Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-29
Tail Lights.

c. C. Drake, chief clerk in the traffic de-
partment of the Denver, was in Dallas yes
terday.
H. G. Kelly, chief engineer of the Cotton
Belt in Texas, with headquarters in TeXar-
kama, is in the city.
H. NJ. DeHart, general agent of the
Denver, came in yesterday from a trip
through the Panhandle.
j. w. Richardson, chief clerk in General
Superintendent Winters office, is expected
home from Denver to-day
The Wisconsin Central has issued an
elegantly engraved and printed itinerary
from Chicago to st. Paul for the annual
convention of the international association
of ticket agents at the latter city, Septem-
ber6, the official route
Vice-Chairman Donald has issued the
call for the Central traffic association pas
senger meeting September ,. The pro-
gramme is brief and comparatively unim-
portant, interchangeable 5000-mile tickets
is the most important subject for consider
alton.
A request has been filed in the Western
passenger association that September 10 be
made the date for harvest excursion to all
points. 1t will probably be favorably con-
sidered, inasmuch as the opinion is preva-
lent that the excursion will be extended by
degrees any way and it might as well be
sanctioned from the outstart.
Most of the roads, before employing Il
man, ascertain the applicants previous
record as a railroad man, especially his
views as regards going out on strikes. Four
years ago the Pennsylvania lines adopted
this course, and to-day know the standing
of every man in their employ as regards
taking part in strikes when one is ordered.
The ticket scalpers of the country say they
have not profited so much by the excursion
tickets of the summer, as in most cases the
limit was too short. They are now looking
to the harvest excursions to help them out
Meantime the general passenger agents are
laboring to make them so ironclad that
scalpers cannot handle them to advantage.
The visiting ticket agents who convene
at St. Paul in September, will not be with
out the pleasures of yachting. President
Stevens of the Twin City association an
nounced yesterday morning that he was in
receipt of a cordial invitation from the Min
netonka yacht club asking the delegates to
participate in special regatta when they
visit the Hotel St Louis.
The Southwestern steamship and railway
association has made rate of 60 cents per
100 pounds on packing-house products from
st. Louis to Houston and Galveston, and
80 cents per 100 pounds from New Orleans
to the same points The rate on molaSSeS
(carloadS) from ST. Louis to Kansas City
to the above points is to be advanced Sep
TENDER from 40 to IS cents per 100 pounds.
The Western freight association has au-
thorized the following rates; Six dollars
per net ton on coke, Chicago to Deadwood,
effective August 25; is cents per 100 pounds
on pig lead, Joplin district to Memphis; Is
cents per 100 pounds on canned goods and
vinegar, carloads, keokuk to ST Paul; BOZ
cents on butter and eggs and rs cents
dressed poultry, carloads, Louisville to
Mississippi river.
1t is reported that last Sunday locomotive
955, on the Philadelphia and Reading rail
way, hauled a train of ninety twenty-five
ton cars loaded with coal from Palo Alto to
to Port Richmond. These cars were all
about thirty-four feet in length, thus
making the total length of the train about
300 feet, or considerably more than half
mile. The total weight of the train was
estimated at 2375 tons. The weight of the
engine was about seventy-fve tons. If this
report is true, the train hauled was proba-
bly, the longest and heaviest one that was
ever taken over that road.