El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-28

Work on the White Oaks turntable
WAS commenced yesterday.
Thee. Il. boys are going to give an
other dance at Rand's grove about
June eth.
A train of 40 cars went west on the
S. P. yesterday. They will be loaded
with wheat and shipped east.
There were no cattle in the T. P.
yards yesterday and the officials say
they do not expect any for few days.
The grounds for the addition to the
T. p. round house and the new coach
shed have been surveyed and work OF
construction will soon begin.
The S. P. and G. 81. will hsve' q
holiday Monday. Memorial Day: All
departments, will shut down aud give
the boys q chance te celebrate.
Engines GAO and SAT were doing the
switching in the S. P. yards yesterday.
Eng neer Plowman had charge of one
and Billy Borcherding the other.
The siding, switches, Y, etc, are
complete at Amarillo and work has
been started on the line proper of the
Pecos Valley & Northeastern railway.
J. Dewey Wrote, engineer on the
Morelos branch OF the Inter-Oceanic.
10 in the City OF Mexico celebrating
the glorious victory of the illustrious
name-sake.
F. B. McKercher, assistant general
of tue Central, left Monday night
for Ell Paso where he goes to meet his
family and accompany them on their
return to this city.-Mexican Herald.
Engineer Fred Couners and Fireman
Leedy went east on q special yester-
day evening. Mr.. Conner stated that
he would make home by Monday night
for the G. 81. ''blowout" if the wheels
of the engine would stay under
him.
The T. P. are reconstructing the
telegraph line within the Ell Psso yard
limits and q large force is at present
doing the work. The poles now in use
have been standing ever since the road
was built aud are little weak for pre-
sent service.
Engineers Walker, McMannus,
Thompson, Simino and Wall, brought
in the soldier trains Thursday night
and some of the soldiers remarked that
it was the best run they had since
they left New Orleans. The last $50
miles was made in the remarkable
time of five hours and thirty min
utes.
The other night q wreck occurred
on the Santa Fe Pacific, . short dis
lance east of Holbrook, and an engine
and seven freight care were almost de-
molished. The accident was caused by
the burning of temporary bridge
structure. No one was hurt, the en-
houi0n 6fsn0vopod
the danger in time to escape.-Las
Vegas Optic.
There were many complimentary re-
marks heard about the 8. P. yards yes
,erdsy of the manner in which VIM.
soldier trains. Il have been railroad
ing for 25 years." said one, land I
have never seen such q rush as that
handled with less confusion. Mr.. Gin.
giles, in my estimation, is entitled to q
great d. al of credit"
The following letter was sent us by
Q railroad man in this city:
Editor HERALD.
1 wish to reply to the remarks of
superintendent Martin of May q,
which 1 emphatically deny. There
are ten railroad men for every job and
good men at that, if they, the rail-
road, would hire them as any Ameri-
can would hire q carpenter or q brick
Layer. But the fact 10 that the black
list system is 80 perfect that any rail.
road official can deprive railroad
man, no matter how competent he may
be, from getting employment on any
railroad in the United States. This
is from one of the boys who has been
on the foot board for twelve years.
sour trains are made up ON the ton
mage system now" said Engineer
Connors yesterday. "There was q
time when so many cars constituted q
train, no matter what they were load
ed with. and it proved very unsatisfac-
tory at times. For instance" he con-
tinued, 81 would be on the first section
with 30 cars loaded with pig iron and
ore, and the man behind me had an
equal number of cars loaded with
- Beauty and Power"
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