The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-06-05
TIME WILL AE SHORTENED
Central Puts d UneauaIed Ser
vice Tor Travelins Public.

general public demand for rapid
and cosmopolitan service from
South Texas to Northern points,
will give the travelling public SER
vice that cannot be surpassed by any
1 line in the state. Material changes
have been made on every train on
| the line of the Central and the rum
ming time between Houston and
| Fort Worth has been shortened one
! hour and thirty minutes.
The official schedule which has
1 been announced is as follows:
/ Train No. 5 viii leave Houston at
/ $50 p. m. and reach Dallas and
Fort Worth at n. m. This train
| sleeper and a Houston and St.
Louis sleeper in connection with
! the Missouri, Kansas and Texas at
Denison, and also a Houston and
Kansas City sleeper in connection
with the Chicago and Rock Island
| at Fort Worth. This train will also
/ be the last train out of Houston at
night and the first to reach Dallas
and Fort Worth the following morn
| ing. The time on this train has
been shortened one hour and thirty
five minutes between Houston and
Fort Worth.
Train No. } will leave Houston
| daily at 1880 a. m. and arrive at
Dallas about 7:20 ?. m. and Fort
/ Worth about $50. This train will
carry a Houston, Denver, Colorado
/ Springs and Pueblo sleeper via the
Rock Island at Fort Worth and will
| reduce the time between Hou ston
| and Denver about five hours. Pas
! sengers by this train will find them
selves in Denver at Z a. IN. Many
inconvenience in travel Will be
eliminated by the new route. The
| distance from Houston will be COW
cred IN about forty-three hours.
Train No I will leave Houston at
II a. m, carrying Austin, Waco
and Dallas sleepers, and will arrive
at Dallas at II a. m.
Train No. will leave Houston at
7:3O "a. IN. and will arrive ut Waco
at lao p. IN. The time on this
train will be reduced thirty minutes.
The new schedule of the south
bound will be approximately as fol
lows:
Train No. will leave Dallas AT
I7:l5 a. IN. and arrive at Houston at
p, M, thus reducing the time ono
hour and fifty minutes between the
two points.
Train No. 4 viii leave Dallas at
/ 1880 a. IL. and arrive at Houston at
.u.-0 p. N. This train will carry the
s,4thbound Denver and Houston
/ sleeper. The time between Houston
and Dallas by the new schedule FOR
this train will be reduced one hour.
Train No. will leave Dallas at
! $50 p. N. and arrive at Houston &
! a. N. This train will carry the 81.
| Louis and Houston sleeper In con-
nection with the Katy at Denison,
/ the Chicago and Kansas City sleep
or in connection with the Rock Is
land at Fort Worth, the Dallas and
Houston local sleeper, and the Aus
tin and Houston local sleeper.
! The changes on the Fort Worth
division have been so arranged that
close connections will be made with
all trains, both north and south. on
the main line, Westbound train
No. 50 now due here at G:24 a. IN.
will arrive about $500 a. IN. Train
No. 81 now arriving at 6:57 p. IN.
will be only a few minutes later.
The morning train going east which
/ is now due at 1880 a. III. will arrive
/ about II O'Clock and the night train
due at g:05 will arrive about 9:4j.
1t is not yet known what changes
will be made on the short-run train,
but it will probably be run as a mid
day train between Ennis and Fort
Worth. The local freight train
which now carries passengers be
tween Garrett and Fort Worth will
take on passengers at Ennis every
morning.
In order that this fast time may
be maintained the track between
Garrett and Fort Wort is being
practically rebuilt. Three extra
gangs Of 200 men are now putting
in new ties and ballasting this sec
ton of the track with view TO
bringing the road up TO the full
standard. Grade reductions are be-
ing made and new steel structures
are replacing the old wooden bridges
spanning the streams between here
and Fort Worth. The bridge gang
is now AT work Oh a large steel
bridge near kennedale.