
quarters at Casey, Ill.
The Wabash has just completed a bridge
over the Maumee river at Defiance, six
hundred feet in length.
W.. ]. Laird. travelling freight agent of
the Chicago & Great Western, spent Sunday
with friends in this city.
Chalmers Brown, president of the Railway
Officials and Employees Association, spent
yesterday with his newly-married daughter
in Delaware, q.
The regular inspection of the Panhandle
lines will be begun on Monday, Nov. q.
1t was delayed a week that the superintend-
ents might make out their winter time
schedules.
Panhandle Engine 521. which was in the
wreck a few weeks ago at Colehour, has
come out of the shops at Fort Wayne re-
and indianapolis.
Enoch Lewis, purchasing agent of the
pennsylvania system, who has just re-
signed, has been with the company forty
three years, twenty-six OF which he has
been it's purchasing agent.
A new track has been completed at La
Crosse. IND, which connects the Monon,
Michigan roads, and will prove a great con-
v~enience in the transfer of business.
J. G.. Crockett, who for twenty-five years
-lldO OCGl tllC LtdStcI HltClldlhC IL "a OlAl-
cago & Rock Island lines in Iowa, died last
Friday at Fort Smith, Ark, where he was
sojourning for the benefit of his health.
Charles Hyde. a son of /Robert HYDE. a
locomotive engineer on the Evansville 81
Terre Haute, has invented an air brake
which it is claimed prevents accidents from
losing control OF the brake by the engi-
neer.
l.. T. Fowler, late commercial agent of
the Union Pacific at Pittsburg. has been APP
pointed district special and controlling. rep
q Afrn nf ~ 1pvnN LFnRTlRyn1b In
dustrial Banking Union, with headquarters
at Pittsburg.
w. H. Smith, general manager of the
Lackawanna fast freight line, and J. w.
Musson, general manager of the Nickle-
plate fast freight line, were in the city on
Saturday, looking after the interests of
their respective lines.
President Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois
Central, accompanied by Robert L. Lincoln,
late United States minister TO England,
and a half dozen other prominent men are
on a pleasure tour South, travelling in Pres
ident Ffsh's private car.
The warfare against Grand Chief Ramsey.
begun by the late division OF the Brother
hood of Photographers in Omaha, is losing
force. Divisions at other more prominent
railroad points are defending Ramsey in a
manner which shows they still have conf
dence in him.
Walter It. Starr. a fireman on a loco
motive on the Pennsylvania lines, was in a
collision last May, near Youngstown. See
ing a collision unavoidable, he jumped from
the footboard and received injuries which
will cripple him for life. Now he sues the
company for $4,000.
The Ohio Falls Car Works Company is
putting up additional buildings, preparatory
to better handling its business when times
improve. The company is now bidding on
a number of contracts, but the competition
is so sharD that hut little profit can come
from building cars.
The trainmen on the Union Pacific con-
stituting the Federated Board of Employees
have called a meeting for Dec. 4. when they
will ask the court TO renew the schedules
with the company which General Manager
Dickinson says are out of date, now the
road is in the hands of receivers.
Grand Master Sargent, OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, is being congratu-
lated over the manner he adjusted the
grievances of the Mobile * Ohio trainmen,
who were on the eve Of striking. Mr.. Sar-
gent is becoming as famous for adjusting
such affairs as Grand Chief Arthur, of the
Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers, both
opposing strikes to adjust such difficulties.
Shippers are complaining that loaded cars
are not handled at the way stations on the
should be, and say If the local stations re-
ceived more attention and the Peoria bust
ness less ii would better accommodate the
vision. 1t is stated that it takes from four
to twelve days to get a car started to the
markets after it is loaded.
a passenger agent takes exception TO two
or three items which have appeared in the
Journal rather favoring the issuing of in
Interchangeable mileage books, and writes as
follows: The commercial travellers are
making a great now about the mileage
book system. They want one book to cover
many lines of railroads and an allowance
of 800 pounds OF extra baggage. Drum
mers, as a rule, sell their mileage books
to brokers', and some of the Western lines
require $40 extra on 5O0-mile books, and re-
fund the 80 on return OF the cover. This
prevents the drummer from selling the I'M
used portion of his book, and the general
passenger agents think il a capital idea
The only trouble is in the mileage book
covering so many lines. Some of the lines
ara ~ c1nrr in maxim o. rpnOrfG FnmiffnnnpC
etc. The railroads think the drummer has
the best OF il as it is"