El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-08
Sparks From the Engine

by broken f1ange.
Sparks From the Engine
G. b. engine $50 is in the shops
undergoing repairs.
The G. 81. pay car arrived at IL q.
m. today and Immediately began pay
ing off.
G. b. engine 900 is in the shops get
ting new tubes put in and thorough
overhaulinR.
A car of fine sheep arrived on the T.
& P. consigned to Nations and Patter-
son of Ell Psso.
The G. h. boys are feeling happy
ay on account of the expected ar
rival of the pay car.
G. b. engine 716 is In the round
house being tested. She will proba bly,
be laid up for repairs.
John Freed, a conductor on the T. &
P. is at his home very sick and will not
be out for several days.
Machinist Daley of the G. b. shops
has been granted q ID days. leave,
which he will spend at his home in San
Antonio.
Frank Marvin, an employe of the T.
& p, has gone to Santa Rosalia Hot
Springs in Mexico and will be gone
about two weeks.
Frank and Martin McCarty, machin
lists, employed in the G. b. shops, left
for trip to Cloudcroft and will be-
gone about one week.
Genial Joe Grant the four eyed ma
chinest in the G. 81. shop has been lay
ing off for q few days. Its easily
known that the pay car is nearly
due.
Mr.. Borcherding superintendent of
the G. 81. car shops left yesterday on
his regular monthly inspection of the
shops at Valentine and Sander
son.
Frank Dtckenson, formerly an em@'
ploye of the G. II. shops has returned
from Ash Forks, A. T. and iss around
shaking hands with Ibis old
friends.
Twenty soldiers .ofthe U. S. Signal
corps and five marines passed through
here yesterday on their way to San
Francisco where they will embark for
the PHILIPPINES.
Mrs. Borcherding. wife of the super
intendent of the G. II. shops, Lett yes
terday afternoon for Clint, Texas,
where she will spend few weeks wfAh
her friends, the Cellums.
Already the need for greater num-
Der of freight cars is being felt by most
of the roads. and it is admitted that as
soon ss the crops begin to move it will
be impossible to supply the demand for
cars.
The locomotive engineers of the
Lake Shore road have asked the adop-
ton as wage scale giving the engi-
neers an increase of per cent and the
drivers of heavy freight and CONSOLE
dated engines an per cent rise.
The inside repairing on the Santa Fe
depot at Salina has about been COM
pleted. 1t has been papered and re-
painted throughout, and a number of
the building will also be treated to a
new coat of paint.-Topeka Journal.
Shippers of dairy products and poul-
try are com bining to secure more sat-
isfactory service from the railroads.
increase the number of their refrige-
rator cars. Secondly, they want re-
duction of not less than 20 per cent in
freie Post.
On Sunday afternoon the G. b. base
ball team defeated the Ell Paso club by
a score of Is to 6. The game was we'll
played from start to finish and the G.
a. batteries deserve great credit.
The G. 81. battery was composed of
Long and Schaner against Murphy
Sullivan and Weber for the Ell Paso
team.
In addition to 1000 freight cars the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern has
purchased two new postal cars 60 feet
In length, four 65-foot baggage cars,
five 6O-foot animation baggage and
coaches, three 60-foot frst-class
coaches with wide vestibules, and two
com binstion psrlor, dining and obser-
walton cars, each 81 feet in length.
Not long ago there was a large num-
Der of car wheels and axles brought
to Albuquerque from wreck in Ari-
IONA. They had been burned and rust
ed until, to a casual observer, they
seemed made of one piece. Foreman
Ainsworth was instructed to remove
the wheels and supply them with new
axles. No ordinary pressure of 4S tons
with his hydraulic press the wheels
started and soon slid off. In the pro-
cess horseshoe-shaped bar of iron,
four inches in diameter one way and
six inches broad, cracked as thong 1t
had been a single. When one stops
to consider the power used in the diff