The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-04-27
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE,
Between the T. and ST. H., and
Illinois Central Railroads.
81. Louis Republicsn, 2sd,

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that the Texas and ST Louis railway
company has made traffic contract
with the Illinois Central and the st.
Louis. Alton and Terre Haute railway
communicable latter more commonly
known as the Cairo Short Line"-in
which the companies mentioned agree
to form a through line OF road from st.
Louis and Chicago into Texas and Ar
kansas. Under the agreement, each
company is to put in sufficient num-
Der of cars with transferable trucks, to |
accommodate the through business be-
tween the cities mentioned and the |
states OF Arkansas and Texas. The st. |
Louis, Alton and Terre Haute company |
ratified the contract last Thursday and |
the other companies had previously rat |
fled it. Under the new arrangement it |
is contemplated to run the Texas and |
ST. Louis railway into the union depot |
in st. Louis, and also through sleepers
| to Chicago.
The traffic contract, by which the new
through line is established will go into
effect June l. Each road is to furnish
| 600 cars, and as two OF the lines are of
the standard gauge, and the Texas and
| st. Louis Is OF the narrow gauge, it will
| be necessary to
TRANsFRR THE CARS
| from the trucks at Cairo. At that
place the live stock coming over the
route will be transferred, and there also
! the stock will he fed. On regular
freights there will be no delay to amount
to anything, as it will only take three
minutes to lift a freight car from one
truck to the other, and five minutes for
| Il, H. Ipyr mat
purchased one of the patent steam
shutters, SO successfully used in all parts
of the country.
1t is also learned that the contract has
been made for a period OF 30 years.
/, The alliance just formed is for the pur-
, pose of checkmatmg the Gould system.
The readers of the Republican are well
aware that the Texas and st. Louis line
has encountered great deal of opposi-
ton since the determination to extend
its line through the state of Arkansas.
When it was operated only from Texar-
kama to Tyler, III the state OF Texas, the
narrow gauge was regarded as valuable
feeder by The Iron Mountain officials.
,, In fact, Mr.. Marquand, when president
of the Iron Mountain, could not refrain
from making the most praisewOrthy
mention of the line i'll his annual report
+ a year ago, but since that time there hat
= been war between the roads, dating from
} the period Of the survey for the Arkan
4 sas extension of the narrow gauge. Al
f order was issued by the Iron Mountain
t last year instructing its agents to charge
r full local rates on all business between
+ that line and the narrow gauge, whicl
y practically shut the latter out from st
Il LOuis business. AS Il retaliation, Col
l. j. w. Paramore, the pre- idont of the L
c and St. L., Immediately cut down rates
. putting passenger fares at three cent
Il per mile. Meanwhile the
EXTENSION OF THE NARRow-GUAGE
was pushed ahead in both Arkansas ant
Il Texas, and the wo' has progre- sed s.
's rapidly that within he time alluded {
W the through line will be formed. With
IN sixty days the narrow-g uage will b.
completed to Clarendon, Ark, thus CIV
"A ing about 200 miles ready for operation
/ III Arkansas alone. As soon rs til
II bridges are competed over the Arkal
r sas, White and Red rivers, the road Wi
: be opened to Gainesville, Waco, an
X Houston, in Texas, and branches Wi
be bullt to Helena and Little Rock /
the fall The will be one or two In
pOFthut branches in Texas, ard the bu.
mess men of Fort Worth are Construo
Id ing narr w-guage line to intersect til
T. and st. L., the road to take sOutl
in westN ard direction IL order to reac
some driving business point IN the Lon
70 Star state.
Col. ParamOre, In speaking of the Il
lance formed, said yesterday that Il
NJ considered it OF vital importance to I'll
cities named above, as W II as the state
a. OF Arkansas and Texas as it would 81
cure and independent line beyond tt
Gould control, for the period OF fit
Is years; and that it could not fail also
e. be Of great Importance to the Texas an
tie st. Louis Railway company, as 1t woul
er strengthen its securities and insure it
good business from the time of IL
,is opening Of the road. 1t is learned furth,
nj that this alliance insures the immediat
and rapid extension OF the Texas al
= st. Louis railway to the Rio Crane
- and all important points in the states
80 Arkansas and TeXRs.
; The EXAMINER can add to the abOl
as that the Texas and st. Louis will ri
on trains from Waco to Gainesville by IL
'rt 18th of July proxlmo. The tracklaye
viii be busy ut work next week.
NJ Try Carriers Little Nerve Liver Pill. fc
H. any case OF nervousness, sleeplessnes
week stomach, Indigestion. dyspepsi
~. Sc, reliet is sure. Tie only nerve med
~, cine tor the price in the market In via
"a at % cents, For sale bV Tucker 4 Will