Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-20
COTTON BELT ITEMS
  A BATCH OF BREEZY MELANGE FROM A BUSY BEE HIVE OF INDUSTRY.
Great Activity at the Cotton Belt Experimenting Personals
 of Railroad Men.

Engineer Kenyard is on the sick list.
 Fireman Gus Hyslop has been quite i'll for the past week
 Mir. L. q. Vice has resumed his du- ties after q week Illness
 Supt. eoughlln has returned from his business trip on the South end.
 Mr. Elmer Richards, trainmaster, has returned from his brief trip south.
 The bridge and building depart ment is now doing an enormous bus mess.
 Mr, Mack Reynolds has accepted q position at the Valley depot as ship~ ping clerk.
 The pay ear will arrive on next Thursday .he 2lth, and gladden. the hearts of the railroad boys,
 Engine 162, after lielng torn apin a wreck last week, has been repaired and ready for service once more |
 Mr. AaoIph BeFnath, an employe of the paint department. has resum- cd bis duties after Il lenethy illness.
 3Ir. Johnnie pittman has been en- ployed at the shops as inaehinist ap- prentice.
 narrow gauge engine. tic Tyler Southeastern, Is here from Tyler, Texas, tor repairs.
 X large numbef of visitors were through the shops last week and all seemed to be proud of such worthy establishment.
 Two prominent maehinists will on the first part Of April take unto themselves matrimonial responsibili- ties.
 Mir Walter White is again at the throttle of the steam hammerafter a brief illness.
 Chief Engineer Bailey, of Texas, was in the city for Il few days last week.
 A pneumatic air drill is now in op- eration Ut the shops and is quite an attraction.
 A large number of tiremen from the north end with headquarters at Jonesboro, attended the ball here on St. Patrick E day.
 Coach 5 and baggage ear 5 were turned out of the paint shops yester- day and are looking as though they were entirely new.
 The 30G0-pound power steam ham, mer which was erected in the black smith shops some weeks ago, is now in operation and is a powerful ma chine.
 The steam shovel from the south end of he line is here at the shops ready for general overhauling, as it is very nearly played out.
 The large compound tenders have arrived and are large and strong and are ready to go under the new compounder.
 E. E. Gurd returned last week from Chicago tu which place he accompa- nied the remains of the late brake man, J. N Braddock.
 Louis Finch, formerly of the Cot ton Bele, but now located in Texas, is here on q visit to friends and rela- tives.
 MT. J. E. Boyee, chief clerk of the Master Mechanic, IS in Mexico. He accompanied the dining car that was rebuilt here for railroad company in Mexico.
 Mir. Jack Johnson, formerly Of the shops at this place but now of Wash ington, Ind, will visit his friends and relatives here this week.
 Mr Clarence White has accepted position with the Bluff line running out of St. Louis as brakeman. MT. Wbite leaves on next Monday to the regret of his many friends. MT. A. E. Rush, stenographer at the shops has returned from his trip to Texas and is again at his post of duty. l Mr. N. P. O'Neal, who for several years has been employed as en- glneer on this road, has resigned his position.
 Messrs. John Thompson and C. M. Renders, two eminent blacksmith's of Omaha, Neb., have arrived and will take charge of the large furnace which has recently been built at the shops for melting scrap iron and building engine frames, etc.