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, 1889-03-21
"MUsT GO SLOW"
President Harrison Doesn't Want tn Low
err the Standard.

er the Standard.
A correspondent Of the Boston Herald
reported the policy marked out at the first
cabinet meeting as follows:
I'VE must go Slow" said President
Harrison to-day, speaking Of filling Of.
hces he gathered his cabinet erou nd the
long table in the caoinet room of the
white house for the first time to-day.
They had all met at the informal fireworks
reception at the white house last night, so
that they did aot have to be introduced alt
around. Blaine and Window who were
the only men present who had ever
beeu ut cabinet meeting before. told the
others the traditional customs. The chief
topic OF discussion. however, was the
clamorous demand of the hungry and
thirsty otfice-seekers VINO have been throng-
ing the white house and the departments
since Monday, II WAS In the course of
some emphatic remarks which Harrison
addressed to the cabinet tnet he used the
expression quoted above. He said, in sub
stance, that he meant every word of what
he said about the civil service in his in
augural address, and that he felt sure his
cabinet agreed with him. For the present,
OF course, no changes at all would De
made, except lin the higher off,
ces, especially those in the diplo-
matte and consular service, But"
no sntu, VIC Dust w eiOW, iOr SieNti6uu
set high standard In his higher appoint
ments. and we cannot afford to fall below
it," Eiaborating the idea, ne said that
changes were not TO be made solely for the
change, but chiefly for the improvement
Of the public service. He said that the re-
publican party could not afford to spend
it's strength and lose its advantage over
patronage. Ii must remember tn, it is
still on trial and must prove its right to a
renewed lease of power by the excellence
Of its administration.
Civil service REFORM" ne is quoted ~
saving. ''has come to stay and must be OBJ
served by this administration ia spirit as
veil as in letter"
All the members OF the cabinet, Blaine
included, expressed concurrence in this
opinion The news that the administer
tion has thus stiffened it's backbone
against them has somewhat depressed the
sxubarant otfice-seekers tonight.
, 1889-03-21

thy. While we mean to be fair and
strictly honest, we do not intend 10 e1er-
else much mercy to their assump ptions.
MY next lecture will be- on heredity, or
anatomical resemblances as proving mans
descent from fishes and the monkev tribe
as advocated by these eminer naturaIists.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
PERSONAL.

R. s. weitzell, formerly of the john
son coal company has rooms at the Man
sion.
B. G.. Bidwen of weatherford is at
the Mansion.
John Bowyer of Abilene is autographed
at the Mansion.
Mrs. Byron G johnson and child have
gone TO Cincinnati, Ohio, and Coving-
ton, Ky, to visit friends for month or
more.
Mr.. J. Z. McAIlister and bride, nee
Martin, returned TO Fort Worth last
uight, after an extended trip TO Missis-
sippi and other eastern states.
S. F. Carter of the Texas tram and
lumber company OF Beaumont is in Fort
Worth on business not altogether remote
from extensive improvements in this city =.
Misses Mary ana Annie Russell Of Bon
ham and Miss Sallie Leggatt of st. Louis,
Mo. are visiting Miss Maude Hunter, on
Montgomery hill. The young ladies VIII
remain in Fort Worth several weeks, ana
will be welcomed by Fort Worth society {.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

the wagons now in vogue the tare or
lightweight is So per cent. to Ala per
cent. of paying load. -
1t is shown by MIR Dorsey that $50
American locomotives on the Pennsylya-
MIA railroad actually do the same amount
of work as 24T6 engines on the London
and Northwestern railway. A heaVy
freight train in this country has gross
weight of 2000 tons. With American
rolling stock, by Engineer Is figures, the
paying trade would be (full one way ana
light the other) 1850 tons; with English
stock the paying load would be $50 tons,
or only two thirds. The very heavy
freight rates the English have TO pay,
from tyyo and a half TO three times the rates
charged on American railroads, could De
materially reduced, without loss 10 the
Stockholders. If the managers of the
English roads would avail themselves OF
the superior economy and efficiency Of
fered by American locomotives, and
adopt freight cars that i'll train Of equal
gross weight carry one-half more paying
freight.
If Engineers Illustrations are not de-
ceptiYe the cars have chilled irea wheels;
this indicates a decided ameliorati0n OF
the feeling obtaining some years ago.
The late Walter W Evans, an eminent
engineer, who probably did more than
any other man to introduce American en-
gines and cars into South America and
Australia. used to tell the story of his eff
fort to introduce our chilled iron wheels
into England. To all his arguments IN
their favor was opposed the assertion that
cast iron was brittle. SO he sent for
some wheels, and on their arrival in Lon
don he invited several engineers, railroad
managers, etc, TO come to one of the
large engineering yards on the Thames
to see one of the wheels broken. The
wheel was blocked up, flange down,
on three supports, and to give en-
phasis to the occasion Mr.. Evans
promised the sledgeman, fine, broad
| shouldered Englishman, q guinea for the
| first piece he broke out through the trend
| and fange. Accepting a bet Of the beer
! from his foreman that he would not win
| the guinea by his first blow he put his
/ heels together and swinging the sledge
| over his shoulder delivered his blow full
on the rim of the wheel. The sledge had
! hardly reached the ground, torn from
! his grasp by the unexpected elasticity OF
| the wheel, when he was on his knees
! looking for the dent; when he found 1t he
remarked it was bloody Yankee trick,
| the wheel was wrought iron, and retired.
! The crowd actually cheered his successor
when he broke out chip half way down
the trend.
Mr.. Evans did not succeed in his effort
to introduce the chilled wheel into En-
glish railroad use. The superiority of the
| material was fully admitted, but there is
virtually no chilling iron in England, and
the wheels or material would have to be
imported. 1t was explained to Mr. {.
Evans that in case of an accident involv-
ing loss of life the manufacturing inter-
est would set every newspaper IN the
country on to the company using Ameri-
can wheels, and the jury would name a
sum in satisfaction of damages appalling
to the contemplation of stockholders.
i American Manufacturer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
RA1ERoAD1Ne IN ENaLAND.

Introduction of american Freight Cars.
The Tests That Here Made.
The English have been, and are,
strongly welded to their absurd little
four wheel trucks, which they call
''goods wagons and to their locomotives
without leading trucks and with long rigid
wheel boxes. The Pullman car company
have. by placing their own cars on
English roads, got a few comfortable
passenger cars on the longer routes; but
in spite of the repeated demonstration of
the greater expense of operating the
English style of rolling stock-notably
Mr.. e. B. Dorsey's papers, read before
the American society of civil engineers,
and afterward published in book form as
'sFnglish and American Railroads Com
pared they still adhere to their freight
cars and locomotives, as they do to their
passenger cars for ordinary use.
A commencement, however, has been
made in the introduction of American
freight ears The last number of En-
cheering devotes two pages to illustra-
trations of the Goodfellow and Cushman
freight cars, which have been introduced
into England by an American engineer,
Mr. NJ. r. Jefferds, and are now in the
service of the FurneSs railway. En-
cheering says of them: ''These ears
were shipped in parts from Huntingdon,
Pa. U. A, aud landed at Albert
dock, London, where they were erected
by ordinary dock laborers. They were
then taken to the new goods yard of the
Midland railway ut st. Pancras Station,
where they were tested round the
sharpest curves and over the
most complicated crossings and beavi-
est grades upon the line. They were
then taken TO Derby for the inspection of
the Midland authorities, Sir James All
port giving expression to the opinion of
their superiority over the present rolling
stock of that road. From Derby they
were taken to Glasgow where they were
inspected by the principal Scottish rail-
way officials, some Of whom have already
siguiied their intention to adopt them
From Glasgow the cars were taken to
| Barrow -in-Furness, their destination,
when they were loaded and tested in va
| rious ways. The high-sided drop-bot-
! tom coal car was loaded with twenty
| seven tons of coal, being all that it would
! hold before the coke rack was
mt on. and the low-siled
| gondola car was loaded with thirty-one
| tons of steel rails, together with fourteen
| persons couslStluS VI oliiO4eato VI Tue iottu
! and others, making load of over thir-
! ty-two tons. With this load the cars
were taken over the sharpest curves and
! the most complicated portions of the
/ road, and the wonderful steadiness with
| which they moved was remarked by all.
/ In loading the ears to their rated capae-
/ ity the average proportioaate tare or
deadweight with load one way and car
returning empty is SIX per cent. TO g. =
per cent. of paying load. whereas with
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15

Paluxy yesterday and will commence the
location at once, either up Richardson
creek and via Stephenyille or up Syca-
more creek and six miles south OF
stephenville. Both points have been
tried with the preliminaries, but the pub
lie knows of no decision by the engineers.
MIR. Green Of New York and Mr.. Kicker
of Kicker, Lee s. Co., Galveston, are III
the city looking out for bids on eonstruc-
ton beyond here.
Mr.. J P. Hughes entire railroad out
fit came in Saturday and grading on the
first two and half miles out from town
will commence on the 18th. This Is the
work on the extension and will be COM
pleted in two or three weeks.
Mr.. Hughes win doubtless secure
his share of the grading and expects to
close the contract for ten or fifteen miles
additional before he finishes his present
contract.
Thirty cars of ties and bridging for the
extension have arrived and from two to
ten cars are arriving daily. If the towns
along the line of the proposed extension
could see how things are shaping them
selves they would go to work III dead
earnest. There is no time for fooling
The work of extending has now begun IL
good earnest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
KICKING PACKERS.

Il Conference Concerning Rates on Lice
Hogs and PGcIing-ROitse Products.
CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 1.-THE demand
of Chicago packers that Uniform rates be
made on shipment of live hogs and pack
ing-house products from western points
led to a conference to-day between a
committee of packers and representatives
of the western and northwestern
railroads. The whole question was can
yassed, but no conclusion was reached.
Packers insisted that the rates on pack
ing house products should be no lower
than those on live hogs, claiming the
difference now existing between these
rates is discrimination against Chicago.
This view of the matter is naturally COM
batted by the packers at western points,
who claim that they will be driven out Of
the business if such concession is made
to their Chicago rivals. A delegation of
Iowa packers viii arrive here tomorrow
to present their case to the railroads, and
after hearing both sides of the contro-
versv, the roads viii decide what to do i.
The board of trade viii defer sending its
petition to the Interstate commerce COM
mission until Wednesday, when the rail-
roads are expected to be ready with their
decision.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
LOC4LETTES.

The roof to the new Baptist church is
nearly completed.
MIR. and Mrs. C. NJ. Carb are very
happy over the arrival of a fine baby BOY.
Mrs Dr.. W. A Adams is very sick,
and DR.. Adams will not answer calls to-
day.
The Texas base ball league will meet in
Austin to-day. Fort Worth will be rep
resented by delegate or by proxy.
William Capps will give $40 reward for
return of gold headed cane. On one side.
Rose, the other side, ''To Afford. =
Judge Beekham opened the January
term of the district court yesterday. The
grand jury was empaneled and will begin
work to-day.
The heavy rain of yesterday delayed
building operations IN Fort Worth to
some extent, but with fair weather work
will be resumed with renewed energy.
The ladies of the Main street Methodist
church give a mite sociable on Tuesday
evening at Mr.. William Norrit IS, corner
Fourth and Grove streets. All cordially
invited.
DR.. and Mrs. c.. S. Madison welcomed
on Sunday a daughter. She is now
cherub of ten pounds, but her papa be-
1ieves that sixteen years hence eligible
young men viii pronounce her an angel
full weight
Sherwood s. Rohrer have a very
choice lot of registered Jersey cat
tie for sale. Mostly fresh or well
advanced in calf. No better
blood and choice individuals. Can
be seen any time at Polk Bros.
stockyards.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
WACO.
To Attend the Inauguration Architects
Clever Forgery.

To Attend the InauguratiOn-The'A Architects
Clever Forgery.
Special to the Gazette.
WACO, TEX. Jan. IA number of
prominent citizens went down to Austin
to-day to attend the Inauguration of
Governor Ross.
The family of Mr.. J A. Gill, who died
on the train yesterday, have been heard
from, and the remains of the deceased
will be sent to them by express to Jop-
lin, Mo-, tomorrow.
The Texas state architects associa-
ton meets in the parlors of
the McClelland hotel tomorrow morn
ing. A number of prominent members
throughout the state arrived to-day.
An unknown person passed off a forged
check for Sl625 to J. Goldberg, with the
name of the Waco lumber company
signed to it. The forgery was so well
executed that it would not have been
discovered but for the fact that the
check was drawn on a bank where the
lumber company was not accustomed to
deal.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
SUING A RAILROAD.
An Employe who Charges the Company's Sur
geon with Malpractice.
special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Ten. Jan. 14.-John
Thompson Clark, by his attorneys,
Wheeler s. Rhodes, has filed suit in the
United States circuit court against the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway and
its chief surgeon, DIR. C.. H. Wilkinson,
for damages, placing the amount at $40, :
600. The plaintiff alleges in his petition
that he is a subject of Great Britain; that
he is forty years of age, has wife and six
children, is a carpenter by trade,
also understands bookkeeping; that
he was capable of earning
$50 per month. In February, 1888, he
was working for the defendant company
as a section hand. His left eye became
infamed, probably from spark
from passing locomotive. He was
placed in the company's hospital under
the care of DR.. Wilkinson. Under his
gross malpractice the sight of the left eye
was destroyed, and the sight OF the re-
naming eye was impaired TO such an
extent that he is permanently injured
and disfigured and incapaciated from
earning a livelihood.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
SAN ANTONIO.
Visit of Prominent Military Officer-The Rain
Foul Play Feared.

flSlU VI u HdIl1ttlIJ OlHCC1 1uO MUM
Foul Play Feared
Special to the Gazette.
SAN ANTONIO, TEX, Jan. 14.-Gen.
George Cook, commander of the division
of the Missouri, with headquarters at
Chicago, arrived in the city this after
noon on an annual tour of inspection. He
was driven Immediately to the residence
of Gen. d. s. Stanley, commander of
the department of Texas, where a recep-
ton is in progress tonight.
The heaviest rain of the season has
been falling in this region with short in
termissions since Sunday evening All
streams are raging high, doing much
damage TO fences and stock, and all in
coming trains are delayed by washouts
G County Clerk Smith received a tele-
gram to-day from w. H. Wilson at Bal
lnger asking information concerning
Thomas Sherry who left Ballinger about
two weeks ago for San Antonio with a
large amount of money on his person 4,
and his friends have been unable to hear
from him since. Foul play is suspected j..
No trace of Sherry can be found here.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
DREADFUL EXPOSURES.

Baby Farming With All its Heartless Cruelties
in st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. IA sensa-
tional arrest was made here to-day which
promises to result in the exposure of baby
farming with all its heartless cruelty
right under the eyes of the city authori-
ties. A woman who gave her name as
Jane Suffert called at the coroner's Office
and gave notice that two babies who had
been in her charge had died, and
that the city would have to bury them
She stated the children had been left
with her by their mothers. One was a
boy named Frank Todd, about six weeks
old, and the other a girl called Mary
Francis Smythe, about week older.
Deputy Coroner Dunbar went to the
woman IS house, at I413 Cass avenue, and
as a result of his Investigations Mrs
Suffert was arrested. The bodies of the
dead infants were terribly emaciated.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
CIR Fnllline.

Special to the Gazette,
LAREDO, Tx, Jan. IA great
scarcity of cars is being experienced now
on the Mexican national railway, and
they cannot do themselves justice IN
handling the immense amount of freight
which is consigned over their line for
points in the interior of Mexico. The
Guadalupe mining company claim they
can scarcely secure cars enough TO trans
port a sufficient amount of ore TO keep
their concentration in this city running
The railway company have orders for 800
cars, but until the same are filed the
famine VIII continue.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
DISCOURAGED COAL OPERATORS
Those of the Monongahela Valley Will Not
Resume for Some Time.

Resume for Some Time.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. 14.-The indi-
cations are the Monongahela river coal
operators will not resume operations un-
til March l. Capt. Bunton of Joseph
Weldon s Co. says there has been no i'm
provement in the condition of the market
at Cincinnati and Louisville. 'tKanawha
river coal operators, !" remarked Mr. :.
Bunton, s'have not shut down, and dur
ing the past ten months they have been
favored with plenty of water and have
been sending their coal into Cincinnati
in greater quantities than ever before.
The Kanawha operators pay less rate for
mining than we do, can sell their coal for
less than we can and as result they
have almost knocked Us out of the mar
ket. Under the present condition of
affairs it is impossible Tor the coal men to
get a new dollar for an old one as a re-
suit of operating their mines. 1t is
better for us to remain closed / do not
believe that any work win be done on the
river until March. The mines, which
employ over 5000 men, have been closed
for six weeks.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
PARMLY POST.
installation of Officers of the G. A. R. Post Last
Night.

Installation of officers of the G. A. R. Post Last
Night.
W. S. Parmly Post No. held regu-
lar meeting last night which was largely
attended, it being installation night.
Past Post Commander D. s. Brown con-
Quoted the installation ceremonies. The
gentlemen named hold their offices for
the ensuing year: Post commander,
Waldo P. Golf; senior vice. (,
James Morrison; junior vice commander,
u. Hardin; quartermaster James II e.
Orr; chaplain, Elder W. w. Gavin; sur
geon, DR.. II. A. Baker of Bowie; officer
of the day, w. T. Sands; officer
of the guard, G. W. Davenport;
adjutant, W H McDilI; sergeant-major /,
Theodore Hitchcock; quartermaster-
sergeant, James Rothrock. The Post
meets on the second and fourth Mondays
of every month in Odd Fellows hall, in
THE GAZETTE building, and is in -four
lshing condition.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
Notice by Publication of Final Account.

NO. 556.
THE STATE OF TEXAS-To the sheriff or
any constable of Tarrant county, greeting:
A. J Dukes, executor of the estate OF John l..
Wyatt. deceased, having fled in our county
court his final account of the condition of the
estate of said John L. Wyatt, deceased, together
with an application to be discharged from said
executorship, you are are hereby commanded that
by publication of this writ for twenty days prior
to the return day hereof in a newspaper regu-
larly published in the county of Tarrant, you
give due notice to all persons interested in the
account for final settlement of said estate to file
their objections thereto, if any they have, on or
before the March term, 1889, of said county
court, commencing and to be holden at the
courthouse of said county, in the city of Fort
Worth ON the first Monday IN March, A. ID.
1889, when said account and application will be
considered by said court.
Witness: John P. King, clerk of the county
court of Tarrant county.
Given under my hand and seal of said
court at my office in the city of Fort Worth, this
ninth day of January, A. D. 1889.
JOHN P. KING,
Clerk County Court Tarrant county.
ByJ. J. NUNNALLY, Deputy Clerk.
A true copy: certify that the above is true
COPY of the original in my hands.
J. G. RICHARDSON,
Sheriff of Tarrant county.
ByW T. STEELE, Deputy Sheriff.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
WHAT THE WEAyERS WANT.

Standard Rate of Wages for Their Work
Complaints.
FALL RIVER, MASS. Jan. 14.-The
Weavers' protective association in their
call for a meeting next Thursday night
state that the complaint has been made
to them by members working in several
of the mills that in consequence of re-
cent change in the quality of cloth made
wages have been reduced from 80 cents
to 81 20 per week. They suggest uni
versal price for weaving, and that if such
standard is not accepted by the manufac-
turers they will order the withdrawal Of
members from the mills at which COM
plants are made.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
A Famous Suit.

SHARON, Pa, Jan. 14.-The famous
Kimberly-Armss suit for the recovery of
nearly million dollars alleged to be due
P. L. Kimberly of this place for mining
stock held by Charles Arms of Youngs-
town, will come up in the United States
supreme court this week, having been
postponed last week on some technicality &.
The LAWYERS on either side will make a
bitter fight for their clients interest.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Notice-stoelholders, Meeting.

By order of the board of directors, meeting
of the stockholders of the Texas Northwestern
Railway Company is hereby called, and viii be
held at the office of the company in the city OF
Fort Worth, Tex, on February q, A. d. 1889,
and at 10 clock a. of said day, for the purpose
OF authorizing the board of directors to proceed to
construct and equip said railway, and 70 issue
the bonds of the company in aid thereof and for
such other business as may properly come before
said meeting. q. b. EASTMAN,
Fort Worth, Tex, Dec. Is, 1888. Secretary.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-15
IntcI-OceaH &c Cars

SPECIAL 70 the Gazette.
LAREDO, TEN, Jan. l4.-The fisrst
consignment Of Inter-O Oceanic cars bound
fer the City of Mexico consisting of ten
passenger coaches leave this city by the
Mexican national tomorrow morning
This line runs from the City of Mexico TO
Vera Cruz and il is narrow gauge. All
the rolling stock is 70 come through this
WAY