Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-25
Tail Lights.

H. P. 81 lghes, assistant general passen-
ger agent Of the Katy. was in the city yes
terday.
". H. Abel, travelling passenger agent OF
the Alton, is in the city.
J. ". Richardson, chief clerk to General
Superintendent Winter, has some TO Denver
TO meet his wife.
j. E Daniel, who has been with the IN
ion Pacific News company Tor some years,
contemplates taking a lay-Of soon and may
go to rallroading right when ne returns
The new train recently placed on the
Georgia Central is somewhat OF novelty
The coaches are deep red, in striking con-
trast to the dark colors of all the others.
T. H. Lawson of the general passenger
Office of the Katy at Dallas, was II the city
yesterday. He says he finds it necessary
to come TO Fort Worth occasionally III or
der to see life in d real city.
Miss Gertrude Hartman, the bright-eyed
young lady Stenographer in the claim de-
partment of the Denver, has returned from
three weeks vacation. All the force was
glad to welcome her return, having missed
her sadly.
L. 3. Wallace, chief clerk in the general
passenger department of the Santa Re at
| Galveston, was in the city yesterday. Mr..
Wallace is one of those genial young men
| who make friends for themselves and their
| road wherever they go.
On August "a the head officers OF the traf-
! fic department of the Richmond and Dan
| vile road will be removed from Richmond
| to Atlanta. The acquisition OF the Central
| of Georgia and the Georgia Pacific roads IS
the cause OF the proposed removal.
! g. y. Winner. for the last fifteen years
| private secretary of President Cable OF the
| Chicago and Rock Island road. has been APP
! l,irfaI .4Upuf pf the COMPANY,
| with headquarters at Omaha.
! The Kansas commissioners have notified
| the Union Pacific that the plea of poverty
| viii not be accepted by the board, and that
| unless the company begins at once 10 lay
| new steel on the Kansas Central report
will be made to the governor with i recon-
mendation TO order prosecution.
Superintendent Jackson of the railway
| mail service reports that in one division,
| including the states of New York, New
| Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland
! and Virginia. during the year the number
| of pieces distributed on the cars was no less
than 995 IL, $50, and that only one error
! was made for an average of every 9''t
pieces handled.
The Baldwin locomotive works at Phila-
delphia Will establish test department OF
its own. which will be available to railroad
| companies desiring 10 have tests made OF
! locomotives. ms department Will III
| equipped with the latest forms OF appar
atus and will be i'll charge of competent
men. who are continually employed in this
class of work.
Another change being inaugurated by the
! Burlington is in regard to the checking OF
baggage Hereafter the plan Of desgnat
Ing each local station on the road by glver
| number will be discontinued and the MANS
! of the station will be substituted for I'll.
number II is believed that this viii
greatly simplify matters and facilitate thu
handling of baggage to a considerable ex
| tent.
The purchasing agent Of the Cincinnati
| New Orleans and Texas Pacific offers fol
sale eleven secondhand locomoties, whict
are now in service, but being too light fOl
present traffic, are to be replaced by heavy
mogu engines. All the engines have foul
drivers each. the diameter of the wheel:
varying from sixty to sixtyeight inches
The cylinders are all lGX24-inch and l1X4
inch. The total weight of five of the en-
gines is 10000 pounds each, and five other:
weigh 5000 pounds each.