Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-18

and more than 50 In the net The On
| tario aud Western Is doing well with a
/ gain Of 10 per cent for the first week,
| The Louisville and Nashville, tmgago
! and West Michigan and Detroit. Len
sing and Northern kanawha and Michi-
| gan, the Norfolk and Western and the
/ Louisville. New Albany and chicago,
| all show n fair iacreusr. and the Mackey
| system had little larger earnings than
| for the same week last year.
Although the resignation Of Thomas
! G. Platt us president Of the Tennessee
/ Coal aud Iron company has becn accept
7 ed. 1t does not take effect until the nm.
nual meeting on April T. when he VIII
/ be succeeded 10y H. j.. De Bardeleben
/ who is the larges stakeholder aud was
/ the president OF the DE Bardeleben Coal
and Iron company prior to It's cOnsoida-
/ ton with the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company. This will give the Southern
interests full management as well as
control.
Tie New York Central has recently
reorganizcd It's board Of travelling audi
tors as follows; Chief travelling auditor,
LincOlOn NaU Colt Of New York; assist
ants Charles J.. COrmier, William Il.
BOardman. Austin g. Adams and James
- Pollock.
Secretary Lamont and ex-Secrctary
Whitney are among the capitalists inter
estpd in the proposed electric street rail-
way between Baltimore aud Washing
ton.
The Chicago Peoria and St. Louis has
a slight gain for the first week Of the
month, but the Columbus, Shawnee and
Hooking increased about 90 per cent
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas just
about held lis own. The Cleveland. Cam
ton and Southern for the last half Of
the year gained % per cent in the gross
and moro than 20 per cent in the nee
A Chicago newspaper is responsible for
Oh" statement that General Passenger
aud Ticket Agent Faulkner of The
Missouri. Kansas and Texas will shortly
retire from the rond. His retirement
viii be deeply regretted by the minis
ters along the liue.-Parsons Sun
T.. w. Page hns been appointed gen
eial freight and passenger agent Of the
Cleveland aud Marietta railroad to fill
the vacancy left by w. X Richards,
who was recently made general freight
and passenger agent of the Cleveland.
Akron and Columbus railroad,
Judge lIulcomb has introduced a bin
In the Ohio Legislature, by which Is added
10 the law providing that upon ma
lority vote Of the stockholders
railroad company may extend is lines
TO coal mines, q clause including stone
qunwics. fire clay pits and banks and
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East bound shipments last week were
oB.OS9 tons, against iS.G5i tons for the
corresponding week last year OF the
weeks traffic the Grand Trunk Carried
BOIL the Lake shore SiB2 the Pitts
burg aud Fort Wayne 4S2 aud the
Wabash jtlS tons. The roads are now
rapidly getting the best Of the freight
hlochadg and expect that in short time
they will have things cleared up.
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that there Is prospect Of railroad rnte
war IN the grliu-cnriying trade as SOON
as IL begins coming down the lakes
Even now the boats bound east from
Buffalo are suid to b" open for a dickpr
which with no little grain to catch as at
present is significant. A local shipper
says that the l3 cent rate by rail has
not been held up ut ali aud docs moi
think L has been over 10 cents all win
ter The rate depends entirely upon
The quantity shipped
The chief topic AZ Winnipeg. Man. IL
% proposed new road between Wiuuipep
ANA Lake Superior. pupllcling The
,1imdian Pacific N,u Interested say
thyy have SNoOlOOO of New York capi-
t9i ready To- build the line and that all
lhry want Is guarantee Of the local
government to 20 on with the work
Fred Jones, travelling passenger agent
OF the Cotton Belt, Is ont on a trip.
j w. Bnrbee, general livestock agent
OF The Cotton Belle packed his grin yes-
terduy aud HE'D him away ON a rustlng
\, ). Davis, city passenger and ticket
agent of the Fort Worth and
Denver. went away for a brief
trip Yesterday. Before going he
presented city Passenger Agent Car
nine Of the Cotton Belt with his por-
TRAIT which has been framed and now
adorns the top of the ticket case in the
joint Office
q. NJ Payne, travelling freight agent
OF the Cotton Belt, Is out ON the road.
j, J. Mullane, commercial agent of
the Santa lee, celebrated ST Patriclt's
gay Yesterday, by making trip TO Da-
las; To do penuncc as il were.
General Superintendent. j. ID. Moore.
OF the Fort Worth and Denver, came
M last night from Al trip up the road.
WIN Bullcne. livestock agent of the
Missouri, Pacific. is In the city.
W. $, 1ldredge. manager of the gene
raj telegraph Office of the Texas aud
Pacific, was in the city yesterday.
Colonel Morgan Jones, president of
the Fort Worth and Denver. leaves this
morning for trip over the line.
Since the cattle convention the railroad
men can talk of nothing else, and n
news item Is an unknown quantity
among the gang