El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-11

! velnp to q ublesome extent, and The
artists friends in Ell Paso will all
wea to the truth OF this assertion
Mr.. Mills thinks 1t quite necessary
that he..should be'a student Of haracter
! in his position as he Is called upon
every day to exercise his knowledge OF
different characters, G. and by 30 doing
has avoided innumerable complica-
tions.
The railways of the United States
comprise nearly AZ per cent of the
mileage of the world. Relatively to
the population, the United States has
more than four times as much railway
as France and Germany, five times as
much as Great Britain and Ireland.
six times as much as Austria-Hungary,
and twelve times as much as Russia.
The total mileage of the railroads in
the United States is 1915, but the
total track mileage is 240, 129, or more
than 81 per cent additional. This fact
should be remembered when figuring
capitalization per mile OF road. There
is in the United States one locomotive
for every five miles of road, or 35, $50
in all, costing, at an average OF &c, 900
each, 1859, 500 600. There is one pas
senger coach to every six miles of road,
or 80, OO3 in all, costing, at an AVERAGE
OF "a, 900 each, 1922 O12,OO This
makes total of $491 SIP, 900 for the en-
gines and coaches OF the United
States.
"Do you notice how dirty that man
is, and how he seems to enjoy his con-
dition?'' said railroad official yester-
day in reference to one OF the shop en-
-ployees. "There is something most
peculiar about these men in that
respect" he continued. "When they
come to work they try to see how much
dirt they can accumulate. but when
they are dressed up they give an ella
borste display of the opposite extreme.
or dirt on their clothes Is rubbed and
brushed until the last evidence has
The difference in their
appearance in working and leisure
hours is as great as the contrast be-
tween q polished diamond and q chunk
of coal, but their jovial dispositions re-
main unchanged"
81. N. Parsons, for some time past
travelling freight and passenger agent
of the Santa Fe, has been promoted to
auditor and general superintendent of
the Rio Grande & Ell Psso, q position
recently made vacant by the death of
Mr.. Corners. Mr.. Parsons has been
with the Santa Fe company for ten
years, and few men stand higher in
the estimation of the Santa Fe officials
of his new Office yesterday. with the
best wishes of large number of
friends.
Agent F. E. Morris. of the Ell Psso
& Northeastern, said yesterday that it
was their intention to assist in every
way possible to make the Fourth of
July celebration success. 1.-THE main
thing" he said lis to get every store to
close on that day. We intend to run
an excursion over our line on the
Fourth good to return on the 5th or
9th, and that will give the excursion
isis two days in which to do their pur-
hasing. Ell Paso should spread her
self on this occasion and make it an
The San Marcisl boys have finally
decided to have q grand flag raising.
The news of the G. 81. event in this
city and similar display of patriotism
~ the shop men OF Albuquerque had q
peculiar effect on the "mid way" BROTH
ers and they have concluded to out
que events in size of pole, flag, aud
They have decided upon
Monday, July 4, as the day from the
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
hospital Gospel wagon" with six pa
tients, went up to Trout springs Fri
day, fishing says the Optic. They
brought home nine nice speckled
trout and one dead oyster. The oyster
looked like it had been drugRed. The
PATIENTS were all on special diet at the
1ospital and could not eat fsh, 80 the
doctors got the fish, with the compli-
nents of the patients. p. S.-This
oyster is q conductor and he runs
on the Lamy branch of the Santa Fe.
B. P. Humphreys, travelling passen-
ger agent for the Lake Shore and Mich
isau Southern railroad, was in the city
yesterday. He has been to Hermo-
sillo, Mex, and says that while there
some bloody free silver Mexican
stole his grip, and left him without
any clean linen. Think of it," he
said, "two thousand miles from home
without q trunk or grip, and I an or
phan only 40 years of age"
Bob Lyons made . very creditable
race for the gold-headed cane at the
social last night Bob is q very popular
young man but the odds agsinst him
were difficult to overcome, especially
about midway between psy.days Had
Lyons was going to enter the race the
result might have been different even
then.
An engineer of this division has
been suspended fifteen days for earring
excessive air pressure which caused
wheels under train to slide flat. En-
gineers are responsible for carrying
overseventy-five pounds on freight, ana
eighty pounds on passenger engines.
Citizen. -
T. F. Underwood has been appointed
master mechanic at Wioslow for the
Santa Fe Pacific, says the Albuquer-
que Citizen. George w. Smith has
b. en- appo nted superintendent of ma
chinery. and John Record, who has
been in the company's service at To-
peka, has been placed in charge of the
shops at the Needles.
L. L. Ferrall, who has been employ
ed at Ash Fork by Lantry & Sons, the
big railroad contractors, came up to the
city Thursday night. He will leave in
a few days for Cleburne. Texas, where
he will have responsible position
with the same company, Gays the Will
Novus