Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-24
THE RAILROADS.
The Commission Issues Rate
Sheets on Car Lot Lime.
FAVOR REMAINING AT Y0AKuM.
Passenger Pool Questions-Cotton Belt
improvements in Service-The O. r. T.
Difficulty on the Rio Grande Settled.
Signal FlRshes-Notes.
Signal Flashes.

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Light travel is reported by the various
passenger ticket agents.
A. ]. Whitehead, travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four, was in the city yes
terday.
C. c. Cameron, of St. Louis, travelling
freight claim agent of the Cotton Belt is in
the city.
General Superintendent Edison and Road
master o. MCGOWAN, of the Cotton Belt are
in the city.
George W. Dice of Kansas City, of the
New England cattle car company, is in town
on business.
Barney Pagan, travelling passenger agent
of the Texas and Pacific. headquarters at
Dallas, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
W. B. Truslom, who for the past year has
held a position with the Cotton Belt at
Corsicana, has resigned and gone to Tyler.
J. F. Agar, general agent of the Union
Pacific system, of st. Louis, was in the city
yesterday, and departed last evening for
Waco.
G. C. Drake, chief clerk in the passenger
and freight department of the Fort Worth
and Denver, is whooping up his congress
sional claims.
A train of eleven carriages, just COM
pleted for the emperor of Germany, is said
! to have cost 100000 marks, about 81, 00O,-
| 600 in American money.
! In 1sq. there were G032 mail clerks on
: American railways. OF this number thir-
| teen were killed, sixty-eight seriously and
! eighty-four slightly injured.
H. D. Chamberlin, acting general man.
ager of the Erie Dispatch fast freight line.
has been made general manager, the APP
! pointment 10 take effect March l. e
Albert Fink, ex-comm;ssioner ofUthe
| Trunk Line association, viii, it is said. be
offered the presidency of the reorganized
| Richmond and West Point terminal COM
pany.
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
company has ordered fifteen com bination
and eighty-tive passenger cars from the
Pullman company. They will be painted
| the new color
Mr.. Frank D. Wilson, chief clerk of the
freight department of the Union Pacific at
Kansas City, Mo-, has been appointed trav-
cling freight agent of that road, with head
quarters at Kansas City, Mo.
The Fort Worth and Denver pay car,
which has been on It's regular monthly trip
up in the Panhandle country, returned yes
terday, with Messrs. j. Y. Goode, ]. d.
Moore and G. c. Rivers aboard.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad has equipped its yestibuled Sleep
ing cars withelectric berth lights. This is
the only railroad in the country furnishing
such luxury to modern travel
John II. Harris has been appointed in
spector of the San Antonio and Arkansas
Pass, his jurisdiction covering train, engine,
station and maintenance of way depart
ments. Headquarters, San Antonio, Tex.
R. H. Bruce has been appointed CONNER
cial agent of the International and Great
Northern, with headquarters at Mineola,
orA -xyin hos obo, If oil fbe &.a,.,.
tory east of the Houston and Texas Central
railroad from Houston to Denison.
J. S. Winnett, the well-known general
travelling agent of the Chicago, st. Paul
land Kansas City road, has been appointed
assistant general freight agent of the COM
pany, with headquarters at Des Moines,
Iowa. The appointment takes effect
March l.
Mr.. c. P. Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific railway, denies the report
that his company is going out of the West
reported as having said that the association
is doing much good in keeping rates from
being demoralized..
The Lake Shore is putting automatic
couplers on all its freight trains as rapidly
as the change can be made in the shops.
All the new cars are already operated by
the automatic couplers, and all the old cars
Illdb GALLUP Do uScu W ll Tie u0W COuplCIS
will be retired from service as rapidly as
possible.
Since the Southern Pacific has put on fast
through freight from New Orleans to San
Francisco the freights from Northern cities
have increased very largely. Extra steam
ers have been put on the line, each one of
which gives to the Southern Pacific at New
Orleans from 200 to 300 car loads of freight
each trip.
The opening of the bridge across the
Mississippi at Memphis will be duly cele-
brated about April Is. Railway men esti-
mate that the opening of the bridge will
bring the West and Sout:; from twelve to
twentyfour hours nearer together in the
matter of freight traffic, and several hours
nearer in the matter of passenger tratic.
Some of the large railroad companies are
watching carefully the attempts to intro
duce new air brakes, and are trying 10 pre-
vent the use of inefficient brakes on freight
trains. So far, orders have been
issued to conductors to cut out
uncertain and unknown air brakes
only; but a further decision has been
reached that if such brakes are found to be
cut in with the standard brakes of the road.
owing to inability on the part of inspectors
and trainmen TO distinguish between the
good and the bad, something will be done to
prevent, as far as possible, receiving cars
with uncertain brakes.
Settled at Last