Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-23
RATTLE OF THE RAIL.


J. W. Spencer. agent OF the Fort
Worth and Denver at Henrietta, was in
the city yesterday.
j. w. Carter, general live stock aren.
OF the Rock Island, came In yesterday.
W. w. Sage. traffic manager OF the
Rock Island came In yesterday from
New Orleans en- route to Chicago.
]. G. McCabe, general freight and
passenger agent of the Rock Island,
has returned from New orleans,
S. B. Hovey. vice president and gem
eral manager OF the Rock Island left
yesterday for Topeka.
d. b. Keller. general freight and pas
scnger agent of the Fort Worth and
Denver. will return from New Orleans
this. morning. accompanied by Mrs.
Keller,
Colonel Morgan Jones, receiver of
the Fort Worth and Denver. has gone
to Denver for few days.
IT was d. c. Dodge of the Rio Grnnde
Western who went south n few days
ago instead Of General q. NJ. Dodge
of the Fort Worth and Denver
]. V. Goode. general superintendent
OF the Fort Worth ond Denver. came
in yesterday from a trip up the line.
]. w. Barbec, general live stock
agent of the Cotton Belt, came in yes
terday.
The committee on interstate COM
merce OF the House at Washington has
under consideration two bills, one in
trcduced by Mr. Baker Of New Hamp-
shire and the other by Mr.. Cobb OF
Alabama. which provide that the Pull
man sleeping car company's tariff
shall be made subject to the regulations
of the interstate ccmm ,rce commission.
1t Is understood that one of the bills
will be favorably reportei TO the house.
The payment of ticket commissions
II prohibited in a rule passed on the 10th
by the board of managers of the Joint
Traffic association, Many similar rules
have been adopted by the trunk lines
and their western connections during
the last twenty years and yet ticket
commissions have continued to be paid.
The latest action may be more effec-
tive.
''Cross-eyed" headlights ia one OF the
latest improvements upon the New
York, New Haven and Hartford on
its airline flyer between New York
and Boston. The invention is that of
Colonel N. II. Heft. of the electrical de-
partment. and according TO the New
York Sun will be used upon all through
fast trains running at night. Two
headlights are used. set "cross-eyed,"
or so that the RAYS of one cross those
OF the other. The special advantage
is OF course found on curves.
l.. ]. Smith OF Kansas City. NO., who
has the contract for building the first
sixty-hve miles of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf from Port Arthur
Texas. toward Shreveport. La, must
begin work by February I. according
to the terms of the contract. The road
win run north from Port Arthur. on
Sabine Pass. through jefferson county
and across the Nechos at Smiths Bluft,
eight miles south of Beaumont; cross
the Southern Pacific near Terry and
the Sabine river into Louisiana. above
the Narrows, about twenty miles north
of Orange. A spur will be built from
the main line to Beaumont and to Or
enge. Three locating parties are In
the field between Shreveport and Port
Arthur. Plans for docks. Jetties, ETC.,
ut Port Arthur have been prepared.
Work on a large hotel with one hum
dred rooms has also been started at
that point. AT Shreveport 100000 will
be spent on depot Improvements.