The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-25

will be able to pay every dollar of the OBJ
legation then accruing without borrowing
cent, it is stated officially
The report that the Wabash manage
ment had decided to adopt the merit sys-
tenn with its employees was premature; they
have the matter up for consideration, how
ever.
The repair department of the Indiana
Car and Foundry Company is still in oper-
alton, and Manager McAlpine has fifty or
more men at work, largely repairing line
cars.
w. B. Adams. general roadmaster of the
Wabash railway, who fer some months was
so i'll that his life was despaired of, has
fully recovered his health and resumed his
usual vocation.
The, physicians of George B. Roberts,
president of the Pennsylvania lines. on
Tuesday expressed the opinion that he had
passed the critical point in his illness and
his recovery is now expected to be rapid.
George D. Thuckston. of the Vandalia
yards at St. Louis, will succeed George
dalia- at Terre Haute, Oct. 1, and Harry
Stockman will take his place at St Louis.
A G. Barber, railway representative of
the Valentine Varnish Company is in the
city. Mr. Barber was for a long series of
years master car builder of the Boston q
Albany. He is a resident of Boston, Mass
The Wabash hospital at Peru now has
but six patients, the smallest number in
years. There has been a remarka Bile ex-
emption fl ON ccideAts and sickness among
the employees of the Wabash lines the last
summer.
Andrew J. Poppleton died at Omaha yes
terday, aged sixty-six. He was a leading
railroad lawyer and was the first general
solicitor of the Union Pacific, with head
quarters at Omaha, where he settled in it's
early days.
Western lines have voted favorably
proposition to abolish all stop-over privi-
lege in connection with tourist business to
Utah and Montana points, and TO make all
tickets to those points good for continuous
passage only.
Henry X aIIer fo, wars CON
ductor on the Pennsylvania, died on Tues
day. He had been in tue comPeay:S employ
forty-rwo years, commencing a freight
brakeman. He was prominent in the
Order of Railway Conductors.
The sample furniture built at the
Fort Wayne shops of the Pennsylvania
the company has ordered twenty-five built
at once. They are ten feet longer than any
furniture car built for the company be-
fore.
The Toledo St Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of September $43,-
06023, an increase over the corresponding
Sept. q the road earned 1921. 0S90l, in
crease over the same period of 1895. of $780,
200.43.
VIM. Gibson, superintendent of the Gin
cnnau and SandusKy divisions of the Big
Four, who retireS on Oct. l to go with the
Baltimore & Ohio. has within the last few
weeks been offered a good position on one
OF the Northwestern systems and on the
Wabash lines.
F. A. Hustled. formerly superintendent of
the indianapolis division of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton lines, now superintend-
ent of the Cincinnati division, has re-
signed and accepted a similar position with
the Baltimore & Ohio, with headquarters
al Cumberland.
The earnings of the Wagner Palace Car
Company for the year ending June 80 were
$500 33, as shown by the annual report
an increase over the preceding year of $780,
391. Dividends amounting to 81, $40, 600 were
pald during the year, and a surplus of
S47, S91 was left.
The headquarters of the division super
intendent and train dispatchers on the
Kansas City division OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee 81 st. Paul will, on Oct l. be re-
moved from Chilncothe Mo- to Ottumwa
la, and c. Romes will be appointed chief
train dispatcher.
The new roundhouse of the Big Four
and the annex shops at East ST. Louis
completed and the roundhouse was occu-
pied for the first time yesterday. Most of
the machinery is yet to be put in position
in the annex shops, where only light re-
pair work will be done
The Monon's fast train from INDIANAPOLIS
to Chicago, covering the distance in four
hours and forty-five minutes, is causing
considerable comment in the railroad world
for the reason that between Indianapolis
and the city limits of Chicago it is one of
the fastest scheduled trains in the country.
c. f. Fink car service superintendent of
the Chicago & West Michigan, in the
city yesterday. He states that for the last
ten weeks from seventy-tive to one hum
dred cars have been lsaoed for Southern
points with peaches. This crop is about
at its end, but at points the line fifty
to sixty carloads of apples are being loaded
daily.
Receiver Murray, of the Baltimore &
Ohio in pursuance of his policy to bring
the B. Q. up to the standard, has re-
Gently contracted for improvements at
Locust Point to cost $4,000; at Cumber-
land, improvements to the yards, to cost
$4,000; for improvement in the alignment
of the road between Tabb. Station and
North Mountain, to cost $4,000.
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agent of the Chicago Great Western, at
Kansas City and will have complete juris-
diction over the company's affairs at that
point. This practically is a new position
in the railroad service and was first intro
duced by the Pennsylvania lines. The posi-
ton carries with it more authority than
does that of a division superintendent.
Hon. James f. Joy died at Detroit quite
suddenly yesterday of heart disease. He
was We'll known in railroad circles, having
been in the service until too advance in
years to do active work. He was eighty
six years of age. Mr.. Joy entered railroad
service in 1916 an attorney for the Michi-
gan Central was subsequently connected
with the Illinois Central was one of the
chief promoters of the Chicago, Darlington
q quincy and for many years after it was
built was its president In 1867 he accepted
the presidency of the Michigan Central
of the company. Since he became unable
to do arduous work he has been president
of the Detroit Union Railway Company
ard treasurer of the Union Station
The Interstate-commer Commission
convened at Kansas City yesterday and
continued its Investigation into the recon-
signment of Atlantic seaboard shipments
now in vogue in Kansas City with a view
of determining whether it is legal and car
ried on in good faith by the railroads. The
whole trouble, grain men assert, is simply
the outgrowth of an enmity of Omaha
against Kansas City. engendered by the
fact that the latter city is open market
while Omaha is not. j. y. Monroe. freight
traffic manager of the Union Pacific ex-
planned the consignment method to the
commissioners and emphatically denied any
preferences to any consignor or consigned
He denied that his road had anything to
do with Omaha being an open market