, 1900-01-15
OFF To FORT WORTH
TRAINLOAD OF WESTERN STOCK
MEN AND DELEGATES
LEAVE DENVER.
Third Annual Meeting of the National
Live Stock Association Meets To
morTow-Salt Lake is After the
Next Meeting-Claims Support of
Neighboring States.

With cheers and whoops and yells,
with the blare of brass and the toOt-
ing Of locomotive whistles, the Colora-
do delegations special train to the Fort
Worth Cattlemen's convention pulled
out from the Union depot at 1920
o'clock yesterday afternoon says the
Denver Republican.
There were seven cars in the train.
five sleepcrs, every berth taken, a cafe
car and a baggage car. The latter had
II trunks in it, but the rest Of he space
was filled with the loot secured by a
corps of raiders under the direction of
Wolfe Londoner, cOmmissary g eneral
Of the expedition. The filling of the
baggage car kept the railroad men busy
all the morning. 4 continuous stream
Of delivery wagons ratified into the
depot yard, discharged their contents
into the car and ratified away to make
room for others. Most OF the boxes
were handled with great care. There
was also bread, meats and vegetables,
poultry and fish, milk and butter and
eggs and then more of the boxes mark
ed "breakable." There was everything
but dry goods.
The crowd commenced to gather at
the depot at II o'clock. The First regi-
ment band lined up on the platform and
played "A Hot Time" and some music.
Twice as many people as could go were
there to show that they would go if
they could. The platforms were crowd
in sombreros who had come from the
cattle region of the lower Platte. There
was one whole carload of these long
horns fresh from the range, with the
habiliments which they wear on the
ranch and range, with the dry Threats
which come with much riding over the
arid region, and with stout lungs whose
whoops made city men desist discour-
aged from attempt at noise-making
There were, too, mixing with the others
in complete fellowship, the natty cat
tlemen who marshal their herds from
upholstered chairs behind Office doors,
and see their herds only as dots on the
horizon from comfortable seats in the
ranch houses. Sheep men forgot their
congratulate them on the high price
Of wool and be felicitated in turn upon
the bright outlook for cattle.
The train was to be run as the sec
ond section of the regular Colorado &
Southern train, and when the first sec
ton pulled out the separation of the
sheep from the goats began, that is,
those blessed with the tickets and time
poured into the train, opened the win
dows and waved hats, stood on the
platforms and shouted farewells.
Promptly at 1920 O'Clock the two en-
gines gave warning toots, the pistons
began to move, and the cheering train
load rolled out under the viaduct.
The crowd that was left cheered un-
the last car, with its banner, "Colora-
do and Texas" passed out of sight, and
then there was a stop as sudden as
though the conductor of the orchestra
had dropped his baton.
There were 175 men and % women
in the train. The m were located
in the rear cars, so as to be off the line
of march forward to the oommissary
department. They were the of
the II trunks, in which were sent cos
tunes designed to make the Fort Worth
ladies wish they %shopped in Denver.
Several trunks belonging to the party
of cattlemen were carried also on the
regular train, whose baggage car was
not crowded by the commissary de-
partment.
At Pueblo two more cars were added
to the train, containing the delegates
from Utah and Southern Colorado.
Enough of the white badges bearing
the name Denver" were taken to make
it certain that every Colorado delegate
will be tagged. The Utah men, who
want the convention to meet next year
in Salt Lake, will wear their WI badg-
es.