Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-01
RAILROADS AND AlLROADERS.
RAILROAD BODY sNArcHING.

RAILROAD BODY SNATCHING.
The Galveston News prints an inter
estiug story Of the diplomacy and diii-
culty which crop up IN the life Of the
passenger agent. The Rogers referred
To IN the article Is w r. Rogers, the
city passenger agent Of the Western Of
Atlantic, With headquarters at Chatto-
nooga. J. II Miller, the hero OF the
story. Is passenger and ticket agent Of the
Houston and Texas Central at Golveeton,
who had gone up the line to assist Ia
the sale Of the holiday excursion tickets.
The object Of the dispatch. dated Liberty,
Tex, was to divert the business from
the Southern Pacific, thereby leaving out
the New Orleans lines, which carried the
exCursonists delivered by the Southern
Pacific TO their homes In the southeast
and northwest. With this explanation
the following win be more generally
appreciated
Jim Miller. who has recently been In
Corscann and Dallas drumming up ex-
cursionists-" body snotching' for the
Houston-aud Texas Central ond southern
Pacific holiday business, told News
reporter his woes yesterday. Jim said;
~ Lett Galveston on the 18th ard got
10 Corsicaua on the morning of the 18th.
The Houston and Texas Central meets
the Cotton Belt at that point. and each
road was stfaining is best 20 get the
!
ed into the hotel and registered rs j.
, Harrison of Montgomery, Ala. Pretty
soon u sharp looking chap came up TO
me and we commenced to talk. lie AJAX
ed me whore I was from. aud l said
| Montgomery Then he asked me IL i
/ had my ticket back, and / told him that
] / hadn't He said he could Tx me on
/ holiday rate over the Cotton Belt on
| the GOTH but told him that / couldn't
/ wait LONGER than the 18th CHE holiday
/ rates were effective on the 10th, 10y the
/ w0y) Then my friend said; You look
| like q man who won't give good thing
| away, and I'll sell you d ticket for today
| II you'll keep mum This was just
| what wanted TO catch 'em az; so ]
said I'd buy one II J was sure / could
| yet through. He assured me that !
would have no trouble, and gave me
his card, on which WIS written Conduc-
tors n. G. and St. J.. Iiyi Please take
| good care Of the bearer. Mr.. Harrison,
! yours 'ly--Corsicana 12-1O'
Then / saw that ] had him foul and
j pocketcd the card, and laid low. When
The Cotton Belt train came IN from the
north as ] stood In the hotel door, ]
saw Billy Winfield, the general passen-
ger agent, get down and | saw him get
on his train and 90 on. Then j telegraph
cd up the line 90 the boys TO look out
for him. And they did.
"in the afternoon rome ono asked the
railroad man who had volunteered h
sell me the ticket 20 Montgomery q day
ahead of time whether Harrison had
bought his ticket. and he hunted me up
/ was helping Len Tobin, the Houston
and Texas Central agent, sell ticket
just then, but ] saw Rogers coming nrt
got out of his way. Then / found ha
n few minutes later aud told llw that
/ had a chance "a make a Tow d0llui
helping Tohn, aud should remain Owe
] "A. D d.
being circulated which reBd ~ follows
Liberty, Tes., Dee. 11.-Sincc 10 o'clocl
this morning no trains on the SOuthcrl
Pacific have been able to cross the Trim
ity river az this point The Trinity Il
on a big BOOM and an overflow is threat
ened which may suspend communication
with New Orleans. Heavy drifts Of log
have disabled the draw of the Southern
/ Pacific bridge
This ratified me for minute. but
wired 10 NJ J.. Robbins, general passeu
ger agent. &C Houston about It, and sooi
had the following dispatch from him;
Houston. Tex, Dec. 10I am advises
reports are being circulated that South
ern Pacific trains do not cross Itinit
river on account OF high water Tier
is not a word Of truth In the report. bu
the fact that trains are running on tim
aud that the Southern Pacific Is IN
popular route Is what hurts Make thi
known.
"Then ] sailed in The Cotton Bel
had ton men and we had four all rust
, ling for passengers Rogers saw me a
work, and after a little talk asked VIII
] was anyway. ] showed my cnrd n
( him. 1heu he saw that he was sole
We sold $4,000 worth Of excursion fare
ont OF Corscam for the Goth and DIST.
? Good joke on me happened at Miller
} TIE Dallas engine gave ont aud they hn
20 hook on to a freight TO haul the trai
7 n. ] was standing nc the station blow
4 ing about the beauties Of our system
] wien ny uaih puiieu out ana leit me
r niles. / can't walk as fast as / use
, TO-
ooh, yes. rustling for excursionist
D against lively competitors is SHARP worI
10 / can tell you"