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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
THE CONDUCTORS.
They will Reach the City on Special Train
Next Saturday.

On next Saturday, May 49, special train
having on board 300 or 400 members of the
Order of Railway Conductors will arrive in
the city at p. m. and Will remain here IN
til 10 o'clock in the evening. Arrangements
are being made to tender them fitting re-
Ception, as these gentlemen will be the
guests of the city while here. A band of
music will be provided and it is the inten-
ton to have carriages at the depot and give
the visitors a ride over the city, pointing
out the principal points of interest. There
will probably be a reception rendered them
in the evening. As these gentlemen are a
representative body of men and come from
all over the United States, Canada and ;Mexico
the reception accorded them here will be
known all over North America and will be
spoken of as its merits deserve. If this
visit is rendered an enjoyable one and the
fitting courtesies are properly shown, their
visit to Fort Worth will remain as green
spot il their memory. 1t is needless to say
that everything possible on the part of
Fort Worth will be done to render the re-
ception of these gentlemen one BETTING the
honor and dignity OF the great city. The
mayor and the Chamber of Commerce, in
connection with Division 81 of this city,
will have charge Of the reception. The
programme Will be more fully made known
in few days.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
Tail Lights.

sBarney" Fegan, travelling passenger
agent of the Texas and Pacific railway, was
in the city yesterday.
F. Mertsheimer, assistant superintendent
of motive power of the Union Pacific with
headquarters at Cheyenne, is in the city.
Maj. J. C. Lewis, the wee little travelling
passenger agent of the Iron Mountain
route. was in the city yesterday. The
major has given his line new title.
The local freight business of the Mexican
Central is now reported to be exceptionally
heavy. The general condition of the line is
now most excellent to meet the rainy sea
son.
George England, travelling auditor of the
Santa Fe, ''fell inn on freight yesterday
afternoon. George has the north end from
Temple to Purcell and will probably estab-
lish his headquarters at Fort Worth.
The engineer of the Bridgeport and Deca-
tur railway is expected here this week, and
the work of surveying and locating the line
will be Immediately commenced. 1t is
hoped to have the road in running order
and the coal mines in operation by Septen-
Der Decatur News.
There are about $50 teams now at work
on the grade between here and Blanket,
and but Il very short time will elapse before
tracklaying will begin, as the contractors
say they intend reaching Brownwood by the
1st Of August so as to give Fort Worth
through line to the latter place Comanche
Exponent.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
CARTER AND THE GIRLS.
The Travelling Passenger Agent of the
Cotton Belt Steals Another Party.

Yesterday evening the incoming passen-
ger train on the St. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas had a special parlor car attached,
decorated with flags and streamers. On
board were thirty-oue school girls, en- route
home from the school at Winchester, Tenn,
TO spend the summer. They were in charge
of K. NJ. Carter, travelling passenger agent,
and they were jolly crowd. A number of
carriages and busses We're at the depot
when the train arrived and a number of
them were transferred TO the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas south-bound train, en-
route for their homes at Hillsboro, Waco
and other southern points.
The party, forty-three in number, started
from Winchester, Tenn, Thursday. At
Milan Mr. Carter bought bushel of straw
berries and the maidens Toasted on this de-
Ecious fruit for the remainder of the Jour-
ney The train left Texarkana yesterday
morning fifty minutes late, being held to
enable the party to have ample time for
breakfast. The engineer said he would
bring the train into Fort Worth on the dot,
and he did so. The reason the girls were
brought through TO Fort Worth was that
they might De enabled 10 see the city and at
the same time have the pleasure of remain
ing together as long as possible. Some of
the girls remained over night in the city,
and win leave for their homes this morning.
Nr Cartsr said they were bright eyed,
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
TIE CLUBROOMs,
The Opinion Held by Railroad officials
Regarding it.

The Opinion Held by Railroad officials
Regarding it.
The coalition of The GAZETTE, General
Superintendent Winter and I. 3. Bur-
bridge in the move to organize railroad
mems reading and club rooms in this city
has awakened a considerable amount of in
tereSt in the project. Several railroad Of
ficials were seen regarding the project yes
terday, and all-while not being able to an
swer definitely for their roads, stated they
had no doubt the railroad companies would
cheerfully assume the maintenance of the
rooms after they were furnished. The re-
porter was unable to see President Horribly
of the Rio Grande, but as he is an ener-
getic, cnterprising gentleman, he is already
considered as enlisted heart and soul in the
movement.
Among the men in railroad service the
project has excited much commendation,
and as far rs can be learned would be will
ing TO assume the rentals and incidental
expenses. provided the rooms were fur
uished as indicated in Yesterdays GAZETTE,
but this is not considered necessary, as
none of the officials seem to express the
least doubt as to the willingness of the
companies te assume the obligations. This,
divided among the roads now centering
here would be but a tTifiing expense, COM
paratively speaking. General Supcrintend-
ent Winter of the Denver will call for a
meeting of the business men of the city in
few days to consider the matter.
In the meantime The GAZETTE would be
pleased TO have communications on the
subject, giving ideas for its arrangement
and maintenance from the men in train
service, track service, yard service, shop
service, etc. Address them to Railroad
Editor, GAZETTE. 1t might be well to state
in conclusion that the promoters of the en-
terprise do not contemplate permission for
the keeping of or sale of Intoxicating
liquors in or around the club rooms.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
THE DAVIS FUND.
A Call on the Patriotism of the
Southern People for the -
ERECTION OF A MONUMENT
To the Memory of the Peerless Jefferson
Davis-The 18th Day of June Desis-
mated as Day for a Universal Move
ment Throughout the South.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, May 16.-At recent
meeting of the Southern press association
at Memphis committee Of three was ap-
pointed to cooperate with Gen. John B.
Gordon, commander-in-chief of the Confed-
crate veterans association, in raising a
fund for erecting a monument to the men,
DRY of jefferson Davis. This step was
taken in furtherance of scheme set on foot
shortly after the death of Davis, and which
was intended to secure the cooperation of
Southern newspapers for this end. Some
money has already been raised, but efforts
in this direction have heretofore been de-
sultory and lacking in system.
The committee has therefore thought it
best that some action should be taken to
the end that general and simultaneous
movement be inaugurated. They have,
therefore, prepared the following address:
ITO the People of the South:
It has been the custom of all times and all
peoples to honor the memory of their Illus
trious dead by the building of monuments
which shall be perpetual reminder of their
virtues and achievements. Southern soil is
rich with the blood and ashes of Southern
heroes and patriots, whose memory will be
priceless heritage and inspiring example
forever. Among all noble dead there is no
one whose name appeals with greater power
to affectionate remembrance of Southern
people than that of Jefferson DAVIS. His
splendid valor on the field Of battle, his
brilliant abilities in the arena of statesman
ship, his heroic fortitude under persecution,
unparalleled in its atrocity and bitterness, ,
his patient, proud endurance of calumny
and detraction, make him figure which
will stand for all time in the group of the
great men Of our history.
The cause for which he fought and suf-
fered has gone down and we have buried it
fNHyer, but there is no sentiment OF honor
81 patriotism which requires US to bury
the memories of those whose lives were en-
twined with and whose blood was shed for
it. Southern people will have become lost
to every sense of honorable manhood and
womanhood when they forget him who, for
their saSes, wore shackles upon his wasted
limbs. We owe it to ourselves and to our
children to build monument to his mem
DRY.
We therefore appeal to the people of the
South, confident of the nature of their re-
Spouse. We have appointed the 18th day of
June, 1891, as the day upon which the people
of every town and county in the Southern
states should meet and take proper steps to
forward the enterprise of voluntary contri-
buttons or other methods which they may
deem best Let those who feel patriotic
interest in this movement everywhere begin
at once to organize movement in their
respective communities and secure large
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
THE ROCK ISLAND.
Little Likelihood of any Construction
this Year on Any Portion.

There continues to float over the country
rumOrs that the Rock Island is to extend
TeXasward from NIinco Immediately and
these rumors make their visits monthly
with the regularity of the visits of the bill
collector. These railroad builders appar-
entity ignore the fact that the financial con-
ditions of railroads generally, and the Rock
Island in particular, precludes the posi-
bility of any new construction at pres
ent. When railroad earnings show steady
deficit each month and an increase in OPP
Grating expenses, including equipment and
maintenance of way, new securities fOated
for extensions are apt to fall valueless upon
the market, and to find few buyers at any
price. Then again the Rock Island lines in
Kansas and Nebraska constitute as heavy
load as that company can well ''tote,'' and
the stockholders would doubtless breathe
more freely the Trans-M Missouri lines
were divorced from the parent stem and
placed in the hands of a receiver. 1t may
give real estate a transient boom to an
nounce the extension is decided upon, but
this does not build the road, nor does it
influence the large investors. The GA
zErTE may be denounced for contradicting
these rumors but it is reasonable to say the
whistle of Rock Island engine will not be
heard south Of Red river during 1891. And
it will be seen that the present tour of Rock
Island officials over the lines, instead of
resulting in new extensions will result in
Looping of OF heads and the reduction of
expenditures.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17

which was well received. A resolution
was offered in reference to the federation
OF the association with all railway EMPLOYEES.
On motion it was laid on the table Presi-
dent Broker, coming in at this point,
took the chair. A resolution that
three members TO draft plan for
an employment bureau to be approved by
the executive board was carried. The as
soclatlon then proceeded to elect delegates
to the national station agents con-
vention which meets in Denver the Goth
and the following were appointed:
F. Tno.n L. Speech, s chairman; f.. A.
James B. Scogin, ]. E. Fisher, NJ P Nor
risey, J. w. Lewis, ]. I. Mcdonald, Charles
Reid, F. S. Werner, E. F. ]. Mccarthy, ].
NJ. Murphy, L. G. Lum, c. P. Fulton, B.
Casey, Charles Boedricker, William
Shugart.
A resolution that the delegates to the
Denver grand convention be instructed to
vote and have the law changed, making
dues payable annually instead of semi
annually, was carried.
A resolution that the executive board es-
tablish an official organ for the state diyis-
ion was carried.
The delegates to the grand convention
were instructed to use all honorable means
to secure the election of r. W. Wright,
editor OF the Station Agent, as secretary of
the grand division. The delegates to the
grand convention were instructed to vote
against the proposition to expel members
belonging to organizations which approve
strikes. An assistant secretary was ap-
pointed to solicit membership and collect
dues. a committee to frame resolutions
of thanks to the railways OF
the state and the merchants Of
Galveston for their iberality and favors
was appointed. San Antonio was selected
as the place of holding the next conven-
ton
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: F. 0. Broker of Calves
ton was elected president by rising vote;
Fl. II. Hammill of Burnett, first vice-presi-
dent; Maurice Green of Sherman, sec
ond vice-president; Charles Collins of
San Marcos, secretary; +. l.. Sheeks of
NleXia, treasurer. The association then
adjourned until ) p m.
Upon reassembling this evening the com
mItteeS to whom were referred the Secre-
tary's and treasurer's reports reported that
they had carefully examined the reports of
these officers and found them correct
and recommended they be approved
by the association. This was
done. After the transaction of some minor
business the association adjourned sine die
to meet in San Antonio in 1892 at the call of
the executive committee.
Tonight the association was banuuetted
at the Girarden house by the merchants and
local railway officials. Tomorrow they
will be given an excursion on the bay and
tomorrow night the delegates appointed to
the national convention in Denver will leave
for that city in a special Pullman.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
The Esmeralda at Acapulco.

CITY OF MEXICO, May 16-The govern
ment denies the rumors published that the
Esmeralda succeeded. in buying even a
limited amount of coal at Acapulco, but
on the contrary she was ordered out of the
port and is now lying off coast in neutral
waters, waiting it is thought, for the Etata,
with her steam launch patrolling all last
night. The general opinion at Acapulco is
that the Etata has passed and gone south
and the Esmeralda is waiting for the Char
lesion. The officers of the Esmeralda have
been using the wires freely at Acapulco,
At 5 O'Clock this evening an unusual COM
motion was observed through glasses from
Acapulo on the Esmeralda, but no sign of
any ship was discernible.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
The Railway Conductors.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, May 16-The entire day
was consumed by the convention of the
Order of Railway Conductors in the cleo
ton of officers, it being found necessary to
cast several ballots before it was deter
mined who the successful candidates were.
w. P. Daniels was elected grand secretary
and treasurer; A. B. Garretson, grand
senior conductor; t. D. Hartell, grand
junior conductor; ]. Morgan, inside senti-
mel; r. E. Walcody, outside sentinel; j. F.
Dorsey, executive committee; and j. X.
Latmer, insurance committee. Tomorrow
a number of delegates will go to Indianapo-
lis with view to determining whether the
permanent headquarters of the order will
be located there. This matter will, how
ever, probably not be settled at the present
session, but will be laid over until next
wear
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
The Esmeralia Seen.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, May 16.-The captain
of the steamer Newbern, which arrived in
this port at midnight last night, reported
that On the way down the coast he met the
Gillian warship Esmeralda at Cape San
Lucas and spoke with the officers of that
vessel. After leaving the Esmeralda,
which proceeded north, he passed, some
time during the night, vessel supposed to
be the Gillian warship Imperiali, also 60
ing north. On his return trip he reports
seeing none of those vessels. N.-sse
The captain further stated that he Us of
the opinion that the Esmerelda and Ebs.a
put into Magdalena bay, where the cargo
could have been transferred without any
trouble and the Charleston might have laid
by while the transfer was being made.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
GOULD'S LATEST TRICKS.
The Willy Wizard of Wall Street Pullin
the Market for a Purpose.

the Market for a Purpose.
The willy wizard of Wall street is giving
railroad men material for speculation just
at present. and none of them seem to be
able to form an exact conclusion as to just
what piece of mischief he is up to now The
fact that he is having himself interviewed,
picturing the future in glowing lines with
all the tints of the rainbow, and posing as q
colossal bull, while the steady drain of gold
for export is continued steadily from day to
day, reducing materially the money availa-
bic in this country and stifening the pres
ent great stringency in financial circles,
and which threatens to prove disastrous to
those roads whose interest charges are
due in June and July, appears to them
decidedly suspicious. Added to this the
fact that he has, through parties III his in
terest, recently unloaded shares to the num-
Der of $50 900 or more leads them to the be-
lief that he foreseeS financial crash and is
preparing to stand from under. At the
same time the Santa Fe's report showing a
deficit and the well known cramped finan-
cial condition Of the Rock Island leads to
the belief that he is working either to OBJ
tain control of those roads by buying stocks
when thoroughly deprecated, throwing
them into the hands of a receiver and bob
bling up serenely in the reorganization. Jay
is noted as being eel-like in his financial
movements, and while the officials of other
roads are unable to fix his next move with
any degree Of accuracy, all realize that the
wizard is at the wires and manipulating
them.
The hopeful condition Of railroad securi-
ties of the past six weeks, has given way to
a corresponding depression, and many roads
that are under construction and in contem-
plation, that had contracts made for floating
their securities and going ahead with the
work, fLd themselves blocked and can
trace it directly to the Wall street wizard
While THE GAZETTE is not a prophet, or
the son of prophet, it confidently predicts
within the next sixty days, the railroad
construction for 1891 will not amount to
many miles. Gould's apparent bullishness
is held to cover some deep scheme, which
even large crop and consequently heavy
tonnage for the Granger lines will not
avert.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17

At $50 this morning the delegates to the
Mississippi commercial congress al
Denver will leave over the Fort Worth and
Denver. A special sleeper bearing the New
Orleans delegation will arrive on the Texas
and Pacific and the Galveston and Houston
delegates will arrive over the Santa Fe.
They will be joined here by the Fort
Worth delegation. This convention is held
for the purpose of adjusting differences be-
tween the merchants and the business men
and the railroad companies regarding
rates, transportation, etc. and will be one
of the most important conventions held in
the United States this year.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
II You Are Going

To attend the commercial congress at Den
yer, Col, consult your own interssS and
travel via the
The Santa Fee has pade tn very low rate
of s2400 for the roN\d for this occa-
sion. Tickets on saley ~ Is, 16 and II in
elusive. Return limit Rirty days.
The Santa Fe trai Il wing here at $40
p n; arrives pi in D nd meGrning;
at Ticket Office, Is HoustA street. This
line saves you lie businesSl day between
Fort Worth and Denver.
If any other information desheed, it will
be gladly furnished you on application at
Santa Fe Office, corner Third and Houston
streets.
WILLIAM DoHERTY, City Ticket Agent.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
New Road for the Timber Belt.

CLAwsoN, TEX, May 15.-Mr. A. L.
Clark, president, and other members of the
Tyler car and lumber company, were here in
the city to-day prospecting tap line of
road TO be built from the E. W. to connect
with the X. G. at this point. The laying of
this line will begin at once and will be
pushed to rapid completion. They con-
template building saw mill on this line of
road on or near Angelina river. The firm
of T. r. Bonner & Co. of Tyler have several
cars Of rails on cars at Lufkin, which they
intend to begin laying at once from this
place through several miles of the best pine
timber in this country.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
Railroad Earnings.

Special to the Gazette.
New YORK, May 16.-The Chronicle re-
ports the gross earnings of $50 roads for the
month of April, 1891, at, S3S, AZ, 2249; 1890,
$50 9S9, 1863, an increase of 81, 1872 $50. From
january l to April 80, 1891, s14S, $50, $50;
1890, $40 554, 564, an increase of 81, 800, 4S6.
The gross earnings of ninety-one roads for
the fourth week of April, 1891, S., 537, 261;
1890, S, 0SS, 29S, an increase of S44s. 1868; for
sixty-nine roads the first week in May, 1891,
81, ,574; in 1890, S5,6O6,91S, an increase of
SI3I Sot;
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
Rumored Capture of the Etata.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-. May ia dispatch
from the City of Mexico says it is rumored
there that the Etata has been captured by
the Charleston off the coast of the state of
Jalisco, and that she is now returning with
the prisoner toward San Diego. 1t is i'm
possible to verify or deny the rumor
The man-of-war reported as flying no
colors and lying off the coast of San Bias
on investigation proved to be coastwise
steamer. Its captain has seen no vessels
of 4 suspicious character.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
Get One Fra

The Fort Worth and Denver City in con
nection with the Union Pacific Eai1 ID
first in the field with an. ~ Illus
tratsd Mestern GET for those ?
Office ~ Street and secure a CYCLIC
peffH information regarding the numer-
eSQs and cheap summer resorts reached by
the Union Pacific railway
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
FORT WORTH AND RIO GKANpE.
The Proposed Extension from Menardville
to Fort McKavitt.

Special to the Gazette.
MENARDvILLE, TEX, May 14-At rail-
road meeting held here yesterday the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted:
1T is the sense of this meeting that there
can be secured for the extension of the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande railroad
through McCulloch and Midland counties
to Fort MIcKavitt the right of way and a
bonus of $1,000, good part Of which is al
ready promised"
An extension Of the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande railroad as named in the resolution
would tap the great wool and cattle section
of West Texas, the business that now goes
to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the
Arkansas Pass roads would be done by
this line. Fort Worth would get the
wholesale trade, the cattle and wool of the
country through which the road passes,
also the trade for miles beyond the ter
mious.
VIII Fort Worth lend US helping hand,
in securing this roadi
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
The Decatur and Bridgeport.
Special to the Gazette.

DECATUR, TEX, May 16.-Mr. c. E.
Moore, civil engineer of the Decatur and
Bridgeport railroad, has arrived in the city
and will begin surveying the line next
Monday. The surveying will be pushed
through as rapidly as possible, and as soon
as completed the grading will begin. The
road is expected to be completed by the 1st
of September
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17
Texas Station Agents.
specia, to the Gazette

Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, TEX, May 1s.-The second
days session Of the Railroad station
agents association of Texas met in the
parlors of the Beach at 10 a. m. with A. 8.
Downler, third vice-president, in the chair.
Communications were read and referred
TO appropriate committees.
A letter on the good Of the associaS
ton was read from J. NJ Alb
bott, ox-4resident Of tho division,