Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-09

two years ago, when the preliminary
surrey was made. Mr. Cook went to
Eds Vegas Hot Springs to meet party
sfd capitalists who are interested in this
road. He does not deny that W. 3.
Strong, ex-president of the Santa Fe, is
interested in this line.
The American livestock company of
Kansas City has had a car built for its
own use which, it believes, will prove
more comfortable and safer in trans
porting cattle than any yet manufact-
ured The first car has just been turned
out of the shop. 1t is wider than the
ordinary stock car At either end of the
car ct the top Is an air funnel, intended
10 conduct fresh air to the center of
the car for the benefit of cattle hemmed
In by those nearer the ends. The in
terror of the car is perfectly smooth, all
appliances for operating the water
troughs and feeding racks being at
tached to the outside, thus preventing
injury to cattle by these projections,
which it has been found difficult to over
come. The livestock association will
call its car service the columbia buffet
stock car company
The Fort Worth and Rio Graude
railway company is making elaborate
preparations to advertise their part OF
Texas. Mr.. Wilkinson is working hard,
and will have as fine an exhibit to take
in his exhibit car this season as ever
left any state. The benefits in the way
of immigration to the state from Mr.
wilkinson g work last year are being felt
in many ways, and not confined to any
one locality. Eight persons have To-
Gated in Temple who saw the car III
Mr.. Wilkinson met q gentleman in
Waco who had come and located in
Texas from having been favcrably i'm
pressed By the Texas exhibit: To-day
several families start from Colebrook,
y. H, to Luverne, Crockett county,
where a fine body of water has recently
been struck, this being the only con-
tin ency 20 retard the growth of the
town. Mr.. Wilkinson kept a register of
many thousand names of persons who
visited his car at the various cities
stopped at, recording only such names
as manifested an intelligent interest,
and the Spring Palace management is
now mailing to these names many
thousands Of circulars. Thus the good
work of the plucky Rio GraIde is made
to rotate and keep the pot boiling. Fifty
persons, al least, are now in Texas as
the direct work of that exhibit car,
and in the near future every town along
the line OF the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande railway will feel the benefit of
Mr. Wilkinsou's constant and efficient
efforts.
The following is an extract from an
editorial published in 1885 in the John
Bull, London newspaper, when rail-
roads were Just coming into existence:
Does anybody mean 20 say that decent
people-passenge who would use their
own carriages and are accustomed to
their own comforts-would consent to be
hurled along through the air upon rail-
road, from which, if q lazy schoolboy left
q marble or q wicked one a stone they
would be pitched off their perilons track
into the valley beneath; or is it to be
imagined that women who may like the
fun of being whirled away on a party of
pleasure for an hour to see a sight would
endure the fatigue and misery and
danger, not only to themselves, but their
children and families, of being dragged
through the air at the rate of twenty
miles an hour. all their lives being at
the mercy of a tin pipe or a copper
boiler, or the accidental dropping of q
pebble on the line of the way.
We, however, go farther, and de-
nource the mania as destructive of the
country in q thousand particulars-the
whole face OF the kingdom is TO be
talOoed with these odious deformities;
huge mounds are to intersect our beauti-
full valleys, the noise and stencil of loco
motive steam engines are to disturb the
Qu!etude of the peasant, the farmer, the
gentleman, and the roaring Of bUllocks,
the Jleating of sheep, and the grunt-
ing OF pigs, are to keep up one
continuous uproar through the night,
along the lines of these most dangerous
and disfiguring denominations. The loss
of life upon the favorite toy from Liv-
eTpool TO Manchester, continues this
has already been terrific.
Mr.. Huskisson was the first martyr to |!
this favorite absurdity; and the last /
splendid exhibition took place only on |
on the new tomfoolery to |
Greenwich, when in the outset, "by |
some accident, - one of the carriages, |
in which a party of noodles ventured |
was thrown off the rail, but |
ii ran vast many yards no Sc
rious accident occurred. How lucky! |
Nobody killed the first day of trial.
Capt. Paddock, president of the DO ard
Of trade, returned from Chicago yester-
lay. He says that while in Chicago he i
saw Manager st. John of the Chicago, T
Rock Island and Pacific and that gentle
nan said 1t was not probable that the Z
road would reach Texas this year, butt
when the road did move for Texas the
people of Fort Worth would be commu-
liCRted with.