The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-18

the LOUIS DIVISION OF the big our HVW
on the St Louis & Iron Mountain, is in the
city.
w ]. Keller, general travelling freight
| agent OF the Lake Shore road, has been in
| work.
John Menzies on Monday assumed the
| duties Of general Eastern agent of the
| Queen & Crescent, with headquarters at
| New York
VIM. r. McKeen, president of the Van
dalia, Is improving steadily from his severe
illness and on Monday was at his Office
| for a short time.
DR.. Ford, chief surgeon of the Big Four
| lines, Is in the city, comforting with the
employees in the different departments on
| the hospital enterprise.
| IT. s. Haines, who last week was elected
| president OF the American Railway Asso-
citation. is vice president Of the Plant sys-
| tenn OF roads IN Florida.
w. G.. Bailey superintendent of the Cairo
| division of the Big Four. was in the city
| yesterday for a conference with General
| superintendent VanWinkie.
Chalmers Brown, president of the Railway
| Officials and Employees Association. has
| gone 20 West Baden for weeks stay. He
has not been well for some days.
| 1t is understood that at the coming
nual meetings of the master mechanics and
| master car builders steps will be taken
to consolidate the two associations.
| j. f. Vallery, general travelling freight
| agent Of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy,
Is spending two three days in the city
looking after the company's interests.
p. f. Marshall general yardmaster of the
| Baltimore * Ohio lines at Cincinnati, has
| been in the city for couple of days. the
guest of J. Q. Hicks. of the Big Four.
The controversy between President Smith,
dent FELTON,. of the Queen & Crescent, over
recent rate troubles does not appear to have
| ended.
c. l.. Marshall, who represented the Cen
| trail States Dispatch at Peoria, ILL.,, until
| April J. is in the city. He expects, on May
!. TO take good position on the Peoria &
| Eastern.
George r. Blanchard. chairman of the
Central Traffic Association, has published
| before the United States Senate committee
on interstate commerce.
William Bells. general manager of the
Railway officials and Employees Assocla-
ton, returned from Mount Clements, Mich.
yesterday, free from rheumatic troubles and
in good shape for business.
Conductor McVay, of the Big Four, has
been given one of the new cabooses to run
somely at considerable expense with car
pets, drapery and valuable pictures.
| w. r.. Looney has resigned as master
car builder of the Louisville, Evansville az
| duties of il will be looked after by j. h.
Lape superintendent OF motive power.
Benjamin Kelsey ticket agent of the Big
Four was yesterday the recipient of a
| number of kilograms from Big Four Off
Gals and others who know him, expressing
| sympathy with him in his severe affliction.
i
man who for some years represented the
Northern Pacific in the East, has been
| Minneanoiis Passenpsr Associetion taLing
charge on the 18th.
| Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dala main line, will occupy as offices in
| ST. Louis the rooms formerly used by Col.
| Joseph Hill, when general superintendent,
and N X. Elliott, general superintendent.
| Will take rooms in the new station at Terre
| Haute.
| In March the report of William Sullivan
| agent OF the Big Four at this point shows
that 1855 cars were loaded and unloaded
at the city freight depots at cost of 81
| cents per car. The heaviest days business
| was on March 26, when 336 carloads of
| freight were handled.
An Eastern paper intimates that when
Drexel * Morgan get their Southern lines
into shape they will! give Oscar Murray
| very important position In handling the
celIent record on the Big Four lines, and
Drexel Il Morgan are strong hackers of
| him as a railroad man.
The parties who are building the Wis
consin & Michigan road. 10 connect with
the 500 line and oDen to the market ex-
tensive tracts of timber land. have pur
chased the railroad track which was in
the worlds fair grounds. of which there
was nearly fifty miles. The rail is steel
weighing seventy pounds to the yard.
| meeting viii be held to-day of both
freight and passenger men in Chicago to
which will not be in violation of the inter
state-comnerce act A point has been
reached where both passenger and freight
| officials claim that pools a necessity
to save the railways from bankruptcy
The trainmen the Monon received no
tice OF a ten-per-cent. reduction in their
| wages yesterday, and il Is understood that
| other departments will receive similar no.
tice. Talks with some of the engineers and
| other employees show that they take a sensi-
Bile view of the matter. and are glad that
General Manager McDoel so long avoided
such reduction.
ID. p. Corwin. secretary and treasurer of
4 - irCrin G. aVla h.,
| resigned, giving as his reason that private
interests engross his time. Mr.. Corwin
| has held the position since 1871 and has
Kept the receipts of the controller of the
| Pennsylvania railroad for every cent
| handled by him during the twenty-three
years he has held the position.
| Grievance committees of the Queen &
| Crescent are lingering about the office of
natl but are getting little comfort Pres-
dent FELTON, telling them that the reduction
of wages is a necessity, and that his SAL
airy is reduced with others. 1t has leaked
| out that the reduction is sanctioned by the
court which appointed Mr.. FELTON, receiver.
The stockholders OF the Ohio Valley rail-
way have elected the following board of di-
rectors: Il. Randolph Robinson and c. E.
Farchilds. of New York: c. Kelsey Jordan
COLES and James Montgomery, Evansville,
Ind; ;. ). Brown, of Pittsburg, and Ar
| thur Carey, of Louisville. This board sue
ceeds what is known as the Huntington
| board.
The American Railway Union promoters
| or agitators. it is stated using their
| best efforts to induce the trainmen the
| Chicago & Eastern Illinois to strike against
| the proposed reduction in wages. The fire.
men on that road voted almost unanimous
| ~ to strike. and 1t is these men the union
| Is seeking to influence. The conservative
members of the old brotherhoods IL is
| stated, are not particularly susceptible 10
the solicitations of the members OF this
| new order.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania Com
pany will in the near future take a por-
ton OF the Vandalia yards West street
| for a yard for their passenger coaches so
much more convenient would ii be to make
| up trains and get extra coach when
needed than are their present yards east
OF the city. Within the next twelve months
several important changes may be looked
for, one the abandoning of the present
Nandalia freight depot and doing all the
work at the city freight depots OF the Penn
sylvania Company, which will be consider
ably enlarged if the programme contem-
| plated is carried out.
Receiver II. c. Payne. of the Northern
Pacific, has been elected n director and
| president of the Northern Pacific and the
| Chicago & Calumet railroads, to succeed
| David =. Wegg, resigned. The roads which
| constitute the Chicago terminals of the
Northern Pacific have passed into the hands
of the latter company, the deal by which
it recovered the properties having been con-
/ summated at a meeting OF the parties in
terested in Chicago. The election of direct
ors of the side companies will be held some
time this week. President Payne says the
new and unexpected step was taken sim
nj hal he Nprt 1ar afr