Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-15

| c. /. Wear. general livestock agent OF
| the Fort Worth and Denver, is in the city.
W H Hurst, city ticket agent of the
| Cotton Belt, leaves for trip along the line
! of the Denver to-day.
| W. d. Lawson, travelling passenger agent
! of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, left for
the South last night.
Morgan Jones. president Of the Fort
| Worth and Denver, left yesterday morning
| on business trip TO Colorado.
Mr. E. E Pratt has resigned the position
| of assistant treasurer Of the Chicago, Bur
| lingtOn and Quincy railroad company and
| Mr.. y. G. Stanwood has been appointed his
successor
The Boston and Albany directors have
| elected the Hon. L. D. Hayden of Woburn
| vice-president. secretary and board clerk 10
| succeed James y. Rumril, who recently
| resigned.
4 special train loaded with lard went
| east over the Texas and Pacific last night.
The shipment was by the Fort Worth pack
ing company and was consigned to New
York firm.
J. L. Pennington, livestock agent of the
Santa t'e, came in from Il trip yesterday
morning and left ii noon for Gainesville.
He reports an exceptionally heavy move
ment of livestock.
The arrival of the Macon Dublin and Sa-
vannah road, accompanied by the telegraph,
at Jacksonville. Ga, was the occasion of
great jublation at the innovation of such
modern necessities.
The quarterly meeting of the board of
directors OF the Fort Worth and Denver
railway was not held yesterday, owing to
the absence of two directors and because
there was no business to transact.
A Richmond, Va, dispatch says: M. L.
T., II
Ohio railroad. in an interview, says that
his company will spend S2.00O,000 here in
improvements Il is expected this will in
clude tine passenger station. -
The Southern Pacific directors have
elected the following officers: C.. z. Hunt
ington, president: G. +. Croker, first vice
president; A. n. Towne. second vice-presi-
dent: j. c. Stubs, third vice-president;
Timothy Hopkins, treasurer; NJ. y. Lam
sing, secretary and controller.
]. w. Reinhart. e-president of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad,
who is nov sick at his home III Brookline,
Mass, sends out spirited denial of the
report that he is Scheming to Supplant Pres
ident Marvel Mr. Reinhart is disposed to
prosecute the persons who started that re-
port.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati,
Wabash and Michigan railway have elected
the following-named gentlemen a board of
directors for the ensuing year: NJ. E.
Ingalls,. Z. T. Osborn, \. r. Johnson,
Joseph Ramsey, Jr., !. c. Davil, ". P. An
derson, J. D. Layng, W. NJ. Greene, D. j.
Macley, George Bliss and John Newell.
The action taken last week by the London
stockholders of the Wabash, Us regards
building an Independent line between De
troit and Chicago, shelves the project for
the present. Probably the Wabash will
use the Chicago and Erie to get into Chi
cago for some years, unless the earnings of
the system make some remarkable gains.
The stockholders of the Chicago and AL
ton road held their twenty-eighth annual
meeting Monday. No changes in the d.
rectorv or official staff were made; only
routine business was transacted. Had any
of the stockholders been dissatisfied with
the manner III which the road is now man
aged it is reasonable 10 suppose they would
have been heard from, but not Il complaint
was made.
Manager Bissell of the Wagner car shops
has invented another vestibule, Interchange
able with the Pullman vestibule. He has
received letters patent. and the carpenters
will proceed to manufacture them. AL the
experiments proved satisfactory Two
magnificent private cars, one for DR.. Sew
ard Webb, president of the Wagner COM
pany and the other for George Vanderbilt.
are now being constructed at the works.
President Huntington of the Southern
Pacific railroad has made brief report TO
the stockholders, showing the operations
of the company for 1890. The gross earn
ings We're s4S, 352. sos an increase of 81 .3S4,-
$40: operating expenses, S3l. Isl, 200, an in
crease of S74S.675. Taxes and other fixed
charges make up the total of Sl5,33S. 543, so
that the balance remaining after the pay
ment of all charges under the lease is
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