The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-04
The RAILROAD Y. NJ. c. A.

e. T. Stacy, secretary OF the executive
committee of the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION, reports a. decided progress in
1895 in the railroad branches Of the State,
at Indianapolis especially. He says there
is scarcely another State of equal size and
population that affords SO good an OPP
portunity for the railroad department Of the
Young Mems Christian Association as In
diana. Indianapolis has a great reputation
as a railroad center, and none of the trunk
lines running TO Chicago has less than one
divisional point in Indiana. Reckoning all
the trainmen, shop men, etc, and the en-
ployes of the express and telegraph COM
panies and railway mail service, there are
in the neighborhood of twenty-five thousand
men at divisional and terminal points III
Indiana where railroad branches OF the
Young Mems Christian Association are
needed. Two of the Oldest branches are
those at Elkhart and Fort. Wayne. The
Lake Shore company has long rendered
substantial assistance to the railroad as
to still further broaden the work are now
under consideration. The branch at fort
Wayne has the regular financial support or
the Pennsylvania. theVG. r. & l.. the Wa,
bash. and the Nickel-plate companies and
has property worth $1,000, which is nearly
out of debt The State committee, after
aa 1S tne ta poev of em
phasZing this feature OF its work, and one
result was the organization of the branch
at Logansport, in 1891, TO which the Penn-
In 1893, by request Of the old Railroad
Mems Reading Club, at Columbus. Ind,
the State committee reorganized the club
into a. railroad association. After carefui
study of the field in and about indianapolis,
and repeated efforts to establish the hrst
branch in the neghborhood OF the Union
Station, the State committee has begun TO
establish branches first at the outlying
suburbs, where there are large NUMBERS or
shop men and trainmen, and where the
need is perhaps greatest so far as single
lines are concerned. The splendid branch
at Brigh;wood is the first fruit of this
policy. This branch was opened in October.
operates night and day, and is steadily
growing In popularity with the Big -Four
men,. The next step contemplated is
bran for the Panhandle employees on
EasWwashngton street, WHICH Will also
be of some benefit to the C., III. & ID, men.
In the course of time another branch will
be established on West Washington street,
and the plan of branch in the neighbor-
hood of the Union Station has not been
dropped. but will come more In the nature
of "the keystone OF the arch, as that is
the only point where the employees OF every
Indianapolis line Will be benefited: These
Indiana railroad branches have at present
a membership of nearly LOO, nearly all
of whom are railroad employees.
The State committee has also now In
hand preliminary steps to the organization
the j., a. N; at Washington, on the r. &,
o. s. w, and at Lafayette, where large num-
bers of the Monon employees have recently
been located. The Indiana state committee
has gained the reputation of being the
most progressive in the country in the
matter of developing its RAILROAD depart
ment. The subcommittee especially in
charge OF this line of work is composed OF
@. s. Rhoads. superintendent telegraph, Big
Four; ]. F. Wallick, district superintendent
Western Union Telegraph Company; j. NJ.
I ,indley, road foreman of engines. Van
dalia line; A Galloway, superintendent c..
n q D.; w. j. Lewis, treasurer p, d. &
%. The present secretaries of the State
committee are z. f. Stacy and NJ. A. Hol-