The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-10


II. Walter Webb. third vice president of
the New York Central. who has been i'll for
some months, is now resting in The Adj
rondacks and steadily improving in health.
His Illness was the result of overwork.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
is this week voting on the question of ar
niating with the American Federation or
Labor. TEE general opinion is that the
brotherhood will vote against taking such
step.
p. NJ. Seymour will to-day assume the
duties OF contracting freight agent at Co
lumbus. o., for the Baltimore AZ Ohio. For
some years past Mr.. Seymour has repre-
sented the Chicago Great Western at Pitts
burg.
Ca. Carl crumpacker; a Monon brakeman AXE man
last week, died on Monday night of his in
guries. He was q member OF the Order OF
Railway Conductors and highly esteemed
by the fraternity
Traffic Manager Graybill. of the Indian
apolis Belt road and stock yards, who badly
sprained his ankle as result of fall on
the ice few days ago, hopes next week to
obliged TO use crutches.
From July 1 to Jan. 81 the Chesa peake &
Ohio earned s6.259.OO2, an increase over the
corresponding seven months OF S1li,4 12, and
the business of the next five months
promises better results than the preceding
months in the company's fiscal year.
Major Edison j. Weeks on Monday as
agent of the Philadelphia & Reading, sue
ceeding the late c; G.: Hancock: He says
officials and no changes viii be made.
1t is said TO be the intention of the Chi
cago & Northwestern management to con-
solidate the divisions between Chicago and
Cedar Rapids and abandon Clinton as a
division HEADQUARTERS The distance from
Chicago to Cedar Rapids is 21O miles.
As a result of an investigation of the
padding system which has been going on
in wages of employees on the Ohio Valley
road eighteen engineers and firemen have
been dismissed, and 1t is said that in other
departments a number OK employees are to
be discharged.
The Terre Haute & Indianapolis proper
is seventy-three miles long. and between
, Indianapolis and Terre Haute 1t has sew
miles of which is coal branch sidings. Last
year about two miles of new siding track
was laid on this division.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS is negotiating with company at
Cumberland Gap, Va. for the establishment
of home for aged and infirm engineers at
on the site of the oIr
proposed to raise a fund OF $2OO,OO
Frank James. who has been local agent
of the Pennsylvania lines at Toledo. has
been appointed general freight and passen-
ger agent IF the Findlay Fort Wayne &
Western. and is succeeded at Toledo by
George DenrisOn, who has been with the
Pennsylvania Company some years.
Andrew Rooms, who in 1888 came to Fort
Wayne as boy and entered the service of
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne &c Chicago. will
be buried to-day at Fort Wayne: He had
been running an engine since Feb. 20, 1sbS,
most of the time a passenger engine, and
never met with serious accident. He ded
OF acute pneumonia.
Notwithstanding the fact that the gross
earnings of the Wabash for December. 1896.
were $955,S75, against $1,070,156 in December.
1888, its net earnings in December were
exhibit Which is -S certainly creditabie to the
management of Joseph Ramsey, the gen.
eral manager and his staff.
W. ID. Ewing. formerly with the Evans
intendent of the Fitchburg road. has made
himself very popular by promoting men in
the different lines of service. every man
being promoted on his merits a number
of passenger conductors are among those
he has promoted from time to time.
One of the strongest features with the
Pennsylvania lines is that its thousands of
employees are loyal to the company they
serve. a condition which put to a
severe test during the great railroad strike
of 1894. but very few out of q. 900 employees
looking with favor on the strike and still
fewer taking part in any manner in it.
George W. Gale. freight traffic manager
of the st. Louis e. San Francisco. has been
appointed to represent that road on the
board CT administration of the Southwest
Traffic Association. f. d. Russell. the gen.
eral freight agent of the same road, will
assume charge of the freight department
when Freight Traffic Manager Gale goes TO
the Southwestern board
What was left of the elegant private car
of NJ. ID. Woodford, president of the c., H.
* D., which was burned recently. was
taken to Lima, and after an examination il
was decided not to attempt to rebuild It,
For the present the officers will get along
without private car, in emergencies using
the private car of the Indiana, Decatur &
Western.
Engine 21O which the Brooks locomotive
works built for exhibition at the worlds
fair and which was sold TO the Cincinnati.
Hamilton 4 Dayton Company. has just
come out of the shops after general over
hauling. Since 1893 this engine has been
hauling the fast express between Cincinnati
and Indianapolis, doubling the road daily
until taken into the shops.
Albert Ingalls,. general utility man on the
Big Four, is in the citv for few days look
ing into the operations of the mechanical
department Of the road. He spends most of
the time at the shops and with Superintend-
ent OF Motive Power Garstang. In CONVEX
sation yesterday he said he proposed to in
form himself in the operation of every de-
partment of railroad service.