The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 44, November 17, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
FORT WORTH RAILWAY NOTES.
Fort Worth, November 15, 1894.
Editor of The Texas Miner :
Hurrah for The Texas Miner, the prettiest, cleanest, neat-
est paper in the state. I am pleased to note its recent growth to
twenty-four pages. May it continue in its rapid growth is the
wish of all the railroad boys.
"Died"—The Democratic party. Burial two years hence.
A. A. Judges, superintendent of the Pullman Palace Car com-
pany, spent Sunday in Dallas.
W- S. Polhemus, superintendent of the Joint Track,went over
to Dallas Friday on business.
A. J. Brogard of the Union depot telegraph office spent the
day Sunday at Weatherford visiting relatives.
Jake Cohen of the Consolidated Compress company was in
the city on a business trip Saturday and Sunday.
W E. Curtiss, line repairer of the "Katy," headquarters at
Whitesboro, was in the railway center Wednesday.
S. N. Lloyd, general roadmaster of the Joint Track, headquar-
ters in this city, spent the day Saturday at Denton.
E. E. Campbell, trainmaster of the Texas & Pacific,was in the
city Wednesday morning, and departed for Marshall.
S. K. Bullard, superintendent of the "Katy," headquarters at
Sedalia, Mo., was in the city Sunday for a few hours.
Colonel Robert E. Lee Cooke of the Union depot telegraph
office spent the day Sunday in Denton visiting relatives.
J. Doyle, master car builder of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas,
headquarters at Denison, was in the city Friday afternoon.
A. R. Temple, telegraph. repairer of the Texas & Pacific,
headquarters at Dallas, was here last week on a short business
trip.
M. Murphy, division roadmaster of the Texas & Pacific, with
headquarters at Dallas, was in the city a few hours Saturday
afternoon
A. A. Krause, general claim agent of the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas, with headquarters at Denison, was in the city Saturday a
few hours.
O. E. Reed, foreman of bridges and buildings of the Joint
Track, headquarters at Denton, was here Wednesday on a busi-
ness trip.
W. S. Polhemus, superintendent of the Joint Track, spent
Thursday afternoon at Roanoke overseeing the loading of a
train of stock.
C. C. McLeod, assistant general claim agent of the "Katy,"
headquarters at Denison, was here Friday afternoon, and depart-
ed for the south.
W. E. McElroy, line repairer of the "Katy," headquarters at
Hillsboro, was in the city Friday night, and departed for Waco
Saturday morning. j
W. D. Lawson, traveling passenger agent of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, headquarters at Denison, was in the city sev-
eral days last week.
W. W. Campbell, general baggage agent of the Texas & Pa-
cific, with headquarters at Dallas, was in the city Wednesday af-
ternoon a few hours.
H. M. Funk, general baggage agent of the Fort Worth &
Denver City, headquarters at Denver, was hers one day last
week on a short business trip.
Homer Eads, commercial agent of the Missouri Pacific, with
headquarters at San Antonio, was in the city for a couple of days
last week looking after the interest of his road.
P. C. Byrnes, repairer for the Rio Grande division of the
Texas Pacific, headquarters here, spent a couple of days last
week atBaird, looking after the interest of his division.
A special car of the Mexican National railway, having on
board a party of officials of that road, passed through on the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Thursday morning en route south.
E. Loughery, general foreman of bridges and buildings of the
Eastern division of the Texas & Pacific, headquarters at Mar-
shall, was in the city a couple of hoürs Wednesday afternoon.
E. W. Campbell, trainmaster of the Texas & Pacific, with head-
quarters at Marshall, but who has made Fort Worth his home for
the past four or five years, has removed his family to a farm near
Arlington station, which he has purchased, and expects to make
that his home in the future; but will continue to hold down his
trainmastership.
E. L. Sargent, general freight agent of the Texas & Pacific,
with headquarters at Dallas, who has been spending the past
week in El Paso, his old home, expects to return to Dallas
Wednesday.
P. T. Downes, general superintendent of the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe, with headquarters at Galveston, was in the city Friday
afternoon and departed for Cleburne, where he expects to remain
several days.
C. T. McElvaney, master mechanic of the "Katy," headquar-
ters-at Denison, passed through the city Wednesday evening en
route to Smithville. where the company is erecting some extensive
repair shops.
C. E. Spencer of Dallas held down the night chiefship at the
Union depot telegraph office & couple of nights last week while
Col. Newcomb was laying off to enable him to show Fort Worth
by gas light to a couple of Marshall friends.
N. K. Weaver, foreman of the water service department of
the Joint Track, headquarters at Denton, was here Friday, re-
turning Saturday to Denton, where he is making some extensive
repairs on the Denton creek water tank.
J. B. Lewis, foreman of construction of the Western Union
Telegraph company, who is engaged in rebuilding the wires over
the Joint Track, was in the city Monday morning with his gang
of men loading a number of cars of poles.
The Waco Cotton Palace seems to stand a good chance of
drawing quite a large number of people from over the state. The
roads are preparing to care for large crowds, and don't propose
to be found wanting in equipment when called on.
W. H. Moore, one of the best known passenger conductors on
the east end of the Texas & Pacific out of Fort Worth, has been
laid up at home for the past week with a sore foot. It will prob-
ably be some time before he will be able to once more take gut
his run.
Ye Arlington Inn, Fort Worth's brag hotel, burned to the
ground Saturday night. This is a decided loss to the city, as it
was the only real first-class hotel in the city. Should it not be
rebuilt it will be a sad blow to the prospects of the Arlington
Heights addition.
J. H. Sheppard, foreman of bridges and buildings of the Rio
Grande division of the Texas & Pacific, who has been in the city
the past week with his gang doing some repair work, moved his
outfit and gang to Thurber Junction Monday morning to make
some much needed improvements on the coal chutes at that point.
F. R. Place, assistant superintendent of telegraph of the Texas
& Pacific, with headquarters at Dallas, was in the city Thursday
afternoon, and departed for Watauga on the Joint Track to in-
spect the work being done on the wires over that division by the
Western Union company, returning to Dallas the same evening.
Engineer F. N. Guilfoil and Fireman Paul Douglas of Thur-
ber, brought engine No. 153 ("Kalamity Jane") in Sunday
morning from the Thurber yards to undergo some repairs, re-
turning Sunday night. This engine and its crew does more
hard work than any other on the system, and "Gill" bats coal
trains in, on and around the mountain sides as though they were
footballs.
William Graves, one of the best known old time railroad men
in the city, died very suddenly of heart failure Saturday afternoon
near Roanoke station, on the Joint Track, while out on a fishing
excursion with a party of friends. Graves was at one time gen-
eral yardmaster of the Texas & Pacific in this city, and had a host
of "friends among the railroad men of the city, to whom his death
was indeed a great surprise and sorrow.
The following Rock Island officials arrived in the city Friday in
a special car from Chicago: W. H. Truesdale, third vicé-presi-
dent; H. A. Parker, assistant to the president;' John Sebastian,
general passenger and ticket agent; C. Dunlay, general superin-
tendent; A. J. Hitt, assistant general superintendent; George H.
Crosby, auditor; J. M. Johnson, general freight agent. The party
was joined in this city by J. C. McCabe, general passenger agent;
J. B. Sloat, assistant general passenger agent, and Mr. Hovey,
superintendent, and left Friday afternoon for Galveston over the
Houston & Texas Central. Returning, the party arrived in this
city Tuesday. Ajax.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 44, November 17, 1894, newspaper, November 17, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200491/m1/2/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.