The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 23, June 23, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, Texas, June 20, 1894.
Editor Texas Miner:
The Canadian river is reported higher just now than at any
time for years past.
Maj. P. C. Byrnes spent Sunday in the city and was called to
Cisco Monday morning early.
Volney Hall, of the legal department of the Texas and Pa-
cific, is in the city on business.
^he roads are expecting a very material increase in business,
now that the coal is ended—if it really is.
J. W. Parks, live stock claim agent of the Texas and Pacific,
headquarters at Dallas, was in the city Friday.
W. E. McElroy, of the telegraph department of the Texas
and Pacific, headquarters at Hillsboro, was in the city Saturday.
Willard Coyl Whitcomb, night chief, and Dispatcher Waddell
(alias Waddie) are the two ladies' men of the Union Depot
force.
J. B. Paul, superintendent Rio Grande division of the Texas
and Pacific, with headquarters at Big Springs, spent Sunday in
the city.
It is hinted upon pretty good authority that all is not as lovely
as could be between the Brewers' union and the Texas Brewing
company.
The new Texas and Pacific time schedule went into effect Sun-
day morning without a hitch, all trains making the end of their
divisions on time.
The Fort Worth and Denver City has notified all lines that all
wash-outs on their lines have been repaired, and they are again
ready for all kinds of business.
E. Lengley, general foreman of bridges and buildings of the
Eastern division of the Texas and Pacific, headquarters at Mar-
shall, was in the city Monday.
M. Murphy, division road master of the Texas and Pacific,
headquarters in Dallas, was in the city Thursday overseeing
some work in the passenger yards.
J. T. Perrin, formerly train dispatcher of the Texas and Pa-
cific at Marshall, passed through the city Saturday enroute to
Waxahachie where his brother is quite sick.
J. W. Maxwell, superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas, with headquarters at Denison, was in the city Friday and
Saturday, returning to Denison Saturday evening.
The Texas and Pacific pay car came over from Dallas Satur-
day afternoon and paid the employes of that line in this city and
departed for New Orleans via Marshall at 6:30, a. m., Sunday.
The Pecos Valley road notifies all connections that until
further notice they will be unable to receive freight of any char-
acter or passengers for points on their line on account of wash-
outs.
John Oie, general foreman of the water service department of
the Texas and Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, has been in the
city the past few days looking after the new water works plant
of the Texas and Pacific.
L. J. Dempsey, for a number of years traveling engineer of
the Eastern division of the Texas and Pacific, latar general fore-
man of the Marshall shops, is once more back on a passenger
run between Longview and Fort Worth.
Missouri, Kansas and Texas south bound No. 1 was held at
Fort Worth three hours Monday evening to connect with the
Texas and Pacific from the west, on account of a large party on
board for the Pop. convention at Waco.
The Texas and Pacific moved a large number of empty
box cars east during the past week in the expectation of business
taking a decided turn for the better. The other roads are also
expecting business to improve materially in the near future.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande road moved three or four
trains of cattle from Cresson destined to Chicago, and there are
several more trains to follow. I he Gulf, Colorado and Santi
Fe is also hauling some of the same class of stock from this sta-
tion for Chicago.
Mrs. Lizzie Norris, of Merkel, the old lady 88 years old, who
walked off of No. 4 the other evening near Mineóla, while the
train was running 50 miles per hour, died at Mineóla Sunday
morning. Her remains passed through here Monday morning
enroute to Merkel for interment. It seems the old lady was of
unsound mind, and the two ladies in charge of her went to sleep
and she took advantage of the fact to take a flyer into eternity.
John Hornby, president and general superintendent of the
Fort Worth & Rio Grande, has returned from his trip to New
Jersey, where he was called by the serious illness of his
mother.
The Fort Worth and Denver City has decided the change of
schedule of their passenger trains made about thirty days since
is anything but a success, and consequently will change back to
the old schedule very shortly. This will again make the morn-
ing train the through Denver train and the evening run the bob-
tail.
The Texas and Pacific has been suffering from some serious
wash-outs on the Rio Grande division between Big Springs and
Toyah. The passenger service from the west has been very ir-
regular the past week, and if the heavy rains continue in that
section there is no telling when the road will again be able
to handle trains on time.
Jim Jay, the well-known engineer of the Texas and Pacific,
who has been away for some time on a leave of absence, re-
turned to the city Saturday morning from Minnesota accom-
panied by his bride. It was quite a surprise to the many friends
of Mr. Jay in this city, and will no doubt surprise his friends at
the Mines, where he is well known.
L. S. Thome, general manager, in his special car, accompanied
by Col. Wheelock, general agent at New Orleans, and a Mr.
Finlay came over from Dallas Wednesday, and after spending
the day and night in this city, departed over the Joint track for
Sherman and other points on the T. C. division. They expect to
spend several days on the T. C. division.
The "good people" of Round Pond, O. T., are still busy
making it interesting for the Rock Island road at that point.
The road is compelled to keep fifty United States deputy mar-
shals on guard to protect its track and bridges. There have
been several attempts made to burn a large bridge near there in
the past week. There will undoubtedly be serious trouble yet.
The city ticket office of the Texas and Pacific, corner Third
and Main streets, is undergoing a thorough renovating and re-
pairing, made necessary by the fire next door a few weeks since.
The painters and paper-hangers are having everything their own
way, much to the discomforture of Col. Jake Zurn, but the Col-
onel will be amply repaid by having one of the handsomest of-
fices in the state in a few days.
A young boy in Denton, named T. C. Williams, had the mis-
fortune to loose a leg Sunday evening while attempting to jump
on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas ireight train on Peach Orchard
hill, just north of Denton. He was picked up by the train crew
and brought to Denton and turned over to his parents. It boys
could just appreciate what terrible risks they take in jumping on
moving cars and engines, they would do less of it.
Ajax.
OUR FORT WORTH LETTER.
Fort Worth. Texas, June 21, 1894.
Editor Texas Miner:
The best joke of the season is the Evening Mail suing the
Gazette and it's evening abortion (the Telegram) for $50.000
for defamation of character. Ha! ha! ha! ha! Where the laugh
comes in first is the $50 000, when the whole outfit is not worth
50 centimes; and second, the idea that anything that could be
said by either of the "dead duck" sheets could* injure the most
delicate fabric of a reputation, let alone as good a character as
the Mail has established. Why, the Mail ought to have known
that when Editor Malone died all the brains, all the fairness, all
the justice, all the respect of the concern departed; and that the
circulation of the apologies for newspapers has run down so that
no one reads anything printed in them except by the sheerest
accident. And, besides, when even an apology for a newspaper
publication is drawing it's last breath it isn't fair for a vigorous
young fellow like the Mail to knock, the. last long expiring breath
out of the carcass. I ARMANI'.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 23, June 23, 1894, newspaper, June 23, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200470/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.