The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 45, November 24, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
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FORT WORTH, November 20, 1894.
Editor of THE TEXAS MlNER :
THE MiNER of !ast week was simply a little 24-page daisy.
When you get to 32 pages I suppose you'll have a colored cover
—then it will be a sure enough great big daisv. Well, I predict
it.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car com-
pany, was in Dallas Wednesday.
A. A. Ghsson, traveling passenger agent of the Cotton Belt,
departed for a business trip Wednesday.
B. B. Paddock, mayor, has been in St. Louis the past week
attending the Texas immigrant meeting.
B. S. Wathen, chief engineer of the T. & P., headquarters at
Dallas, was in the city Monday a few hours.
W. T. Cannon, southwestern passenger agent of the Wabash,
headquarters Dallas, was here Thursday afternoon.
J* Larimer, chief dispatcher of the Rio Grande division of
the T. & P., made a trip over the division Tuesday.
L. W. Ewing, paymaster of the T. & P., headquarters Dallas,
was in the city with the pay car Thursday evening.
W. D. Lawson, traveling passenger agent of the "Katv,"
headquarters at Houston, was in the city Wednesday.
C. C. Remelin, lost car agent of the Missouri Pacific, head-
quarters St. Louis, was in the city Thursday afternoon.
A. D. Arbegast, general foreman of bridges and buildings of
the "Katy," headquarters Denison, was here Saturday.
G. W. Martin, traveling freight agent of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe, was in the city a few hours Thursday morning.
C. L. Ware, live stock agent of the Fort Worth & Denver
went up on the line for a short business trip Wednesday.
J. W.Everman, assistant general manager of the T. & P.,
headquarters Dallas, was in the city Thursday afternoon.
H. T. Keenan, general agent of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy, headquarters at Dallas, spent Thursday'in the city.
J. N. Carter, general live stock agent of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Texas, started out on the line for a short trip Friday.
H. M. Fickinger, traveling passenger agent of the Kansas City,
Memphis & Birmingham, was in the city a few days last week.
Tom Gerrin, live stock agent of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa
Fe, headquarters Cleburne, was in the city one day last week.
Andrew Jackson Ratcliffe, traveling passenger agent of the
FortWorth&Denver, went over the line Wednesday morning.
The party of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific officials who
spent a week in the state returned to Chicago Tuesday morning.
J. T. Burke, division roadmasterof the Rio Grande division
oftheT. & P., headquarters Weatherford, was here Thursday.
Leroy Trice, division superintendent of the eastern division of
the T. & P., headquarters Marshall, was here Saturday evening.
T. W. Froments, foreman of water service department of the
Rio Grande division of the T. & P., was in the city a couple of
days last week.
J. H. Fitxpatrick, foreman of water service department of the
M., K. & T., headquarters at Denison, was in Fort Worth a few
hours Thursday.
The Texas & Pacific pay car came over from Dallas Thurs-
day evening and paid off, departing for New Orleans Friday
morning at 6 o'clock.
M. Murphy, division roadmaster of the T. & P., headquarters
Dallas, was in the city Thursday, and accompanied the pay car
east Friday morning.
W. S. Polhemus, superintendent of the Joint Track, went up
to Pilot Point Friday morning to investigate the fire losses at that
station the day before.
C. B. Sloat, assistant general passenger agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Texas, made a trip to the northwestern part of
the state last Thursday.
E. W. Campbell, train master on the eastern division of the
T. & P., was in the city Tuesday morning departing for Bonham
over the T. C. division.
The Railroad Coal Operators' association has concluded to
put off further action on the proposed reduction of miners' wa-
ges until December 1, says a Pittsburg telegram, to await the
decision of the New \ ork ond Cleveland Gas company, whose
contracts with the miners at 53 cents a to expires ^hen.
A. A. Jackson, special agent of the M., K. & T., headquar-
ters Denison, was in the city Thursday night, and departed for
the west Friday morning.
E. Loughery, foreman of the bridge and building department
on the eastern division of the T. & P., headquarters Marshal],
was here Thursday a few hours.
I he Cook gang has been holding up trains in the Indian Ter-
ritory about three times a week regular. It seems the officials
are unable to care for the gang.
G. M. Hall, foreman of the bridge and building department
of the Rio Grande division of the T. & P., headquarters Baird,
was in the city Thursday evening.
The Texas & Pacific depot at Colorado Citv burned to the
ground Monday night, the 12th. The depot and contents were
a total loss, but fully covered by insurance.
J. Potton, division master mechanic of the Rio Grande divi-
sion of the T. & P., spent the latter part of the week in the city,
and returned to Big Springs Sunday morning.
Samuel M. West, scale and clock inspector of the Texas &
Pacific, with headquarters at Marshall, was in the city on Tues-
day last a few hours and departed for the west.
W. C. Forbess, general freight and passenger agent of the
Weatherford, Mineral Wells & Northwestern, headquarters at
Weatherford, was in the city Wednesday afternoon.
The Fort Worth & Denver City brought in a car of Chinamen
Tuesday evening enroute from China to Cuba. They were
locked in their car and under guard of customs officials.
The Fort Worth & Rio Grande Railway company lost a car of
cotton in the Fort Worth yards Monday evening by fire, the cot-
ton being a total loss and car badly damaged. Fully covered by
insurance.
^ Superintendent of Telegraph S. K. Bullard of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas was a sufferer in the late train robbery on the
Katy m the Indian Territory to the extent of a gold watch and
$2 in change.
The train load after train load of coal that daily rolls into and
through Fort Worth from the Thurber mines is a pleasing sight
to every one. We all use the Thurber "black diamonds," and
entire satisfaction is given.
The I<ort Worth & Denver City, commencing Monday,
November 19, discontinued its short run passenger between Fort
Worth and Wichita Falls until further notice. This is the train
which left Fort Worth in the evening.
T he Joint T rack lost thirty-three bales of cotton and its cotton
platform by fire Thursday afternoon, caused by a spark from a
passing engine. The cotton loss falls on the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, while the Texas & Pacific is joint loser on the plat-
form.
The Texas roads are in a far better condition just now as re-
gards equipment than they have been for the past sixty days.
They are now comparatively easy and can supply cars for all
shipments offering, but how long they will remain in such good
shape is hard to say.
The report of the strike commission appointed by Cleveland
to investigate the Chicago strike is something every union labor-
ing man should read. Some of the roads represented by the
general managers' committee will probably now have to defend
suits to annul their charters.
A party of "Katy" officials, composed of J. Barker, gsneral
passenger agent, R. W. McGuire, treasurer, headquarters St.
Louis; W. G. Crush, Texas passenger agent, headquarters Den-
ison, accompanied by E. O. McCormick, general passenger
agent of the Big Four, headquarters Cincinnati, spent the day
here Thursday.
The Texas & Pacific suffered a very heavy loss by fire Mon-
day night, the 12th, at West Wego,La. Their wharf, 28,000
bales of cotton and forty-eight box cars were burned, being a
total loss of something over a million dollars, but fully covered
by insurance. However, the loss of their wharf just at this sea-
son will be a great embarrassment to them. AjAX.
I he paraphrase, ' Chips that Pass in the Night," appears on
the leather of which a novelty in a poker set is made. This is a
box which looks like a book. Within are the chips and cards.
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