Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-12
Notes by tho WAY.

| The Katy people were strictly in it.
Officials of all the roads took a hand in
| looking after the welfare of all the eXcur-
| siOniSts.
! The peanut vendor and his crew got in
| their fine work.
| Favorable comment was heard on every
hand of Engineer Emons' work. Many
! were heard to predict that I'VE will
| get stuck the first grade we encoun-
| teri before the train started, it be-
| ing an unusual sight to see one engine pull
| twelve heavily loaded coaches at anything
| like speed, but when the start was made
| and 400 people went sailing over the road
| at thirty-mile rate, great was their sur
prise, and ar each stop, when the grand old
| machine stood painting. receiving oil and
| water, many of the eXcurslonlstS crowded
around it with admiring wonder, and to con-
graduate Engineer Emons for his nerve.
City Secretary Burns and his two bright
| little daughters saw Waco yesterday.
| Many Fort Worth people took advantage
| of the beautiful afternoon TO see Waco yes
| terday, and patronized the livery stables
| freely. One iveryman told a GAZETTE man
| that he had out fifty-three rigs to strangers.
The negro hackmen were roasted unmer-
cifully at the Waco depot yesterday. They
were in the majority. and their rigs inferior
an unusual sight to Fort Worth people, and
the turuouts were dubbed lice wagons"
Waco has some fine driveways. and the
streets paved with boiS dare are hard to
beat.
In driving out from the city proper one
can get some fine views from neighboring
heights.
The suspension bridge over the Brazos
| was an interesting point to the excur-
sioniStS.
The board of directors of the Railway
Employees club will meet at the Office of W.
H. Quigg of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas at 80 this evening. A full attend
ance of the directory is desired
j. z. ProSSer, deputy county clerk, was
among the boys.
County Clerk King was one of the lads
hustllng for dinner at Waco yesterday.
j. E. Smith of the Katy and William
Doherty of the Santa F'e are hustlers in
collecting tickets.
S. D. Rainey of the Farmers and Me
chanics' bank was among the party. Mr..
the rail and is deeply interested in the sue
cess of the Railway Employees club and its
club rooms.
j. J. Mullane of the Santa Fe went along
to see that the boys held their end level
while in Waco.
Fort Worth and Denver has not forgotten
the knack of collecting tickets,
j. j. Gavin, trainmaster of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, handled the heavy traf-
hc admirably. He keep the excursion train
moving and none of the regulars were laid
out
The excursionists took possession of
Waco yesterday. If they wanted anything
they got it.
Gen. F. NJ. Clarke of the Chamber of
Commerce met the gang at the Hotel Royal
The waiter who kept The GAZETTE party
waiting forty-five minutes for dinner viii
not soon forget it.
= A. P. Luckett, president of the AIer-
chants national bank, was among the party
NJ. 81. Bell, the Fourth street tOnsorial
manipulation, enjoyed the excursion hugely
County Attorney Gillespie WAS out with
the boys yesterday.
Assistant County Attorney baltimore
who was at Waco on business, came back
last night with the excursionists.
d. E. Hirshfield and lady went down to
Waco with the excursionists.
As the train passed through the different
stations it was loudly cheered by the people
at the depots.
The railroad boys at Denison want the,