Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-21
Tail Lights.

The special having J. f. Simmons and
party on board returned from Quanah last
evening.
W. H. Hurst came in yesterday from 4
hustling "trip up the Denver in the interest
Of the Cotton Belt.
w. H. Quigg, commercial agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, is down IN the
Brownwood country.
The time tables folders and advertise
mentS of the Alton have been thrown out of
the New York Central depot at New York.
The three rs" routine is getting it again.
The Eastern committee are on another in
vestigation. The St Louis lines are now
said to be equally guilty.
The rate situation in the East is growing
worse each day. The Big Four. Chesapeake
and Ohio, Nickel Plate and the Lackawanna
are openly cutting rates, at least sucn IS
the charge made, and i break is expected at
any time.
The application of the Chicago, St. Paul
and Kansas City for relief on tourist rates
10 Duluth. Superior, St. Paul Minneapolis
and other Northwestern points WAS heard
by Chairman Finley Saturday morning, AMI
in the afternoon the relief was granted.
Other applications will undoubtedly be
made unless the whole tourist rate trouble
is settled by the action of the general man
ayers.
Jerome r Wares. general manager OF the
New England car company and the Burton
StOckCar company. with headquarters at
Chicago. is III the city Mr.. Wares is max
ing u tour OF Texas looking after the inter
ests of his companies.
C. V. Lewis, formerly assistant general
freight agent of the Missouri Pacific III
Kansas, has been appointed assistant gen
eral freight agent of the Big Four, with
headquarters at Cincinnati He will enter
upon the discharge of his duties June /.
AS predicted in THE GAZETTE of Sunday.
the trip of the officials over the lines of the
Rock Island has resulted in Il reduction of
expenses. All the general offices at Topeka,
except those Of the operating and freight
departments are to be consolidated with the
offices AT Chicago.
A special dispatch from Omaha says: A
rumor is floating about in this vicinity to
the effect that the lines i'll the Western
traffic association which insisted on the dis
charge of Traffic Manager Leeds of the
Missouri Pacific will now ask for his rein
statement. IT is known that Mr.. Leeds has
received an offer from the Merchants traffic
commission of ST. Louis of the position of
commissioner at salary of $4,000. He
has the offer under consideration.
Louis Seckels and daughter of Denver
left that city May for New York on tick
cts reading over the Union Pacific, Alton,
Grand Trunk and the West Shore. They
reached New York in safety, but their bag
gage was stopped al Buffalo by the West
Shore On account of the Alton boycott.
Mr.. SeckelS will bring suit for damage
against the railroad company. The Alton
coupons Were accepted by all of the boy
cotting lines.
y box car belonging to Wisconsin road,
says the indianapolis journal. stands on
the side track at kingan II Co. s. in which
was shipped wooden buckets. The car is
1ifty-one feet long. eighteen feet longer
than the ordinary box car and it is fifteen
feet from the track to the top of the car
Some wag has. with paint brush, in bold
letters, painted the following: Poor little
freight car, don't YOU cry; you'll be an ele-
vator by and by