Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
THE RAILROADS.
A TIE-UP ON THE SOUTHERN
PACIFIC CAUSED BY
The Burning of Bridge-To Take Tour
of Inspection Over the s. A. g. A. P.
Brief Notes and Personals
signal Flashes.

trip last evening.
The Litchfeld car-shops have orders on
their books for nearly 1000 cars.
President John King of the Erie is in Cal
ifornia. He is much improved in health
since he went to that state.
The four main tracks of the New York
Central, for distance of five miles, viii be
laid with 100-pound steel rails.
Geneze Superintendent J. D. Moore Of
the Fks Worth and Denver City railway
rests4nd yesterday from a trip up the line.
q Harry Lewis, formerly prominent rail
ro2fer, now a prominent merchant OF
HailadeTphia, isssah the city meeting his
ffiends.sss
sengers arriving on all the trains last
night report snow, rain and sleet falling
thick and fast for many miles out from this
city, and the coaches were capped with
1.-The beautiful
Col. Montgomery, the new general super
inteudent of the Louisville, Evansville and
st. Louis road, has set the minds of subor-
dinate officials at ease by announcing that
no changes are TO be made.
The Baltimore and Ohio management an
nounces that hereafter when an accident
occurs on the road in which any person is
injured or killed, full particulars, without
any coloring, will be sent to terminal
points and the press be given the facts.
The New Lork Central earned in Feb
ruary 3d. sos, ALSO; increase over Feb
ruary, 1891, S772, 419.02. This is 1.-THE largest
increase in gross earnings shown by any
system which has yet reported. The Chi
cago and Northwestern comes next,
The St Louis and San Francisco. rail
road company has recently placed an order
with the st. Charles car company for if
teen elegant chair cars, mahogany finish,
and equipped with the latest devices, Scar
ritt's latest twin reclining chair; also six
baggage cars.
s5His suggested that a small place be set
apArt in the baggage cars of passenger
Gains ipswhich to place persons who creole
disturbances on trains while under the IN
fiuEree of liquors, combining them until 4
.ftkswn is reached where an officer ca1<5e
found to take care of them.
On March 20 the Southern Pacific will
put new time card into effect. by which
the east-bound train will leave Rosenberg
at 9:15 p. m, thus making close connection
with the south-bound Santa Fe, leaving
Fort Worth at $3.50 a. m. for New Orleans
#Hn all points Southeast.
THE Pennsylvania will build this year $50
lengires for the lines east of Pittsburg and
$50 farthe lines west of Pittsburg. They
Yisi all be heavy engines. the freightS
isBeing designed to haul trains Of forty cars
over steep grades. At the Altoona shops
the company is building twenty-five draw
ing-room cars, besides the Pullmans that
being built at Chicago.
The earning capacity of the passenger
traffic of the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy, said an official, is a surprise to the
owners of the property as well as to COM
petitors. Last year the earnings from pas
ssenger service exceeded 81, 900, 900 on the
1000 miles of road in the system; January
this year shows an increase of S11, 900, and
for February the increase is officially
stated to be nearly $4,000 over last year.
In reversing Judgment against corpo-
ration Western Judge recently said: ''We
affirm good many unjust judgments against
railways because juries will find verdicts
against them if there be any pretext for so
doing, and unless on record there is such
a want of evidence to support the verdict,
or what evidence there may be in that di-
rection is so overwhelmed by opposing evil
dence that the verdict is glaringly wrong,
I'VE have no right to disturb it
The report came from Cleburne that the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa F'e had leased the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande, and would
make the greater part of their cattle ship
ments over that line Mr.. Richard Lord of
ltne Rio Grande was questioned concerning
the matter last evening, and said:
There's nothing IN II, further than that
we have entered into a traffic agreement to
handle all the Santa Fe's cattle that orig
mate west of Brownwood. We will han
die at least 5000 cars tor them this year"
FvsA Already circulars are out for the tri-
ennial conclave of the knights Templar to
be held in the city of Denver. Colo, Au-
gust, 1892 The Atchison, Topeka and
Santa F'e will sell excursion tickets from
all points on its line to Denver and return
at one lowest limited fare for the round
s<Fip. Tickets will be on sale from August
to August Z, 1892, east of the Missouri
river, and from August to 10 at and west
of the Missouri river; they will be good for
passage five days in each direction to and
from Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo.
and must be executed for return passage at
one of these points.
President Ingalls, is reported by the In
diauapolis Journal to have said that he
would not consider the Big Four system
complete until it had its own lines into Chi
cago, Toledo and Louisville. Then the COM
,psIsks would have system with direct lines
Between terminal points that would out
rank any other system. To do this several
existing roads and the building of an extern
sion from North Vernon to Louisville would
be required. The Journal mentions Judge
Burke's road, the Toledo, Columbus and
Cincinnati, as the most likely acquisition
for a line between Columbus and Toledo.
ciunati and Toledo only three miles longer
than the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton.
Railroad Wells.
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