The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-09

greatly pleased with the tests made and
will recommend its adoption by the Penn
sylvana-
An order has Just been issued reducing 10
per cent. the wages of all employees OF the
Buffalo. Rochester * Pittsburg road who re-
ceive over so per month. The reduction will
affect almost five hundred men, and those
employed by the coal companies and railroad
together number over 1000
The committee Of the roads north of the
Ohio river on relations with Southern roads
were in session here yesterday, talking
over the division of percentages, but the
affairs of the roads south of the river are
so demoralized that but little of impor-
lance was DONE and nothing that will af-
feet rates.
B. F. Wilson, for many years with the
Chicago * Alton, has been appointed gen.
eral agent Of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf with Headquarters at Joplin, Mo.
The Chicago * Northwestern has eS-
tablished an Office at st. Louis and appoint
ed George +. Brigham general agent for
that territory.
There were present at the meeting of the
executive committee of the Vandalia James
McCrea, vice president of the Pennsylvania
Company; John T.. Davidson, treasurer;
John c.. Williams vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Nandalia, and George
p; Harrington, secretary OF the Vandalia
The business was wholly in relation TO the
finances of the Vandalia, without interest
to outsiders.
The seventh international convention of
the railroad department of the Young Men
Christian Association will be held in New
York city, commencing March % There
are now ninety-five local associations of
this character in this country, with mem
bership of 23.O0o-railroad employees. The
most prosperous local association in this
State is at Fort Wayne. 1t has become
self-supporting.
cation the suit of j. Kennedy Tod 81 Co.
against the Kentucky Union railroad has
run it's course. and the railroad will be
sold at public auction at the Lexington
courthouse next Monday morning. The
Kentucky Union railroad is about one nun
dred miles long and the road is to be sold
fixed at $1,0O0,0J0.
The suit. involving $1,000. to foreclose a
mortgage on the Pittsburg, Akron & West
ern railroad will be withdrawn. This is the
outcome of agreement between the re-
ceiver, w. a. Lynch, and the bOndhOlderS,
by which receivers certificates will be issued
to pay off floating indebtedness due from
construction work and for the Improvement
OF the line. The certificates run two years,
and during that time the receiver will
operate the road.
In regard to the statement of the friends
of d. j. Mackey TO the effect that the
Evansville q Richmond would have been
built on to Richmond and eventually to To-
ledo had not the Pennsylvania Company
taken steps to prevent the Mackey syndicate
placing their bonds Mr. McCrea said ii was
the most absurd statement he had read in
many years He knew that the Pennsyl-
vania Company had never, by word or act,
done anything to defeat that scheme Of Mr..
Mackey'S.
Employees in the Big Four shops at Wa
bash have been notified that there will be a
reduction in working hours to forty-two
hours per week. According to the bulletin
issued the men will work eight hours the
first four days each week, six hours the fifth
day and four hours the sixth day. As the
men are paid by the hour this is equivalent
to a cut in wages. There was reduction in
pay month ago, and though the men do
not fancy the second cut, there Will be no
trouble. as the management says it will b.
only temporary.