Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-05
Tail Lights.
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p. NJ. al Bolton.

C. B. VOORHEES,, travelling auditor OF the
Cotton Belt, is in the city.
J. H White, division superintendent of
the Cotton Belt, is i'll the city.
H c. Archer travelling passenger agent
of the Ohio and Mississippi, is in the city.
The Katy announces j special rate from
all points for the postmGsters' convention
at Bolton.
All railroad men, in whatever branch of
the service, are requested to meet in the
Chamber of Commerce hall al $50 p. m,
sharp to-day
William DOherty, city passenger and
ticket agent of the Santa F'e. returned from
his trip North with The GAZETTE girls. He
said the scholarship contest was famous all
along the line of the Santa F'e.
The Buffalo Express says that move
ment is on foot to organize al association
of railway men who have been in the ser
vice for more than twenty Years.
The meeting of the Southern railway and
steamship association was held in New
York on September 3 and +, INSTEAD of At
lanta on September ., as was first all
nounced.
w w Thompson. hitherto master me-
chanic of the Manhattan elevated road, has
been appointed master mechanic of the New
York Central. to succeed p. NicQ. Gibson,
resigned.
The building of the Indiana Midland into
the Brazil coal fields is not rushing forward
with great rapidity, and consequently the
road will not derive much benefit from it
this year.
J. II. Bolens. the postal clerk injured in
the wreck of the fast mail train on the Lake
Shore road u few weeks ago, has been paid
$1,000 by the company in settlement of his
claim for damages.
The run from St. Louis to Cincinnati,
over the Nandalia and the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton and Dayton, is made exactly in ten
hours, the through cars standing in the
Union station at Indianapolis twenty-six
minutes. The Ohio and Mississippi now
makes the run four minutes the quickest,
but the Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton
proposes 10 accelerate.
Special Agent kretschmar of the in ter
state commerce commission, who is now in
Chicago preparing evidence for the Federal
grand jury, will arrive in St. Louis next
week TO investigate the relations of St
Louis lines with the ticket brokers. and.
present the matter TO the United States dis
trict attorney, before the Federal grand
jury assemblies there.
While the projectors of the Toledo and
Chicago Bee Line are getting ready, the
Lake Shore has hired all the mules and me =
which We're TO go to work on the new enter
prise to build their new line. Still the pro-
jectorS of the tirSt-named road are confident
they will build the road, thinking that they
will find some capitalists who want to sink
their money by paralleling the Lake Shore.
The financial statement for the Burlington
and its controlled lines for july shows:
Gross earnings 8, i6l, 1875, increase $40, 096;
operating expenses and charges 8, 43l, 027
decrease S2932 net earnings 1888 :5O7
The statement Tor the seven months ending
July 81 shows: Gross earnings ST.. 53I, 0Sl,
decrease s., 1882; operating expenses and
charges SIC, G34. 999, decrease 81, rs, IA; net
earnings 1896, 0S2, decrease 1851, SOS.
Six new sleeping-cars, claimed to be as
fine as any ever built in this country, have
been placed in service between Chicago AMI
Portland. Ore, over the Chicago, Min
waukee and ST. Paul and Northern Pacific
roads. The woodwork is polished birds-eye
maple, and the upholstery is embossed vel
vet, panels OF which are set OF with fine eff
feet by the shining wood. There are only
ten sections in each car. instead of fourteen
as = the ordinary car, but there are two