The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 27, July 21, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, Texas, July 17, 1894.
Editor Texas Miner:
M. Murphy, division roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific spent
several days in the city last week.
A carload of peaches from West Texas passed through the
city Friday last en route to St. Louis.
W. E. McElrov, telegraph department of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas at Hillsboro, was in the city last Saturday.
E. W. Campbell, trainmaster of the Texas & Pacific, has spent
the past week in Texarkana, keeping an eye on the strike.
The Texas & Pacific had a small freight wreck Wednesday
morning near Mineóla; very little done and no one injured
C. T. McElvaney, master mechanic of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, with headquarters at Denison, was in the city one day
last week.
Sam Farmer, ex-city marshal, is again in the city after an ex-
tended absence on business, being called home on a lawsuit of
which he is defendant.
W. W. Campbell, general baggage agent of the Texas &
Pacific, with headquarters at Dallas, was in the city Thursday
afternoon a few hours.
L. S. Thorne. general manager of the Texas & Pacific, paid a
flying visit to the railroad center W ednesday' evening, returning
to Dallas the same night.
J. V. Galbreth of the claim department of the Texas & Pacific,
headquarters at Denison, was in the city last week settling up
some claims against the company.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande road had eight cars of stock
for Chicago tied up on its line during the strike. They com-
menced moving it Friday morning and now have the majority en
route.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande road has abandoned it's reg-
ular passenger trains and are now running a mixed train, freight
and passenger, on the same time as the passenger formerly
scheduled.
There is considerable talk of establishing a military post at or
near Fort Worth in the near future. Six hundred acres of desir-
able land has been tendered the government by citizens of the
city for this purpose.
Charles M. Baker, formerly of Fort Worth, and who was for a
long time conductor on the different roads out of this city, is now
located in Denver as general agent for the Union Casuality and
Surety companv.
W. L. Strong, foreman of the water service department, east-
ern division of the Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, is
now in charge of the construction of the new waterworks plant
of the company.
A great many carloads of mellons are passing through the
city from points on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass, destined
to Denver, Colo. They go north from here via the Fort Worth
& Denver City road.
J. S. Painter, fuel foreman for the Missouri, Kansans & Texas
at Alvarado, had the misfortune to get both hands badly mashed
the first 01 last week. He was sent to the company hospital at
Sedalia, Mo., for treatment.
Leroy Trice, division superintendent of the eastern division of
the Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, spent the best
part of last week in the city. He was accompanied by his chief
clerk, Mr. B. S'. Scaraborough.
W. B. McAdams, ye editor, was around shaking hands with
the boys Sunday, having reached the city via hog train some
time Saturday night. Mac is all right, and he don't ride in
those "obnoxious Pullmans" either.
Work on the Texas & Pacific waterworks is pjogressing very
rapidly. They are now installing the boilers and pumps at the
pumphouse, near the river. It will probably take a week and a
half to complete this work with the present force.
I he Fort Worth & Denver City has discontinued it's short
run between Fort Worth and Wichita Falls until further notice on
account of lack of business. This in no manner effects their
regular Colorado express, which will run as usual.
The Fort Worth & Denver railroad company promulgated an
order on the 13th instant to the effect that two weeks' furlough
would be given all officemen of the company along the entire
line. Some forty or fifty men will be effected by this order.
J. E. Parmelee, division roadmaster of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, with headquarters at Waco, spent a couple of days last
week in the city.
J. Potton, master mechanic of the Rio Grande division of the
Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at Big Springs, spent the
greater part of last week in the city keeping an eye on the strike.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and the Fort Worth &
Denver have both resumed, accepting business and selling tickets
to all points on their respective lines. However, livestock is only
accepted subject to owners' risk of delay and damage, account
of strikes, etc.
The Texas railroad commission has at last shown up and
issued one or two unimportant circulars, one of which calls a
meeting of the representatives of all the Texas roads and the
commissioners, to be held at Austin, July 23, to discuss rates, etc.
It is estimated the railroads of the United States lost $5,000,-
000 per day during the strike, while the strikers lost something
over $500,000 per day in wages, and it cost the general govern-
ment $1,000,000 for deputy United States marshals and troops
to put down the riots.
The Western Union telegraph company would not object to
the tieing up of the mails every day. Their receipts were doubled
twice over in the territory effected during the time no mail moved
on account of the strike, a large amount ofimportant correspond-
ence being compelled to move by wire.
W. H. Quigg, traveling freight agent of the Cotton Belt, has
gone to Colorado Springs with a hope that the climatic influences
and the medicinal properties of the water may be beneficial to
his health. His father, W. P. Quigg, superintendent of the City
railway company, accompanied him 011 his trip.
T. ('. Purdy, general manager of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
system, headquarters at St. Louis, accompanied bv J. W. Max-
well, superintendent of lines in Texas, and J. W. Allen, division
freight agent, headquarters at Denison, in Mr. Purdy's special
car No. 1 passed through the city Wednesday evening en route
to Houston.
The Western Union telegraph company has had considerable
trouble in the past year by parties west of Fort Worth along the
line of the Texas & Pacific shooting and rocking off the glass
insulators from their poles. They now have out posters offering
$25 reward for sufficient evidence to convict anyone of interfer-
ing with their lines in this manner.
The Texas & Pacific delivered the Chicago Rock Island &
Texas a full trainload of bananas at Fort Worth Wednesday
evening, destined to Omaha, Minneapolis, St. Paul and other
northern cities. The Texas & Pacific is working up a big ba-
nana trade, having delivered the Missouri, Kansas & Texas four
trains in the past few days for St. Louis and Kansas City.
W. R. Mansfield, a popular conductor of the Fort Worth &
Rio Grande, will make his last trip over the road this week.
After taking a couple of weeks rest he will depart for Lima, Peru,
to accept a lucrative position with the Peruvian Central railroad
company in the capacity of general superintendent. Mr. Mans-
field has already, spent a number of years in that country and is
anxious to return. He will take his family with him. Mr. E. H.
Steele of Houston will also accompany him to Peru.
Charles Fortune of Rich Hill, Mo., attempted to board Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas north-bound freight No. 102 in the north
end of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas yards at 9 o'clock p. 111.
Tuesday night, fell under the wheels and had both legs horribly
mangled, it is thought he cannot recover. It seems Fortune
came to town Tuesday evening from Cleburne, where he is the
owner of a farm. He was en route to his old home in Rich
Hill, and was attempting to beat his way when he met with the
accident which will probably cost him his life.
'rhe Federal grand jury will investigate the general managers'
association, it being charged that they could have moved the
United States mails had they made an effort, instead of which
they made the tie-up as complete as possible in order to force
the government to take a hand in breaking the strike. The offi-
cials of the Southern Pacific in California are already under indict-
ment on the same charge, one California judge going so far as
to instruct the grand jury that when the management seen it was.
impossible to move mail trains with Pullman cars attached it was
their duty to detach them and get the United States mail moved
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 27, July 21, 1894, newspaper, July 21, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200474/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.