Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-28
Tail Lights.

]. G.. Thompson, travelling passenger
agent of the Canadian Pacific with head
quarters at 232 Clark street, Chicago, is in
the city.
BY agreement among the Eastern lines
the classes on iron will be changed Septem-
Der l from fifth and sixth TO fourth and
fifth classes.
The Katy announces rate of one fare
for the round trip to the meeting of the
Sovereign Grand lodge of Odd Fellows at
St Louis. Tickets will be on sale Septeu-
Der Is and 19, limited for return to the 2Sth.
d. A. Barton, stenographer in the ac-
counting department of the Fort Worth
and Denver, is the poet whose illusions
signed w. Fl. H, Jr., attracted so much at
tention in The GAZETTE's scholarship con-
test.
Earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio
Southwestern for the first week Of August
We're S56, 1872, an increase of ST4lS over the
same week last year. From January the
earnings We're 81, 566 16l, an increase of
S3l, 549.
At recent meeting of the Colorado rail
way passenger agents in the Rio Crande
passenger department rooms it was agreed
that newspaper advertising was the only
legitimate and fruitful means of advertis-
ing. and the passenger agents agreed to
adhere to it.
In July the Maple Leaf carried between
Chicago and st. Paul, 1906 tirSt-clasS pas
sengers. During the same month the ST.
Paul carried 1893, the Northwestern Ga and
the Wisconsin Central $50. This state of
things has caused invidious remark 1t
cannot be denied that the Ma pie Leaf peo-
pie are great hustlers.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa F'e has
given the would-be wreckers of the road a
decided setback by showing, in an official
statement, that the gross earnings of the
road III July, 1891, We're 1865, 2S3 larger than
in July. 1890, and these earnings were
made with large reduction in operating
expenses as compared with former years.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
has just turned out a new style of postal
car which greatly increases the facilities
for handling mail matter quickly. The SUI
perintendent of mail service is well pleased
with the new car. The company has de-
cided to build two more of the same de-
sign.
The Queen and Crescent has ordered sew
eral of its passenger engines equipped with
the same class of electric headlight now in
use on the Vandalia and the c., II. & d.
roads. For a road with as many tunnels as
has the Queen and Crescent, electric head
lights Will be of more than ordinary value.
The Queen and Crescent is making extern
crease OF freight and passenger traffic that
is coming to IL and is promised for this fall
A deal is on foot for a large number of new
cars. both freight and passenger, the lat
ter the very finest that can be made. All
are to be ready for winter traffic.
The three Is road has applied for ad-
mission to the Western freight association
and 1t is reported that the move is made to
escape punishment which is impending on
of ha Il tod H.
the little line. The Western traffic COM
missionerS are now considering the divi-
sions in order to put stop to this sort of
rate cutting.
The Railway Age, surgical department,
says: I'VE consider the plan adopted by
the Chicago and Alton railroad of giving q
train lunch an excellent one from 4 SAM
tary standpoint. 1t is much better than
gulpiug down IA hasty meal at an eating
house and far superior to nothing when a
man is hungry. While not equal to a din
ner in modern dining-car, it is less eX-
peuSive and is within the reach of many
who cannot afford the dining gears lux
urieS.''
a recent San Francisco dispatch reports
this curious accident: \ train of twenty
two cars on the Greenwood railway, in
Mendocino county. jumped the track on a
bluff and disappeared in the Pacific ocean
point where the train went over the road
runs along the side of a cliff where there is
a sheer descent of about fifty feet into the
water. The cars We're loaded and sank
rapidly. The men, who had barely saved
their lives, walked to the nearest station to
wait for a train and have their wounds
dressed. No one was badly injured.
1t is reported, says the Engineering
News, that single-rail railway, on the
Lartigue system, is to be built from the
Feurs to Parricsieres, France. The line |
will be about ten and one-half miles long !
This system consists of a series of A frames
resting on the ground and carrying the rail |
On top, while guide rails along the 3sides |
serve to steady the train. The engine and |
cars straddlethe track, the latter having |
longitudinal seats, the passengers sitting |
with their backs to the track 4 railway of |
ibis system, ten miles long, has been opera |
ton for some time in Ireland. 1t is said |
that the French government has sent a |
to Ireland to inspect this line |
with a view to adopting the system for lines |
N the French colonies, and that the engin- |
Ger of 4 railway in india has also recently |
il with view of adopting the |
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