The herald., 1894-08-17
LOCAL RAILROAD ITEMS.
THE FUN THE BOYS AT BARSTOW
HAD CATCHING CHICKENS.
They Caught the Wrong Rooster, How
ever, and That Ended Chicken
6uppsrs - Matters OF
General Nows.

Out on tue AblHutlC aHu ACiuC Isuil'
road in and out OF Barstow the railroad
boys, or those who run upon freight
trains, generally do their own cooking.
This is done for two reasons, i. g., keep
up their spirits and keep down ex-
penses. As meals at eating stations are
rs cents, repasts of that kind have be-
come rather burdensome. The boys out
there are an original set and could make
their way under most circumstances.
Not long ago, as meat was Q little
scarce, they thought they would try q
novel experiment. Accordingly . fish
hook was baited, and as they were put.
ting out OF q station near where there
were some chickens this hook wac
thrown over among them. and in about
two minutes along went nice fat hen.
The boys had it rich that night. In
fact they would have still been living on
chicken had not one Of Mrs. Walsh's
thoroughbred roosters taken notion to
follow the train one day. Mrs. Walsh
saw him 20, and then there WAS trouble.
Chickens are now out of sight around
Barstow.
THE TRAIN JUMPED IN THE AIR.
J. M. Bruce and family came in from
Arizona yesterday and will remain for .
week or so on q visit. Mr.. Bruce is q
locomotive engineer, and one Of the bes;
in the employment OF the Southern Pa
cific company. He is known in the ter
ritory as Wild Bill, owing to his many
daring feats on the rail.
Old Arizonans recall . peculiar aoci-
dent he met with . few years ago. He
was given the pay car to take out, and,
a. everyone knows, pretty fast time is
usually made with such trains. This
trip was no exception. As he was
rounding O curve near Y una the train
lett the track, in fact jumped clean off
the rails, and when stopped was off on
the desert, turned completely around.
facing the direction from which she had
lust come. Not car was overturned
and no one was hurt. There is many
story Bruce can tell of fast time made on
his division, but this is his only acci.
dent.
THE SOLDIERS GO HOME.
A special train of IL cars, following
No. IS as second section, leaving at 2
O'Clock, pulled out of Los Angeles yes
terday with all that remained OF the
United States soldiers brought here to
guard railway property. They came up
from Santa on a special train shortly be-
fore noon. They 60 directly to their
post at the Presidio, after an absence Of
six weeks in Southern California.
ANTICIPATING BIG TRAVEL.
The Southern California il anticipAt-
ing big travel to San Diego ON the occa-
sion OF tho Cabrillo celebration next
month. Special train service will be
provided. The greatest feature Of the
celebration will be the fireworks, which
will consist Of Q great many large set
pieces.
GIVEN FREE RIDE.
The Lafayette industrisl school had a
pleasant outing 1t Santa Monica yester-
day. The school WAS under the imme.
diate supervision of Mrs. T. d. Stimson
and Mrs. Wills. There were nearly 100
in the party, who went down in cars do
mated by the Southern California rail-
way.
81. H. Burress came in with Judson
excursion party Of % yesterday. Most
of the party were from Chicago.
H. j. Small, master mechanic of the
Southern Pacific at Sacramento, was in
town yesterday taking look at this end
of the line.
A number of new freight cars are be-
ing built and remodeled at the Southern
Pacific shops.
Mrs. @. N. Sterry, wife of the chief
counsel OF the,Atlantic and Pacific, ar
rived yesterday from Albuquerque, and
will visit at Santa Monica.
W. H. Clune, secretary Of the A. R.
u, has sold his store near the ,6an Fer
nando street station to A. T. johnson,
late chairman of the mediation commit.
tee of the railway organization.