El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-04-30

will be 10 "the.middle of the fight, and
others say he will be in the middle of
the ocean before the sound of the fret
cannon dies out. However Jack"
showed up we'll with the White Oaks
surveying corps, and his intimate
friends say he will make brave sO!-
der.
The old pump has been removed
from the S. +. pumphouse and a pump
wa Ter per hour has bean placed in pos
ition for service, The assistant pump
repairer worked his force until o.
clock this morning gettiog the heavy
machinery in position. This is the
pump which is intendsd TO draw water
from eight wells, and al; who have
seen it say it Is capable of doing all
that it has been intended for.
A lady crossing the S. P. yards yes
terday morning presented a very anus
ing scene. She had evid antly passed
and did not realize her position until
she raised her eyes and beheld with
Mortified gaze q flock of box cars,
which seemed to be coming in all
directions. She stepped nervously
from one track to anothe-, with her
parasol bobbiDg in unison with her
movements, but it was no use. To her
lightning speed on every track A
railroad man, seeing she WAS out OF
danger, told her to stand still, which
she did, aud the cars passed by. She
was out of the yards few seconds lat
er, presumably to stay.
Jim Adams, a former railroad en-
ployee, but lately a cook at the DelmO-
nico restaurant, said yesterday: Il was
reading n the HERALD about railroad
men working long hours here Pshaw,
its nothing 10 what we were compelled
to do on the Baltimore & Ohio road
two years ago. worked $50 hours out
of 1876 in the capacity of brakeman. l
have seen engineers carried from their
engines, sound asleep. Our prayers for
rest and sleep fell upon deaf ears. 1t
was a case of work or quit, and while
we were all making cool money none
of US liked the idea of quitting. How
ever. the burdens became too heavy for
me, and 1 quit and came west to work
at my trade. l intend to enter railroad
ing soon egain."
There are now, aud have been for
sometime past, roars going up from rail-
road laborers throughout this section
of the country a5ainst certain rail-
roads importing Mexican laborers and
sending them in all directions from FL
Paso to take the place OF American
labOrers. To describe in detail the
various cunning schemes concocted bv
these companies to evade the law and
obtain this cheap class Of'labnr, would
occupy several columns and will not be
attempted in this issue at least. Car
load after car load of Mexicsns leave
this place for various points through
out the southwest and northwest and
the question naturally ARISES, are
these Mexicaps obtained according to
law. If they are, revision of the
law is badly needed, and il not, the Of
tenders should be prosecuted.
J. S. Oechsner, the S. P. GILMAN who
says, "everyday is the same-nothing
new" yesterday gave the HERALD
representative the follow ing clipping.
News, and will be of interest to rail-
road men: THE order for LOCO steel
cars.recently given by the Penn sylvia
mia Railroad Gu 70 the Schoen Presse
Steel Co., of Pittsbarg, is q good thus
tration of the fact that the steel car is
no longer an experiment.: but an &C.
cepted type of railway rolling stock.
1t is noticeable fact, however, that q
large proportion of the steel cars con-
structed are designed to carry heavier
loads than cars Of timber construction
ample. are TO carry 10000 lbs. of ore,
or 1O4. coo lbs. of coal. Their dead
weight will be 900 lbs. and their
length will be SO #. The competition
Of the 4, eel car with wooden cars of
ordinary capacity will Dot be apparent
probably for some time: but that it will
come even .ually, the incree sing cost of
tim Der ard the decreasing cost of steel
make very certain"