Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-12

-dtutes complete departure from mod.
ern practice. The horse power is 200
and the speed 100 miles per hour. The
driving wheels are twelve feet III diane
ter; there are three cylinders 81 forty
inches twenty eight inches and eighteen
inches 10 diameter and yhirty-inch stroke.
The boiler pressure will be 200 pounds
/, proposed 10 run from London 10
ElInburg, 500 miles, in six hours. The
boiler ~ believed to be the largest in
the world.
Commencing Oct 16 the Union Pacific
viii make q rOund-trip rate Of SJj. 80
from Kansas City and Omaha to San
Francisco. Los Angeles and Portland,
against present rates Of $50
The Sioux City and Northern receiver
Snip matter has been settled by Judge
Shiras OF the federal court. who named
two receivers, judge Warwick =. Housh
OF St Louis for The unsecured creditors
and ). j. Beals for the bOndholders and
Great Northern interests. The bond Of
each recciyer WAS fixed at 10000. They
sinte that circular viii be issuad Mt
once announcing that no changes will be
made in the corps Of managing officials.
At the WorIi's fair, on Railroad Train
mems day, Oct. 10, Mt. finlayson. the
oldest conductor, and Mr.. David sou the
Oldest locomotive engineer 10 the conn ~
will be on the platform. The latter Will.
on that DAY, run the original loco. ltiye
John Bull" which the pennsy yunla
has on exhibition there.
The private car Of s. II. II. Clark.
president of the Union Pacific was bur.
glariZed az Omaha few nights ago.
A fine oyercoat, S53 and rev Z. q were
stolen. The thieves forced Al. entrance
into The car with Jimmy" r- Open
the door
President Mayer Of the Baltimore aud
Ohio, on his return from Chicago last
week, stotmed off one train TO look over
the new Big Four freight depots at In-
dianGpohs, and he said, without hesita-
tiOu, that they were the best arranged
and most complete depots he had ever
seen, aud he thought that hereaftc the
plan of the Big -Four would be adopted
at other prominent railroad centers
NJ. y. Ingalls,, president of the Big
-Four, has given up his winter residence
In Washington. aud will return to his
old home on Walnut Hills, Cincinnati,
to reside.
The Brooks Locomotive works has
shipped the last of an order of fifteen
engines to the Illinois Central The last
of the order is an anthr1cite-coll burner,
the first ever built for that road.
General Agent Nush, of the Milwaukee
and Omaha, has been fined $3.50 by the
local passenger association there for
violating its rules by cutting the rate on
two Chicago tickets. Mr. Nash has APP
pealed to the Western Passenger assoCia-
ton.
The Southwestern association Of Rail
way Surgeons will meet in convention in
81. Louis, October 70 The association
includes the railroad surgeons OF Mis-
souri,, Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, Indian
Territory, Colorado, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Illinois. The attendance will
be about 400.
From a freight man who has Travelled
quite extensively through the South and
the Southwest recently, it is learned that
there are some signs of an improvement
In business with the Southern roads.
which suffered in their business as re
suit of light crops u year earlier than
have the Northern lines through the gen
erdl depression in business.
On Thursday evening the Chicago and
Alton employees presented Mr.. A. NJ
Richards Of Bloomington, Ill.,, late divi-
sion superintendent, with handsome
testimonial and purse Of gold as 4
mark of appreciation of the friendly
feeling existing between the employees
aud Mr.. Il. as an official of the road
with which line he has been connected
for twenty years.
The other morning, says the Westmin-
ster Gazette, while Il North London train
was travelling between WElcsdon and
Acton, a little boy who dropped whip