Cancel for October 9: A.W. Brooke, Auditor for American Refrigerator Transit Company

Auditor's Office,

A. W. BROOKE

OCT  9  1899

X2 Century Building

St. Louis,  xxx

Auditor's cancel from American Refrigerator Transit Company (ART).  The American Refrigerator Transit Company was a St. Louis, Missouri-based private refrigerator car line.  The company was established in 1881 by the Missouri Pacific and Wabash railroads and it is now a subsidiary of the Union Pacific Corporation.

ART refrigerator car or "reefer".  Image from http://www.trainweb.com/.