Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-25
AMONG THE ROADS.
Brief Notes at Home and
Abroad, Gathered
FOR THE RAILWAY PEOPLE.
Large Gathering of Missouri Pacific
Officials at ST. Louis Recently.
Railway Birmingham In
genious Invention.
Signal FLASHES.

Col. William Hunter returned yesterday
from Territory trip.
The Santa Fe viii commence the sale of
Mardi Gras tickets on the 27th.
W. H Quigg, commercial agent of the
Katy, is back from business trip north.
w. P. Doyle, agent of the Fort Worth
and Denver at ChildreSs, was in the city
yesterday.
Col Morgan Jones, president of the Fort
Worth and Denver, departed for New Or
leans for wee ks stay.
Col. John Peter Moore the Texas and
Pacific's general livestock agent, is on
Western business trip.
Capt. Sam Hunt, the Katy's livestock
man in this city, returned yesterday from
business trip to the Territory.
Col A S. Dodge, traffic manager of the
Katy, of st. Louis, and John A. Smith, gen.
eral freight agent, of Denison were in the
city and went south early yesterday morn
ing.
Vice-Pres1dent and General Traffic Man
agsr Waldo of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas mas returned to headquarters at st.
Louis, from business tour of the South
west-Galveston, Houston, San Antonio,
etc.
1t is reliably stated that the Miss ouri,
Kansas and Texas st. Louis line, from
Boonville to st. Louis, will be completed
within year aud will be in full operation
for both passenger and freight traffic to
this terminus early in 1893
It is stated that an effort will be made to
retire Jay Gould from the Union Pacific
management at the stockholders annual
meeting in April The financial condition
of the property is unsatisfactory to large
contingent Of foreign stockholders.
Chairman Finley of the Western passen-
ger association. on Saturday gave out two
decisions, one filming the Omaha $1150, the
price of ticket over which the agreement
was claimed to have been broken, and the
other generating the Burlington from
charges preferred by the Rock Island.
A Chicago paper says: ''The special
train which brought Adelina Patti and her
company from Kansas City to Chicago yes
terday made the fastest run ever made
over the Alton. between the two cities.
The train consisted of a baggage, smoking,
chair and Pullman private car, and made
the run of $50 miles in eleven hours and
thirty minutes, a little over forty-two
miles an hour, including stops"
decided falling off in the volume of
east-bound tonnage was reported for last
week at Chicago. The shipments of -four,
grain and provisions to the Seaboard by the
lines in the Central traffic association ag-
gregated So, 666 tons, against 1851 tons for
the preceding week, a decrease of 91S5 tons,
and against Il, 222 for the same week last
year, an increase of 13, IA tonss The Van
derbilt lines carried 40 per cent of the
traffic, the Pennsylvania lines &c per cent,
the Chicago and Grand Trunk 16 per cent
and the Baltimore and Ohio per cent.
President Reinhart of the Atchison
has, in answer to inquiries, frankly eX-
pressed his opinion to the effect that 1''the
road win easily earn substantial surplus
over all fixed charges and full income bond
next and this, after taking care Of the pay
ments called for on equipment trusts" and
further, that it will not be necessary for
the AtchiSon to increase its net earnings in
the current six months, as compared with
the January to June period in 1891, in order
to clear full income bond interest for the
twelve months.
Capt. Alsdorf Faulkner, general passen-
ger and ticket agent OF the Houston and
Texas Central, was in st. Louis the first
part of the week, the guest of H. c. Town
send, general passenger and ticket agent of
the Missouri Pacific. Capt Faulkner, it IS
said is about to embark upon the sea of
matrimony, and he was in ST. Louis to
make the suitable arrangements. He will
be married at Austin, March 9, to young
lady of that city. He is one of the most
popular officials in the country and will be
overwhelmed with congratulations upon
his blissful venture. He was handsomely
entertained by the local fraternity in St.
Louis.
An organization was perfected in Council
Bluffs Monday to further the interests of
railway employees. They claim that tho
railroads are short L, 900 men, and obnoX-
ious legislation is increasing this number
daily. They propose TO vote for men in the
future who will vote in their interest. The
organization is being perfected throughout
the country, and Iowa, it is claimed, will
not be very far behind. The new lodge is
TO be called the Council Bluffs Club of Rail
way Employees. II starts out with 403
charter members, and every railway en-
ploye from section hands up to and includ-
ing agents are eligible for membership.
a meeting was called in st. Louis Mon
day by Mr.. j. Fletcher, general freight
agent of the Gulf Line, Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Memphis, for the purpose of dis
cussing the grain situation at Kansas City
aud 20 arrive at better understanding in
respect of the agreement as to through
rates, etc. The Alton, Santa Fe and St.
Paul lines, however, were not represented,
and nothing was accomplished. The fol- |
lowing gentlemen attended the conference:
J. J. Fletcher, general freight agent Gulf |
line; c. Halle Missouri, Kansas and Texas;
j. c.. Lincoln, Missouri Pacific; Howard |
Elliott, Hannibal and St. Joe; j. 4. Wentz, |
Rock Island; j. D. Lund, assistant general |
freight agent Wabash; J. S. Bartle, Hanni- |
bal and St. ice; c. r. Berry, Chicago, st. !
Paul and Kansas City.