El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-06
Sparks From The Engine.

Sparks From The Engine.
Eight carloads of oranges from Mex
leo go east over the Santa Fe tonight.
There are over 500 men employed
in the railroad shops at Albuquer-
que.
The S. P. train from the west was
an hour and thirty minutes late today;
the delay occurred on the California
division.
Guz Schwartz, call boy on the S. P,
has recovered from a severe attack OF
appendicitis, fortunately escaping an
operation.
B. M. Walker, manager for Goode &
Co., the contractors of the E. P. & N.
E., is in Ell Paso today on business for
his company.
The G. b. west bound train was %
minutes late today, losing time from
Del Rio on because of broken spring
hanger on a tourist car.
There is rumor in San Marcial
that the shops were to be removed
from that place, but there seems to be
no found alton for tx.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Wilson are in Ell
Paso today on their return from their
wedding tour. Mr.. Wilson is bag
at Alamogordo.
81. T. Flint, formerly q clerk of the
E. P. & N. E. at AlamOgordo left. this
morning over the Santa Fe for Kansas
City, where he has accepted position
as bookkeeper with the Burlington.
Thirty Mexican laborers were sent
to Toboggan over the E. P. g. N. E.
this morning. Two unfortunstes we're
found by Capt. Bloom to have been
living over the river, and were deport-
ed as contract laborers.
The first car of coal from Salado for
the company's use came in last night
over the E. P. & N. E., and is being
burned in the cOmpany's engines to-
day. Other Sslado coal has been
shipped out, but this is the first to be
set down for local use.
The passenger department of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
has extended an invitation to the gen.
eral passenger agents of the railroads
of the country to use that line in going
to the next annual convention that
opens In Boston, Mass., Oct. list.
Louis obe-Democrat.
The approximate earnings of the
railway during the third quarter of
September, 1899, were 1928, 4s4, against
S193. 623 for the corresponding period
in 1898, showing an Increase of S39, 1861.
Total incr ease in September, 1899 up to
date 3134, 1873. Two Republics.
The largest cargo of railroad ma
terial that has ever gone from an
American port was cleared from Phila-
delphia recently aboard the British
steamer Puritan. It consisted of forty
locomotives and eighteen steel bridges
for the Chinese Eastern railway, now
in course of construction under the
supervisor of the Russian authorities,
with the financial aid of the Russo
Chinese Bank.-Optic.
An important railway project is
about to be entered upon in Northern
Minnesota, and the initial work may
be undertaken this winter. 1t is for
what will be practically az air line
from Minneapolis and ST. Paul to the
Canadian boundary, at the foot of
Rainy lake, about $50 miles northwest
of Duluth. The line will also connect
Duluth and the Canadian boundary in
almost an air line.-Topeka Journal
The first of the five new chair cars
now being built by the Atchison, To |
peka & Santa Fe railway company at |
it's Topeka shops has been turned out, |
and according to press reports it is |
very handsome in design and finish. |
All the cars will be heated with steam |
from the engine and lighted by electri-
city generated by the Axle Electric |
company's device, with which |
each car is equipped.-Topeka Jour
nal.
Ian Maolaren is said to have been the
most successful of all the English lit
erary men who have recently come to
this country to lecture and the profits
Of his first tour are said to have
amounted to $4,000. None of the 9th
ers reached anything like hat amount.