Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18
WACO.
Stockmen Fearful That UnfriendIy
Blasts and PluviaI Skies May
Yet DO Them Harm.
somo Editorial isemarlss-The Pcrquisite
system in City omoes Denounced
The Texas s. 81. Louis.

Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX, Jan. II. To-day has been
dismal and gloomy In the extreme, cold
rain falling and with the mercury just
low enough 10 freeze the rain as IL falls
Stockmcn are yefy appfchensive that an
other blizzard win come up, in which case
cattle will necessarily suffer. They
passed through the Intense cold Of a week
ago all right, but that snap was not pre-
coded by rain as now.
The Examiner this morning de-
votes considerable attention to Fort
Worth and THE GAZETTE, saying
We don't want to be olllcious but we
cannot refrain from the remark that the
best thing THE GAZETTE can do in regard
to the struggle between Fort Worth and
Dallas Is to concliate all kinds OF in1u-
ence, newspaporial and otherwise. 1t
Isn't " sc in straiaing out after ofonse
where nothing OF the sort il intended but
otherwise. The present year offers the
crucial test 20 these two cities and moth
ing which viii serve the Fort ought to he
wantonly thrown aside Or treated Eighty.
we confess that in IA struggle Of this kind
our sympathies go voluntarily to the
weaker side, but THB GAZETTE will not
have them, IL seems.
The Examiner also pays It's respects TO
what Is known here az the "perquisitcsn
system, in the remuneration of city oil.
Gals. On this subject IL says.
The time is coming when the people
will be called upon TO elect an.
other chief magistrate for the
city and one alderman for each
ward. The friends OF pio2ress es-
TEEN this an excellent time to commence
the move for the adjustment OF the
odious perquisite system, which has pre-
vailed in this city Tor so many years, and
with so many bad results. few days
sine, our evening contemporary handled
the subject with Il slight but def touch
We were pleased to see 1t and we would
be glad TO see not only the Day, but every
other engine OF public opinion in this
city enlisted In the task OF upsettng this
Ubiquitous public policy. Let us pay our
mayor, city recorder, city attorney, mar
shall aud the police a fair and decent
salary, and then Ii they neglect bust
ness, turn shem out and put men
In who will do IT for the salary.
There Ia great deal Of feeling here on
this perquisites business, and IL VIII be
one Of the issues In the coming muuicipal
campaign. The recorder, city attorney,
marshal and policemen all receive per-
quisites which depend on the conviction
OF parties charged with violating the city
ordinances, and these perqusites furnish
the chief source of remuneration Of said
officials.
Hon. George Clark, attorney for the
Texas 4 St. Louis railroad, has lust ar
rived from New York. iieing Interviewed
ON the prospt CTS Of the road, he said II is
on boom. The reorganization will be
completed IN few days, aud then look
out for the broad gnugc. They have
plenty OF money 10 operate on, and the
road Is now doing an immense bust.
ness. Twenty-iour hundred tons of nifty
six-pound steclrails are being purchased
every month, and sometime in the spring
the gauge win be changed TO the standard
measure The company Is purchasing
staudard.gauge ties, and they are being
put down all along the line. All the
heavy bllls and cuts are being widened,
aud this meant that the Texas & St Louis
would be IN completion next fall to com
pete with other STANDARD lines.
II the company built into st. Louis
right away the line would run from Nal
den station, distance OF about 40 miles
from tho future great.