Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-11-16

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extension Of the Great Northern will be
closed by December l.
General Manager Noonan Of the Cen
trail States Dispatch has returned from
an Eastern trip
The Chesapeake and Ohio has estab-
lished sleeping-car service between
Louisville aud New York
when finished the Pennsylvania will
have six miles Of additional track nj
Bradford Junction.
There will be blind pool Of West
ern roads 10 take the place Of the West
ern traffic association
The Lake Erie and Western will build
four-mle branch to connect a number
Of factories with Muncic.
The Pennsylvania relief fund has. re-
ceived ninety applications for member
ship since The lst Of November.
The Nandalia has a sieam-shoyel. two
construction trains and o full force of
men at work on the Peoria branch.
The East Tennessee. Virginia and Geor-
gin will run trains from CHATTANOOGA TO
Jacksonville in twenty hours aud ten
minutes.
Special rates will be given to Fort
Wayne on account Of the Indiana State
Christian endeayor association meeting,
NoNcmptf - 10 -.
President Mackey abolished the office
Of master of transportation ON the Air
Line long enough TO let ont Morris Me-
Donnld. The next day II was re-estnb-
lished with II. 70 Craft in the position.
Track work. which was delayed by
the recent spell Of bad weather, is being
rapidly pushed If the present weather
continues, all roads will soon be in good
shape for the winter season.
President Mcleod, of the Reading
ruad, talked about railroad interests In
New England before the Merchants
club Ia Boston ut dinner last Thurs
day
Tile New York. New Haven and Hart
ford road has bought the Wagner cars
IN nse ON the Shore Hue route between
New York and Boston. and will hereui-
tor have charge of It's drawing room aud
sleeping ear service.
The executive committee Of the Mas
ter Car Builders and Master Mechanics
associations will meet az the Hollenlon
house. IN Cleveland on November 2lst,
TO discuss the location Of the place of
the next convention.
The Grand Trunk management and the
brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemcu
have nude u satisfactory reimbursement
OF the scale for the entire system, The
INV uIIhukcNtnl VIII ~ lniu eutfl on
January ] and viii extend over period
Of two years
Business was slack on all lines last
week. caused by bad weather and the
election Is improving. though the move
mcut Of cotton on all lines Is very much
behind, compared with the corresponding
time last year.
Arrangements are now In progress for
putting ON tiye-hOur trains between BOs-
ton and New York next spring. The
Boston and Albany and Old Colony roads
viii both have these trains, and the for
mcr company Is already ut worl, short
ening its route,
The fnstcst time ever made ON the
Chicago aud Alton was made ON the 9th
instant by special train conveying
Judge Altgeld from Bloomington to Chi
cago. The distance via Coal City, 1871
niles, was made In 1876 minutes; from
Bloomington TO Joliet. 81 miles, in 100
minutes, with four stops.
The annual meeting Of the stockholders
of the Atlantic and Pacific railroad COM
pnuy Will be- held 40 the office of the
company, % MIX street, Boston, Mass
ing thirteen directors and for the trans
action of any other business that may
properly come before the meeting.
Shipments of an kinds Of freight. ex-
cent livestock, from Chicago to the East
by various cnm-hound roads for the
week c1dinE November D amounted To
il,utN tons, nruiuN SlOlB tons for the
week previous, and oS,2BJ tons for the
CORRESPONDING wcok last year The to-
tai shipments by the lake lines amount
rd To S24tT tons. against Sl,0IT tons
for the week previous,
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