Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-21
The Gazette-Jay Gould st. Louis
aghtning Express.
new it was Received with Brass Bands
and Flying Banners to the
Amusement of Nightcaps.
Sleeper Accommodations for the Dallasites
Who Come to Fort Worth the Night
Before to Catch the Train.
TO BE CONTINUED.

TExARKANA, TEX, April 2O.-It was
about three months ago that THE GA
ZETE and Mr. Gould first put theil
| heads together TO try to arrange for 6
fast train service between Texas and the
| East. THE GAZETTE was always willing
but Mr.. Gould was at first little doubt
full of the expedieney of the move. How
ever, when he came to Texas and saw
what great state it was, and how many
| people got on and off every day
at Fort Worth, the magnate quickly
warmed up to the idea, and before he
left the Fort he tipped wink to THE
GAZETTE. which translated into railroad
vernacular meant, "she goes
The next thing to be done, Of course A,
was to select a route. Mr.. Gould, as
is well known, owns more than one
railroad leading out of Texas to the
east. Here follows a bit of confidence +,
but you, good reader, will not betray it.
THE GAZETTE had reasons of its own tor
desiring to follow the Southern route to
Texarkana, for the people of Dallas like
to read THE GAZETTE before break
fast, just like other people. 1t
urged upon Mr.. Gould that
ID q this scheme of benifcence
for the waYworn traveller, Dallas was
entitled to some consideration. He lis
tened patiently, and took out his map
and made some figures. Then he ejacu-
lated: Difference nine miles; it ain t
worth it," When Jay says cit amt
worth it, the man who has
fO MIGHT
take it 10 another market.
AS. 50 concession, however, Mr.. Gould
did agree that provision should be made
4e entertain over night in the Pullmans
jat Fort Worth Dallas passengers who
| may be in hurry to go east, Dallas
people must not think hard of Mr..
Gould; he showed a really tender So
lieitude for their interests and
observed that it wouldn't do lem any
harm anyway to soak awhile in Fort
Worth atmosphere before yenturing far
away from home.
1t wasn't long after midnight before
the cockroaches around and about the
old shell that passes for a Union depot
at Fort Worth found 5sout that
something unusual was going
on. The lights glowed with strange
brilliancy, and darted and sputtered and
sized as if they had something important
to communicate. An old wharf rat that
for ten years has retired regularly at
midnight was observed to side around
pile of trunks about l O'Clock,
and point his nose toward the
north in a significant sort of way.
At l O'Clock some fellows wearing Ian
terms and large yawns appeared upon the
scene. At AS the lights in the Pullman
standing on the west side of the depot
visibly frightened, and a blue-coated
porter peered out into the face of the
star-lighted night. At 2:15 engine No.
AZ slowly backed to the train
of cars to which the Pullman
was connected and begun to fuss and
fume in an effort TO get up steam. At
2:30 things were in motion, from Dan to
Beersheba. Trucks were running up and
down the platform, and candidates for
passage came thick and fast. At this
juncturessa nightcap emerged from
a Wsaaow of the Pullman,
Weather beaten face which accosted
Tie nearest individual with the query:
'Is this St. Louis?'' When correct in
formation was impaired the nIghtoap re-
tired behind streak of profanity. It
that the inmate of the bunk was from
Dallas, and that he had been snoring
heavily.
It was 2:5434 when Conductor Legg
sang out in CHEEKY tone: "Ail
aboard. - Engine No. AZ gave a little
feminine screeoh, and instantly the
wheels began to revolve. Every passen-
ger except the sleepers reached for the
seat in front of him and chung to it
tightly for a few minutes. The grasp
relaxed when it became plain that we
were still hugging the earth. 1t must
have been out about the fair grounds
that No. 81 caught the supreme in
spiration of the moment; she
jumped the Trinity bridge and as
she fell on the other side the Dallas pas
senger put his head out of his bunk to
remark that if Sam Jones were on board
he would like to ask an interest in his
prayers. Pausing not an instant No.
81 clambered up the hill with
the ease of kangaroo. In breath We
were at Hodge, and it appeared that we
were one and three-quarter minutes
ahead OF time, having gained one min
ute. The next run was a stretch of if
teen miles to Roanoke. We had Just
thirty two minutes in which to make II.
and we consumed thirty-fve minutes.
Here was state Of things. While No. Al
paused to blow THE GAZETTE man
swung into the cab and reminded En-
gineer Wales that it was the wish OF jaw
and THE GAZETTE that he should
either put that train in Texar-
kama on time or in ditch.
Dave Wales replied that Ne. Il was Just
getting her wind, and that 1t was a wiss
horse that knew when to run the fastest.
At Argyle, eight miles further on, the 4
situation was unchanged. Between Ar
gyle and Denton No. 81 braced ND
little and came within three minutes
OF striking the schedule when she pulled
up at the latter place. The train was
instantly surrounded by q crowd Of en-
thusiastic humanity who called for THE
GAZETTE. They reused up the news
boy who was asleep on his box, and who
asserted in triangular language that
he '.be damned if he knew what was tie
matter with THE GAZETTE. It was
then explained TO them that THE ia
zETTE didn e suppose they would be out
az the unseemly hour OF 4:10 a. m,
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