The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-11

says this IL certainly improbable, as the Two
systems tap substantially the same territory
in Ohio and Virginia.
Dewitt c.. Williams has brought suit in
the Superior Court OF Tippecanoe county
against the L., N. A. & G. for $1,000 dam
ages on account of injuries received some
years ago in the Broad Ripple wreck.
The New York Central IS this winter, like
last, pursuing the method of dispos.ng or
the woodwork of all It's condemned cars
by inviting poor people to help themselves.
with the provision that none OF the iron
shall be taken away.
John Commonford, superintendent of the
car shops of the Pennsylvania lines at CO.
lumbus. o., was in the city on Saturday for
the purpose of seeing what is needed on the
several divisions centering here in the way
of passenger and freight cars
The late associates of III. O. Pond, who has
just retired from the position of superintend-
ent of the Columbus. Shawnee & Hooking,
on Saturday presented him with an elegant
mahogany roll-top desk and easy chair and
his wife with a beautiful parlor chair.
Superintendent of Motive Power Barnes,
of the Wabash lines, is e~quipping a car COM
plete with the apparatus necessary to in
struct trainmen in air-brake appliances.
The school. for such it is called, will be eS-
tablished at Decatur. Ill. The Illinois Cen
trail has found such a school of great service
to trainmen-
DIR. Rice, chief surgeon of the Vandalia
line, has had a busy ten days of late looking
after the victims of the recent accident.
The manner he has taken care of the COM
pany'S interests and at the same time kept
the sufferers comfortable has excited much
favorable He reports the injured
all doing well.
The American Ticket Brokers Association
has decided not to fight the anti-scalping
claim it is a scheme to biacknail them. as
they allege has been done in other states
where similar bills have been introduced. The
members have contributed large sums to de-
feat the measure.
An official Of the Lake Erie & Western
says that there are but two things which
of the Indianapolis, Decatur & Western:
First, the question of getting a. good legal
title to the property; second econ /. securing
stockholders in favor of the purchase.
Edward Zeigler, who has been for two
years past with Superintendent Blizzard, of
passed through the city yesterday, en- route
for Cairo. where he will take the same po-
sition with w. g. Bayley. of the Cairo d.
formerly with the Chicago & Atlantic.
George L. Gross. Northwestern passenger
agent Of the Louisville & Nashville, who
life with Horace Scott, on the Jeffersonville,
Madison & Indianapolis. His associates at
rier and Captain James Phillips. The latter
was buried at Jacksonville on the same day
that the remains of Mr.. Cross were buried.
H. i. Bicknell, assistant trainmaster on
Pittsburg. has been appointed a division su-
perinten dent Of the Lake Erie & Western,
with headquarters at Lima, @. The appoint + int
been with the Panhandle lines twenty-one
years, commencing as a telegraph operator.
J. J. Turner selected him five. years ago as
one of his trainmasters for the Plttsburg
division.
Charles o. Scull, general passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio, is one Of the most
earnest advocates of having differentialS
apply to party and theatrical business as
well as to regular travel. He says: The
show and party business nowadays cuts no
little inquire IN regular passenger receipts,
and 1t Is for this reason that the Baltimore
& Ohio wants its proportion of the traffic.
In the early history of differentials this was
entails should not be granted in case of
parties as we'll as in regular traffic. For
my part, / cannot see any difference, and
think the cases are parallel. In view of the
justice of the case. l cannot see why any
board of arbitration should not see fit to
rule accordingly, and in my opinion the
Baltimore & Ohio will eventually be allowed
to apply differentials to parties"