The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
apoIis & vincennes tracks 800 carloads of
coal for city delivery

fluctIEeS
coal for city delivery.
John Klingenberger, ST., who has been
foreman Of the Pennsylvania car shops at
Fort Wayne, retired on Dec. i, purposing 10
spend the remainder OF his LIE IN ease sc
the company thirty-eight years. He has
four sons, three of whom are employed IN
the same shops
William X. Vanderbilt, jr., has entered
the service of the New York Central Kali
road. 1t is understood that he decided to
take up active work in order to assist MS
father in transacting the large amount or
business Mr.. Vanderbilt, ST., has had TO
handle since his return from Europe.
The freight and passenger departments of
the Pennsylvania at Kokomo have been
divided and an agent appointed 1or each
line of service. so great has been the IN
crease in freight and passenger traffic at
that point. w. c. Wright has been APP
pointed ticket agent and j. w. quinn
| freight agent at Kokomo.
Circulars are out announcing the appoint
| ment of Asa L. Burlingame, of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, as assistant
superintendent of the Terminal Railroad OF
st. Louis. Mr.. Burlingame retires from
| the Baltimore G Ohio after twenty-six
| years of service He is succeeded by ii. q.
Kruse. trainmaster on the Springfield d.
vision.
| The board of directors of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, elected at the annual
| meeting Nov. 10, has reelected the fol-
| lowing officers: President, l.. F. Loree; first
vice president, Oscar Murray: second vice
| president and general attorney, H. l., Bono.
| jr.; third vice president, George L. Potter;
| secretary, c. l.. Wooford; treasurer, j. L.
McNeal; general counsel, John K. Cowen
| The Kansas Board of Railroad Commits
| Si0ners has q novel complaint before IL,
| a grain dealer of Monument being the
| author. The dealer complains that the only
! way in which he can secure empty cars Tor
the shipment of grain Is to tp the tr thnt
| this practice has been going on with many
dealers and only those who tip the train
| crews can get cars.
Southwestern lines are making a fine
showing. Reports indicate that traffic with
| all Western well Southwestern lines
| is equal to last year, Notwithstanding the
falling off in steel and iron tonnage, and
| the Officials expect to maintain the pres
ent volume of tonnage through the winter.
They say the country is supplied with
money and everything points to continued
s. A. Jones, travelling freight agent at
| Buffalo of the Lackawanna, has been pro-
| NOTED to the position of commercial agent OF
the company for the Detroit and Michigan
territory. Mr.. Jones, in the eighties, went
| to the Grand Trunk office boy, served
four years in the passenger department ana
s s tra e ags1t f1r t and
returns to his old home to take this new
position.
Citizens of Cleveland have about given up
the idea of securing of union passenger
4
The prolonged litigation over 1.-The Lake
front and the inability of the city to come
to any terms on that question and the diff
| Guilty of overcoming the typographical con-
ditions are said to be the elements which
| cause the railroadmen to delay definite
action. The difficulty of getting the BIZ
| Four, the Lake Shore and the pennsylvania
into the new union station, If built, is also
a lettering influence.
The Union Pacific, the Philadelphia &
Reading and several other lines are dis
white men in their places. The Union
Pacific has issued an order to dispense
with the black men and hire white porters
at an advance of $3.50 per month In wages
The cause of the change is said by an of
fetal to be for the good of the service He
claims that the negroes have gradually
been making themselves burdensome tc
passengers instead of help. Their Gus
tom of exacting tips has been the sub
! ject of the strongest complaint
The latest complete statement published
by the Illinois Central shows a rapid de-
velopment of earnings and traffic. The cir
cular says fifteen years ago the freight
earnings of the company were only 3d.,
ten Years ana ago fo sg Ss Sear awe eSdns
June go 1903, $50, 592, 900. The improvement
in the rolling stock which has taken place
in that period is typical of what has oc
Cured in the last fifteen years. In June
1899. the company owned l63 engines, witt
an average hauling capacity OF BIB ton:
per engine; 1T now owns 1,OoS engines. nav
ing an average hauling capacity OF 3,5L
tons each.
The recent extensive and expensive trou
| BILE that some Pennsylvania employees
caused at Altoona IN the matter of as
signing wages has brought the matter Il
the attention of the officers in such an OBJ
jectionable sense that the practice is to b
discouraged. Division superintendent hav'
issued notices of this character: THE as
: signment by employees of wages, either a
) security for loans or otherwise, not onl.
produces complications in the accounting
2 / tc1y into fnrSC witt
4 the administration of the several depart
ments, frequently subjecting the compan,
TO annoying litigation, expense, and like
1 wise, in many cases, subjects the employs
g to usurious demands and other exactions
{ In view of these conditions the practic
should be discouraged"