The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 24, June 30, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, Texas, June 25, 1894.
Editor Texas Miner:
Ralph M. Hughes of the Western Union Telegraph company
at Dallas spent a couple oí days in the city this week.
A. R. Temple, repairer telegraph department of the Texas &
Pacific, headquarters at Dallas, was in the city last week.
e. w. Campbell, train master of the Eastern division of the
Texas & Pacific spent Sunday in the city with his family.
E. M. Gates, operator at the Joint Track yard office, is said
to be the champion left-handed base ball player of the state.
Conductor Fritz of the Chicago, Rock Island & Texas was
called to Dallas Friday as a witness in a suit against the Texas
& Pacific.
J. E. Parmelee, division road master of the Missouri. Kansas,
& Texas, headquarters in Waco spent several days in the city
last week.
W. O. Davidson, manager of the Joint Track telegraph office
at Denton, was in the city Friday last attending the iuneral of a
brother-in-law.
The roads throughout the state will make a one fare rate
for the round trip lor the Fourth of July, and they all expect
considerable business.
Train Baggage Master Andrews and Train Porter Bristow
Young of the east end of the Texas and Pacific put in the time
last week attending court.
W. E. McElroy, repairer telegraph department of the Mis-
souri. Kansas & Texas, headquarters at HillsBoro, was in the
city the latter part of last week.
J. Potton, master mechanic of the Rio Grande division of the
Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Big Springs, was in the city
a day or two last week on business.
W. G. Crush, general passenger and ticket agent of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas, of Texas, headquarters at Denison,
passed through the city enroute for home from the south Friday
night.
The Order of Railway Conductors gave a grand picnic and
ball here on the 26th. The Santa Fe and Texas & Pacific ran
special excursions for the occasion, and a royal good time was
had.
P. A. Horan, passeager conductor of the east end of the
Texas & Pacific, is back on his run after a thirty days1 leave of
absence, during which time he paid a visit to relatives in the
North.
L. S. Thorne, general manager of the Texas & Pacific, spent
the night in the city Wednesday and went west over the Rio
Grande division Thursday morning and returned Saturday even-
ing on No. 4.
The Texas & Pacific is still working a very small force in the
shops here. They are doing no heavy repairing at these shops
now, everything but light running repairs being done at Mar-
shall and Big Springs.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Sleeping
Car company, has returned from Chicago and resumed charge
of his office once more. The boys around the Union depot are
all glad to see Judges again at the old stand.
Eugene Harden, car marker in the Texas & Pacific yards,
was married Wednesday evening toa Miss Lula Dickey. The
happy couple departed the same evening on the Texas & Pacific
No. 4 for New Orleans and other points of interest in the South.
The work of papering and painting the city ticket office of
the Texas & Pacific, corner Third and Main streets, is now com-
plete and Col. Jake Zurn has one of the handsomest ticket of-
fices in the city, and it is unnecessary to say that the Colonel is
proud accordingly.
f. P. Hughes, the well-known railroad contractor, was in the
city several °days last week, and departed Saturday morning ac-
companied by his brother, J. J. Hughes, for Eddy, N. M., where
they have a large contract with the Pecos Valley Improvement
company.
The Fort Worth & Denver City shops are, and have been all
along, running regular and working full forces regardless of hard
times' lust now they are building a number of refrigerator cars
for the Texas Brewing company, and they are cars that any
shop might be proud of. The paint department, especially,
deserves credit. The picture of the brewery on the sides of the
cars is so perfect it smells of beer.
H. C. Walker, one of the well-known engineers of the Waco
section of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, headquarters at Al-
varado, was in the cr.y enroute to his ranche in Clay county.
He is taking a thirty days' rest and combining business with
pleasure.
The railroad centre is being regailed by quite a scandal in the
managment of the Orphans' Home. If all the stones published
in the Telegram are true, it looks to a man up a tree as if some
one ought to spend the balance of their natural lives behind
iron bars.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe has taken off the night switch
engine and crew to reduce expenses until business picks up.
This leaves eight more men without employment. I he Santa
Fe has reduced its forces 500 men in the last three months, and
the end is not yet.
While the railroads are all complaining of such poor business,
the express companies continue to do a land office business
hauling fruit and vegetables. While we import stuff from the
South we are shipping great quantities north. Denver receives
a large share of the stuff out of here.
Jack Young, ex-dispatcher of the Rio Grande division, Texas
& Pacific, is raffling off a fine diamond ring valued at $100. All
the boys are taking chances, and more than one of them has
hinted to his best girl he would have a nice present for her be-
fore long. Some one is going to get left.
The Kansas City Sunday Sun is devoting considerable space
just now to publishing the shortcomings of a number of Fort
Worth railroad men, and is roasting some of them to a queen's
taste. While now and then they tell the truth, the majority of it
is so far-fetched it does very little harm to any of them.
Miss Emma Lindsey, one of the night operators of the Tele-
phone Exchange, died very suddenly while on duty at eight
o'clock Wednesday evening. She had been complaining of feel-
ing badly for several days, but did not think it anything serious.
The doctors state her death was caused by congestion ot the
brain. *
The month of May, it is said, will be a red letter month in
the history of the railroads in the United States. With one or
two exceptions every road in the country was operated at a loss
during this month, the roads showing the increase being three or
four small, unimportant lines. From the way June has started
out it will not show up much better.
We have heard of men stealing everything from a yellow dog
to red-hot stove, but the agent ot the Gult, Colorado & Santa
Fe, this city, takes the cake as a loser. Friday night he had a
thrashing machine and a steam engine and boiler stolen from a
car in the yards and hauled 15 miles in the country before the
officers could overtake it. It seems the outfit was the property
of the man who sw.ped it his object being to beat a $70 freight
bill. Agent Wynns was easy on him. letting him off after he
paid the freight bill and the officers for their time and trouble in
catching him.
The Rock Island road and the people of Round Pond, O. 1.,
are still at war. Friday night the through passenger train was
fired into as it passed through Round Pond, and shortly after-
wards the railroad bridge near there was dynamited and de-
stroyed also 300 feet of track torn up. The Rock Island com-
pany has commenced suit against the people ot Round Pond
for damages caused by the former wrecks, and the above out-
rages were committed just after they had been notified of the
suit. A large force of deputy United States marshals are there
now protecting the company property and their employes who
are engaged in making repairs.
Wednesday the section men on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
at Burleson station went on a strike. Why they struck is im-
possible to learn, and it's very probable they don't know them-
selves ; nevertheless, they struck, and on Friday the company
sent a gang of negroes to take their places. ri'his didn't meet
with the approval of the strikers at all, and they undertook to
clean them out, and made a clean sweep of the whole outfit,
but not until they shot one of the negroes twice and chased the
balance of them out in the timber. The man shot was not badly
hurt and they all reached Fort Worth the next morning. I he
strikers now have a large skull and cross-bones nailed on the
tool house with a notice to the next man that Shoel will be a
far better place for him than Burleson. A j ax,
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 24, June 30, 1894, newspaper, June 30, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200471/m1/2/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.