El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-02

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Riordan's gang of 20 men. have beer
busy the past few days repairing the
8. P. yards.
Business 10 very light on the T. p
There are but very few cars in the Z
Paso yards.
The 8. P. depot At Edna, Texas, II
com pleted and 10 said to be very neat
ly constructed structure.
The G. q. pay car arrived yester
day aud the sleepy boys of the day
previous we're all wide awake.
The tenth annual convention Of the
American Railway Accounting officer.
is being held in Atlantic City.
I'D. Martin, T. p. switchman who
has been on the click list for severa
days past, reported for work yesterday
at noon.
The western pass agreement, the last
relic of the late lsmented western joint
traffic bureau, 10 no more, It having
died May 31st.
Work on the tub of the White Oaks
water tank commenced yesterday. Ac-
CO ding to calculal ions it will be ready
for use in about two weeks.
A. MCGEE. . passenger engineer from
San Luis to TampioO, WAS circulating
among friends In Ell Paso to-day. b
10 on his way to Kansas City on bust
ness.
Engineers on the T. P. have been
not fed to blow the engine whistle at
the Myrtle Avenue crossing. s'Violat-
ors Of this order will be dealt with se-
verely," is the wording OF toe notice.
The trafic managers Of the south
wes' ern lines are In session in Cbica-
go today, and the suppos ton il that
the cutting of rates will be stopped
the old rates restored and made more
binding.
The s. P. had two switch engines at
work yes erday and still some say that
business is dull wet of here. All Of
the boys kick some OF the time, but It.
seems az If some Of the boys kick all of
the time with due apologies.l
e. o. Hopkins, receiver of tho Peo-
ria. Decatur & Evansville Rsilroad,
made y report for April in the United
States court The total receipts were
S2i5, O69. -, and the total disburseneuts
Sl96. 1908. A balance of SIS, 1851 re-
manned in the treasury on April 30th.
The railroads Of Peuneyivania have
entered into IN agreement not to issue
any FREQ transportation ON account of
republican convention which 10 to be
he'd at Harrisburg on June I'd. The
action 10 causing considerable ais
satisfaction among the politicians.
And why shouldn't it?
e E SHRINE, general freight and
passenger agent of the Southern PACT
dc. is In the city today, hustling as
usual. Mr.. Shrine is returning from
. business trip to the Pacific COST.
he Is pleasant man 20 meet, an in
teresting talker and no doubt q sue
cesful pusher for business.-Tucson
citizen.
The chances are good for q delay on
the new G. 81. and s P. rnurdhouse.
There is brick enough to last only .
few more days and as the Ell Paso
Brick company have NO more brick on
hand delay in the work Of construct
The fault 10 said to be with the brick
company, owing to some misunder-
standing.
A hosting machine was In the T.
P. yards yesterday Afternoon. It 10 one
manufactured, and was made by the
Murray Iron works, of Burlington,
Iowa It has been inspected by the
Mexican custom house Officials and
will be taken to the mines in Mexico.
1t will probably be taken across the
river tomorrow.
Engine No. 10 OF tho T. P. which
has been 10 the repair shops At Big
Springs, will be bore in few daye,
fixed up in the latest style. As che il
. switch engine she will be received
with q ''hurrsh" by the yard men, as
they have been switching with Q heavy
road engine for the past few weeks. AZ
som as the 10 arrives, No. 10 will be
taken there for . general overhaul
ing.
One car of lumber went north on tho
White Oaks road yesterday morning
and several more cars will 20 north In
a few days. The lumber is billed to
Alsmooordo, where q building boom
is predicts 80 soon a. the road resch-
es there. which will be In about one
week. There 10 plenty of coal, rich
ore. and lumber to be had in that
vicinity and q big rush is expect
cd.
Foreman A. s. johnson with his
crew Of seven men, assisted by several
Mexicsns, are busy reconstructing the
f0IeRr6pQ llD0 IN inc L. +. y8rO0. Mr
Johnsoo says they are repairing the
line to the 8. p. track, q distance Of
one mile and half. The poles are all
forty feet in length and the wire is
made of the best quality of copper.
Mr.. johnson and his crew are from
Marshall, Texse, and are T. P. en-
ployers.
In speaking to q representative of
the Texas Railway News, Mr.. E. P.
Turner, geppral passenger agent #
the Texas %6ud Pacific road, said {:
During the first four months of the
current year. passenger earnings have
increased $149 OOO.O 90 over those for tho
same period of 1897. We are building
chair cars as rapidly as possible to be
nut on all trains from New Orleans to
Ell Paso; In fact the Texas and Pacific
IS going to make such improvements
in service, road -oeds and In other ways
that will place this road second to
none"
A few colored people went east on
yesterdays T. P. train and, of course,
number of Ell PssO's colored aris-
tocracy went to the depot to see them
of. Bling women, of course they all
went into the car. and when the train
started thew were still there. The en-