The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-18

and he will select fourteen special detectives
and place them at stations along the line
on the Eastern division for the purpose of
arresting coal thieves.
James A. McNair, ticket agent of the
pennsylvania, was on Tuesday signally hon.
ored by the men who had been associated
with him for many years at the federal
station at Allegheny prior TO his transfer
was presented with a handsome solid gold
Knight Templar ring, all the men about
the station contributing TO its purchase,
1t is stated that the Central Railroad of
New Jersey has paid $40, 600 to Wilson Fred
erick, an employe of the United States Ex-
press Company, who was scalded and per
manently injured in q wreck on that road.
Frederick was travelling on an employees
pass, which stipulated that the holder re-
leased the railroad from liability dam
ages, but the railroad company decided not
to contest the question of liability in court.
The Pennsylvania will introduce an in
noVation In the near future by requiring the
engineers 10 equip Themselves with uni
forms. General Manager w. w. Atterbury,
I'm making trips over the, main line, has a
uniformed engineer in charge of his special
train. This costume is a mixture of white
and blue, with dark blue trimmings, mill
tary collar and n stripe down the trousers
leg. The ends of the collar are adorned
by. the keystone, emblematic of the Penn
sylvania road.
Recent promotion of fremen to freight en-
gineers has resulted in advances all along
the line of Pennsylvania firemen. Those
VINO nad preferred freight runs were pro-
noted TO passenger runs and their places
were filled by men from less important
runs. In these changes the engineers and
firemen were consulted i'm order that as
signments which would be the most pleas
ing to them could be made, and as a re-
suit there is a general feeling of good ma
ture and satisfaction among the men.
Pay rolls for January are unusually large
for a winter month, being several thou
sand dollars greater than for December.
The greatest gain over the preceding month
is in the shop and transportation depart
ment. 1t is stated that some men in the
shops will draw more than Sl25 for January
service, which is an unusual thing in a win
ter month. The train crews have been kept
very busy and the pay rolls of the OPP
Grating department of train service are
fully 10 per cent. larger than usual for a
winter months service.
The heating plant for the Pennsylvania
wrecking shop at Fort Wayne. which has
just been completed, is said to be one of
the most perfect of this character i'm the
West. The steam from the power plant
passes through pipes laid i'm a conduit lead
ing TO the heating plant. Here a system
of coils is arranged so that a constant flow
of air passes over them. This heated air is
driven along overhead and descends through
outlets about twenty feet apart on each side
OF the building, BY this means the entire
the temperature regulated as desired.
President Oscar Murray. of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, yesterday gave ar EN-
phatic denial of the report that the general
OlnOC0 vi lHC AOad nOdlO NC LtllAONCOs III
whole or in part, from Baltimore to another
city. President Murray said: There is
not a word of truth in this report. We
shall stay right here, where we are at
home and among devoted friends. You
may add that, contrary 10 report the ter
minals of the company are uninjured by
was on the Central building and on some
smaller warehouse property, the whole not
exceeding 100000, which is covered by in
s~urance."
Joseph Ramsey, jr.. president Of the Wa
bash and it's allied lines. has been in Pitts
burg since Monday. returning yesterday TO
ST. Louis. Regarding the offering of new
lines TO Pittsburg, Mr.. Ramsey said that
no announcement can yet be made. The
principal traffic positions are. however. al
ready filled. The new station at Pittsburg,
which contains $50 offices. viii house many
more tenants than the railroad itself will
furnish at the start, and a considerable
part of the six office floors probably will be
leased TO outsiders. Tn equipment for the
new line, which is sufficiently large TO en-
able il to handle the business for some
time, will be furnished by the new supplies
of engines and cars. both freight and pas
senger. which the Wabash and the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie ordered some time ago.
A general manager. in talking of the re-
latiOn between railroad managers and their
employees. said that the important question
to which railroad managers should give
their best thought is how the personal 10y
atty of the men TO the road upon which
they are employed can be gained. II is
not 10 be supposed that the annual grant
ing of passes TO conductors and engineers
will produce that result, but it is an in
dication that consideration is being given to
the question. There is no man who is worth
anything who does not like to have his
personality recognized. One of the severest
punishments in connection with the peniten-
tiary is that an inmate ceases 10 be a man
and becomes a number. While not carried
10 any such extreme in any railroad service
there Is a tendency in railroad operation
to sink the individual in the mass. and |
venture TO say that the o-ddf issued by the
general manager of the Southern Railway
to the effect that all engineers and con-
ductors would be carried free on any train
of the system would not be half as much
appreciated by the individual as the receipt
OF an annual with his name thereon"