The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-14

vision; Miss Lucille Loder has taken a
stenograPhic position with J. B. Gayao
naugh; Mrs. Laycock will go to
with Train Dispatcher Beckwith.
Under the schedules which take effect
next Sunday, the time of limited trains be-
tween New York and Chicago Will be
present schedule.
f. L. Stiles, on Saturday last, completed
his thirty-seventh year as station agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul road at
Rockford, Wis. He is the oldest agent in
the employ Of the company.
E.. p. Wilbur announces that he will, on
account of ill health, retire from the presi-
dency of the Lehigh Valley road, at It's
next annual meeting. The Vanderbilt
Maxwell party will rame his successor.
P. B. Ziegler, of Tucson, A. T., one of the
Oldest passenger engineers of the Southern
for a few days of Joseph a. Humphreys
and family, at 90S North Alabama street.
General Superintendent Van Wrinkle. and
the several division superintendent OF the
Big Four will meet in Cincinnati to-day to
put the finishing touches on the new time
shedule, which goes into effect on Sunday
next.
CINE on the Panhandle lines for twenty
five years, went to Mexico to run an engine
in a silver mine, has returned and Will take
an engine on the road when opportunity
offers.
The directors of the Big -Four have not
yet met to elect officers TOR the ensu"
NO He@ Change nseS When they iMsa do meet 1ssff Which Vii be
as soon as a quorum can be gotten TO-
gether.
All the labor organization connected with
the Erie lines will hold a grand union
meeting at Huntington, Ind, next Sunday.
1t is expected delegates will be in attend
ance from the entire Erie system, including
the Erie road proper.
The new engine which the Vandalia will
receive this week from the worlds fair
will be equipped with an electric head
light before put into service. The Van
dalia now has fourteen engines equipped
with electric headlights.
The Chesapeake & Ohio is turning two
hundred carloads of freight a day over to
the Big Four at Cincinnati Fifty carloads
OF 1t Is coal for points on the Big Four
lines and fifty carloads of coal for use on
the Big Four locomotives.
Assistant General Manager Hill; of the
Vandalia, has given orders for work on the
rebuilding of the depot burned at Green
castle Junction to be begun at once. The
new structure will be commodious and of
modern style of architecture.
To keep the men busy George Prescott.
superintendent of motive power of the Van
dalia, is building two switching engines in
the shops at Terre Haute, and putting en-
gines in the shop that need general repairs
as fast as the shop room will permit.
The Illinois Board of Railway and Ware
house Commissioners has ordered the jack
Sonville Southeastern receivers 10 put new
Tails lit Ties uONn Oh the TO3u between
Havana and Springfield within ninety days
or the road will be closed from further traf-
fic.
The insurance department of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen is a very i'm
portant one TO the Brotherhood. The report
of Grand Secretary Arnold shows that be-
tween fifty and sixty thousand dollars are
disbursed monthly in disability and death
claims.
The southwestern limited over the Big
Four. w~est-bound. will this week arrive
days, it is to be run as the second section
between New York and Cleveland. Next
week it will make better time than at any
time since put on, four years ago.
In dressing down a steel axle, last Satur-
day, at the shops of the Pennsylvania Com
pany at Fort Wayne, machinist Tagtmeyer
turned off a steel shaving which, when
Strengthened. measured twenty-five feet,
which is two feet longer than the steel
shaving exhibited at the worlds fair
The Union Pacific has fallen back into it's
old method of securing business by paying
commissions, both east and west-bound, and
its competitors must follow. The most eX-
perienced passenger men say the evil of
paying commissions is more expensive to
railways than the evil Of cutting rates.
The executive committee of the Indian
apolis Car-service Association held a meet
ing yesterday in General Manager Bacon's
otlce. One OF the committee who was in
attendance said they had their usual
wrangle over the neglect of collecting de-
murrage charges, and then adjourned.
Il "a 4A0OIC L e. III ElIC II Ills III lilies.
system. is in the city on his
usual monthly rounds. There are now on
the southwestern system, as shown by the
pay rolls, a little over thirteen thousand
employees; on the Northwestern system a
few over twelve thousand, or about twenty
five thousand west of PittSburg.
The secret ballot has been abolished by
the Western Passenger Association. The
chairman recently ruled that he had the
right 10 announce any vote called for by
any member. Al appeal was taken, but the
\ chairs decision has hRan SYSTEMATICALLY tO 10
and hereafter the vote will be announced
when any member of the association calls
for it.
Robert ]. Elvin. a veteran claim agent
of the Pennsylvania Company, who has
been with the road since the Madison &
Indianapolis road was built, was at the
he now being a pensioner of the company.
Mr.. Elvin commenced work on this road
in November. 1888, and has drawn his pay
monthly for f~fty-ffve years.
The Northern Pacific is suffering materi-
ally by an action recently taken by the 500
line. The 500 has placed order books in the
hands of independent agents all along the
line of the Northern Pacific, and these pre-
paid orders are exchanged for tickets over
the 500 line at the nearest point at which
that line is struck. The Northern Pacific
is anxious to work up a boycott on the
500 if it does not discontinue its order
books.
l.. T. Day, the newly-elected chairman of
the southwestern Traffic Association, has
not yet signified his acceptance of the posi-
ton, although it is generally believed that
he will do so. a Lively little dispute has
now arisen over rates to north Texas
points, it being asserted that the Southern
Pacific is making a lower rate to Calves
ton than to points in the northern part of
tho State. Another meeting of the associa-
ton will be held in st. Louis next week.
At Milwaukee, yesterday, Judge Jenkins
| made an order in the United States Circuit
Court, authorizing the receivers of the
Northern Pacific railroad to throw up the
| leases made by the North Pacific with
twenty-five branch lines, and enter into
traffic arrangements with the same roads.
This is done to enable the receivers to
avoid paying interest on the bonds and the
sinking fund charges, which they are re-
quired to do under the leaseholds. The
Northern Pacific has lost ST. 545 from the
operation of these branch lines for the fis-
cal year ending June so. 1898, and a consid-
cradle sum since that date.