El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-06
THE RECORD BULLETINS
For October On The 6. II. Are Pub
1lshed-An Epitome of the Most
Interesting Cases of Suspension
and Credit.

The G. n. record bulletins Nos. log
aud Ito for the month of October are
out, and, to railroad men, make most
interesting reading. The cases cited
for bulletin suspension or credit fol-
low:
An engineer has been suspended ten
days on the record for breaking right
co-ahead eccentric strap on hiseng1ne.
A conductor has been suspended tendays
on the record for hauling a car partly
loaded away from station as an empty.
After hauling it about sixty miles he
discovered that it contained freight for
the station at which he had picked it
up and reported that the agent had
marked it empty. This cannot be &C
| copied as an excuse, as under the rules
conductors are expected to look into
all cars for which they have received
no bills and which are supposed to be
empty, to make sure that they are
empty before moving them.
A conductor has been given bullet
tin suspension of fifteen days on the re-
cord for hauling a car supposed to be
an empty, but which contained q small
quantity of scrap iron, over an entire
freight division without way bill. He
has no excuse to offer further than q
| that the yard clerk at the starting
point told him that thee was an emp
ty and he had failed to verify this
statement by looking in the Car to zee
| whether or not it was correct.
Ten days bulletin suspension has
been recorded against conductor for
setting out cars on passing track in
violation Of bulletin No. TOP, which pro-
and left on passing tracks unless there
are no other tracks available upon
which they may be placed.
Fifteen days bulletin suspension has
been recorded against an engineer for
using vulgar and indecent language to
his conductor while on duty. he states
that the conductor accused him of not
obeyfng signals and cussed him, and
acknowledges that he used vulgar and
ind ecent language in reply to the con-
ductOr's charge. Engineers and other
train employees are not expected to
wrangle and use bad language to each
other while on duty. Had this en-
gineer any real cause for complaint he
should have made it.at THE Office, so
that the matter could have been
properly investigated and the remedy
applied without any unseemly disturb
ance on the road.
A passenger conductor has been sus-
pended twenty days for honoring q
scalped ticket which had been bulle-
tined from time to time for q long
period. Conductors must make neces-
sary entries in their memorandum
books of such matters and be ready at
acter.
Ten days bulletin suspension has
been recorded against an engineer for
breaking left go-ahead eccentric strap
on his engine.
A disastrous freight wreck has re-
Gently occurred through the violation
of bulletin rule 422 by the engineer of
q
train. This bulletin provides that
freight trains must not exceed eigh-
teen miles an hour on all curves of six
degrees and over. The engineer has
been discharged from the service of
the company for this violation, and all
other engineers and others concerned
are hereby warned that careful
watch will be kept and every violation
of this rule punished severely.
Five employees while hunting dis
covered a broken rail and stopped
several hours to flag the fret train
and also notified the section foreman
several miles away to make necessary
repairs. They have been given five
days credits each.
An engineer has been given fifteen
days credits for taking charge OF the
switch engine in terminal yard and
switching at q time when the switch
engineer was sick and unfit for duty.
The work was thus carried on without
interruption until another switch en-
gineer could be found.
An engineer and brakeman are given
ten days credits for switching in q ter
minsl yard and making up their train
at q time when the regular yard crew
engaged in handling live stock extra.
A brakeman has been given ten days
credits for assisting an engineer to fire
his engine at time when the fireman
was taken suddenly ill and rendered
unfit for duty.
TRAIN WAS DELAYED