Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-01
A BATCH OF BREEZY MELANGE FROM A BUSY BEE HIVE
 OF INDUSTRY
Interesting Personals of Railroad
 Men.

Pullman ear, ,.ortl liu, has been put in the yards to undergo repairs.
 Engineer Boone is again Ut his throttle on his engine after u weeks illness.
 Mr. j. l.. Reinach, of The Pocahon- tas railway, is i'll the city calling on friends.
 In about three weeks this com pans will have completed it's line into St. Louis.
 Mir. Jack Day has again resumed his duties at the shops after severe illness.
 Two large furniture cars were turned out last week in the car de- partment.
 Mir. George Hutchinson, ma- chinist, left for Mobile, Ala, fnr few weeks vaea tien.
 Mr. B. W. Strickland has been transferred from the rod gang to the floor in the machine shops.
 Mr. Arthur Stainback, of the tin department, has been quite ill for tho past week.
 MT. Neil Martin has been ap- pointed foreman of the engine gang in the machine shops.
 Chair car POS has been turned ut of the paint shop after receiving coat of paint.
 MT. George Whitcombe, of ;he air brake department. left last night for St. Louis, Mo-, to visit friends.
 Mir Jim Boyle, boiler maker at the shops. is suffering from mashed finger which he received d few days ago while at work.
 The Montgomery Ward Go, of Chicago, Ill.,, had two of their ad- yertising cars at the shops last week undergoing repairs.
 Mir F. E. Smith. foreman of the round house, was passing around the cigars yester6 ay on the strength of the lovely twin girls at his home.
 The large steam hammer that was recently erected in the blacksmith shop is now turning out fourteen axles per day.
 Mir. J. S. Merrill, formerly ma- chinist at this place, writes to his friends that he has secured a posi- tion as chief engineer on the gun boat Indiana.
 Mir. Elmar Richards, train master of the South End, has returned from that destination where he has been looking after the interest of the road.
 A Y is being placed at Rob Roy to run the Swan Lake train onto the Cotton Belt road. The gauge is being widened.
 Mir. Morgan Larsch, formerly with this company but now with l. c. in Memphis, is visiting relatives in this city.
 Mr. E. c. Laine, a clerk in the master mechanic office, had the mis- fortune on last Tuesday of losing $50 in the yards 1t the shops.
 The company has sold another one of their narrow gauge engines O the W. R. Pearson Lumber Com pany in Louisiana.
 The Texas Ranger, special car with General Superintendent T. A. Edison, was here last week looking after the interest of the road.
 The tin department is busily turn- ing out light galvanized iron Murphy roofing for the shops at Tyler, Texas. About four thousand square sheets will complete the work.
 Mir. Charley W. Shepard has been promoted to foreman of the tin and copper department. We congratu- late Mir. Shepard and assure the com pany that they appointed an industrious and honorable man to ill that position.
 Messrs. R. Swartz and $. w. Matthews. foremen of the tin and copper department respectively, have resigned their positions after several years of continuous and faithful service These gentlemen have re gently secured u patent on Il patent on an Abdominal Warming vessel and resign their positions to pro- mote their patent. They have al ready secured an order for 5000 of these vessels, and have established factory up stairs in the Norris building for the manufacture of their invention, During their ser