El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-17
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Agent Montague of the T. & P. has
returned from an eastern trip.
Assist. Gen. Pass. Agt. G. B. Sloat of
the Rock Island is in town from Fort
Worth.
it's colored cooks and walters with
white men.
J. Edwards, for a long time with the
Santa Fe road in this city, has gone
down into Mexico on business.
General Manager J. J. Frey has gone
to Chicago to consult with President
Ripley on improvements for the coming
year.
The orange traffic is booming. Twen-
ty cars day are being shipped over
the T. & F., to the northern and east
ern market.
E. w. Grant has been made resident
civil engineer of the Santa Fe, with
headquarters at Las Vegas. His juris-
dictiOn extends to E. Paso.
The belated Limited from the west
Saturday brought in sixty passengers.
an unusual number eastbound for this
time of year. Seventeen switched of
onto the G. 81. for New Orleans.
The Burlington has renewed it's
contract with the Pullman company
for the coming three years, and Pull
man cars will continue for that time to
furnish the sleeper service on the
90"
The G.. Fl. yards are pretty well
chOked up with stock cars that have
been used in hauling steel west for lay
ing on the Pacific system. and have
been returned. What to do with these
cars is at present a question.
The Sunset Limited is two hours
and fifty minutes late today, with fifty
four passengers. These included five
for Ell Paso, one for Guaymas, one for
Diego, IL for Los Angeles, and 81 for
San Francisco.
The White Oaks road took q Jump
ahead ye sterday, when the y sent twen-
ty-six cars loaded with track material
and double header up the hill to start
thugs. With two locomotives in con-
slant service, the company can accom-
plish considerable. The big engines
from Philadelphia will be along some
time next month.
The new ten wbeelers for the T. &
P. have been received, and are being
hops. None Of them, however, will
be sent to this end of the road, as they
are considered too heavy for the
bridges. So one of the older ten
wheelers will haul the Limited between
this city and Big Springs.
J. 81. Springer, recently night ticket
clerk for the Santa Fe at Albuquerque
has been appointed as assistant COM
mercial agent at this point for the
caused by the retirement of M. o.
to become general freight and
passenger agent for the eMaricoparoad.
Mr.. Springer is now in town He has
the reputation of being an excellent
railroad man.
The Southern Pacific round house
has for some time been in q sad condi-
tion which has been made evident at
the time of floods; and then it is old
and undesirable for the service now
required of il. So the Southern Pacific
will shortly begin the work
of tearing down the old round house
stall building of brick, one fully equal
to the requirements of advanced con-
ditions of recent railway service.
The Brooks Locomotive works of
of Dunkirk, N. Y, is about completing
q shipment of 90 cars of locomotives,
boxed in pieces. for Japan and Corea.
OF this order 20 locomotives are for the
imperial government of Japan; II for
the Kiushiu railway and for the
railway of Corea.
These latter are the first engines ever
sent to Corea and are for the first rail-
way built in that country, concessions
for which were obtained by asyndicate
of Americans.
The Baltimore and Ohio Southwest
ern Railway company has adopted q
plan of handling locomotive ashes or
cinder at terminals and divisional
points which have resulted in saving
of expenses. The device consists of
large pans, holding about three cubic
yards each which are placed in the pit,
and when full, are moved by q crane to
the car, where they are dumped. The
machinery is handled by one man
and the results have been very sstis-
factory.
The Ell Psso Grocery company,
leaders of low prices, are offering un-
usual Inducements, commencing to-
day See q few of the bargains on