El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-16

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| In it's account of the doings in con
nection with the meeting of the i'm
perial council of the Ord er of the Mystic
Shine. the Dallas News gives the fol
lowing about band composed of rail-
road ,men: During the meeting OF
the imperial council the famous Pales-
tine, Tex, band II give concerts daily
one in the MOI ming and one at night.
| The band is composed of twenty-six
pieces and has the reputation of being
the best in the state. At San Antonio
two years ago they were awarded first
prize over eighteen other competitors.
The members are all railroad men.
They are employed in the general
offices of the International and Great
Northern railway at Palestine. There
are no Iold men in the organization.
The manager. M. L. Morris, is % or
"a years of age and is employed in the
passenger department of the above
named railway. The bandmaster, w.
j. Macarthur, is also young men
Since Sunday night the band has been
giving open air concerts on the balcony
Of the Oriental hotel. On these occa-
sions thousands haavesgathered in the
street below andeagerlG listened to
their music.
The G. Fl. flag did not float just
right yesterday morning and some of
the superstitiOus wOrkmen regarded
the actions of the flag as a foreboding
of some great disaster to the American
fleet. "That recalls the Blaine and
Cleveland campaign" said a workman
pointing to the flag. 81 was in q small
town in Kansas and the democrats and
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honor of their respective candidates.
top of the pole and it fioated grandly
on the breeze for a moment, then sud-
denly dropped to the pole, and there it
remained. The Cleveland flag next
went up and the light wind that was
blowing carried it out full length,
while the Blaine flag only few hun
bred yards away lay against the pole
apparently immovsble. The democrats
yelled themselves hoarse and great
ton. That night the Blaine flag was
lowered and never raised again during
the campaign. Oh, don't tell me there
is nothing in it" he said, 81 anu pref
ty close observer and l could relate
many more such Incidents
The annual meeting of the Texas
O6r oSFVlC0 dS5OCldGlOu WIS uOlo ob
the association rooms in Houston last
Monday. Twenty four representatives
from the thirty-two roads forming this
organization, were present. The man
ager, Chas. B. Peck, estimated that
the yellow fever scare of last fall en-
tailed q loss in car movement in South
Texas OF Ii, 900 cars and that the con-
dition of war now existing initiated
against the coastwise and export trade.
Mr.. Peck also submitted his annual
report, which was highly satisfactory.
handled during tho last year under car
service rules 663, 100 cars. being an in
crease over last year of O,765 cars, or
8 per cent; the gross earnings were
about the same as the preceding year;
the expenses show q decrease of $751;
20, or 124 per cent: the collections
we're SO per cent of the earnings, and
the ratio of expenses to earnings was
30 per cent. OF all the cars handled
time, leaving less than 2 per cent
liable to car service under the rules.
The bridge and building crew of the
T. p. road has arrived and work on the
proposed improvements has already
begun. It is the intention of this COM
pany first to place 220 extension to
Lu0 COh1 oduUCS % sAO pr ohAoSS
are not of sufficient capacity to supply
the actual need. Having the shutes
completed the builders, under Halls
will turn their attention
to the erection of coach sheds which
will extend over four tracks. This
done, the work of constructing four
stalls to the roundhOuse will
be commenced. It is Fore man Halls
intention to extend the coal shutes 400
feet instead of 220 If such q thing is
possible. He has applied to head
quarters for right to exercise HE
own ideas as regards the proper length
to extend the shutes and should he be
granted this desire q 400 foot extern
sion will be the result. These i'm
provemeuts will keep a large force Of
men at work in the T. P. yards for
three months TO come.
Master Car Repairer Borcherding
said yesterday that the railroad men
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