Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-18
THE RAILROADS.
RATE SCHEDULES AS ISSUED BY
THE COMMISSION
Personal Mention of Railway Men
In and Out of the City.
Signal Flashes.


Mai Sam Hunt of the Katy came home
last evening.
G. w. Barnhsrdt of the Cotton Belt is
Confined TO his room, suffering from severe
cold.
W. D. Lawson, travelling passenger agent
of the Katy, came in last night from the
South
G.L. Donovan, travelling auditor of the
Fort Worth and Denver, is in the city from
a trip.
Conductor R. NJ. Riggs departed for Aus
Tin last night to SEQ how things are running
sat the capital.
W. H. Quigg, commercisl agent Of the
Katy, went east over the Texas and Pacific
yesterday on business.
W. P. Foster, travelling passenger agent
of the Mexican Central, headquarters at
st. Louis, is in the city.
sGessrs. Simpson and Hurley are ex-
pected to leave to-day for the Rock Island
road, where they have grading contract.
Peter Cox, day yard master of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas at Dallas, was one
of the delegation who came over to the ball.
4 P. C. Sourwfne, night yard master of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas at Dallas, came
over last night to attend the St. Patrick's
ball
Tom Fenelon, chief clerk in the local
Office of the Fort Worth and Denver City
at Wichita Falls, spent St. Patrick's day in
the Fort.
A L. Conliss, general yard master of the
Texas and Pacific, in this city was making
it pleasant for his Dallas friends who came
over yesterday.
The Texas and Pacific pay-car rolled in
yesterday, and the boys were made happy.
st. Patrick's day and the pay-car coming
the same day made the boys doubly jubi-
liant.
The Mount Vernon, Ill, car works are
building 200 refrigerator cars for the Cana
dian Pacific road. This company is also
sstsFilding 100 box cars for the Cleveland,
Cincinnati, Chicago and ST. Louis.
Gel. NJ. n. Thompson, chief clerk of Col.
G. w. Hequembourg, superintendent OF the
Missouri Pacific car service department,
4St. Louis, has gone to Chicago to accept
Sthe chief clerkship, under Manager Street,
Of the Hoosac Tunnel Dispatch.
One of the new compound Baldwin loco
motives is to be tested in hauling trains
Nos 20 and 81 over the Indianapolis divis-
ion of the Pennsylvania lines this week.
Sapce January l the Baldwin locomotive
sssS5fks has completed 1876 engines OF the
compound type.
1.-THE Pennsylvania-Van new freight
station in the North End, at st. Louis, adj
now ready for business. The building is
GAL feet long and sixty feet wide and con-
tainS six tracks, with bonded warehouse
and. all necessary Offices for clerks, etc.
Mis- is a big plank in the st. Louis freight
delivery movement.
The Wabash company is to give its equip
ment a complete overhauling this year. All
the old freight cars which are not up to the
standard will be broken up and new ones
take their numbers. Orders have already
been placed for forty-seven new locomo-
tives, twenty-five freight and twenty-five
passenger; for 240O new freight cars, thirty
six day coaches, ten vestibule cars, twenty
eight baggage and express cars, eight mail
cars, and "a, eco tons of new steel rails or
dered to place in the track between Toledo
and st. Louis.
The members of the st. Louis traffic
,eaEsFeEssion have been asked by Commits
ssf6ner Osgood to state their views on the
proposition to close all Notwithstanding de-
pots in St. Louis aud East st. Louis at an
earlier hour each day so that everything
can be loaded out the same evening. In
Chicago tout freight houses are closed at
s5E3O D. m. daily except Saturday. On Sat
urday they are closed seven months of the
Year at p. m. and at 3 p. m. during the
remaining months. This rule also applies
to OUTRIGHT team tracks, Under this
rule the house floor is cleaned up practically
zevery night. The order is that every team
t. be unloGded must be in what is known as
freight house yards by the hours named.
The rule is strictly adhered to by all the
roads"