The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 46, December 1, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, November 27, 1894.
Editor of The Texas Miner :
The Houston & Texas Central paid off at Denison Saturday
morning.
W. S. R. Parker, commercial agent of the Santa Fe, was in
Dallas Tuesday.
W. L. Gatlin, one of the best-known stockmen of the state,
spent Sunday in the city.
B. H. Payne, commercial agent of the Cotton Belt, made a
trip over the road Saturday.
M. R. Pendell, trainmaster on the Santa Fe, headquarters Cle-
burne, was here Tuesday last.
S. N. Lloyd, general roadmaster of the Joint Track, made a
trip to Whitesboro Friday morning.
J. W. Barbee, general livestock agent of the Cotton Belt, is
out on the road looking after steers.
Jake F. Zurn, city ticket agent of the Texas & Pacific, made a
flying visit to Abilene one day last week.
A. B. Abergast, superintendent of bridges and buildings on
the Texas & Pacific, was here Tuesday.
C. C. Drake, general agent of the Fort Worth & Denver City
railway, is out of the city on a business trip.
E. P. Davis, traveling freight agent of the Cotton Belt, went
out on the line Saturday in his official capacity.
A. A. Krause, general agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
headquarters Denison, spent Sunday in the city.
W. E. Curtiss, lineman for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
headquarters Whitesboro, was in the city one day last week.
W. L. Lewis, with a Western Union telegraph gang, which is
doing the building on the Joint track, was in the city Sunday.
E. W. Campbell, train master of the Eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Marshall, was in the city Sun-
day.
P. H. Miller, commercial agent of the H. & T. C., headquar-
ters in this city, returned Saturday morning from a trip over his
territory.
H. M. Funk, general baggage agent of the Fort Worth &
Denver City railway, headquarters Denver, arrived in the city
Monday.
P. C. Byrnes, repairer telegraph department of the Texas &
Pacific, spent the week in the city doing some necessary work on
Rusk street.
J. B. Paul, superintendent of the Rio Grande division of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Big Springs, spent several days
in the city last week.
Leroy Trice, superintendent eastern division of the Texas &
Pacific, with headquarters at Marshall, Avas in the city for a few
hours Thursday afternoon.
W. G. Crush, general passenger and ticket agent of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas, headquarters at Denison, spent a few
hours in the city Saturday night.
G. C. Arnold, freight claim agent of the Cotton Belt, head-
quarters St. Louis, who has been in Texas the past week, re-
turned to St. Louis Saturday evening.
H. S. Ohmer, manager of the eating houses along the line of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas, arrived in the city Saturday
from Topeka, Kan, his headquarters.
W. H. Quigg, assistant general freight agent of the Cotton
Belt at Texarkana, was in the city several days last week, and
departed for Terrell Saturday morning.
J. C. Fitzpatrick, foreman of the water service department of
the Katy, with headquarters at Denison, was in the city Saturday
morning en route to Denison from Taylor.
G. C. Arnold, general freight claim agent of the Cotton Belt,
headquarters in St. Louis, spent several days in the city last
week looking after the interests of his line.
M. Murphy, division roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific, head-
quarters Marshall, was here Saturday night, and departed for his
home at Arlington station, where he spent Sunday.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas is hauling lots of passengers to
Waco these days, the business far exceeding its expectations.
The Cotton Palace is proving quite a success. A large party
from Chicago and St. Louis passed south this week enroute to
the Palace.
Conductors Murphy. Gilfoile, Dugan, Brownnell and Whitman,
who have passenger runs on the Northern division of the Santa
Fe, headquarters Temple, spent the day in Fort Worth Tuesday.
The railway commission has submitted a draft of the proposed
tariff on coal to those interested for inspection, and to invite an
expression of views thereon, together with argument on same.
C. B. Sloat, assistant general passenger agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Texas, headquarters in this city, departed Satur-
day evening for a short trip through the southern part of the
state.
W. E. Wortman of New York, representing the Norddeutscher
Lloyd Steamship company, was in the city Tuesday, and will
probably make arrangements for establishing an agency for his
company in this city.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe road is making some addi-
tions to its yards and tracks in the city to accommodate its daily
increasing business. The additions will probably be quite exten-
sive before it gets through with them.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas brought in a special train of
Northern capitalists en route north from Waco Sunday afternoon.
They stopped over several hours in the city, and were shown the
sights by a committee of the Board of Trade.
The supposed members of the Cook gang of train robbers
passed through the city Sunday night going east under escort of
Lieut. Sullivan and companions of the State Rangers, who cap-
tured them. They were headed for Fort Smith, where they go
to stand trial. They were viewed by hundreds, who pronounced
them a hard-looking gang.
The Cotton Belt people have orders out for six new chair
cars and passenger coaches, which will be placed on their through
train service by the 20th of next month. They will be steam-
heated and lighted by the Pintsch gas system, which is conceded
to be the best and most satisfactory method in use tor railway
service, as regarding both safety of the public and convenience
of the roads.
The Chicago Business Men's special excursion train reached
the city over the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe at 3 o'clock Sunday
afternoon. The train was made up of five vestibuled Pullman
cars, they being the same cars Pullman had on exhibition at the
World's Fair, and are undoubtedly the finest train of cars on
wheels to-day. The excursionists were met at the Union depot
by a partv of Fort Worthians, and were shown the sights. They
expressed themselves as being much pleased with Fort Worth.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas company has erected a stand-
pipe just south of the Union depot to enable its passenger trains
to get water while at the depot. The water supply is growing to
be a question of the greatest importance with the Missouri, Kan-
sas & Texas just now, and if there is not rain soon they will be in
a bad fix indeed. The Texas & Pacific is furnishing the water
for the stand-pipe near the Union depot from its new water plant.
It has still a good supply of water in sight, but there is a limit to
it also. The city water works are in still worse shape. They
have been unable to furnish water for street sprinkling for the
past month, and should they be called upon to supply the neces-
sary water to fight a big fire it is very probable they would be
unable to do so. Fort Worth's million dollar water plant is prov-
ing itself a rank failure in more ways than one. Ajax.
The New York Sun wants Wilson of West Virginia sent as
Grover Cleveland's personal representative to Honolulu and says:
Plainly, the first duty of Mr. Cleveland under the present cir-
cumstances is to provide a comfortable foreign mission for the
Hon. William Lostforever Wilson, the hero and martyr of bogus
tariff reform. Republicans and Democrats will agree as to the
propriety of this. A year or two of residence near the court of
the wronged ex-Queen Liliuokalani, he could represent Grover
Cleveland.
The wharves of American ports are being covered with piles
of free wool, says an exchange. There is no money in that for
Americm pockets. The more we pay out to foreigners the less
we shall have left for ourselves.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 46, December 1, 1894, newspaper, December 1, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200493/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.