El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-25
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Tom McElroy, says the La Vegas
Optic, has departed for our sister re-
public, where he will twist brakes
and grow fat and saucy, on the Mexi-
can Central.
Mr.. W. F. Johnstone, superintendent
of motive power of the Central, will
visit for continued pleasure and busi-
ness trip to the United States. He will
spend some time at Dunkirk, n. Y.
where the Central is having some en-
gines built
D. NJ. Haynes. who for the past year
has been general foreman at the Santa
Fe shops at La Junta, has resigned his
position there and will go to Mexico,
where he has accepted the superinten-
dency of large mine, at consider
able advance in salary.
The S. P. Co. is running weekly
tourist cars through to Chicago, Gin
cinnati and Washington without
change. These cars are comfortabl
furnished and are in charge of polite
and attentive parties. Anyone going
east should not miss the opportunity to
take one of these cars.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kansas legislature, reducing Pullman
rates. Under penalty of 500, he will
limit charges to fifty cents per berth
for distances less than 100 miles. Over
that distance the price will be half a
cent mile for berths and double that
for staterooms. A $50 fine will be pro-
vided for the porter who neglects any
passenger because of not being tip
ped"
A circular of Chairman Midgley of
the Western Freight association calls
the attention of members to the rules
OF the association governing mixed
shipments of live stock and intimates
that they have not been strictly com
piled with. In some instances these
rules are in conflict with state laws,
and. in such cases, the association only
requires the roads to obey them as far
as can legally be done.
It is probable that in short time all
railway cars will be lighted by cleo
tricity generated by means of power
furnished by the revolution of the car
axles. The first railroad in the west to
test this system of carlighting is the
Santa Fe. One of their chair cars on
the train which runs between Denver
and Chicago is equipped with the new
lighting apparatus and it has made four
successful trips already.
The bristling lion rampant en-
blematic decoration of the Santa Fe
literature for some months past, is no
more, and henceforth his challeng ging
countenance will not be seen on single
slip of paper emanating from the rail
ways offices. a few days ago the order
was given from one high in authority
to dispossess the king of beasts, and to
substitute, If an animal emblem was
| necessary, the American eagle.
The reason for this action was that
the lion was misunderstood and his
dignified sprawl over the Santa Fe
railway system was misinterpreted.
| The emblem was suggested by General
Passenger Agent j. j. Bryne, of the
| Atlantic & Pacific, a year and i half
ago. The purpose was innocent enough,
| had not campaign agitatOrs in Kansas
called everybody's attention to the fact
| that the lion was essentially British,
and therefore represented England s
| grasp on one of Americas greatest
railroad systems.
| Now all the new folders of the Santa
Fe system bear simply plain lettering
on purple background.
The New Mexico Board of Equaliza,
tion has decided upon the following 9
values of railroad property in the ter
ritory for the year 1897:
| Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road north OF Albuquerque, $1,000 pei
mile.
Atchisor, Topeka s, Santa Fe rail
road south of Albuquerque, So, 500 pei
mile.
Atlantic Il Pacific railroad, Sc, 800 pei
mile.
Southern Pacific railroad, $1,000 pei
mile.
Pecos Valley railroad, $4,000 pei
mile.
Arizona Il New Mexico railroad, mar
row guage, $4,000 per mile.
| Denver x Rio Grande railroad, mar
row guage, 81, 800 per mile.
Union Pacific, Denver 4 Gulf railroa;
$4,000 per mile.