The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-02

superintendent. He was but twenty-five
years DID, but had qualified himself for
bright future
NJ r. Maxwell. assistant general freight
agent of the Lake Erie & Western, returned
yesterday from two weeks vacation spent
in Vermont.
George Lindsay who has been elected
vice president OF the National Assertion
of Master Blacksmiths, has been master
smith on the Evansville Terre Haute for
sixteen years. and stands high in his
branch of the service.
Fast Mail Train 43, which leaves Cleve-
land at p. m, reaches Indianapolis AT
11:45. p. m, making the run in six hours
popular train. 1t reaches st. Louis at 1870
a. m, the quickest time ever made between
Cleveland and st. Louis.
c. Christie, trainmaster, has been pro-
NOTED 20 superintendent of the West Shore
roads eastern division, vice j. III. Hurts
who succeeded De Witt Moon on the Rome,
WATERFOWL & Ogdensburg, who comes to
indianapolis as assistant general super
intendent of the Lake Erie q Western.
President Spencer, of the Southern Rail-
way, has issued his annual statement, and
il shows gross earnings OF the lines for
the year ended June 80 to have been
year of s3,O51,766. Net earnings were
$40, $50, All, an increase of s54S5S4. During
the year sl5O0.OcO was paid in dividends.
George Gould and party, when travelling
on special train last July broke rheas all
covering the 2T2 miles in four hours and
fifty-five minutes, and are said TO be much
eiated over the run. One section OF 2OS
miles was run in 1S3 minutes, and the
nintey-seven miles from Detroit to Mont
pelier was covered in eighty minutes.
1t is learned from an official source that
as a result of the conferences between
traffic officials of the Lackawanna, the
Lake Shore. the Michigan Central and the
Big Four, an understanding has been
reached by which the Lackawanna will get
large percentage of the New England
New Haven & Hartford, which will mater
tally increase the traffic of the Lacka-
wanna
There is a strong feeling in both labor
and railroad circles that the announcement
from Chicago last week OF the general
strike of trainmen was a clever scheme to
entrap the railroad men. short time ago
an organization was formed at Denver for
the purpose of combining under one head
all of the labor organizations among the
men working for the different companies.
1t was to take in the engineers, the nre-
men, conductors and brakemen, and make
a general railroad organization. Many of
the bodies refused to have anything to do
with the Capitalization scheme, and 1t is
thought by some now that the promoters
of this movement have sought to give a
common cause for all workmen to bring
them into a single organization, where they
might work against the railroads with
An amusing incident regarding John s.
Lazarus, traffic manager of the Indiana,
Decatur & Western, is related by A. j.
Smith, general passenger agent OF the
Lake Shore road, formerly general passen-
ger agent of the Bee-lne, and as Mr. Laza-
rus is now such stickler for full rates
the incident will be the more appreciated.
When the Bee-line took control of the In
dianapolis d st. Louis road the general
manager of the Bee-line told Mr.. Smith
that he wanted to place man in the pas
senger service OF the l. & st. l.. at Indian
apols who was up to all the tricks of the
trade; he named Mr.. Lazarus as the man
he thought fitted for the place, and he was
appointed Western passenger agent of the
Indianapolis & st. Louis and the Bee-line
at its outside ticket Office, with ID. G. Ed
wards, now passenger traffic manager OF
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, as his
assistant, and ii will be remembered by all
who follow railroad matters the two made
strong team and left but little for COM
petitors to carry.