El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-19
sparks From The Engine.

Sparks From The Engine.
G. H. engine 9O5 is in the shops get
ting new f1ues put In.
Al. Mass, q conductor on the G. n.
arrived yesterday from California.
Superintendent Grefg, of the White
Oaks, left for Alamogordo yesterday.
Superintendent Borcherding and
crew returned from the wreck at Len
ark last night.
The G. 81. hose team will have its
practice run tonight at 1880 in front OF
the court house.
White Oaks engine 101 of the noun
tain division is in the shops getting
new f1ues put in.
The G. 81. owing to the dullness of
business, took off three more freight
crews yesterday.
The employees of the White Oaks
round house are very busy just now and
are working overtime.
Superintendent J. T. Logan of the
Sierra Madre company returned from
Casss Grandes yesterday.
G. r. Hudson assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe arrived
yesterday lmorning from Topeka, Kan.
Mountain Engine No. 1 of the Ala
mogordo Lumber Co. is In the White
Oaks shop undergoing thorough over
hauling.
John Sullivan, an engineer on the
G. H., accompanied by his wife arrived
yesterday after spending two months
vacation in California.
The private car belonging to Gener-
al Superintendent Ramsey of the Sierra
Madre company is being thoroughly
overhauled and refitted. 1t will be q
marvel of elegance when completed.
The Texas & Pacific have been or
dering some new rolling stock in an
ticipation of q great increase in bust
ness. No. so, new engine, arrived
yesterday from the Pitts5urg shops.
The Santa Fe, at Albuquerque, re-
ceived another large engine few days
ago, which went on its trial trip on
August 16. It is an extra large engine
and carries 5000 gallons of water.
When ready for the road it weighs be-
| tween 112 and lib tons, being one of
the heaviest engines on the road at
present. Engineer Ballou has charge
of her.
Yesterday afternoon while some ne
gros were unloading flat car loaded
will steel rails at the G. 81. freight de-
pot an accident occurred, which although
O ,micsl, might have resulted seriously
for those working around there. 1t
seems in unloading the rails they took
them all of of one eide, causing the car
to over balance and the conseq uepce
was the car tipped over and steel rails
were flying in all directions and the
negros are running yet.
George Washington Mckinley. a
negro cook employed by the q. 81.
steel gang at a place about Is miles
from Del Rio, had ride on Thursday
that was not on the programme. When
the passenger train arrived the boss
sent him on board to get a newspaper,
but before George could get off the
train started in motion. He was afraid
to Jump, and the train got going about
10 miles an hour when he started to
make the attempt, but was stopped and
carried to Del Rio, from where he had
to walk back to camp.
According to recent consular re-
port. there ore Is locomotives factories
in Germany: Is of them build full sized
locomotives and three build engines
for light railways, steel works, etc.
The total output of the factories is ST.,
400 per year. The combined working
force is more than $4,000 men. Ger
ly every country in Europe, and also
20 some extent to Asia, Africa, and
South America. Up to the present
no locomotive from the United States
has entered Germany.-Optic.
The employees of the Sierra Msdre
road are getting up q collection to pay
off the shortage of G. A. Fredricks,
who defaulted for about $1,000. Fred
ricks has good many friends among
the boys and they all pity him, as he
has always borne good reputation and
was the main support of mother and
sister to whom he never failed to send
part of his monthly salary. Already
they have made up about $500, and
when they secure the other 5000 Fred
ricks Will possibly go free, as the
guarantee company has agreed not to
prosecute him if the shortage is made
good.
Another use of the air pumps about
the yards that could be i'll dispensed
with is the hosting of dummy cars
while they are turned from one track
to another directly across it. A dunn
my formerly had to be switched just
as a full-sized car in order to transfer
it from one track to another. Now
the little car, loaded as heavily as de-
sired, is run directly over the cross
track, where plate is pushed up from
below by the air cylinder and piston.
The car is lifted, turned one-quarter
around, let down upon the other track
and started at a right angle on it's for
mer cOurse.-Optic.