Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-23
THE RAILROADS.
OoINes OF THE VARIOUS ROADS
AND THEIR
Employees at Home ana Abroad-Cottor
Belt Pay-Car Coming = Secretary
Mullins Resigns-PersonalN Notes.
Signal Flashes.

day.
Col R. NJ. Riggs, the popular Texas and
Pacific conductor, is back from trip to
Austin.
The pay car of the Cotton Belt will roll
in next Saturday, much to the qualification
of the boys.
The rate on nails and wire from st. Louis
to Texas common points have been reduced
to 1S1z cents.
w. H. Quigg. commercial agent of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas, is out on
business trip.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe will
purchase $500 new freight cars and thirty
new 10 comotives.
o. MCGOWAN, roadmaster of the Cotton
Belt, headquarters at Commerce, was IN
the city yesterday.
Commercial Agent White of the Queen
and Crescent, headquarters at Dallas, was
in the city yesterday.
Col. uJohn Peter Moore, live stock
agent of the Texas and Pacific, made run
over to Dallas yesterday.
lack Mulhall, livestock agent of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, headquarters
at Oklahoma, was IN the city yesterday.
E.. IF. Stahl, chief dispatcher in the
Fort Worth and Denver general odices,
who has been quite sick, is convalescing.
John Bacon of the land department of the
Texas and Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, Denton, was in the city yesterday.
R. E. Goode who has been suffering from
severe cold for several days, viii report in
his Office at the Denver general offices to-
day.
One hundred thousand cross-ties have
been distributed along the Vandalia lines to
be under the rails as soon as the weather
will permit.
Superintendent John Horribly and General
Freight Agent Lord Of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande returned yesterday from trip
over the line.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas has Or
dered on one and one-third rate to San
Antonio to the Sunday school and Colport-
age convention.
The Old Colony railroad company has
asked the Massachusetts legislature for per-
mission to use electricity instead of steam
as motive power.
Hon. Otis Avery and Hon. John Tory, of
Housewife, Penn, are the only two remain
ing of the party who accompanied the first
locomotive on its trip in 1920.
The Texas and Pacific has put on a
special rate of 1920 round trip to those
who desire attending the Presbytery of
Dallas to be held at Colorado, Tex, April 5
and 6, good to return April y.
The regular meeting of the Order of
Railway Conductors took place at Knights
of Pythias hall yesterday afternoon. Only
routine business was transacted.
John S. Mcbride has again reported for
duty under Manager Mes of the Western
Union telegraph Offices at the Union depot,
having recovered his usual health.
The Texas and Pacific pay=car leaves
Marshall this morning for the regular trip
he T~aT1
should reach Fort Worth tomorrow.
Trains SO and a. cannon BALI on the
Transcontinental division of the Texas and
Pacific railway, will be discontinued west
of Sherman on and after March q, next
Sunday.
As stated by THE GAZETTE few weeks
ago, the tip having been given a reporter by
Mr.. Gould during his short stay here, new
floors are being put down on the second
floor of the alleged Union depot"
Donald Allen, formerly of the Texas
Central and more recently of the Louisville
and Nashville, has been appointed general
manager of the Pecos Valley railroad. He
will leave Waco for Pecos City in few
days.
In the year ending March l the New York
Central road was operated on 67.01 per cent
of its gross earnings, against 67.23 per cent
in the preceding year. The profits were
4.61 on the stock, against 2.95 in the pre-
ceding year.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
pays S35, 600 for the two dining cars which
the Pullman company is building for its
line to run between Chicago and Louisville.
This price includes the entire equipment
ready for service.
The New York Central on Monday placed
an order with the Schenectady locomotive
works for 100 new freight engines to meet
the requirements of the company's increas-
ing business, delivery to commence June 1
at the rate of ten week.
The Louisville, New Albany and Chicago
has earned since January l S477, 061; in
crease this year over the corresponding
period of 1891. s49,625. The c., C., G. and
St. L. has earned since January l, g, &c.,
$50; increase this year, S42, 753.
A compound engine on the Bound Brook
division of the Philadelphia and Reading
hauled four heavy passenger coaches mile
in 39L4 seconds, equal TO 9l.7 miles an hour.
The speed was carefully timed, and it is
claimed that 1t can make 100 miles an hour.
j. J. Mullane, commercial agent, Col J.
/. Pennington. livestock agent. w. II.
Masters, general freight agent and w. H.
COgswell, travelling freight agent, all of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe, are at Brown
wood on business, having gone down yes
to-day.
The cost of arbitration of appeals from
the decision of the chairman of Western
traffic association has reached such a sum,
running up into thousands of dollars, that
the Wisconsin Central announces that it
will no longer share in the expense, taking
the position that the parties interested
should pay the bills.
Mr.. Thomas Cook of London, England, |
of Cooks tourist agency, who is |
to bring the celebrated Scots |
guards band to America to play at the |
Worlds fair and make tour of the United |
iafzfes has requested General Passenger |
Agent Martin of the Big Four route to |
quote rates and arrange details for special |
Vestibuled train of palace sleeping cars and |
dining car. to be occupied exclusively by |
the band and their friends during their /
visit to the United States.
The New York Central and Hudson River.s
railroad company has just purchased out 4
side of Buffalo, II. Y, an immense plat of |
land at cost of 81, 600, COO The company
viii erect q number of shops and lay the |
foundation for town similar TO that of |
Pullman, III. The new town will have the
pane Of Depew. after the president of the I
road. The workmen viii all own their own /
ZONES in the new town. From the startf
coo viii md employment, and S7O0, coo VII |
be spent on the erection of new buildinss
Secretary John H. Mullins has rendered
bis resignation as secretary of the Railway L
Employees club and the board of directors
meet Monday night to act upon it and elect-f
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