The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 28, July 28, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Four WORTH, Texas, July 24, 1894.
Editor TEXAS MlNER:
The Texas & Pacific pay-car has been here and made the boys
happy once more.
The wife of Line Repairer P. C. Hvrnes was quite sick the
past week, but is much better now.
Frank Kant/, formerly genera) agent of the Texas & Pacific in
New York, was in the city last week.
Colonel [oseph Kebort of the joint track has been quite sick
the past week, but is now around again.
E. W. Campbell, trainmaster of the Eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific, spent Sunday in the city.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman car company,
spent last Friday in Dallas on a business trip.
W. S. Polhemus, superintendent of the joint track, made a
trip over the line last week on a tour of inspection.
B. S. Wathen, chief engineer of the Texas & Pacific, head-
quarters at Dallas, was in the (ity one day last week.
Charles Worrell of the Western Umon telegraph company;
Nos. 5 and 6, colliding on the main track, killing Postal Clerks
Minet Voltz. Charles Holland and Ed Bee, Engineer Ed Cracium.
Express Messenger Fred Marshall, Train Porter John Jones and
an unknown tramp. George Bean, postal clerk, was badly injured.
Both engines, all baggage, express and mail cars are a total
wreck. No passengers were killed or seriously injured, although
some of them were badly shaken up. The wreck was caused by
variation of watches of the engineers. The trains were both
running at full speed, forty miles per hour, and met on a curve.
The majority of the men killed in the wreck are Fort Worth men.
and have families in the city. Tins is said to be worst wreck in
the history of the Texas and Pacific road. Conductors Pat
Horan and Frank Paul were in charge of the wrecked trains.
They both escaped without turning a hair. AjAX.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 24. 1894.
"WE DOX'r KNOW."
^J^L LL there be any tariff legislation at this session of congress?
That is the conundrum which everybody in Washington
Dallas, was in the city one day last week on a pleasure excursion, has been trying to guess ever since President Cleveland, through
ZackJ. Reese, formerly baggagemaster at the Union depot, } Chairman Wilson, sprung that remarkable letter, favoring the
has been in the city the past week, called here by the death of original Wilson bill and opposing the Senate bill, on Congress and
his father. j ^ public. At this time there is a dead lock apparently as firm
O. E. Reed, foreman ot the bridge and building department ot j as a granite mountam between the house and the senate, each
the joint track, with headquarters at Whitesboro. was in the city] standing by its own tariff ohl, but these congressiona! deadlocks
on Saturday. i have a way of getting untocked just at the time that evervbodv
The war at Pond Creek has broken out afresh and the good thmks they have become permanent, and this one may not prove
people of that ( ity are making lite quite interesting for Rock an exception. Dad the President been more diplomatic in the
Island officials
Barney Pagan, traveling accountant of the Texas & Pacific,
with headquarters at Dallas, spent a few days in the city last week
on a business trip.
i. Fisk. traveling accountant of the Missouri Kansas & Texas,
headquarters at Denison, was in the city one day last week on
company business.
]. T. McCarthy, chief clerk in the office of Genera! Freight
Agent Allen of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas at Denison, was in
the city "'hursday last.
H. F. Self, foreman of the bridge and building department of
the Eastern division of the Texas & Pacific, with headquarters at
Marshall, is in the city.
A. D. Arbegast. general foreman of the bridge and building
department ot the Missouri, Kansas & 1 exas. with headquarters
at Denison, was in the city last week a few days.
F. Loughery. genera! foreman of the bridge and building
department of the Pastern division of the Texas & Pacific, with
headquarters at Marshal!, was in the city one day last week.
W. G. Crush, general passenger and ticket agent of the Mis-
souri. Kansas & Texas lines in Texas, headquarters at Denison.
attended the General Passenger Agents' meeting at Ye Arlington
Inn )ast week.
S. N. Floyd, general roadmasterofthe joint track is the happy
father of a fifteen-pound girl which has just arrived at his house.
Colonel Robert E. Lee Cooke of the Union depot tetgraph
office spent Sunday in Denton.
,, -n t ) ^ ft) r I defense of the president reminded him
Gaston Meslier, genera! passenger and ticket agent ot the lexas '
& Pacific, and W. S. Keenan. genera! passenger and ticket agent
of the Gulf. Colorado and Santa Fe. headquarters at Dallas and;
Galveston, respectively, attended the General Passenger Agents*
meetingatYeAr!ingtonInn)astweek.
The Western Union telegraph company has a large gang of
men at work in the citvrebui)ding at! wires in the citv limits with
copper wire. The coat smoke and gases eat and destroy iron
wire in a very short time, while it does not effect copper. Fore-
man (George Shar]< is in etiarge of the work.
A. !- Fawrence.a Missouri. Kansas & Texas freight brakeman.
was badlv injured at Denton on the morning ofthe ipth. by being
struck and knocked offa car bv the coat chutes white doing
switching at that station. Hisinjuries. while quite painful, are
not serious. He was sent to the Sedatia. Mo., hospita!.
A very bad passenger wreck occurred on the Texas & Pacific [ruling of the United States commissioner of immigration, that it
railway near Queen Citv on the 23d, the two cannonbaJl trains. ' is a violation of the a!ien. contract labor, taw. lor ioreign born citi-.-
language he used concerning his party members there would he
more probability of an agreement, also of future harmonv in the
Democratic party. ft ts seated that the tetter never would have
been made puulic if Mr. Wiison had not ascertained that a move-
ment was on foot toautnun/e tne H 'use conferees to agree to the
most important Senate a nead neats an 1 th if sixty' Democrats
had promises to vote torn w mch w ith the sotid Republican vote
woutd have come dangerously near to passing such a motion. As
shown by hts letter, Ait. Cievetand prefers no tariff legislation to
the Senate bit), wall its duty 0.1 coat, iron ore and other so-calted
raw materials, so the tetter was made public to prevent the sur-
render ot ttie House.
_ )H). COXtHR^XCK COMMt't'TKE
wiii resume its meetings tins week, but with each side instructed
to stand by its ow n but tncre is littte probability that any agree-
ment wt)! oe reached by tne comnntiec. and less that it would if
reached be accepted by ooth House and Senate. Pubhc opinion
may brtng about an agreement when it has had time to make
itseif heard m Congress. t here can t)e no doubtthat the public
wants tnis taritf business setbeo at this session, in order that busi-
ness can have a chance, and it ought to be an easv matter for
each side to gtve and take untit a compromise upon which both,
can stand without loss of dignity is re ache.1. bat only a strong
pressure of public opimo i. wnt nuke tnem drop their persona)
tight long enough to do it.
AtR. VEST SAtO n .
It wil! be a long time beiore those who heard Senatnr Vest. in.
the course ot a very belligerent speech antagonizing the course
of President Cleveiand on the tanff bill, tel! w hat Senator Hilt's
of. wilt forget either die
words or their reception by the Senate and crowded gatleries.
Mr. Vest said: " The speech of the Senator from New York
reminds me of a desperate murder case in which 1 was counse)
for the defense, and where i was obliged to plead the abnormal
moral weakness and ob!iquity of my client winch made him
incapable of committing crime. After acquita! the man came to
me and said: 'I am obliged to you for having got me off, but 1
woutd rather go to the penitentiary for tin tnan hear that speech
again'." ' ^
AlTEXt\t.\H(;RAXiS.
Representative Meiktejohn of \ebraska tias introduced in the
House a bill imposing a duty o.f $too on ea; h a,.4 cverv aikn
immigrant arriving in the United States, exct-pmi^tho^c who
come at the request of a reiative who is a citi/en ot the United
States. The exception noted is interested iu\ :e^ol the receiit
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 28, July 28, 1894, newspaper, July 28, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200475/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.