The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 34, September 8, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MtNEH
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
FoRT WORTH, September 6th, 1894.
Editor of THE TEXAS MlNER:
Business is fast improving on all lines.
Labor Day celebrations were a grand success.
Miss Ora V. Cooke, stenographer, has accepted a position in
the Sant3 Fe office, this city.
W. S. Polhemus. superintendent of the Joint Track, was on the
sick list a good share of last week.
Grading on the Pecos Valley railroad extension is now being
done inside the corporation limits of Roswell.
S. N. Lloyd, general roadmaster of the Joint Track, was over
his division last week on a tour of inspection.
M. Murphy, roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific, headquarters
at Dallas, was in the city several days last week.
L. Trice, division superintendent of the eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, was in the city a few days last week.
One lone Jap cleaned out a whole Chinese laundry near the
corner of Main and Second streets the other evening.
Robert H. Hamilton of Kansas City, attorney for the Chicago.
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, was in the city Fridav night.
Mrs. J. W. Everman, wife of Assistant General Manager Ever-
man of the Texas & Pacific, is visiting friends in Fort Worth.
G. M. Hall, foreman of bridges and buildings of the Rio
Grande division cf the Texas & Pacific was in the city last week.
The Fort Worth & Denver City railway made a one fare rate
for the round trip, Fort Worth to Wichita Falls, on Labor Day.
J. B. Paul, superintendent of the Rio Grande division of the
Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at Big Springs, spent Sunday
in the city.
Saml M. West, time and scale inspector of the Texas & Pa-
cific, with headquarters at Marshall, was in the c.t, a few days
last week.
E. Loughery, general foreman of bridges and buildings of the
eastern division of the Texas & Pacific, was m the city Sunday
and Monday.
Conductor H. C. Bugg of the Fort Worth & Rio Grande rail-
way had the misfortune to lose a finger last Monday while mak-
ing a coupling.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande road is hauling considera-
ble live stock these days, the majority of it being destined to
Chicago and St. Louis.
J. C. McCabe, general freight and ticket agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Texas, departed for St. Louis Sunday morning on
a short business trip.
W. S. R. Parker, commercial agent of the Santa Fe, went out
Thursday morning to investigate the reports of a big freight busi-
ness on tap in Texas.
The majority of the Pythian excursionists returned from
Washington in time to tell the people here on Labor Day what
they knew about crowds.
W. E. Curtiss, repairer telegraph department of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, with headquarters at Whitesboro, was in the
city one-day last week.
The Western Union Telegraph company has moved its
branch office from the old Hoxie bank building to the corner of
Fifteenth and Main streets.
J. D, Hurddleston, chief dispatcher of the Fort Worth & Rio
Grande Railway, has been appointed master of transportation of
that line, to take effect September 1.
The opening of the new Union station at St. Louis, Monday,
September 2, was quite an event in railway circles. All officials
of Fort Worth roads received invitations to attend.
G. W. Martin, traveling freight agent of the Santa Fe, arrived
Thursday morning from Chicago, accompanied by his family,who
will make their home at Arlington Heights in the future.
A. J. Ratcliff, traveling freight and passenger agent of the
Fort Worth & Denver, returned Sunday night from a trip to Aus-
tin, San Antonio and other points m Southern Texas. He re-
ports the crop prospects fine in that section of the state.
Division Superintendent A. J. Davidson of the Santa Fe has
just returned from a trip to Ohio. In passing through that state
and the adjoining ones on his return home he noticed that the
corn crop was nearly buredup, and did not find crops looking so
well anywhere as in Texas, and thinks the prospects for business
this fall are better here than anywhere else.
W. H. Morton, late of Pilot Point, and N P. Jamison of St.
Louis have accepted positions with the Western Union Telegraph
company, this city, commencing work Saturday morning. Busi-
ness is increasing rapidly with the W. U. Co.
The Turkish dancing girls have been painting the town in
great shape the past week. One of thetn passed the night m the
"boose" Saturday night. The demsens of the Acre are not in
it a little bit in comparison with those black-eyed beauties of the
far east.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas has moved its division
headquarters and dispatchers' office from Taylor to Smithville,
where it has erected large shops and headquarter buildings.
This move increases the population of Smithville fully one
hundred.
General Manager B. F. Yoakum of the Santa Fe, headquar-
ters at Galveston, passed through the city Wednesday morning
en route for Denver in his special car No. 102, accompanied by
his brothers, R. D. Yoakum and C. H. Yoakum, to visit another
brother, who is quite sick in Denver.
A party of Turkish dancing girls, under the name of the Cairo
company, have been entertaining the "chappies" at Grunewald
park for the past week. Their dance is the genuine dance given
m the harems of the nigh and mignty Turkish noblemen at home,
and strikes the average American audience to-day as the baflet
would have the Purlins of New England in the days when they
burned witches.
Two railway section hands, sons of the Emerald Isle, thus con-
versed yesterday near the intersection ot Mam street and the
Texas & Pacific lailway: '-Moike, I see in THE TEXAS MiNER
that Breckenridge, the Kentucky spolpeen, is going to Europe.
DoyoumoindtnatZ' ' Faith I do, Pat," and Alike paused a
minute or so and then resumed: "I hate to say it; I never did
say it before, but I have to say it, 'GoJ save the Queen/ "
Uncle Billie Criss one of the oddest and best known engineers
on the Rio Grande division of thj Texas & Pacific, died at his
home in this city at 6:10 a. m. Wednesday morning, the 29th
ult., the immediate cause of his death being inflammation of the
bowles. Uncle Biily had not been running for the past ten
months on acceunt ot injuries received in a wreck near Strawn
in which he bu&t.niheu severe injmies to his back. He leaves a
widow and two small cniidren to mourn his untimely death.
A carload of Chinese under the convoy of the United States
came into the Union depot Thursday en route for San Francisco,
whence they sail for China. They have been laboring in the
cane fields ot Cuba and have adopted this as the nearest route
home. They say that laboring in a cane field is not what it is
cracked up to be. By United States regulations, the car is a
sealed car. The United States ( onnnissioner is charged to see
that none ot the Chinese abuse the privilege of passing through
the United States, having never complied with the Government
regulations of entering. 'i\,e Chinese, therefore, enjoyed a hot
tane while the car tarried heie, and waved their fans like butter-
fly wings. Finally, the commissioner permitted them to get out
and enjoy some fresh air. Some of these celestials are very fair
linguists, speaking an intelligible English, a tittle French and
quite fluent Spanish.
Fully 50,000 peoph attended the dedication last Saturday of
the St. Louis Terminal Railroad association's palatia.l new union
station, which is no doubt the finest and largest in the country/
if not in the world. The station with its immense steel train
shed and immense power house, represents an outlay of over
$2,000,000, and with the cost of the ground on which the build-
ings stand, the total value of the property is over $6 000 coo.
The station proper is built of gray sand stone in the style of
Italian renaissance, and fronts 450 feet on Market street. When
the hotel, now in course of construction, is completed, the build-
ing will have a fronting of 606 feet, covering the entire space
between Eighteenth and Twentieth streets, the depth of the
building including the tram shed is 606 feet wide and 630 feet
long and with other buitdmgs covers eleven and a half acres of
ground. Thirty parallel tracks, aggregating thirty miles in
length, are under the sheds. Most of the buildings are occupied
by the station. All railroads entering St. Louis, twenty-two in
number, are here afforded ample facilities to handle their entire
passengers with ease. AjAx^
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 34, September 8, 1894, newspaper, September 8, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200481/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.