El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-10

A. Stiner, SUPERINTENDENT of termi-
nails on the'T. p, said yesterday re-
garding the river water: ut has
caused all kinds of trouble, not only to
the road which | represent, but to me,
individually. / remember the high
water of a year ago very well, and l
have good cause to remember it. l had
constructed solid bank for railroad
steel to a point several hundred yards
east of the shop before the high wa
ter struck us. That bank, of course,
prevented the water from
than the track and the residents
on the south of the road took after me
with shot guns and clubs to compel me
to make an opening in the bank to al
low the water to get through. I was
about to comply with their demand,
when I discovered delegation on the
north side of the track protecting
their property and telling me not to
make an opening in that bank as they
would chop me up into small pieces. l
must confess l was In a tight place and
between the Infatuated factions, when
the water burst through the bank and
was saved. 1t had the effect of low
ering the water on tt e south side of
the track for time but the next morn
ing it was as deep as ever and the
GROWERS of the day before had but
little to say"
An agreement has: finally been
between the railroads and
ship brokers at Galveston. A confe-
renee convened Tuesday morning for
the purpose of discussing, and'divising
means to facilitate the export business
of that part: When the meeting ad-
journed at $50 Tuesday evening, after
having lasted all day, Mr.. Langbehn
said an agreement had been reached
and that all interests were satisfied.
The exact details of the plan, however.
he refused to disclose until later. Per-
haps the most important point yielded
by the railroads, says the Houston
Post, is that they agreed to deliver
cotton in full bill of lading lots here
after. The ship brokers demanded
that the roads should deliver all cot
ton in fifteen days from date of it's be-
ing received in the interior. The
people objected to this and
fixed twenty-five days as the limit. 1t
was this one point that was said to
have caused all the trouble. What
was finally agreed upon is not known,
but it is believed they compromised on
twenty days.
A special from Fort Worth, Texas,
to the Houston Post dated June 7,says:
THE Gulf, COlorado.snd Santa Fe has
lust received five monster consolidated
freight engines from a Pennsylvania
company. The total weight of each
engine is 100, 900 pounds, of which 49,
BOO pounds are carried by the
driving wheels. The .cylinders. are
2Ix2S inches. The boilers are of the
rsight-top variety, 66a inches in in
side diameter at the smallest ring, and
they are of steel. They are said to be
the largest engines west Of the Mis-
sissipp', except those uFed on the
Southern Pacific mountain divisions
The heavy cattle shipments from the
south part of Texas.have made it neces-
sary to purchase the most powerful
engines that could be made, and it is
stated that the five engines already de-
livered to the Santa Fee will be quickly
followed by Others
Said a railroad man yesterday:
why don't you mention something
about theSpanish' names on the Pullman
coaches. 1 have noticed particularly
since the war begun that this company
have not sent these cars west only
when necessity compelled them to.
There is the Queen Regent the
Alfonso the 'Cadiz,' the 'Blanco,'
the 'Castile,' the Mercedes the
Seville and the 'Andaluvio.' All
these coaches are scattered through
out the country in the Pullman service
and should be stopped because they
suggest eminent personages of or plac-
es in Spain" While this seems q
small matter to discus So at present,
American patriotism has asserted it
self on even smaller matters in time OF
peace and it's hard matter to guess
what they will do in war times.
The T. +. officials, G. M. TIL orne,
Word, and Major Wa
then made q thorough inspection of
the T. P. g interests at this point and
to Dallas. They were well
pleased with the condition of things
here and promised a great many i'm
provements on this end of the line
within the next year. The task of
~ =, Moralists may
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