The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-31

ern. vice II. r. Kramer. promoted; Mr..
Harry has been train dispatcher of the L.
+. * w. for some years.
NJ. V. b. Edgerly, of the Massachusetts
Mutual Life Insurance Company, az SPRING
field, has resigned from the Atch;son pro-
tective committee.
II. Lawrence, ar engineer on the Chicago
& Eastern illinois, on Sept. l will be pro-
noted to be travelling engineer, a new
position on tina road.
Charles S. Crane. the newly appointed
general passenger agent of the Wabash,
has been with that company twenty years,
commencing as a clerk at Toledo.
e A. Ford. general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg,
who has been on the Pacific coast FOR a
month, to-day returns to his headquarters
at Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania officials state hat more i'm
migrants have passed through Pittsburg
this year westward than in any season for
several years, and double as many as IN
the first eight months OF 1888.
a prominent railroad official says that
Aldace Walker takes charge of the Atchi-
son, Topeka e. Santa Fee about the time
should make a good showing.
The new crop Of cotton is beginning to
move. and J. a. Cavanaugh. superintendent
yesterday TO get matters in shape to handle
the business with promptness.
j. H. McA1pin, train. dispatcher Of the
indianapolis division or the pennsylvania
itto, 10 lllCIllOliCu do btiuS PlOOhbly AC
man who will succeed Mr.. May as train
master Of the Richmond division.
On Sept. l DR.. j. II. Barnfield will retire
as medical Of the Pennsylvania
Voluntary Relief Department at Fort
Wayne, and will be succeeded by DR.. Z. r.
Wagner. now located at Logansport.
The hearing of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie
and the Panhandle lines In their demands
for differentials between Pittsburg and
Chicago, which was to have taken place
Sept. IL has been postponed until Oct. 3.
c. S. Crane, recently appointed general
passenger agent of the Wabash, says no
changes will be made in the men in his de-
partment, the force of the late France
Chandler having been an unusually good
one.
Engine 553 has just been turned out of
the shops of the Peoria & Eastern, at
Urbana, ILL.,, built in these shops from the
wheels up, and expert mechanics and en-
gineers say Ii is a very creditable piece of
machinery.
The first seven months OF this year the
Pennsylvania lines east and west of Pitts
burg were SIS. 6S1, 40i behind in gross earn
ings, compared with the corresponding sew
en- months of 1893. and below last year in
net earnings s~S,Si9,0S6.
DR.. William Breyfogle, of Monon fame,
seems to have gotten on top again fnan-
cially. In the deal for the consolidation of
the Bedford quarries, the Bedford Belt
road and the Evansville, ymou & Rich
mond he gets 100000 of the first mort
gage bonds on the properties, 100000 of the
second mortgage bonds and 2,OVo,OO0 cap
ltal STOCK. III Is stated tnat he cOulQ un-
load his securities at a profit which would
make. him quite independent.
j. G. Hurkell, president Of the South At
lantic & Ohio, announces that Mr.. Conk-
lin, general manager, Will retire to-day.
In making this announcement the president,
on behalf of the company and board of di-
rSctors, expresses the great regret felt ny
them in losing the services OF Mr.. Conklin
and their high appreciation of the same.
The duties heretofore performed by Mr..
Conklin will. after the LIST of September,
he nprfOrmP6 nv the president.
The Baltimore & Ohio is experimenting
with three new ideas that promise to make
locomotives both noiseless and smokeless.
The steam eXhaustS through a group of
small pipes and passes out of the stack
noiselessly, not making the noisy pun loco
motives now do. 1t is said its operation
lessons the quantity Of coal consumed, and
a new smoke burner has been patented
which promises to make locomotives smoke
less. The smoke burner is the invention of
| the master mechanic of the road.
The intimation that Frank G.. Darlington,
the superintendent of the indianapolis divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania lines, might be
to labor unions, caused him to remark yes
terday that every mar discharged was dis
missed for disloyalty to the company at the
time of the strike; he did not know that
any belonged to any union, but he did know
they were disloyal and discharged them.
Since their dismissal he has been informed
that most of those dismissed for disloyalty
were not members of any labor organiZa-
ton.
Encouragement Smith, the New Albany
Ledger says, has sent a letter to the re-
| ceivsrs OF the Louisville, Evansville & St.
Louis, threatening to take quo warranto
| proceedings against the road, alleging that
its taxes had not been paid for three years.
A reporter of the Ledger paid a visit to
the offices of both the county and city
treasurers, and there learned that the L.,
f.. IL st. l.. was only delinquent to Floyd
county or the last semi-annual payment
of the present years tax. and delinquent
to the city for only a part Of last years
| LaXeS. having paid regularly in part. The
| Ledger, therefore, presumes that what is
true in relation to the taxes of this road
in the city of New Albany and Floyd
| county is also true in relation to the pay
ment of its taxes, at least in part, and 10
the extent of it's financial ability, in the
other counties in Indiana.