Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-02-27
\ HIsLT LINE
Ana u Terminal LINE Both Proposed
FOR Dallas.

Dallas. Tex, Fch. 20. The Dallas
beit Line Railway company, an or
sanitation that proposes to build a
system OF terminal tracks and collat-
slai iaeilitles FOR the trunk lines cen-
terihs at Dallas and hereafter TO be
oult INTO this city, held meeting
at the company's headquarters In pal-
las this morning and elected tho foi.
lowing general officers: President,
GEORGE Howard Eliers OF Chicago.
Slee-president Frank NJ. Cockrel OF
Dallasi secretary, Walter A. Calhoun
OF 81 Louis; treasurer, James c. Hul-
zen OF New York city: board OF di-
reetors, George II. Oilers, Chicago;
James G. Holden, New York. Walter
Calhoun, st. Louis; r. NJ. Cock
rel, IL. j. Martyr, Tom Scurry and
{. G. Cobb. Dallas, Tex.
The Gazette representative asked
Vice President Frank NJ. Cockren TO
give to him for the publics Information
something concerning the personnel
ana financial standing Of the men as
ISOLATED with himself In the Belt Line
enterprise, and their Intentions there
with. He presented card to identity
the president, of which the following
~ copy.
g. Howard Ellers. Consulting EN-
gineer, in Special Charge of Track
Elevation, Room AZ, city Hall, Chi
cage"
Mr.. Cockrell said: mir Ellers is not
only a civil engineer OF national re-
putation, but man of substantial
ABILITY financially When the city OF
Chicago determined that the railway
systems entering there must elevate
their tracks, the change necessitatlng
an outlay OF upwards Of $4,000, 600 Mr..
Ellers was selected to supervise the
work, and Is now engaged on II.
walter A. Calhoun, the secretary,
Is a member OF the wealthy firm OF CON
tractors Of James Stewart y Co, OF
St. Louis. They have built, among
other big enterprises, the grain eleva-
tors at Galveston, New OrleRns and
Buffalo, and the grand new Union sta
tion at st. Louis. This should certain
~ be sufficient Endorsement financially
for Mr., Calhoun.
James c. Holden, the treasurer. Is
director in the Mutual Life Insur-
ance company of New York, a concern
noted for It's wealthy men. No one
connected with its management is ac-
cused of being very poor"
THESE are the principal men outside
of Dallas who are behind the BELT Line
1 railroad. The local men identified with
the enterprise are In 1t simply because
the laws OF the state require that a
certain number of residents OF the
/ state shall be In the directory"
What are the Intentions of the mer
Z you are associated with so FAR as get
| ting practically to work In Dallas
| Mr. Coclrell was asked
They will certainly begin construc
/ tion operations very soon, There ar,
no distractions in our way. The right
| of way is practically secured, II ",
/ need any more privileges than we nov
| possess We shall apply to the city coun
| ell for them, just as the Terminal rail
| way and Union Depot company did
| II is not intended 70 make the Bel
| Line purely local affair, II will no
| only encircle the city, but Its track
| will be extended beyond as collatera
/ lines, to reach all railroads now run
ming into or hereafter to come TO Dial
| las The building of the Termlna
| railroad will in no wise interfere viii
| the Belt Line. And | wish to say ina
| the Belt Line company as a corporation
| is In no way identified with the intunc
tino proceedings Of the administrator
of the Cockrell estate, which were yes
terday dismissed by Judge BurlSeY'
What. II any, other proceeding,
will the Cockrell estate take In this in
junction matter2"
81 am not prepared to discuss that II
| an interview. l shall soon prepare
and have published over my own sig
nature, statement TO the public
which viii fully inform them on tina
matter"