El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-27


The young man mentioned above is
! a grandson of Engineer Phil Curry of
this city.-Denison Herald.
Sparks From the Engine.
The Rio Grande river is causing a
great deal OF trouble to the Santa Fe
road at several points along the line,
due to the high water.
Ten new cattle cars loaded with coal
were transferred from the Santa Fe
road yesterday to the Mexican Central
The Mexican Central is receiving
fifteen to twenty new cattle cars every
day.
The Texas and Pacific railway has is
sued the following: Effective Aug. J.,
the Office of j. D. Sadler, southwestern
freight agent of this company, will be
changed from Atlanta, Ca, to Louis
Vile, KY.
The commissioner of the general
land Office has issued a patent for At
lantic and Prescott railroad lands, COW
ering 1O1, POI acres in the primary
limits, in the Prescott district, Ari-
Zona.-Ex.
The Sierra Madre road is having q
great deal of trouble from Mexican
boys boarding their trains as they pull
out of the station, and one official of
the company says that If an accident
occurs, their parents or guardians will
put in a large claim for damages
against the road, and try to hold them
responsible.
The report that M. E. Ingalls, had
retired from the presidency of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio and Big Four rail-
roads to become general arbitrator of
the Pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt
and Morgan interests, at salary of
$75, 900 year, is denied, and conse-
quently the talk that A. L. Mohler had
succeeded him is without foundation.
n. 6. Asker, auditor, and Allison
Mayfeld, commissioner. both of the
Texas railway commission, visited
Kansas City recently and interviewed
the heads of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and Gulf Offices that have been
abolished. The members of the com
mission must return the offices or for
Pittsburg and Gulf road in Texas
Globe-Democrat.
The Union Pacific has decided to
make its Omsha-Ogden line a double
track road. During the last three or
four yeas the Union Pacific has stead
lily increased the tonnage of its trains,
and only the very best power and the
largest locomotives and cars have been
used. But, in spite of the increased
number OF cars in a train and the in
creased amount OF freight hauled by
one engine. the mum Der OF trains has
continued to increase.-Ex.
There is report that the Wabash
road is building the short line between
Detroit and Toledo with a view to
sending all business from its Canadian
ho
ept Toledo line as main stem, as
soon as the Eel River branch drops out
of the system. 1t is also said that Fort
Wayne will be made division point
for Detroit passenger and freight
trains, and that the OLD division point
at Andrews will be revived for the
Toledo line.
1t has been officially announced by
the chairman of the Midland Railroad
locomotives ordered by them from the
celebrated Baldwin works at Philadel-
phia are 10 be of the most approved
American design, and not foreign
built replicas of the company's stand
ard type. These invaders, he con-
5inued, will run side by side with, and
be submitted to exactly the same tests
as their Derby and Gil sgow built con-
hence some interesting
I'LL PoA tSOL1o iouS eSoSodsosOo
Of the rival designs should be shortly
Democrat.
Two heavy ten-wheel passenger en-
giues, which were recently built for
tbs Adirondack division of the New
York Central road, are reported as do
ing excellent service. The engines
have total weight of $780, 900 pounds
and are carried by the.driviug wheels. |
The cylinders are 20 by % inches, and |
,he driving wheels are Is inches in
1iameter. The driving wheel base is |
Ia feet 6 inches, and the total wheel |
base 25 feet $40 inches. The engines |
we're designed for heavy service. and
haul ten sleeping cars over the heavy |
grades of the division in q satisfactory |
nanner.-EX.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St |
Paul is to assume the title of the va
'ious roads it has operated under leases
rom. subordinate companies In Illinois
lnder the act passed by the last le-
,islature, which permits Illinois rail
'oads to buy or sell lines outside the
tate. The lines to be thus formally
'cquired have been known as the Chi
ago, Milwaukee and ST. Paul Ulli-
lOis), the Western Union railroad, the
Evanston and Lake Superior
ailway, the Chicago Suburb ban railway,
be Cook, Lake and McHenry Counties
ailway, the Central Illinois and Wis
onsin railway, and the Chicago and