The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 37, September 29, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, September 27, 1894.
The employes of the Denver shops will be paid off Friday.
G. W. Martin, traveling freight agent of the Santa Fe. returned
Friday.
G. M. Payne, commercial agent of the Cotton Belt, went out
on a trip Friday.
W. S. R. Parker, commercial agent of the Santa Fe, went to
Dallas Wednesday.
W. F. Connor, traveling passenger agent of the Wabash Line,
was in town Friday.
A. A. Glisson, traveling passenger agent of the Cotton Belt,
went north Wednesday.
L. A. Daffin, division superintendent of the Central at Ennis,
was in the city Thursday.
J. C. McCabe. general passenger agent of the Rock Island,
went to Bowie Thursday.
C. E. Lewis, claim agent of the Cotton Belt, headquarters at
Tyler, was in the city Thursday.
The Fort Worth & Denver pay car, in charge of Auditor Riv-
ers, will start up the line Friday.
C. J. Lanimer, chief dispatcher of the Rio Grande division, is
still in Henrietta attending court.
D. C. Weatherby, division freight agent of the A. R. T. Co.,
returned from a trip south Friday.
Major John Lewis, traveling passenger agent of the Iron
Mountain, arrived in the city Thursday.
The son of Train Master E. W. Campbell of the eastern divi-
sion of the Texas & Pacific is quite sick.
G. A. Quinlan, general superintendent of the Houston & Texas
Central railroad, was in the city Wednesday.
C. B. Sloat, assistant general passenger and ticket agent of the
Rock Island, went out on a short trip Friday.
Homer Eads, commercial agent of the Iron Mountain, head-
quarters at San Antonio, was in the city Friday.
B. St. Clair, a clever Cotton Belt conductor, returned from an
extended visit to eastern points Wednesday.
J. B. Goode of Wichita Falls, division superintendent of the
Fort Worth & Denver, was in the city Thursday.
General Manager L. S. Thorne and party of Texas & Pacific
officials are still out on the western end of the line.
W. S. Polhemus, superintendent of the Joint Track, was over
his division on a tour of inspection Thursday last.
Thos. W. Jackson of Galveston, land commissioner of the
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, was in the city Wednesday.
John C. Lewis, traveling passenger agent of the Iron Mountain,
with headquarters at Austin, was in the city Friday.
Vloney Hall, live stock claim agent of the Santa Fe, head-
quarters at Galveston, arrived in the city Wednesday.
H. M. Fickenger, traveling passenger agent of the Kansas
City, Memphis & Birmingham, has returned to the city.
Engine No. 9, which was in the wreck last Saturday night, was
taken to the Denison shops for repairs last Monday evening.
W. F. Connor, southwestern passenger agent of the Wabash
Line, with headquarters at Dallas, spent Wednesday in the city.
W. W. Campbell, general baggage agent of the Texas & Pacific,
with headquarters at Dallas, spent the day in the city Saturday.
J. S. Berry, foreman of the bridge and building department of
the Cotton Belt, headquarters at Tyler, was in the city Wednes-
day.
E. W. Campbell, train master of the eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, is being detained at home by the serious illness
of his son.
Engineer Bart Moran of the Texas & Pacific went to Marshall
Friday to attend the funeral of a son of Engineer Frank Little at
that place.
William Dougherty, city ticket and passenger agent of the
Santa Fe, has returned from a trip through the Panhandle
country.
Beginning September 20, all employes in the train service of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, in Texas, will undergo an exami-
nation for their sight and hearing before Dr. A. Chesan of Deni-
son, the company's surgeon at that point. This is done in
accordance with the standard rules soon to be adopted on the
Katy.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car com-
pany in this city, went to Dallas with the special car Izaak
Walton on No. 10 Thursday.
L. J. Polk went over to Dallas Wednesday, and will take a run
down south with General Manager \ oakum of the Santa Fe in
the special car of the latter.
The Texas & Pacific pay car, in charge of Paymaster A. L.
Ewing, came in Friday evening at 6 o'clock over the Joint I rack
and left Saturday for Sierra Blanca.
Conductor J. E. Blythe has moved his family to Fort Worth
from Longview, having succeeded to a regular passenger run on
the eastern division of the Texas & Pacific.
J. W. Maxwell, superintendent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
with headquarters at Denison, spent the day Saturday in the city,
and departed for the North Sunday morning.
General Manager L. S. Thorne of the 1 exas & Pacific passed
through the city Saturday evening on No. 4 en route to Dallas
from the west, where he has been the past tew days.
J. E. Parmlee, division road master of the Waco section of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas, headquarters at Waco, was in the city
Saturday and Sunday and went to Waco Sunday evening.
J. T. McCarty, traveling freight agent of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, with headquarters at Denison. was in the city Wednes-
day evening and departed Thursday morning en route to Denison.
Master Mechanic C. T. McElvaney and Fuel Agent Hebben
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas passed through the city on
Thursday en route to Smithviile to look after their departments
at that point.
Receiver John D. Moore of the Fort Worth & Denver left
Thursday for Denver, Col., whither he will accompany his mother
on her way to points in Nebraska, where she will make an ex-
tended visit.
Mrs. C. P. Hovey, wife of the general baggage agent of the
St. Louis & Southwestern, headquarters at Texarkana. passed
through the city Saturday evening en route to Texarkana via the
Texas & Pacific.
F. E. Merrill, late freight and ticket agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific at Pawnee City, Neb., has been appointed
freight agent of the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas in this city,
vice O. P. Byers, resigned.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas shops at Denison are receiving
almost a complete new outfit of machinery. The old machinery
is being shipped to Smithviile as fast as taken out to be used in
the shops the company is establishing there.
General Manager A. A. Allen and General Superintendent
Maxwell and party of Katy officials passed through the city Sat-
urday night en route to Denison. They were returning from an
inspection tour of the southern end of the line.
General Manager A. A. Allen, Superintendent J. W. Maxwell
and Chief Engineer J. A. Petheran of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas spent the day Wednesday at Hillsboro, where work on the
new yards will begin in a few days preparatory to moving the
division headquarters from Alvarado.
The association of general baggage agents of Texas, W. J.
Taylor of the International & Great Northern, president, and H.
M. Funk of the Fort Worth & Denver City, secretary, held a
meeting at Ye Arlington Inn on Saturday the 22d to discuss
matters pertaining to their department. Nearly all lines in the
state were represented.
Mr. August Busch, vice president of the Anheuser-Busch Brew-
ing association of St. Louis, and party in a special Pullman car
making a tour of the state spent the day Thursday in the city.
They expressed themselves as being well pleased with Fort Worth
and said their already large plant here will probably be increased
soon. They left Thursday eveeing en route to Galventon, but
will stop at the village of Dallas for a few hours, long enough to
see what there is to be seen there.
Colonel Kelly and Captain Emzy Taylor are canvassing Madi-
son and Trinity counties in the interest of the Trinity, Cameron
& Western road, securing right of way, subscription to stock, etc.
The most of the right of way is said to have been secured in
Milam and in Williamson as far as Granger, where the road will
connect with the right of way already secured for the Granger &
Georgetown road. The building of the road is considered as.
certain as any enterprise can be assured. Ajax.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 37, September 29, 1894, newspaper, September 29, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200484/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.