Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-12

GAZETTE has arrived aud will be set up in
the basement of the new building.
The work Of double tracking the Fort
Worth and Denver between this city and
Childress is being pushed rapidly.
Balfe's charming opera ''The Bohemian
Girl is underlined for q weeks run at the
Arlington Heights theater beginning TO-
| night.
Jake Zurn, general passenger and ticket
agent Of the Fort Worth and Oklahoma
Midland railway, left for Chicago Last
night.
OF the fourteen cotton mills now in the
city twelve are running on full time. The
remaining two will start up the first of
next week.
The Bessemer steel works will start up
again Monday, rolling eighty-pound steel
rails for the Rio Grande branch from
Brownwood TO FL Paso.
Col. Hoxie yesterday let the contract for
the fifth big packing house. This will in
crease the number of workmen employed
IN the packerieS 10 5000
The park police report that additional
lights are needed. The shrubbery is so
dense that there are too many dark places
where footpads, ct it genus oInne, can hide.
old joe Brown building on Front and Main
streets, TO accommodate the auditors de-
partments Of the Albuquerque and the
Santa F'e.
The Hurley building, which was con-
sidered somewhat of marvel ten years
ago, is TO come down. The entire block is
to be occupied BY fourteen story freproof
building.
The underground rapid transit line from
Buena Vista Heights TO Stanley Heights
will put on additional train service in a few
days. Trains will then run at intervals Of
two minutes
In the meeting Of the common council to-
night a petition Will be introduced asking
that the elevated road from Buena Vista
Heights TO the Northern limits of the city
be made double track.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Lord OF the Fort Worth and Rio Grande
Southwestern left for Topolobampo last
evening, where the new Union depot IS TO
be formally opened Monday.
The plant of the Texas brewing company
is too small. The adjoining blocl, on the
south has been secured, and the work of
razing the present building to make room
for the addition begins to-day.
Max Elser, president of the Red River,
Sabine and Western, who has been in
Europe for some time for the benefit of his
health. will arrive on the air ship ''Flying
Spray from London tomorrow.
The railroads have all complied with the
ordinance requiring them TO lower their
tracks sufficiently to admit of overhead
bridge crossings on all streets. They can
now run trains IS fast as they please
through the city.
TIE CAVITIES new ten-story fire proof
building will be ready for occupancy next
week. Fourteen operators will take the
press and special reports. They will have o
coy office adjoining the telegraph editors
room on the ninth floor.
The railroad shops in that portion of the
city formerly known as Hodge, are made
quate for the amount of work required, and
an addition will at once be built allowing
room for the employment of $500 men in
stead of 2OoO, as 1t present.
The evening edition OF THE GAzETTE was
in error yesterday in announcing the ar
rival OF the new vestibule steel coaches for
the Rio Grande. They will not arrive until
tomorrow. The cars that arrived yester-
day were only mail and baggage cars.
The handsome brown stone front resi-
dence of Gen Cameron in Riverside was
sold yesterday for $40, COO Gen. Cameron
will build 4 handsome villa in the suburbs
near Mansfield. His Riverside residence
will be replaced with q modern business
house.
General Manager Waldo, of the Chicago,
Texas and Panama line, formerly the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas, announces that
on and after June l solid vestlbulc trains
will run between Chicago and Tehuautepac
The running time win be sixty-two miles
IN hour.
A cable dispatch from TEE GAzETTE's
correspondent at Stanley Pool, Africa, pub
lished elsewhere. conveys the gratifying in
telligence that the long suit has been de-
cided in favor of the Fort Worth syndicate
and that the title is now absolute Thus
does Fort Worth enterprise win the world
over.
In regard to the complaint Of the Red |
River, Sabine and Western, that their
trains were unreasonably delayed in enter
ing the Union depot, George Neis, Union |
depot superintendent informed GAZETTE |
reporter that the delays were unavoidable |
owing to lack of track room. The defect |
will be remedied to-day and the Red River, |
Sabine and Western folks viii have no |
furf her cause of COnulaint