Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-09

The Texas and Pacific special train
from the West, having on board the
representatives. OF the traffic department
4 that system from all parts OF the
country, arrived at the Union depot yes
ieriay afternoon IT 2 O'Clock, and the
exeurting railroaders were cordially re-
ceived by q local committee of railroad
men, who proposed 10 do the honors
while they were III the city. The train
was made up Of General Manager
Grants special car No. 400, Superin-
tendent Thorns special car No. 365 and
the paymaster' 5 car No. 343. The tram
while on its trip is in charge of MT. JEFF
A. Miller, assisted by Assistant General
Freight Agent G. H. Turner and General
live Stock Agent J. p Moore, the lat
ter official being assisted at times by Mr..
William Agrry Black. The roster of the
party was as follows, all being in the
service OF the Texas and Pacific road:
{. Il. Hinton, general freight agent,
Dallas; e. Il. Turner, assistant general
freight agent, Dallas; JEFF n. Miller,
Dallas; W. +. Kantz, general East
eFn agent. New York: H. A.
Rich, New England agent, Boston; G.
W. Luce, Pacific coast freight agent,
San Francisco; j. H. LawGer, general
Western agent, Denver; z. l.. Sargent,
general agent, FL Paso; James Harris,
freight agent, Philadelphia; l.. q. Frew,
travelling freight agent, Cincinnati; w.
+. BFsCsius, travelling freight agent,
Far!s, Tex; 4. VI. Hunt, travelling
freight agent, Fort Worth: Cooper Mott,
travelling freight sgent, Dallas; NJ. L..
ocoVii!e, commercial agent, Shreveport,
La; Il. {. Reese, commercial agent,
New orleans; ]. p. Moore, general live
sock agent, Fort Worth; W. J. Walker,
southeastern agent, Atlanta, Ga. aud
!. W. Stacy, assistant superintendent of
telegraph, Marshall; NJ. Summer, gen.
eral roadmaster; j. Il. Paul, superin-
lrhdent of the Rio Grande division; w,
l. Doyle, roadmaster; and tina train
was captained by that gentlemau.y con-
cuctor, j. Il. Mcleod.
Ipon the arrival of the train al the
uepot the visitors were taken in charge
anu Invited TO Investigate the business of
tor' Worth. the first establishment they
SsFe taken TO being the wholesale liquor
Iouse OF Casey & Swasey. Every man
went, aud it was with feelings of re-
tte' that they left 1t and
r"'Seu down TO the Fort
"orlh grocery store. They visited
al 'he principal business houses in the
V'Iy anu then accepted an invitation to
YAH al Casey & SwaseY's, after which
,aey we're furnished special car by the
aul'n side street railroad company and
PAU visit TO the packing house aud
.,v'Ayards. They ell expressed great
S'pr'se AT the extent of the packing
rSuse' anu said they had no idea that
tuers was such an establishment south of
Kansas City.
-, sHsins the stockyards the party re-
s1 70 the city, and after having
IN tue wonders of the railroad center
lee. A'enso, they boarded their train and
zoe New Orleans via the Trausoonti-
.h sl.ai road. all vel. pleased with their
''v w.s stop in the city.
Lao, .nae IN the city, and before the party
~" 'or New Orleans, Col. j. p. Moore,
h se social livestock agent. providsd
h, nseit with a box of rcd. white ana
,s tue composition tablets, and lsaid from
thin. "me on he proposed to play every
ms,o,. Tue western trip Tim Hunt, com.
ana .a 3eent, lost his stove-p pipe hat
chansppp eared on the streets with q crush
III. OF wierd hue.
part Wost noticeable feature in the
cisc c. was the blonde mustachs of Pa
Son,n MS. Agent Luce.
posss..;e eas'ern Agent Walker had in his
havs M etne which he claims to
chopnea ~ made from the cherry tree
psa oy George Washington.