The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1909 Page: 3 of 6
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KATY'S MILLION DOLLAR TRAIN
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On Initial Run Katy Limited Was
Greeted Large Crowds.
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A few years ago when th« Mis- j
souri Kansas & Texas railway com- \
Diy): inaugurated a special train
servira between Texas points and
St. Louis on account of the World's ;
fair a number of newspaper men !
were inured by the management to
accompany the train on its initial
run. On that occasion the newspaper
scribes went no farther than Dal-
las where an elegant banquet was
served in the Katy's dining station.!
That was a nice affair but this and 1
all former occasions similar in char-
acter were eclipsed by the Katy
people in the inaguration of their '
new service between St. Louis1
Kangas City and San Antonio which
pok place Sunday September
'that date the company's new
which had been christened
Katy Limit'd" started ou
initial runs from San Antonio
ft. Louis.
k'as originally planned by the
aanagement to establish this j
bnal train service last spring ]
Ifter a tentative schedule for j
the operation of the trains had been
decided upon it was found that the!
equipment could not be secured be- j
fore late in the summer. A number j
of dates were subsequently agreed j
upon for the inauguration of this
rvice but in each instance unavoid-
alA· circumstances caused a delay.
Finally the company received as-
ksuran»>ps from the car and loeotomive
guilders that the entire equipment
fcmld be ready for delivery in time
the new trains to be put in op-
eration on Sunday September 2ti.
Accordingly all the details were
completed as hurriedly as possible
and a new time card strung by the
general passenger agents and repre-
sentatives from the operating de-
partments.
In the meantime Col. W. G.
r Crush of Dallas general passenger
agent and his chief clerk Randolph
( Daniels began planning a way for
• their newspaper friends of Texas to
assist in the dedication of the new
train on its initial run from Texas
to St. Louis. A list of the more im-
portant papers was prepared and· in-
vitations sent them asking that a
representative be permitted to ac-
company the train to St. Louis as a
guest of the management. The Daily
Light and Weekly Enterprise of
Waxahachie were included in this
list and the invitation from
Colonel Crush was accepted by
Mr. C. W. Kent who made the trip
leaving Waxahachie on the new train
Sunday night and returning Wednes-
day morning.
The trip was a pleasant one in
every respect and from the time the
train crossed the border of Texas un-
til it rolled into the Union Station
at St. Louis nothing occurred to
mar the comfort of any of the large
compliment of passengers. On board
the train were the following news-
paper men:
Col. F. P. Holland Farm and
Ranch Dallas; Glenn Pricer Trib-
une Austin ; Frank Hobart Demo-
^ crat Sherman; Henry Camp Harris
Herald Greenville; E. J. Geehan
Tribune Galveston; B. Harvey Car-
roll Chronicle Houston; Roy Ed-
monds Post Houston; A. G. Mo-
Carter Star-Telegram Fort Worth;
Ε. B. Doran News Dallas; George
>" Robinson Times-Herald Waco; N.
E. Thatcher Record Fort Worth;
E. .1. Rest Times Herald Dallas;
Chas. W. Kent Daily Light and En-
terprise Waxahachie.
To give a detailed account of the
trip would be to repeal what occur-
red it every /station along the line ι
mainly that every stopping place
crowds were at the station to g<jt a
Klimpse of "th« million dollar train " j
So delays occurred and the train |
arrived in St. Louis exactly on time. |
Besides the Texas officials who were
r>n the train several officials from
the St. Louis offices were at the
station to give the new train a wel-
come.
Randolph Daniels whose genial-
ity knows no bounds was in charge
of the newspaper men during the
entire trip and he left nothing un-
done that would add to their com-
fort or convenience.
After debarking from the train in
St. Louis the party went to the Mar-
quette hotei where Col. F. P. Hol-
land was host at an elaborate ban-
qt.et. Mr. Holland had as his guests
the newspaper boys Randolph Dan-
iels and some of the Katy officials
who reside in St. Louis.
Following the banquet the Texas
scribes were the guests of Mr. Dan-
iels in S box party at the Columbia
theatre.
This lentled the round of pleasure
and the next day the party broke up.
some to return to their posts of du-
ty and others remained over a few
days to transact business.
The officials expressed themselves
as being well pleased with the new
service and there is every reason
to believe it will be a success and
that it will become popular with
the traveling public
The equipment on "The Katy
Limited" consists of sixteen 10-
wheel locomotives built by the Am-
erican Locomotive Co. Schnectady
Ν. Y. at a cost of $16.000 each. The
passenger equipment was built by
the American Car <fc Foundry Co..
St. Charles Mo. There are seven 70-
foot glee! ijnderfraine baiigage cars
costing $7000 each. Two combina-
tion coach and baggage cars are
used each costing $9000. Ten
brand new coaches are used each
costing $10000 and ten chair cars
at $12000 each. A cafe car built at
the M„ Κ. & 'Γ. shops Sudalia Mo.
at an outlay of $18000. The above
makes a total cost of equipment of
$658000.
The^ Pullman observation cars
are Hen I)earg Hen Macdhui Ben
Lawers and Ben Venus. The draw-
ing room cars consist of ten in
number and are known as the Ma-
drine. Martnaid Narada Nirviana
Roamer. Randolph Sattellite Tam
erlane Twiimsch and Kalita. They
arc of the standard 12 section type.
The average cost of the sleepers is
$ϋ">000 each making a total cost
of the sleeping car equipment $100-
000.
The total amount of investment
for the four trains is $9.">8000.
The baggage coach and chair car
equipment represents the very high-
est type of modern construction;
steel underframes heavy re-enforced
steel ends; solid steel trucks
throughout with steel tired wheels.
Chair cars have a seating capaci-
ty of F>8 people chairs and six
seats in the smoking room. The
lightin is with seven single mantle
Pintsch gas center lamps two brack-
et lamps and two double flame
Pintsch gas vestibule lamps. The
heating is steam direct from the en-
gine in connection with one double-
coil Baker heater. There are three
toilet rooms in each chair car. Une
washstand in the ladies' toilet.
Pintsch gas is furnished from two
gas receivers under the cp.r. Wost-
inghouse high speed automatic
air brakes are used.
Combination cars have a seating
capacity of 48 people with a 30-foot
compartment for baggage.
The coaches are 7 7 feet over buf-
fers; 70 feet over end sills; seating
capacity of 8 4 people; wide vesti-
bule; Btandard steel frames for
double cast steel body bolster. Wes-
tlnghouse tripple draft air brakes.
The lighting is with five single
mantle Pintsch gas bracket lampe
in toilet rooms. The heating is di-
rect steam from the engine augmen-
ted by two Spear Stoves. Two toilet
rooms at each end of car. Westing-
house high speed automatic brakes.
The sleeping cars are the latest
and most modern production of the
Pullman company.
The observation cars are what
are known as the 10 section library
observation sleeper. These cars are
steel built extra wide platforms and
national wide vestibules. All steel
truck six wheels journals 5x9. The
brakes are Westinghouse brakes
triple high speed with retaining
valve. The water system through-
out the cars is air pressure furnish-
ing hot and cold water to all fix-
tures. In these cars for the first
time are used the Dunner Improved
Hoppers of latest pattern. The
washstanda are silver finished with
open plumbing dental lavatory in
ladles and gents dressing rooms.
The lighting of the body of the cars
ie by eleetrieity consisting of five
clusters of four lights each suspend-
ed from the ceiling between each
lamps at each
end j iftoth lover and up-
t(M with two
berth lights each placed at each :
enci of the berth. Electric fans at |
each end in body of car one in ob-1
servation end and one in the gentle-j
men's smoking room. The inside!
finish is of mahogany South Am-!
ι·ι ί· an red wood and Marquetry. j
The regular sleepers' are standard j
j 12 section drawing room cars built
of steel platforms throughout na-
tional wide vestibules with all steel
trucks. They are equipped with the
latest improved Westinghouse trip- ι
pie action air brakes. The wood
work of the standard sleepers are
the same as tlie observation cars.
Will be warmed in winter with a new
system known as the vapor heat sys-
; tem. This is by live steam from the
engine and the fitting is such that
the beat can be cut out of smoking
j room drawing room or any indi-
vidual section of the car. All of the
cars are upholstered with green
plush with carpets drapery and cur-
tains in harmony. The arms of the
seats are curved making them more
comfortable than the old style
sleeper. Another improvement is
the arrangement of the seats in
.each section so that baggage can be
placed under them and out of the
■ way. The old style cathedral art
glass formerly used in the dressing
rooms and passage ways have jn
those new sleepers been replaced
with white prism glass. The fans are
arranged for two speeds operated
by push button. The system of
'electric lighting is by axle device
'augmented by storage battery which
will lie used when the car remains |
for any length of time at a station ι
The particularly pleasing feature of j
these sleeping cars to the ladies is)
the women's dressing room. The j
dressing rooms in the new sleepers 1
are nearly twice the size of those in
the old cars finished in while enam-
el with two silver washstands den-
| ta I lavatory hot and cold water.]
I The arrangement is such that there
I is ample room for four people and
j none of them intefçring with the
other. All doors on the sleepers
I have the new improved Blount door
; checks which prevents Blamming
and are a safeguard against acci-
| dents.
Irf-ltor to Ο. E. Dun lap.
Wax-ahachie Texas.
ί Dear Sir: The late president of
ithe Croton River bank at Brewsters I
Ν. Y. built the finest house in all j
[that regien in 1884 and painted it
with lead-and-oil at a cost of $100—
the house cost $31000.
j In 1887—three years—he re-
I painted it with Devoe at a cost of
ί $350. In 1897 this paint was in good
I condition.
Ijoad-and-oll $400 three years.
Deroe $350 ten years.
Yours truly
; Γ>5 F. W. DEVOE & CO.
P. S.: Waxahachie Lumber com-
pany sell our paint.
ί The Magazine Club
i Lesson for the Magazine Club
Thursday October 7th:
Paper—The first woman. Mrs.
J Tessa Edmonson.
Milton's descriptions of Eve. 6th
book 389-390 lines.
The destiny of woman Charles
Wagner (found at the Siins Library
June and July 1906. of Harper's
Bazar.)
"The Seven Ages of Woman." j
Magazine article by Mrs. Η. N. Pet-
ers.
Chapter 1 from serial in current
magazine leader Mrs. S. H. Wateon.
Read wfeat ut adTertl·»*· wmf.
M.W-l.TKi: ΜΟΝΚΙ-Λ »Χ>ΜΙ\<ί.
iVonderfuI «"reulure a Member of
Itingliiig llrnv Nlnui^-Tir.
With Kingling Bros menagerie
his season is a tim^r rreafure ρt*»1-
umably of the monkey family that
ooks more like a hurtian being than
ome men They have named it I)ar-
vin in honor of the scientist who
ong ago interested himself In just
;uch things ..s this wonderful mi'ii-
igerie attraction
Darwin iivs In i house of his own
>n wheels Every dny It is placed in
h· menagerie tent where It has th·
>lace of honor. The house has doors
windows eler:rii lights. a ho' water
leater pictures on the walls and
ace curtains
The first tiling that will strike the
iyes of visitor- as they enter the big
nenagert» when the circus comes to
.Vaxahachii on Tuesday October 5.
will be a long line of éléphants
itretchinp the entire length of the
ent There are forty of them in all
There are over 10<· cages and dens
η which will be found some of the
•arest specimens of animal life.
There are the two tallest giraffes in
•aptivity. Om of Ihem could eat the
>otted plants out of a second story
window without lifting his head. In·
act the menagerie is practically
'omplete.
But it is in the make-up of the
irast company of performers that
wonders have been done. Never in
he history of the circus business
τ as such a gathering of arenic célé-
brités been assembled under one
management. The headliners of Eu-
ropean and Asiatic amusement halls
have been engagd for the sensation-
al features of the program. The ef-
fect is startling. New York marveled
it the great display of talent when
the show opened its season in Mad-
ison Square Garden. It was the
greatest amusement event in the
history of that city bar none.
The program will be given here
just as it was seen there not one
change having been made. It will be
a great occasion in local amusement
for it will be the greatest circus per-
formance ever seen on earth.
The growth of the Uingling Bros
from the humblest beginning to the
greatest amusement managers in
the world is one of the most interest-
ing things in history. Thin year's
growth is even more marked than
in any previous year.
A GREAT RECORD.
Dr. Jjconhardt's internal Pile Reme-
dy Makes 08 Per relit of Cures.
Dr Leonliardt's Hem-Hold has
been tested in several thousand eases
and was successful in all but two pet
cent.
Hem-Roid's wonderful record is
due to the fact that it is an internal
remedy. The cause of piles is inter-
nal and it is too much to expect to
cure piles with ointments supposi-
tories or operations. Hem-Roid cures
the internal cause.
Sold for $1.00 under guarantee by
B. W. Fearis Waxahachie Texas
Dr. Leonhardt Co. Station B. Buffa-
lo Ν. Y. Prop. Write for booklet. d7
Apples! Apples!
Just opened a car load of fine eat-
ing apples. Come and get some be-
fore they are all gone at H. & T. C.
freight depot. W. W. Bradley. BSp
We are now selling out our stock
in Waxahachie at actual cost. The
Racket Store 55
GRAND ENCAMPMENT
I. O. O. F.
Corsicana Texas Oct. ΙΟ-
Ι 1. Tickets on S3le Oct
9-10-11 limit to Oct. 16.
Fare $1.30
TOURIST FARES
Brownsville Texas. . . . $20.80
Corpus Chrlstl Texa· ... 16.40
Galveston Texas 11.8·
J. J. MILLANE
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B. W. FEARIS.
Will Exhibit at W axahachie
TUESDAY OCT. 5
The ONLY BIG SHOW COMING THIS SEASON
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STRONGEST OF ALL
OO Acrobats and the 12 J.orch Famiiy
GO Aerialists and the 10 Flying Jordans
ftSk GO Riders ilic Renos and Dai?y Hodftirci
WK. 5Ο Clowns tiio World's Funny Men
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Admission tickets and numbered ι esen ed seals will b* on
sale show day in MUNROE BROS.' DRUG STORE at-ac*
actly the same price charged in the regular ticket wa^on»
on the show grounds.
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0. Johnson Cement Co.
There are improvements made in all lines of
work in this progressive world. Our Improv-
ed System in Cement work makes a very beau-
tiful and everlasting Sidewalk or Curbstone.
Be on the safe side and employ us to do your
work. .......
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New Fast
"Katy" Trains
are now in daily service on THE KATY to and from St. Louie
Kansas City San Antonio and Houston Tex.
These trains are just a little faster than " THE KATY FLYER "
and art: new throughout — new engines new baggage cars new coaches
new chair cars ana new sleeping cars.
The sleeping cars are electric lighted with fans and individual berth lights.
You are cordially invited to inspect
"The Katy Limited"
You will find these trains embody every travel comfort and convenience.
leaves WAXAHACHIE daily
Southbound: 10:35 a. m.
Northbound: 7:25 p. m.
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Ownby, W. A. The Waxahachie Daily Light (Waxahachie, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 153, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1909, newspaper, September 30, 1909; Waxahachie, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1070862/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .