Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-12-24
COTTON BELT NOTES.
BY E. WALTER NoRDMAN

Engineer Garrell is reported on the sick list.
 Mir. Philip Bloom will leave short ly for New Orleans. Presto change.
 Mir. Monroe Meeks has accepted position as helper in the tin depart ment.
 Mir. Will Harper has severed his connections with the tin depart ment.
 We are glad to state that Brad- shaw Holcombe is greatly improv- ed.
 Resident Engineer E. J. Nichols has returned from a business trip to Shreveport.
 All the coaches owned by this company are now busily engaged along the road.
 Conductor J. H. Neimeyer is now at his home in Little Rock taking a general rest.
 General Superintendent Britten has returned to Tyler, after making a trip to Shreveport.
 Conductor Charles A. Ringler re- turned last night from a several days visit to Memphis.
 J.T. (stormy) Lycnh can now be seen punching tickets on the Little Rock branch for a few days.
 Mir. Frank Rudolph,a a flue welder in the boiler department, has resumed work, after two weeks; illness.
 A large gasoline reservoir made of galvanized iron in the tin depart ment was sent to Maiden, Mo.
 Mir. Tom speed, one of the hand- semest clerks in the superintendent's office, is now walking with a cane.
 Mir. Harry Osborne, an expert boiler maker of Peoria, H., has ae- cepted position at these shops.
 Mir. T. ". Olson, a painter at these shops. is no v spending the holidays with relatives in Chicago.
 This company expects to handle from twenty to twenty-five thou saud excursionists during the holi- days.
 Mr. H. A. Johnson, engineer and maehinist around these shops, has taken a ninety days leave of ab- senee.
 An engine belonging to the. Ar kansas and Choctaw road is in the machine shops undergoing general repairs.
 Bids are now open for one brake man to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of A. Hoag on ca boose 2l135.
 Mir. W. H. Bull has accepted the agency for this company at Far Oaks. Our present agent, k. Cook. ] has resigned.
 Mir. Clarence White, formerly con- nected with this company, is now braking out of Kansas City on the Pee Gee road
 Night Operator Watwood at | Lewisville is on the sick list. MT. Emmett Malone has relieved him until he recovers.
 A small engine No. i, belonging to  the Houston, East and Western Texas road, is ill the shops await ing general repairs.
 The big battleship engine 207 pass ed through here Thur-day night with fourteen coaches loaded with excursionists to the old states.
 MT. George Whitcomb, of the ail piping department. left fo- various points in Illinois to visit friends fol the next thirty days.
 MT. E. Walter Neriman left night for Memphis, Tenn, thence to Brazil, Tenn, where he goes to spend tht holidays with his best girl. See! MT. " A hllS, uPt oPSA ator of the H. E. and w. T. road at Lufkin, Texas, is working at this office for few days.
 W H. Quigg, freight agent for thi company with headquarters in Lit. tie Rock, passed through yesterda, en route to Texas points. 
 Supe riDtendent k. H. Bowran lcf Friday night on his special car 03 fo Chattanooga, Tenn. his forme home, 10 spend the holidays wit relatives.
 The shops closed yesterday a 11:45 a. m. and will remain closed until next Wednesday the 27th. gly. tug the boys plenty of time to enio, their Christmas.