El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-10

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, put doors in the new roundhouse and
the workmen are suffering greatly as
result. Thereris only one stove to heat
the bi g structure, and the cold wlod mas
made life miserable for the employees
during the present cold snap.
/ The recent cold snap has greatly In
terfered with the work of the paint
gang, which has been doing such good
work to the G.. b. buildings on this
| end OF the line. The freight depot has
| just received attention and presents a
very attractive appearance, OF which
Agent Mccarthy is justly proud.
The boy of the Houston and Texas
Central g eneral offices were treated to
welcome ''ghost walk" yesterday and
all of them enjoyed the festivities at
the auditorium last evening. Pay al
ways trings the employees of the OLD
Reliable to the front, and yesterday
was no, exception. Houston Post.
The dry weather in Colorado has
worked an injury to the Santa Fe
road. 1t has been found necessary to
put on q water train consisting OF fifty
cars to make two trips day between
Trinidad and Thatcher. Should a
thaw follow the present snowfall, how
lever, there will be plenty OF water.
4 Pete Banes. the Old-time favorite
among the railroad boys, returned to
Ell Paso yesterday in response to q call
from the officials on this end OF the
line. Pete has been out with the con-
struction crew of the G. b. for the
past seven months, with headquarters
ut Warwick. He says that it Is pretty
sure thing that he will remain q in Ell
Paso.
Material Tor the E, P. & N. E. monu-
tain climber has not yet arrived
and Mr.. Rettew, who was sent here by
the Baldwin co mpany some time ago
to make some changes on the engine,
says that the msterial was due here a
week ago. The E. P. 81 N. E. company
need the service of the climber badly
and are more tn an anxious for the mat
erial to arrive.
The other evening there was a hind
end collision at Cerrillos, in which En-
gineer WALKS train ran into Conductor
Mark L. Jones's train demolishing the
caboose and splitting open a car of
spikes. Conductor Jones and Brake
man Ed. G. Worrell of the front train
and Engineer Walz Of the other, have
been discharged. Fireman Gilbrade
was injured in one leg. Engine 921
was slightly damaged.-Optic.
If the trains running in this direc-
tion yesterday had left the track en-
tireiy and struck out into the prairie,
tt ey could not have been more COM
pletely lost trace of. The T. P. Of
ificials knew th at their train was some
place between here and Texarkana and
all other roads were about the same.
"Don't ask me-" said one OF the Off
cials when asked concerning the where
abouts of the passenger train. 81 be-
lieve che is on the road some place but
the Lord only knows where and he
won't tell" The T. P. train due here
at 1905, city time, yesterday morning,
did not arrive until to-day at noon.
The improvements that have been
made on the Baltimore 81 Ohio rail-
road during the past two years have
rendered it possible to operate cars of
q beaver capacity than have been in
use in the past and the receivers have
just ord cred from the Schoen Pressed
Steel company of PittsburR, 1000 steel
coal cars of capacity of 100, 900 pounds
each. These cars will be used for the
seabosrd trade, aud are expected to be
in service during the early part OF
1899. In addition to these cars, the
receivers have also ordered from the
Pittsburg Locomotive works Fifty
more of the consolidated locomotives
with 22x2S inch ylinders.-Kansas
City Journal.