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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
WHAT Is NEEDED.
Railroad and State Officials Should Consu
and Agree on a Good Law.

Railroad and State Officials Should Consult
and Agree on a Good Law.
With a distinctly natural unwilling
ness to face the inevitable the railroad
officials of the state aud the officeholders
and statesmen who are supposed to be
experts in such matters decline to express
any opinion as to the scope of the recent
decision of the United States supreme
court. They confne themselves to
pointing out the wicked inconsistency
between that decision and the
former "granger'' decisions of the
same court, when there is no iuconsist-
ency and to explaining that the railroads
were granted the privilege of being heard
before the commissioners actually contis-
Gated their property. The corporation.
however, which is first condemned and
then tried. first sentenced aud then given
the privilege of telling why the sentence
should not be enforced, is no more likely
than the individual TO appreciate the adj
vautages of it's position.
This sort of philosophizing is all right
for those who like it; but it bears no
relation whatever to the important pub
lie aspect of the decision. When the
lawyers come to complete the judgment
roll III the case it can readily be deter
mined whether the court intended to
completely nullify the stupid legislation
of 1887, or whether the law will be en-
forcible within the limits pointed out by
the decision-the great autocratic trium-
Yirate being shorn only of their assumed
legislative and judicial functions.
1t will be a great public gain if the
whole ubiquitous fabric built up by the
legislature of 1887, including the present
board of com missioners, should prove to
have toppled over. Then a fresh start
can be taken and the astute statesmen,
who, under Mr.. DonnelIy's leadership,
built up the glorious legislative edihce,
may know how far they can go consti-
tutionally in the direction of jumping
on the railroads. We think it Will be
found necessary to undo everything
that has been done; to enact another
railroad law and appoint new board of
commissioners; in a word, to start out
from the foundation. In such an event
II may not be an impertinenca to inquire
whether the railroads are to be compen-
stated for the damage inflicted on them
by the joint operation OF public ignorance
and demagogism. No doubt they can
survive the loss they have sustained; but
since this is the era of exact justice even
TO railroads, the inquiry may not be
wholly inapt.
The absurd contention il now beng
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
General and Personal.

Assistant General Passenger Agent II /.
P. Hughes returned from the East last
evening.
G.. f. Thomas, commercial agent of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas at Hen
rietta was in the city yesterday.
For short line the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande road is doing q splendid bus
mess, and it is increasing in volume all
the time.
Work has been commenced on the
Bowling Green Northern road, which is
TO connect Bowling Green, KY, with
the Chesapeake and Ohio.
San Angelo wants the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande road and will make efforts to
secure it. This road would make San
Angelo boom as no town ever doomed.
The Fort Worth and Denver is doing a
rushing passenger business. Immigrants
from the North and East en- route to the
Panhandle are daily passing through the
city.
Increased activity may be expected IN
Fort Worth and Albuquerque circles in q
short time. THE GAZETTE has sent q
messenger bird out, and 1t is expected it
will bring in good tIdings.
The handsome city ticket agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, whose name
is withheld by special request, denies
that he is soon TO join the ranks of the
benedicts, but he blushed when he ham
died the truth so recklesslY.
The Southern of Austria railway COM
panY has decidsd upon admitting all
servants of the Austro- Hungarian state
railways to travel at bali fares on all oc-
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

casions over its lines, including house
hold, etc., when moving.
As the local train from Dallas to
Weatherford is giving such great salts
faction and Is doing so well in a business
sense, would it be too much out of the
way for Manager Grant to extend its run
to Abilene or Colorado City? 1t would
be popular move, and would make the
TaY and Pay many friends.
In Pennsylvania alone the system of
the Pennsylvania railroad company en-
braces forty-six different railroads and
branches, including the line operated by
the Pennsylvania company. The Read
ing includes forty-two railroads in the
same state, and the Baltimore and Ohio
controls ten lines.
There is good deal of feeling among
the fraternity of railway conductors on
account of the recent discharge of a
number of conductors on the Big Four,
without assigned cause. At a meeting
of the indianapolis division of the Order
of Railway conductors, o committee was
appointed to visit General Manager
Green, and if possible get from him
reasons for the summary dismissal of the
men.
American locomotives are built and
sold for from $4,000 TO $4,000 less than it
costs to build su English locomotive, and
this IS why our locomotives can be sold
in Australia and South America. The
reason why American engines cost less
lies in the fact that there is more auto
matte machine work employed in the
construction of our engines. We have
superior tools and do not depend so much
upon skilled hand work here as they do
in England. 1t is the same with every
thing, from clocks and watches up to
hydraulic presses.
A charter has been granted By the
Georgia legislature to the Georgia, Ten
nessee- and Illinois railroad It proposes
to build a road from Tallapoosa, Ca. TO
Chattanooga. The route will rur directly
west from Tallapoosa to the state line;
thence north TO Cave Springs; thence
down Big Cedar creek 10 the Coosa river,
and thence to Chattanooga. As soon as
the line north is completed it is the pur-
pose of the company to continue the line
south to Wed0wee, Ga. thirty-flve miles
from Tallapoosa, where it will connect
with the Georgia Central system.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
1be RIO Grande,s t.salvation. %

To-day the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
road will run special Sam Jones excur-
sion salvation train, from Dublin to
Fort Worth, and big delegation from
the towns along the line is expected. In
this connection it may properly be said
that this short railroad never overlooks a
bet, and never fails to do the handsome
thing when by doing so it's patrons can
be couvenienoed by it. The officers of
the line are all pleasant and accommo-
dating, and are making the little jerk
water the most popular road leading out
of Fort Worth.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
The Rio Grande New Schedule.

Beginning Monday, the 1st proximo,
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande will have
on new time table by which the mixed
train will be abolished and there will be
put on a un-f1edged passenger tram
from Fort Worth to Dublin. Besides
this freight trains will also be run. The
passenger train will, commencing to-
morrow afternoon, leave Fort Worth at
$3.50 D. N :, and the train from Dublin
will arrive here at IL 80 a. m. The new
arrangement will be highly appreciated
by the people along the line, all of whom
say stgreat is the Rio GrRnde.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
THE RAILROADS.
The Field of Railroad Building Trans
feFred to the South.
The New Schedules of the Rio Grande and the
santa Fe-A Rio Grande app lin ment
General Notes and Personals.
For the Sunday Gazette.
ONLY A BRAKEMAN KILLED.

W. L. SANFORD.
A terrible wreck on the road-the streams
Full swollen to floods had carried the beams
From under the bridge, and the long approaches
By the rushing waters were swept away.
mixed train pulling two passenger coaches
Through the purple light of the dawning day.
With full head of steam and an hour delayed
Came laundering down the winding grade.
The engineer saw that the bridge was gone,
And called for brakes, and the brakes were ap-
piled;
It was all in vain, for the train dashed on
Till it lay half hid in the angry tide.
The loss was great, the dispatches assert;
E But the breach in the track will soon be filed.
Not one of the assengers were fatally hurt,
And none of the crew. but a brakeman, killed.
But the morning newspapers neglect to state,
When the engineer throttled his steam too late,
And whistled for brakes to the startled crew,
And the sweeping eye of the brakeman threw
From his cupalo perch, a hurried glance
At the wreck ahead and the desperate chance
To be run to avert the fearful fate
Towards which they plunged with their human
freight.
How his lips pressed firm, and his face grew
And his eyes agleam with resoIute light;
How he ughten=d his grasp and whirled the
Till the brake staff groaned meath his arm of
steel;
How quick to the window and out he swung
And on to the running boards daringly sprung,
Overlapping the cars on their maddened run
And setting the brake beams one by one.
While the fireman leaped with the engineer
And the roar of the river grew dangerously near;
How onward he speeds. never falteringy
Till the head cars gained and the last bra. set
How with heavenly light on his smoke-stained
face
The brakeman leaps into Deaths embrace
AS the plunging cars in the torrent sink
And the coaches totter and stop on the brink.
And the morning papers neglect to state
Tn at mothers old heart is desolate;
That the Joy OF her life went down with him
In that fatal leap by the rivers rim;
That in saving man s life he lost his own;
That "a greater love hath no man shown. -
That he rode to God on the ill-starred freight
Perhaps the dispatches came too late.
Sherman, Texas.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
The Santa Fe,s New Schedule.

The new passenger schedule of the
Santa Fe system from Texas north gives
two through trains each way daily, the
first leaving Fort Worth p. m. and
the second at 10:35 p. M. going north.
The south-bound trains, both through
from Chicago, leave Fort Worth at 6 :20
a. m. and 11:20 a. m. The first train
which passes this point at 6 p. m. runs
from Dallas via Cleburne, and makes
the run to Chicago in thirty eight hours,
and the miserable four hour lay over at
Gainesville is abolished from this date
on
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
Crawling I'm.

Mr.. j. E. Seuily, or as he is better
known by the public "Little Joe, - who
started in on 10 Fort Worth and Rio
Grande road as general utility man, ac-
cording to his version of It, has been
steadily climbing the ladder. round by
round, and is meeting with the reward
his abilities as q railroad man entitle him
to, his last streak Of good luck being his
appointment as superintendent of trans
portation, which will be effective on and
after tomorrow the LIST prox. THE
GAZETTE takes pleasure in congratulating
the popular blonde on his deserved adj
vancement.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
assume all risk of interference on the
part of the government officials.
Passenger Train to Dublin.

This company will put on, Sunday
March 81, 1890, a regular passenger
train daily, except Sunday, between
Fort Worth and Dublin, leaving Dublin
a. m; arriving Fort Worth, 1880 g..
m; leave Fort Worth, $3.50 p. m; ar
rive at Dublin, p. m.
This is the only passenger train run
ming into Dublin by any line.
RICHARD LORD,
General Passenger Agent Fort Worth
and Rio Grande Railway.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
Cattle Movements.

Livestock Agent M. NJ. Jewett of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas returned
from South Texas last night, and reports
that good movement of cattle has be-
gun from that section TO the Indian Ter
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

ritory over the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas road. The shipments are mostly
billed to points in the Creek and Choctaw
Nations, there being at present no re-
striotions on the introduction of cattle
into those subdivisions of the Indian
Territory. Mr. Jewett anticipates
heavy movement of cattle to these two
Nations all through the spring and sum
mer.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
CattIe for the Terrltory.

The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe road
gives notice that it viii accept shipments
OF livestock destined to Ponca and Red
Rock, /. T.. if the shippers win agree to
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
A Rio Graude Appointment.

7
AND Rio GRANDE RAILROAD,
Fort WORTH, Tex, March %.
Mr.. Joseph E. Scully is hereby ap-
pointed superintendent of transportation
of the Fort Worth and Rio Grande rail-
road, with Office at Fort Worth, the ap-
pointment to be effective on and after
April /. JOHN HoRNBY,
President.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
corps Of engineers is engaged in making
the preliminary survey.
Santa Re RustIer.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
MERIDIAN, TEX, March 2S.-Mr. y.
8. Rizer, the livestock agent of the
Santa Fe, is having good success in get
ting cattle shipped from here to the Chi
cage markets.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

A. FAULKNER, Gen. Pass Agent, Houston.
c. D. LUSk. Depot Ticket Agent. Fort Worth
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
YOUR PATRONAGE BELONGS TO us!

does the hustle of busy subde that of another begins
always anxious for Clothing knowing full well that it
design workmanship style. Our firms fame has spread from
to state What record What proof of leadership. We
beeed of patrons, that of ourselves See
See CiLd9eS Suits Examine them very critically. Fc
by and close comparisons made by should afford
N all the sophstry and hfautn bombas in the world
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30

ms its boom. How's this? Solely
t it's invariably dependable-in
m mouth to mouth, from city to
We're ever on the alert. And,
See our SPRING Novelties !!
For it would seem that simple
convincing evidence as to where
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
Dome Department.
HOW MATCHES ARE MADE.
From the woodworker.I


The operation of making matches from
pine log may be divided into four heads,
namely: Preparing the spints, dipping
the matches, box-malling and filling.
When the timber is brought into the cut
ting-room of the factory it is seized upon
by gang of men, who place it before a
circular saw, where it is cut into blocks
ID inches longs, which is the length of
seven matches. 1t is then freed of its
bark and taken to the turning lathe,
where, by means of special form of
fixed cuttingband running its entire
length, a continuous tool, the thickness of
the match is cut off.
As the block revolves and decreases in
diameter, the knife advances and band
of veneer of uniform thickness is obtain
ed. As the veneer rolls off the knife it is
met by eight small knives which cut it
into seven separate bands, each the size
of a match. BY this operation, seven long
ribbons of wood each the length and
thickness of match, are obtained.
These are then broken into pieces six feet
long, the knotty parts removed, and they
are then fed into a machine which looks
and acts like strawchopper, which cuts
them into single matches. The machine
eats $50 bands at the same time, and a
mechanical device pushes them forward
the thickness of match at each stroke
of the cutter. This little machine with
its one sharp knife can cut over 10000
600 matches day.
From the cutting room the splints are
taken to the dry-room, where they are
placed in revolving drums, which absorbs
all the moisture the splints may contain.
They are then prepared for the dipping
process, which is very important ope-
ration, as each splint must have suflici-
ent space to be fully coated and yet not
placed so close to the others as to cause
the mixture to clot the heads of the other
splints. To do this they are placed under
an ingeniously-constructed machine
which seems to work with almost hui
man intelligence, and are caught up and
placed closely, but at regular intervals
in dipping-frame. These frames con
tain A movable laths, and between each
lath the machine places with the clock
work regularity 80 splints, making ovel
2000 splints in each frame.
The heads of the splints are all on thu
same leyel, and a single attendant, Il
each machine, can place over l,000,0O'
splints in the frame per day. The dip
ping vat Is stove of masonry, whicl
contains three square pans. The frs
pan is for heating the splints so the.
will absorb the mixture. the second con
tains molten parafiine. in which tn
points are dipped, and in the third the.
are coated with the ignitng composition
Over 5000. 900 matches can be dipped b,
a skilful workman in one day. After tn
dipping process the matches are Dire,
while still in the frames, and are thel
taken to the packing where the.
are put into boxes by hand.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
ACHAT ABOUT ORANGES,
FLORIDA Cor. Toronto Globe !

Oranges, oranges everywhere Oranges
overhead and under foot, cleaning in the
grass, twinkling through the leaves,
crushed IN the sidewalk, kicked aside by
the school boy, Illuminating single trees
as though they were hung with lanterns
and dazzling to the sight in multitudin-
Gus groves. What brilliant piece of col
orng they make poured loosely, as If
they had been carrots or potatoes, into
the market wagon of a farmer, whom we
stopped TO talk with in the streets of San
ford. This, the southernmost point of
our trip, is always called the City of San
ford on the railway folders, and is about
as city-like as a town could be that was
larger than Welland and not so large as
st. GATHERINGS. Like the Mandarin oran-
ges that the countryman gave us, it is to
be valued, not for size, but for quality.
The Mandarin is sometimes called the kid
glove orange because of the facility with
which the skin peels off, 1t is small and
delicious, and in shape, as the old geog-
raphies say in speaking of the earth, some
what hattened at the poles.
Much as | would like to say that the
orange lives in sunshine, air and dew, the
painful fact remains that it is gross
feeder. 1t bears the same resemblance to
other fruits that the pig (alas y does to
other animals. Here are some cast-iron
] rli In of in
and expense from Constantine's note
book -
"One orange grower said he paid out
40c. a tree, that is 40dollars an acre, for
fertilizers per annum. No matter how
well the trees have been fertilised for
growth, when they come into bearing
they need large additional quantities for
fruit The man who put $40 worth of
fertilizers, chiefly ground bone and pot
ash, on every acre of his grove when il
was bearing, spent $50 an acre on it ev-
cry year when it was merely growing.
Large beds of phosphate have re-
Gently been discovered in some of the or
ange counties of Florida, which will les
sen the price of fertilizers. Orange land
can be obtained for $50 an acre and up
ward. To clear an acre ofpalmetto roots
and live oaks will cost as much as S75 tC
500. The bulk of Florida land-a very
light, sandy soils covered with pine
Orange trees may he made to grow on
this soil, but not probably. 1t is sold
from 81 to So an acre, and is dear at that
price. What is called hammock land ap,
pears to be the best for oranges. 1t /;
the bed of an old lake, is filled with shell,
and has much more fertility than ordi
nary land. What are called fiat lands
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
THE FIRST STEP.

Perhaps you are run down, can't eat,
can't sleep, can't think, can't do anything
to your satisfaction, and you wonder
what als you. You should heed the
warning, you are taking the first step in
to nervous prostration. You need a
nerve tonic and in Electric Bitters you
will find the exact remedy for restoring
your nervous system to its normal, heal
thy condition. Surprising results follow
the use of this great nerve tonic and
Alternative. Your appetite returns, good
digestion is restored, tand the liver and
kidneys resume healthy action. Try q
bottle. Price SOC. at Sheldon's drug
store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
THE NEW DISCOVERY.

You have heard your friends and neigh
bors talking about it. You may your
self be one of the many who know from
personal experience just how good a
thing it is If you have ever tried it, you
are one of its staunch friends, because
the wonderful thing about it is, that
when once given trial, DR.. Kings new
discovery ever after holds place in the
house. If you have never used it and
should be afflicted with cough cold or
any throat, luLg or chest trouble, Sc
cure bottle at once and give it fair
trial. 1t is guaranteed every time, or
money refunded. Trial bottles free at
Sheldon's Drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-07-04
are also good richer than ordinary pine

are also good richer than ordinary pine
land.
"An orange grove takes from twelve
to fifteen years to come to full bearing,
and may continue in bearing for 100 years
and upward. Well authenticated cases
have been known in Cuba of trees pro-
ducing fruit for 300 years. The trees re-
qure almost constant attention to keep
them in good health. The common plan
is to plant the seed of a sweet orange,
which produces sweet oranges of almost
identical quality with the parent, differ
ing from the apple in this respect. Some
growers, find, prefer growing sour seed
lings, and building sweet ones thereon.
This course gives tree less subject to
disease. Almost every successful orange
grower has his own plan of raising seed
lings, and of culture. The fruit sold this
season at 81 box on the tree. As high
as 1000 boxes have been obtained from an
acre, but five hundred is very good crop
and $50 fair average. The orange sea-
son lasts till the first of April"
There are eight or ten packing estab-
lishments in Orange county, with i'm
proved sorting machines capable of sort
ing from 300 to 400 boxes per day each.
a negro boy empties the oranges into a
shallow hopper, from which they run
through bottomless grooves, which grade
them according to size-that is TO say,
the aperture gradually widens, so as to
allow the smallest to fall through first,
next the medium-sized and lastly
the largest They fall into receptacles
which are anvas-bottomed, so as not to
bruise the fruit. a treadle keeps the or
anges in motion. a skilful packer will
wrap in paper and pack about forty box
es a day. The sizes range from 96 to $50
oranges to box. The exact figures are
So, 12S, $50, l7G, POO PIG, $50. Oranges
which do not exceed from $50 to POO to a
box are the best. When only 96 fill a
box they are the result of over-fertlis-
lacking in fine quality. The boxes are
made in the packing establishment. The
best have heads and centre-piece of Geor.
gia pine, one foot square. Each box con.
tains exactly two cubic feet. The cover
ing is usually of thin material correspond
ing to the wood of strawberry crates
The hoops are thin strips of cypress. One
man we saw making boxes said he coult
make 225 in day. lie was part Indian
and part negro, and an extremely rapiC
workman. He received only cent anC
a quarter for a box. The boxes made VI
the material and the making cost l:
cents, the picking, packing and paper a
bout Is cents more. Paper alone costs
, cents a box. Buyers this season paid
; dollar box on the tree, which makes
total cost to them of Sl.30 a box. Tha
is to say, the fruit when ready for ship
, ment costs them Sl.30 per box. Freigh
charges from Jacksonville to New Yorl
by boat are 80 cents per box. A car LOAF
is $50 to 335 boxes. For much of this in
, formation, and for a very pleasant after
! noon, we are indebted to Mr.. Markham
, whose beautiful orange grove is one o
the attractions of Sanford.
BEL THISTLETIIwAITE.