Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-04
AMONG THE ROADS.
A Record Breaker, is TO be
1892, for Railway Building
IN VARIOUS WESTERN STATES.
The Gould Party In Louisiana-A Party of
Boston Excursionists Booked for
Fort Worth-Brief Mention of
Roads-Ien who Run Them.
Signal Flashes.

Capt. Sam Hunt, livestock agent OF the
Santa Fe, went North last night.
The Rio Grande is repainting its passen-
ger coaches and mail and express cars.
w. V. Newlin went East yesterday, and
will visit Chicago, New York and other
cities before returning.
Switchmen struck on the Illinois Central
at Cairo Wednesday morning and no trains
OF any kind have left there since that time.
4 sleeper containing many of the Fort
WORTHLESS who attended nthe Mardi GraS
festivities was announced to arrive last
night.
General Traffic Manager Mahoney of the
Sioux City and Northern railway has re-
signed to take charge of an association of
Western packers.
The Rock Island is surveying line from
Lincoln, Neb., to Pittsburg. Kan, which,
when built, will shorten its Chicago-Denver
line about forty miles.
The directors of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railway company have declared the
regular quarterly dividend Of u per cent
on the preference stock.
w. h Abel, travelling passenger agent of
the Ohio and Mississippi route, headquar-
ters at Dallas, went home last night after
spending a couple of days in the city.
Howard Jolly, city passenger and ticket
agent of the Ohio and Mississippi route,
Louisville, KY, who has been the guest Of
n. S. Davis, departed yesterday for home
e. W. LaBeaume, general passenger,agent
of the Cotton Belt, who has been in the city
arranging for his trains to arrive at and de-
part from the Union depot, went over the
line yesterday.
William f. Bush of Wichita, Kan, has
been appointed assistant engineer of the
Missouri Pacific and central branch Of the
Union Pacific railway, with headquarters
at Atchison, Kan.
R. X. Ryan, general freight agent of the
Queen and Crescent route, resigned
Wednesday. The duties will be transferred
to the general freight agent of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road.
Chairman Smith of the Missouri as
soc:ation declines to take any hand in the
Wichita rate imbroglio, claiming that as only
few of the lines in the association are in
terested in the matter, it is not an associa-
ton fight.
Within a month ground will be broken
for the passenger station of the Chicago
elevated terminal company at State and
Twelfth streets. 1t will be a block in
width and four blocks in length and will
cost s., 100000.
Orders have been issued to the United
States express company's Offices at Cincin-
natl and Chicago to discharge all meSsen-
gers belonging to the brotherhood of Ex-
press Messengers. The order has not been
established west of the Mississippi river.
An official circular issued by S. F. Judy,
general manager of the Pecos Valley rail-
way company, the fruit belt route, - dated
March l, announces that S. S. Satchwell
has been appointed assistant general freight
and passenger agent, with Office at Eddy,
n. M, in charge of traffic and claim matters
of the company.
NJ. J. Carpenter, the new president of the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois road, left ST.
Louis for the South on a special train
Wednesday to inspect the line He was ac-
companied by General Superintendent
Rockwell, General Freight Agent Broken
brough and some of the directors. The
Office of general manager is abolished.