Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-03
THE RAILROADS.
Jay Gould and Party Headed
for the Lone Star State.
THE DENVER'S BREWERY RATE.
Brief Mention of General Character Con-
corning Railways, Officers and En-
pIoyes-P Personal Mention of
the InB and Outs.
Signal Flashes

J. J. Mullane, commercial agent Of the
Santa Fe, is back from a business trip TO
Galveston.
Superintendent J. V. Goode of the Fort
Worth and Denver went back up the road
yesterday.
John K. Rosson, the 'Frisco's Texas live
stock rustler, is at home from whirl over
the state.
Charlie Wear, livestock agent of the Fort
Worth and Denver, is just in fronlss BUSY
ness trip. ~
J. H. White, assistant superintendentsof
the Cotton Belt, Commerce. was i1sthe
city yesterday.
G. B. Smith, travelling flight agent Of
the Fort Worth and Denvef, ma3B run
over to Dallas yesterday.
The Grafton City of Mexico eEcursionists
left St. Louis Sunday on a special tram
over the Iron Mountain hnesr
jill Snow of the Atchjs6n, Topeka and
Santa F'e was IN the city yesterday on bust
ness connected with his road.
W. Il. Quigg, commercial agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, is back from
a successful business trip West.
D. W. Hayes, master mechanic of the
Fort Worth and Denver, goes up into the
Panhandle to-day on tour OF inspection.
J. ". Stacey, joint superintendent of the
pot, went west to Pecos City yesterday.
Capt. J. D. Moore, general superinten-
dent of the Fort Worth and Denver, will
remain East about ten days Oh business.
E. S. Beard of the general freight depart
ment of the Fort Worth and Denver. is out
again after a three-weezs' wrestle with la
grippe.
The New York Central railroad will
build extensive car shops IN Buffalo this
year, at an outlay of over 81, $50, 600. The
shops will be used for repairing and con-
structing.
Albert S. White, general freight agent of
the Big Four, has been appointed chairman
of the Central traffic association commit
tee on the relations Of the Western lines to
the trunk lines.
Chairman Blanchard, of the Central traf-
fic association, has decided that none OF
the tickets now being sold between COlUpts
bus and St. Louis and Columbus and Chi
Cago at cut rates will be redeemed by the
association.
The great Reading deal consolidates 2767
miles of road, Of which 1106 belongs to the
Philadelphia and Reading, 1000 to the Le-
high Valley and 800 to the New Jersey Cen
trial. The three companies own 1l64 loco
motives and lO9,O71 cars.
The St. Louis limited, the new fast day
train of the Alton line. will leave Chicago
at IL a. m. each day, arriving at St. Louis
at 7;S0 p. m. The Chicago limited will
leave st. Louis every day At S:15 a. M, and
arrive in Chicago at 4:25 p. m.
The Pennsylvania and the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad companies are trying to Sc
cure control of the Huntington and Broad
Top road. The former has gone so far as
to guarantee dividends of Z per cent per
aunum on the preferred stock and per
cent on the common stock.
Several names have already been men
toned in connection with the general
freight agency of the Illinois Central.
ice-President Harahau is credited with
saying: tine successor of Mr.. Tucker
will be one of our own officials. The Illi-
nois Central cannot afford to go outside for
Il man, especially rs 1t mas so many capable
men noW in its employ
Two weeks ago the Alton road carried
Madame Adeliua Patti by special train
from Kansas City to Chicago and lowered
the time record. Friday, week ago, the
Alton carried Madame Patti to st. Louis
from Chicago and again cut down the time.
The special train of four cars left Chicago
at 10 o'clock in the morning and arrived at
ST. Louis at $3.50 O'Clock, making the 2S3
miles in seven and one-half hours.
The Thomas automatic car-coupler has
been given fair trial on the Merchants
Terminal line in the presence of nearly all
lIlc LDCdl EdlIIOdu OLIlCldlS interested IN LNdJ
branch OF the service. The Thomas syS-
TEN does away with the air hose between
r the coaches and provides for air coupling
with the coupling Of the cars. All the eX-
perts present pronounced the test salts
factory.
The Memphis route has just issued a
very handsome new map showing the rail
way system of the United States from the
Atlantic west 10 the Colorado line. This
man iS strictly I'M n date ayhihitipcr aH-nr,
the just completed railway 10 Nelasco, and
1t IS said TO show more junction points than
similar publication eXtant The great
merit claimed for it, however, is its perfect
accuracy.
Charles Elliott, secretary of the Kansas
board of railway commissioners, is respon-
sible for this: 1.-The commissioners have
received no further notice from the Rock
Island since the announcement of the road
that IL would withdraw It's proposed tariff.
As the former decision was withdrawn On
the promise OF the ROcl: Island that rates
would go into effect it may leave the COM
missioners no other alternative than to put
in local rate from the Missouri river"
Quite a large number of Fort Worth peo-
pie are taking in the sights at New Or
leans during the Nardi Gras festivities.
There was total of siXty-eight tickets sold
by the agents here over the Santa H'e and
Texas Central and Texas ana Pacific routes,
to say nothing of those sold blythe ticket
brokers. Several parties OF ladies' are in
attendance. \ number of sports and ad-
mirerS of the manly art are among those at
the Crescent City, their purpose being to
see the Fitzsimmons- Maher fight.
The supreme court of Nebraska rules
that the term, criminal negligence, " as used
III the law, chapter -, section 3, which
renders railroad companies liable Tor all H.
1uTiss 10 passengers, except such as arise
from criminal negligence of the passen-
ger, or = violation by him of any express
rule Of the company, brought to his notice,
means gross negligence or such negli-
reckless disregard Of the passengers own
TO the injury liable to follow.
Mr.. L. W. La BeaUne. general passenger
agent of the Cotton Belt, has been in the
CITY making arrangements for the paSSen-
ger trains on his road 10 so in and out of
the Union depot, which they win begin to
do this morning. This IS en- advantageous
move on the part Of the Cotton Belt, as
travellers over that road viii no longer have
10 take the bus ride TO the old depot across
the river. Trains No. 3 and arrive and
depart rs follows: Leave Fort Worth
$50 4. m. arrive Memphis, 9:l5 a. m. !;
leave Memphis, 7:15 p NJ. arrive Fort
Worth, 30 p. IN.
The Rock Islands Route.
N. W. Moore of Topeka, Kan, division
engineer OF the Rock Island road, was ut
the PickwiCk last night. He was approached