The Indianapolis journal., 1894-07-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Pluck of the Pennsylvania Admired
by u business Nan.

by business Man.
Said merchant on South Meridian street,
who has watched the movements in relation
to the strike: "One can but admire the
pluck the Pennsylvania Company and
the Vandalia have shown in the movement
of their trains in defiance of the strikers.
Railroad men, business men, and even the
strikers admit that 1t is wonderful This is
only the result of training the men to be
loyal and promoting them as opportunity
offers. and a thorough system of doing
things. AS the long express trains with
two or three Pullmans attached, come into
the station and depart, in view of the
crowds, who are either there as strikers or
lockers on, and everything moves like
clockwork, the power of thorough organi-
zation is illustrated in a marked manner,
and calls for expressions of appreciation
on the part of every law and order-loving
man"
Lest this might be taken as reflection
some of the other roads which have been
less fortunate, the Big Four, for instance,
it is proper to state that reflection is
intended. The conditions the Big Four
are much different. The Pennsylvania has
for forty years been laying the foundation
for this great system of roads and of op-
Grating them, while the Big Four is ten
roads, practically, thrown together by con-
were operated on about as many different
methods as there are different descriptions
OF engines on that system. Since Mr.. Van
Wrinkle, a year ago, became general SUPER
intendent, a marked advance has been
made in systematizing matters on the road
and harmonizing the methods of operating
the lines, and ii is no fault of his that the
men on any division go OUT this is evil
denced in the fact that grievances had
been presented by the men who went out.
The manner the trains of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton have been moved is
also very creditable. One of the strong
points with the Pennsylvania Company is
that in the selection of men it exercises
more than ordinary care to see that they
are men who will be loyal and obedient to
SuperiOrS. In address delivered before
the railroad men at Pittsburg, by Chauncey
NJ. Depew, he said the loyalty of the en-
ployes of the Pennsylvania road was un-
surpassed by those Of any railroad in the
world.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
There are now twenty high officials of
Western lines abroad.
President Renhart, of the Santa Fe, is
resting at Warm Springs, Va.
J. Lowrie Bell entered upon his duties
as traffic manager of the Jersey Central
on Monday last
The Western passenger agents have
fallen in line and will extend Asbury Park
excursion tickets to Sept. l.
Charles Bishop, the well-known Adams
Express messenger, was married on Mon
day to a young lady of New Albany, Ind.
Z. w. Hosmer, who for nearly quarter
of century has been car inspector OF
the Panhandle line at Logansport, died in
that city Tuesday, of kidney trouble.
General Passenger Agent Bassett, of the
Pittsburg Western, who went to the
Pacific coast on a notwithstanding tour, is
held at Sacramento by the Pullman strike.
officers, agents and employees of the new
Southern railway will now breathe easier,
as the new traffic manager, j. NJ. Culp,
has by circular said that all, until further
notice, are retain their respective posi-
TONS
None of the employees of the Evans
now out of the employment of the COM
pany have called for their pay, although
agents at stations were authorized to pay
them. $50 l~ontu
England road to announce that hereafter
all repairs to cars will be done by con-
tract, and that the company VIII VIII nav. nave no
further need for painters, upholsterers and
carpenters.
The. security holders of the Wabash, it
is stated, approve the companys 5 not pay
amounting to $4,000, payable July l, as
the earnings of the road the last few
| months did not justify ii.
President ingalls,, of the Big Four and
ager Walker of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
it is said, will cut short their visit in Eu-
rope and return early as possible on
account of the strike troubles.
E. NJ Neel, superintendent of the st.
Louis division of the Big Four, who a
month ago went to the Pacific coast, re-
| turned on Tuesday. He was detained on
| the Santa Fe road by a strike, and on
| reaching home ran into strike of his
| own.
The likelihood of pooling being legalized
| is causing much speculation as to who Will
| be the joint agents in the more important
| Western railroad centers George Bianch-
| ard is to be commissioner, 1t is said, and
| will have the appointment of a large num-
| ber of joint agents
| The Chicago Railway Age terms the
American Railway Union the anti-rail-
| way upas.'' 1t advises the brotherhoods OF
| engineers, firemen, trainmen and switch
| men not to pull the A. r. 7. chestnuts
| out of the fire, letting those who put them
| in burn their fingers in getting them out.
The Vandalia is being greatly benefited
| by the tie-up of the St. Louis division
| of the Big Four which is singular feat
| ure of the strike, as the Big Four, when
| the Vandalia, which hauls ten each way
| daily, is running it's trains unmolested.
Considering the lively rate war which
| has been in progress for some weeks on
| Southern lines the exhibit of earnings of
| the Louisville & Nashville for May is
| much of a surprise The gross earnings
| amounted to 81, 49, 469, a decrease as COM
| pared with May, 1893, of $2S0.144 The net
| earnings were $449,4S6, decrease this
year of $61,62S.
| The indianapolis superintendent asso-
| citation held it's regular meeting yesterday
ard there was a full attendance. 1t was
| decided to hold meetings daily at 10 o'clock
| until the strike troubles were over. Super
intendent Mansfield, of the indianapolis d
| Vincennes was appointed as compiler of
| all information to be furnished to the
| papers regarding the strike, or matters
| indirectly connected with ii which the pub
| lie would be interested in.
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