Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29


pass. 1t also predicted that Traffic Man
ager Waldo would be the next general
manager of that system. Wait and see
how far TIE GAZETTE was wreag.
Commercial Agent t. NJ. Hunt of the
Texas and Pacific is off again and will be
absent from the city several days.
President Hagerman of the Pecos
River and Texas road passed through
the city on his way North from San An
tonic last night. )
The Texas and Pacific people have
taken up the cry, con to the West! -
1t Will not be long before they take up
something elss'and move West.
J.. G. Lewis, travelling passenger agent
of the Missouri Pacifd~8ith headquar-
tiers in st. Louis, was among the rail-
road men in the city yesterday.
The work of perfepsfng the Denver ex-
tension into the eity;zso as to be ready
for business by June 1, is being pushed
ahead at rapid rate. The bridge gang
are making the welkin ring above the
Trinity.
The new shops and roundhouse of the
Texas and Pacific are now receiving the
finishing touches. The shops have been
greatly improved, the roundhouse
greatly enlarged, and the work through
out is up to the top notch. The boys
feel now like they can work with some
comfort.
In railroad circles an impression pre-
walls that all the roads in the Southwest,
within the next eighteen months, will be
in two systems, the Atehison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and the Missouri Pacific
being the owners. Those at the head of
the affairs of both companies favor still
greater concentration of railroad owner
ships.
Russia opened her first small line of
railroad early in 1888, and now ranks
fifth country in the order of railway i'm
portance. The need of railways TO her
distant and Siberian cities is becoming
IN ore urgent every year, and as her lines
are continually extending in every direc-
ton, she bids soon to become the nation
of second Importance in the extent of
railways.
The Pecos River and Texas road,
which is to be built from point on the
Texas and Pacific, near Peoos City, to
Eddy, New Mexico, VIII be graded IN
five months. 1t is said that there is no
place on the entire line where there i'll
be as much as an eighteen inch grade,
and it is believed the work can be done
at a cost of less than $500 per mile.
Work will commence on the line at once.
AS evidence that fast trains are fully
as exempt from accident as the slower
ones, a Pennsylvania railroad official
states that train No. coming west over
the Pennsylvania lines, and then going
over the Vandalia. runs from New York
TO St. Louis at an average speed of fortEzs
three miles an hour, and as it seldom
leaves Pittsburg on time, its average
speed for the four years it has been is
fully fifty miles an hour, which means
sixtY-five miles an hour a portion of the
distance; yet when run at such high
speed but once has there been a serious
accident to the train, and the cause of
this accident Is still mystery.
j. J. Tillford, an employe Of the
St. Louis and Texas railroad
at Hawesville, dreamed Friday night
that the end of the switch at that place
had been opened and left for the side
track, and that the fast freight train
was nearly due. At this point he woke
uD, and he was so impressed with his
dream that he got up and went to iDves-
tigst To his surprise he found the
switch set for the side track. He set 1t !
right thus saving many lives. There were |
sixty men sleeping in the cars that were |
then lying on the side tracks. He also |
saved the company thousands of dollars |
worth of property Il Evansville Cou-