The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-08

tees are TO report on matters which have
been pending for some months.
J. ". Tfttmore has been appointed general
Moines Northern x Western. The position
OF general manager on that road has been
With the taxing effect of the summer
time table the Vandalia will have two
through passenger trains each way between
Terre Haute and ST. Joseph over the Mich
igan division
The train dispatchers on the Michigan
division OF the Vandalia will have their
headquarters removed from Terre Haute
20 Logansport as soon as rooms can be
fitted up for offices.
The insurance department of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers has been
Incorporated under the title of the Loco
motive Engineers Mutual Life and Acct
dent Association. The president is A. b.
Youngson. of Cleveland, o.
Z. t. Kensill, who. eighteen years ago,
run an engine on what is now the Pan
handle lines, is visiting friends in this Sec
ton. He is now running a locomotive on
the Northern Pacific.
Rev. Livingston willard, who died in
Greenwich, Conn.,. last week. was in his
early life a civil engineer and assisted in
the construction of the Lake Shore road
across northern Indiana.
With the taking effect of the summer
the Big Four, Train IL, now arriving at
2:55 p. M, will be run as Train 8, and
Train IL will leave st. Louis at 2:30 p. M
A. J. Cassatt, vice president Of the Penn
-incorporators OF a company which proposes
to build a bride across the Delaware river
TO connect Philadelphia and Camden. N. j.
S. Z. Thomas has been appointed agent
of the Big Four at Wabash, vice G. n.
Horton. resigned. This Is a promotion for
Mr.. Thomas, he having for some years
been chief clerk in the Big Four offices at
Anderson, Ind.
L. S. Thorne has been appointed general
manager of the Texas Pacific and j. w.
Everman assistant general manager. Mr..
ent of the road and has been with the Tex
as Pacific since 1878; Mr.. Everman since
1850.
The boats OF the Lake Michigan and Lake
Superior transportation company are to
carry flour between Duluth and Benton
Harbor, turning the business over to the
Big -Four at, Benton HarDor. Heretofore
this business has gone via Detroit and To-
ledo.
Since Nov. 1, when the Ohio & Mississippi
became a part of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern system, the gross earnings of
the consolidated lines have fallen 1858, 7S6 be-
low those OF the corresponding period last
year, while the net earnings increased, so
great were the economies practiced, $5,5O5.
Recently a short interview with c. f.
Schaff, general utility man OF the Big Four,
was published in the Journal. in which he
| said any conductor who had been dismissed
could readily obtain the cause therefor by
applying to the general passenger agent.
Some of the outside press are crediting ].
w. Morris, a prominent member of the Or
der Of Railway Conductors. with saying il,
and 1t troubles him. His name was used in
the interview by Mr.. Schaff to show that
the dismissal of the conductors was not a
blow at the brotherhood.
| The New York Mail and Express states
that the press clubs OF that city and Pilla-
delphia were much disappointed that Geo.
w. Boyd, assistant general passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania, could not accompany
them on their trip to Atlanta to attend
the meeting OF the National League of
Press Clubs, adding that Mr.. Boyd's record
in providing comfortable accommodations
| for Travellers, from the special trains made
up for the United States Presidents or for
| distinguished visitors from abroad TO the
handling OF the everyday passenger bust
ness of the Pennsylvania railroad, is such
that he has become one of the most pop
ular railroad men in the country among
travellers. Mr.. Boyd is in New York several
times every month, and for several months
past has confined his visits so strictly TO
business that his absence from social and
other gatherings is regretted.