Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-25
General and Personal.

agent of the Little Rock and Memphis,
was in the city yesterday.
J. L. a. Thomas, commercial agent
of the Fort Worth and Denver at Dallas
was in the city last night,
Charley Larimer is holding down the
position of chief clerk in the general
superintendent office of the Fort Worth
G : Denver.
The grade of the Belt Line around
Fort Worth has been completed u dis
tance of a mile and half, and the grad
ing gang are still pushing ahead. They
can be seen at work from the Main street
bridge.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas will
sell round trip tickets to San Antonio at
one and one-Third fare on account of the
Grand Army encampment, on the 4th
and 9Th of March, the tickets to be good
to return until March 10.
The work on the grade of the extension
of the Fort Worth and Denver from
Hodge into the city is nearly completed,
and IN short time it will be ready for
the ties and rails-some time before the
steel bridge that is to span the Trinity
will arrive.
The New York Central engineers who
have been on the road for thirty censecu-
tive years and are still in the compahy's
service will probably take a trip to the
Pacific coast ABOUT April l. 1t is ex-
pected that there will be about twenty
five or thirty in the party, many of them
from the eastern division.
THE GAZETTE mas it from reliable au-
tf1ority that work will soon begin on the
tap road to be built from Milsap, on the
Texas and Pacific, to Mineral Wells. It
is believed that the Texas and Pacific has
an interest in the enterprise, and tits
said that more spurs will be attached to
the main line before the year is over.
Sixty years ago railroads were unknown
in the United States, which then had q
population of 10 900 900 people. To-day
there are in this country l65, 900 miles of
railroad, on which were transported last
year 600 900 900 tons of freight. Upon
these lines 1 GOO 900 men are employed,
and the annual disbursements for labor
and supplies are above 5000, 900, 600.
At meeting of the Southern inter-
state association held at St. Louis on the
18th inst, the secretary was directed
to communicate with all lines in interest,
calling attention to the fact that the
present rate on rails for steam railroads
should be Withdrawn on March 10, and
effective on thst date advanced to the
basis of So so per ton of 2240 pounds
from st. Louis with agreed differentials
from deferred territories.
The Santa Fe has again broken the
record i'll the matter of fast freights.
Car No. 957, laden with goods from the
Mallory steamship line, left Galveston
last Sunday night, and made the run to
Denver over the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe and Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe in just seventy-two hours. The
run from Pueblo TO Denver was made in
four hours. This eclipses all former
freight runs from the gulf to Denver.
A Santa Fe fast freight has just made
the run from Dodge City, Kan. to Den
yer in fifteen hours. The distance is 3S2
miles. and the running time was twenty
seven and one-half miles per hour. This
is about seven miles an hour faster thar
the passenger trains make in Texas If
the Santa Fe or some other road in Texas
would throw a little of this snap into
the passenger train time down here they
could win s'golden opinions from all
sorts OF people. -
Spring Palace, and TO take advantage of |
cheap railroad rates, thousands of visi- |
tors will be coming to Texas from other |
states. The railroad homogeneous should |
appreciate this fact sufficiently TO change |
their passenger schedules from the pres
ent funeral-like time to something more
in keeping with the railroads from the |
sections from whence these people will |
come. A fast passenger service will be |
big advertisement of the road that will |
put it on.
''There is cry from Macedonia,
Come and help u.s. - was written years |
ago; there is cry from West Texas now, !
''Give us another passenger traini" that |
has been ding-donged in the ears OF the |
Texas and Pacific management for |
weeks. The first cry was answered, and |
help was sent to Macedonia, but the peo- /
pie of west Texas are still crying, and |
the Texas and Pacific management con-
tinues to run two passenger trains on the |
same time between Wills Point and Fort
Worth
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