The Daily Texarkanian., 1895-04-01
RAILROAD SPIKES.
Pick-ups in the Yards and Offices of
the Various Railroads of
the City.


the City.
The Texas Midland train that
runs from Greenville, Tex, to Ter
rell, is lighted by electricity, and is
the only road owned and controlled
by a woman in the United States,
who is no other than Mrs. Hettie
Greene. The train was carried into
Dallas Saturday night with a load
of excnrsionists, to hear James
o'Neill in Virginius. The Dallas
News, in describing it, has this to
say: There are 80 lights each
with 80 candlepower to every car,
20 in the interior, aud 2 at each end
to light the steps. There are 2 in
the engine cab and the headlight of
100 candle power. AlIof the light
is furnished from a dynamo in the
baggage car, which is run by q sta
tionary engine, the whole machine
taking up very little more room
than trunk. The lights are ind
measurably better than any oil
lamp and man can read the finest
print in the cars just as easily as
he can at home. Besides, they are
cheaper than oil, 81 have tried
them three quarters of a year and
have found that out, to say moth
ing of the saying of annoyance and
breakage, said prominent gentle
man to reporter, The train which
Mr.. Green brought in consisted Of
an engine, baggage car and two
passenger coaches The coaches
are sixty feet long, and will seat
seventy-two people easily. They
are finished in hard oak and paint
ed'a maroon, trimmed in gold. The
upholstering is frst-class in every
particular The cars are set on six
wheel trucks, like Pullman sleepers,
and are almost as heavy. The en-
gine was handled by Engineer Will
son, who, though young man, has
been with the Midland a long time,
Conductor Flanders pulled the bell
rope,
The strike on the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande is oyer, New men have
taken the place OF those who went
out for higher wages, The new
men are employed at $l.25 per day.
The Cotton Belt has made a few
changes in some of its general Of
hcers and agents, Here they are;
w. II. Quigg Is to be general east
ern agent of all departments of the
line at Pittsbprg; r, Fl, Coombs,
the successorof G. M. Payne as
commercial agent at Dallas, will
take charge of his new post today,
and Payne will go to Tyler, as the
traffic agent Of the system
in Texas, The appointment is an
nounced of j. II, Christie, for some
time past contracting,agent at ,St.
Louis, as travelling freight agent
Of the Cotton Belt, headquarters at
Chicago,
On,Saturday night the Texas &
PaciAc passenger train that left
here for California, had a varied ex-
perience. II hadlost two hours be-
tween this place and Big Sandy
and when 1t arrived there an order
awaited them to pick up a circus
car. The car was down on a side
tracb and when the engine backed
dowkA9 pick Y up the coupling was
not made, and the jar from the en-
CINE started the car down the track,
and 1t gained such force that II ran
into several other cars, throwing
them of the track, They had about
gotten the circus car on the track
again, when the fireman got two OF
his fingers mashed off, A telegram
was sent to Lopgyiew for a fireman
to till the injured mans place, and
after he arrived on the switch en-
CINE and the train started on It's
journey, three hours late, the ten
der.jumped the track, and II was
two hours more before they got 1t
back n place and the train started
for Dallas, You can bet those
train men we're mad and also that
The division officials kept the wires
hot lacking them up"
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