The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28


which is remarkable time when the mercury
is at zero and a stiff breeze against the
train much of the distance.
Mention was made recently that II. o.
Pond was, on the LIST of February, to retire
as superintendent of the Columbus, Sandus-
Ky a. Hooking road. and that William
Thornburgh is to be his successor. Mr.
Thornburgh Is an old Bee Line man. first q s
passenger conductor, then trainmaster OF
the Columbus and Cincinnati divisions.
II is one year since the Louisville & Nash
Vile made reduction of 10 per cent. in
the wages of it's employees with the under
standing that at the end of one year they
should be restored did the business of the
company justify II, but at present the road
earnings are failing $50 to $50 per week be-
i iSN 'nose Oh the corresponding pefi0u Oh
Oscar Murray. vice-president and freight
traff1c manager of the Big Four lines, went
to Cleveland last night to confer with the
Vanderbilt people about rate matters. There
Is a growing feeling that Some action should
be taken looking to restoring East-bound
rates. lest the generalization reaches West
bound rates when the spring traffic begins
to move.
Indications now are that d. T. McCabe
general freight agent of the Pennsylvan MIA
company. will have his duties increased to
looking after the Vandalia, and that n. w.
Taylor, who has been H. W. Hibbard's
right-hand man for fifteen years, will be
appointed assistant general freight agent
Possibly like position Will be created for
A. ID. Pendleton, with headquarters at In
dianapols.
The financial disaster which has over
taken 50 many of the railway corporations,
large and small, in the last two years, In
the United States has affected but one
New England road, the New York & New
cloud in prosperous as we'll as in depressed
times. New England roads have felt the
til now. and the outlook is much brighter
for them.
H. A. Fleming, an employee on the Lake
shore road. has invented a contriyance
of catching and delivering mail when a
train is in motion. 1t has been tested
eided success, catching mail bags and de-
Hvering them when running sixty. miles
an hour. So well is the invention thought
of that number of moneyed men of Erie
have formed company with 100000 capital
to place the invention on the market.
w. a. Fisher. general passenger agent of
ceived letter from an Ohio clergyman
asking for a half-fare clergyman's permit:
Mr.. Fisher sent the permit, accompanied
by n letter, in which he expressed his will
ingness to so favor the clergy, and in reply
received the following lines from the min
lister:
May success be yours in every way,
In business life and care,
May 1t be our happy lot some day,
To meet each other over there"
Some of the Eastern lines have already
broken the agreement recently entered into
to pay but six mills per mile for the use
Of foreign cars or private companies cars.
Shore lines have withdrawn from the agre-
ment, and before the month closes it is
said other strong lines will do SO. The
we're blow TO the private companies who
have been furnishing. cars to both rich
not maintain the cars and realize any in
terest on the money invested.
Shortly after leaving the Indiana, Bloom
ager Mai. B. 5. Henning ' originated n the
pan of subway connection between New
York and Brooklyn through which trains
friends made light of his proposition. and
none for a moment thought of giving him
financial aid. Now the enterprise has many
friends, and is likely to be undertaken as
as the finances of the country take a
better shape. A New York paper says if
scheme would have been undertaken when
he suggested the subway connection
1t is commented on favorably that through
the last three days of unusually severe
weather for railroadng in Ohio. Indiana
and Illinois the through as well as the
local passenger trains have been running
the worst ever experienced in this section,
the night trains were not more than a
half hour late. In speaking of this su-
of the roads would have abandoned trains,
so bad was the weather Friday night, or
at least would not have thought of max
ties for moving trains have overcome al.
the dangers the elements offer, unless it
H. r. Dering. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines west, comes
to the defense of the clergymen. He says:
Il have seldom found that our permits
issued to clergymen have been misused.
We are extremely cautious in granting the
desired card and the condition agreed to
by the holder are such that man with
conscience could misuse or trade upon
the privileges accorded. When clergy
man from a distant State applies in person
for a permit we insist on his Identification
as rigidly as does teller When check
is presented for payment by a person UNI
known to the bank, and if there has been
misuse Of the clerical orders in question
the blame rests not 50 much with the
ministerial class as with the passenger de-
cards to be issued without proper means
OF Identification being employed. The clergy
are not generally overburdened with this
worlds goods; their travelling. is usually
in the line of their duties. and personally
it has always been pleasure to me to pass
the attendant conditions permit of the