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

full time.
w. II. Truesdale yesterday assumed the
duties or vice president OF the Chicago az
lis & St. Louis he has turned the entire
operating department over TO General Man
ager Mailer.
The position of general superintendent on
the Iowa Central has been abolished. III.
Voorhees,, superintendent of transportation,
has been appointed assistant s~uperintend-
ent, and j. II. Redman superintendent OF
transportation.
The Big Four Niagara Falls excursion
yesterday was a decided success. out of
indianapolis alone it took twelve well-dlled
coaches. and from the divisions west of
here twenty-siX more coaches came through
later in the day.
c. II. Walton, superintendent of the Chi
was at his headquarters on Monday for the
first time In six weeks, he having left
Logansport for Chicago the day the strike
II. W. Gays, formerly general freight
agent of the indianapolis & ST. Louis. has
been appointed traffic manager of the ST.
tiers at Alton, Ill. Mr.. Gays is considered
u very capable railroad man.
A Wabash official states that there are
now more train crews in service on the
Wabash main line than at any time in the
last three years. and every locomotive the
order Is in service.
j. t. Brooks, second vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company, says that for eight
years he has maintained single-handed a
contest against the issue of free passes to
persons occupying official positions in city,
county, State and federal governments.
The Big Four is distributing 125 carloads
of gravel for ballasting, daily, on the Chi
cago division, but is doing but little as yet
in putting in new steel. The greater part
of this division is now laid with steel rail
weighing seventy-two to eighty pounds to
the yard.
Charles Clark. formerly travelling engineer
on the Michigan division of the Big -Four,
Is running an engine on the Wabash road,
-Four, is running an engine on the same
road, both taking the places of striking
engineers.
in the boiler shops of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne K Chicago, at Fort Wayne, for
thirty years, was buried at Fort Wayne
yesterday. The shops were closed part
of the day that the employees might attend
his funeral.
General Passenger Agent Roberts, of the
Erie. is inclined to be boastful. In 1893 1885,
600 passengers were handled on the road,
and without any accident, even of a minor
character. This road carried more worlds
fair passengers than either of the other
trunk lines.
The private car of President Diaz, OF
Mexico, which came North with the Presi-
dent and some OF his friends while in this
country, has been rebuilt at the shops of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and
on Monday night left Jersey City en- route
to the City OF Mexico.
fTcSluenL carpenter, OF the chicago q
Eastern Illinois, has given positive orders
that no former employee who was known
to be an agitator or disturber, or who has
committed any violence or made any
threats, shall be allowed to re-enter the
service Of the company.
Passenger earnings of the Monon for the
last week in July were SIS, POS, against
$17,631 for the corresponding week of last
year. These figures are highly pleasing to
the officials of the road, considering that
the week of last year contained some
p q wv nrld fnir fra liz
The Pennsylvania. the Lehigh Valley and
the New York Central now have telephone
service between many of the principal sta
tons, which is greatly relieving the tele-
graph wires. The greatest objection to the
use of the telephone on important matters
is that there is no written record.
The Erie people have reached a point,
says one of the officials, where they do not
care to be favored with a differential rate
on through business, and the officials talk
very independently about the matter. For
years the Erie has been allowed a differen-
tial on both east and west-bound through
business.
The competition between the Grand Rap
ids * Indiana and the Chicago K West
Michigan is becoming quite heated. While
both are holding TO rates, it is claimed the
passenger and freight men are watching
closely Tor the interests of their respective
roads, giving the matter more attention
than in any former year, as both are in bet
ter condition to handle business of all class
es than at any former period.
The freight and passenger business of the
Evansville & Terre Haute is the heaviest
at any time in years. j. b. Cavanaugh, the
new general freight and passenger agent,
is proving a very popular man, and has
demonstrated that the T.. & T.. H., when
run on business principles, is a good road
for both gross and net earnings, as but few
roads in the ) ,ate of Indiana can be oper-
ated more economically than can this.
1t is announced that the Burlington
routes new spur. from Sheridan. Wyo.. to
Billings, Mont. is fast approaching com
pletion. This will bring the Burlington into
direct connection with Portland. Ore, and
Puget sound points, the Northern Pacific
being the connection. The new line will
make the distance via Kansas City to
portland four hundred miles shorter than
any other line. and will shorten the mile
age to Puget sound two hundred miles.
F. 2. Sargent, grand chief of the Brother
hood of Firemen, has returned
from the East to his headquarters at Terre
Haute; While absent he effected a settle
ment between the fremen and the trans
portation department of the Richmond &
Danville lines which was satisfactory to
both parties. The reduction in fremer' s
wages proposed was 20 per cent. but he
succeeded in convincing the officials of the
road that the cut was too much. The fire
men offertd to accept a reduction of 10 per
cent. and the officials consented.
Charles G.. Sisson, who became very
wealthy through the building of a number
of railways. one being the Northern rail-
road, of New Jersey, died in August, 1874.
100000, which, through the advance in value,
is now worth $4,000, coo. This large estate is
now to be divided, twenty years after the
, death of the millionaire, much of it going
named in the will but one is now living
John Hull Browning, president of the
Northern railroad, of New Jersey. Only
one of his children is now living.