Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-07-01
3l5 HOUstOn street.

hat the usc of gasoline stoves is posi-
lively prohibited on all cars run by the
company.
The new shops of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia al Knoxville. occn-
py the space of 100 acres with the
track sdings. About 1909 men will be
employed at the plant.
A party Of Burlington surveyors left
Sheridan yesterday for point Just south
Of the Yellowstone pnrk, whore they will
begin the. survey OF the line westward
through Idaho and Oregon to the coast
George y. Halstrnd, son of General
Manager w. II. lalstcad, of the Della.
ware, Lackawanna and Western, has
been appointed general train muster OF
the company, with headquarters al Scran-
ton, Pa.
The rental due the Augusta aud Sa-
vnnnah from the Georgia Central,
amounting TO S36,5O0, has not been paid
The Augusta and Savannah people have
pui, their claim before Judge Jackson for
decision
The earnings of the Baltimore and Ohio
for the month of May were the largest
for that month In the history of the com
paly. Gross earnings were S2UslS,OOO,
an increase of $4,000; net earnings We're
Sd2I 800. an increase Of $4,000.
Instead of using busters and other slow
ih'nlln VI AlhhANE liAlHnFNEfl filIN ~ uNhl.
the Pennsylvania, At the Jersey City ter
minnl, uses u cold air blast which not
only stirs the dust from t.r smallest
crevices, but drives 1t completely from
the ear.
A dispatch from Sioux City says. A.
X, Nash, chief engineer Of the innktnn
and Norfolk road has received letters
from j. II. NJ Pierce, who is at the head
of tue company aud nj present In London,
al.a.a ~ 81 q
cal arrangement for ironing the road
from Iankton to Norfolk and viii return
TO this country this summer and have the
line completed this fall.
The Stuttgart aud Arkansas River rail.
road was, upon the application Of credi-
tors, put into the hands OF receiver
by United States Judge John A.
Williams a. " stafford Of Pine Blum.
Ark, was appointed receiver. The Stutt-
CART aud Arkansas River railroad was
built four years ago. and runs from Stuff
cart to Gillett, Ark, a distance Of thirty
miles. A. q. Bnrstow Is president aud
several are Interested in II. The value
of the road is estimated at $4,000.
II is told In financial circles, and so
far has not been denied. that friends
of the Louisville and Nashville have been
buying bords Of the South Carolina rail.
way with q view Of bidding il In IL the
sale advertised for next fall Is not post
p1ned. II this X done the Louisville and
Nashville would have a line from AZ
l0nla 10 Charleston via the Georgia rail-
road, of which II Is joint lessee with The
Georgia Central II is said the IOuisville
and Nnshvillc once had control Of this
line, but let IL go again.
The West Shore is experimenting with |
a new block signal system. which con. |
sists Of electric lamps placed 100 feet |
apart along the side Of the tunnel, and |
track circuit. The track circuit Is opcr- |
atcd by the wheels % the trains. The |
arrnngmeni Of the blocks IL snch that |
section 100 feet long Is thrown into
darkness until train has passed ont
Of corresponding section ahead. Dark |
ness signifies danger and il is n warning |
TO following trains to stop until section
\ lighted up. This Is done automatically
by the train in advance. There Is always |
d whole un0ccupied block between The
rains. The electric circuit passes
through the signal tower. from which the
are operated.