Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-26
RAILWAY RACKET.
The Commission Rates for the
VeIasco Terminal.
SOME MORE TROUBLE BREWING
whitney Wants the Cotton Belt Extension
from HiIIsboro-Commodity Tariff
No. 12-Brief Mention, Local
and Otherwise.
signal flashes.

h R. Moron, Fort Worth and Denver
agent at Amarillo, was in the city yester-
day.
Lon E. Mahon, with the Hicks Cattle
Car company, located at Kansas City, is in
town.
William Doherty, city passenger ticket
agent of the Santa Fe, went out over the
Rio Grande yesterday.
C. E. Wood, travelling passenger agent
of the International aud Great Northern,
of Palestine, is in the city.
Mrs. j. E. Scully and Misses Ella and NJ.
e. Hughes were visitors at the Railway
Employees club room yesterday.
D. B. Keller, general freight and passen-
ger agent of the Fort Worth and Denver,
left for New Orleans last evening.
President Marvel of the Frisco,
started few days since for a tour of the
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe system.
The Cotton Belt will run passenger trains
into the Union depot on the Sd, coming in
over the Fort Worth and Denver from
Hodge.
At meeting of the stockholders of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad company
Tuesday, the officers were authorized to
issue SO, 900, 900, of bonds for improve
ments, double tracks, etc.
Charles Wear, the genial livestock agent
of the Fort Worth and Denver, came in of
a business trip yesterday, and was receiv-
ing the congratulations of his friends over
the recent arrival of a youthful assistant at
his home.
+. c. Gallagher, now connected with the
comptroller's Office at Austin, but formerly
chief clerk to the general superintendent of
the Fort Worth and Denver, was in the
city yesterday meeting his friends, with
whom he is quite popular.
The Rock Island has issued circular
notifying its agents that the Atlantic trans
partation companys steamer Missouri,
whose owners have donated its use for the
free transportation of American donations
of -four to the Russian sufferers, will depart
early in March, and that all such contribu-
lions should be hurried forward.
The officials of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railway took formal possession
of their new quarters at
Dennison Tuesday. The entire
business of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway system in Texas will be con-
centrated there The heads of
the different departments will
number about twenty people. The clerical
force is estimated at seventy-fve people.
The new building has every Improvement,
heated by steam and lighted by electricity.
Santa F'e officials state, SAYS the Kansas
y
earn substantial surplus over all fixed
charges and full income bond interest the
current fiscal year to June 80 next, and this,
after taking care of the payments 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.
The Henrietta Chieftain says: THE
progressive spirit of the Fort Worth and
Denver is manifest in the fact that they
will proceed at once to erect commodious
passenger depot just east of the present
freight depot. 1t is an Improvement that
has long been needed and our people viii
greatly appreciate the new accommoda-
tions. The old cracksr-box will be taken
to Newlin, a new station named in honor of
the popular ex-general passenger agent of
the road, w Y. Newlin."