The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-08-31
TAYLOR TOPICS.
Cutting Down Railroad Forces-Nigger in
the Cotton Patch, Personal, Etc.
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Special to The Statesman.
TAYLOR, Tex, Aug. 27.-The fa-
miliar whistle of the International
and Great Northern roundhouse failed
to call the railway employees to work
yesterday morning. In order to cur
tail expenses a recent order from the
headquarters of the motive depart
ment of that road gives all employees a
Saturday and Sunday layoff, thus pre-
venting them from putting in full
time.
In addition to this and perhaps ow
ing 20 a decrease in earnings, caused
by the general stringency in financial
affairs. many train crews, yard men,
Iuachinists, shop laborers AMI
helpers of both the International
ana Great Northern and
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
roads are being laid off at this place.
By this action the pay rolls of both
roads are being decreased, and the
same cut is being made all along the
lines. 1t is reported here that at Deni-
son the "Katy's" pay roll the'e has
been reduced by laying off employees
to the amount of $40, 900 monthly.
The cotton picking season is on and
there is preceptible scarcity of house
servants and idting negroes on the
streets. Cotton is opening very fast
and the average price paid is so cents
per hundred.
Yesterdays alarm of fire was the first
sounded at this place since the Waters
Pierce oil plant confagration on April
%, over four months ago.
The International and Great North
ern is putting large 60-foot turntable
at the round house here in place of
the so foot table, to accommodate the
larger locomotives now being used by
that road.
But little Of the new crop of cotton
is now being marketed at Taylor or
any where else. Only about 275 bales
have been brought in since Aug l.
Owing to the low price of the staple
fully one-half of the cotton offered for
sale is either stored or driven back
home to be held until an advance in
price.
At her home on the lovely San
Gabriel river last Wednesday evening,
Miss Ella McFadin, daughter of the
late Judge N. NJ McFadin, was quiet
~ united in marriage with Mr.. Alex
aDder Ingram, a stockman living near
Davilla, in Milan county. The bride
is the granddaughter of D. H. McFad-
in, a San Jacinto hero and the oldest
living Mexican war veteran now in
this state.
Our indhearted station agent has
placed several large arm chairs in
dark corners of the depot platform to
accommodate young gentlemen from
Austin who accompany their best girls
from Taylor on their way to the
Worlds Fair and wait to place their
fair charges aboard the early morning
northbound Katy train. Each chair
will hold a couple by tight squeeze.
The business men of Taylor and the
wholesale merchants of Houston and
Galveston will be pleased to learn of
new postal service to be established
on. the Missouri, Kansas and Texas be-
tween Fayetteville and Houston on
September 49,
This Will give Taylor qnick and d.
rect mail connections with the gulf.
Heretofore the mail has been hauled
over a circutous route over the Inter
national and Great Northern via
Hsarne
A couple of horse traders named J.
=. AID A. j Cochran were arrested
here yesterday evening charged with
swapping horses with negro without
the Negroes permission. They were
released on $500 bail to answer in the
district court at its January term.