The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-05-05
RAILWAY NOTES.
A vestibuled Limited Added 10 the
Katy Service June ist-0ther
Notes.

Ra lSay company are making ar
rangemen.s for quite a change a I'd
improv 3ment in their train service,
The first change will occur or
Sunday, the l4th instant, al which
time the S.rvce will be extended
from / ,nnibal through to Houston.
On June Is - vestibuled limited
express will be ided to the service
running from Houston via Waco tc
Chicago in thirty-siX hours. This
train will pass through Waco going
north at 500 a M, and Will arrive
III Chicago the next afternoon
/ $50 o'clock.
The CT a age in the time of arrival
and departure of the trains now
running, which, sioce the change
made several week. ago, has been
veIy convenient to the travelling
public, will be very slight.
The vestlbule II jer ha been con-
templated for some time, and the
management of the road had been
waiting for the completion of the
line TO Houston. before extending
the train service which will eq lal
III time and equipment. that of ~
road in the South.
UNION RAILWAY HOSPITAL
Dr.. w. c. Jones, of Walnut
Springs, chief geon of the Texas
Central railway, arrived in the city
last night.
For some tina the road has had
under advisement, the matter of
establishing hospital here, with a
view of inducing the other roads
here to 90 in with them.
The Waco and n orthwestern has
gone into the plan and the hospital
will be built by the two roads
ointly. The Texas Midland will
also oin them, as soon as it is built
to Waco.
The old Female College grounds
had been suggested as a suitable
loo 'tion for the hospital, but the
{ tic ais decided not to buy that
property, and have now in view,
the property on the corner of Mary
and Frs. streets. belonging to the
san Antonio and Aransas Pass rail.
way company. lney are much
pleased with this location aud the
terms Oft cred and deal will pro.
badly be closed.
d.. Jones said to News man
this afternoon, that the hospital
will involve an outlay of $50, 600,
and will be supplied with all modern
appurtenances, and both hydropathc
and medical trea .ment used. The
hospital will be able to accomm odate
fifty or seventy-fve patients, and
will not only receive railway
employees, but other persons, pro-
vided they have no contagious die
ease. 1t will be called the Texas
Central, and Waco and \ orthwes
tern railway hospital, and as the
Texas Midland has signiti I'd their
intention of going into the plan,
and hopes are enter aimed for
other railroads going into it, it will
be union hospital DR.. II. w.
Brown CT Waco and D;. w. c
Jones of Walnut Springs, will be
the chief surgeons. Work on the
building viii probably begin within
month, and certainly not later
than July.
Personal
Mr.. Charles c. Curt.ce, of Fort
Worth, travelling passenger az mt
OF the \ Andalia line, is in the city
extolling the merits Of that route.
He says Worlds Fair travel is very
light IN his territory at present.
The people are waiting for the big
to attain full headyay.
Mr. A A. Gibson, of Fort
Worth, travelling passenger agent, |
and Mr. F. II. Jones, of Memphis,
division passenger gent of the Cot
ton Belt route are in the city.
Mr.. H. NJ Sickenger, of Memphis,
travelling passenger agent of tie
n ansas City, Fort Scott and Mem
phls railroad, is in the city today.