El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-15
DIPLOMA FOR THE SANTA FE.

DIPLOMA FOR THE SANTA FE.
A diploma of honorable mention
was granted the a. T. & s. F., rail-
road for an exhibit of scenic photo
graphs in the social economy section
of the late international exposition al
Paris The views were carefully Sc
lected and give a good idea of the
magnificent scenery in Colorado, New
Mexico and California along the Santa
Fe route-scenery surprising anything
of which the world can boast.
WATCHING THE WATCHES.
In addition to a rigid system of daily
comparisons with standard time. the
watches of all the Santa Fe employees
in the operating department under
go an annual inspection. Out of the
nearly two thousand watches recently
examined on the A, /. * s. F. proper
only ten were condemned. which shows
that the men are careful to buy reliable
time pieces The testing and rating of
eacn watch requires three days and is
an interesting process.
CAME THE SHORT WAY.
r. s. Hair. the Chicago excursion
agent who comes over the Rock Island
and It. & P. brought in twenty-six
people last night and left one here.
The T & P. arrived at 100 last night.
1t was first five hours late on account
of waiting at Texarkana for the Iron
Mountain, which had been delayed on
account of a freight wreck east of
Texarkana. Then all along the route
this side of FIT Worth the passenger
train was sidetracked and waited for
long orange trains to pass. Mr.. Hair
says the engineer made up considerable
OF the time thus lost by coming
straight through instead of going
around the curves this side of Sierra
Blanca. When the train didn't jump
from one track to another across the
loops il whiZZed around them so fast
ii threw the occupants of the berthS
out in the aisle and played whip crack
er with his car until the water tank
was thrown off its perch and the water
and ice was strewn from one end of the
car to the other He says he prefers
to have the train come in late when
he is aboard it, rather than to have
lost time made up around those curves.
NOT INTERNALLY INJURED.
Fred Hobein. the G. H. engineer who
fell from his engine yesterday morning
near Alpine, was seen at ST. Luke'S
hospital this morning by Link and
Pin He says that the doctor tells
him that he is not internally injured
nor is there any of his bones broken.
hr. Hobein says he expects to be able
to get out and walk around, at least,
in about two weeks. He said that The
Herald account of the accident was
Just as correct as he could tell it him
self. He was out on the running board
CT Job
a low place in the track and surged,
causing him to loose his balance. The
fireman was in the cab and not out on
the front of the engine as was reported.
He was at no time unconscious and
got up and ambled along. making about
a quarter of a mile al. together, before
the trainmen found MN. He would
walk short distance and then sit
down and rest. He walked more to
keep warm then to get towards the sta
ton. because he knew that the fireman
would miss him and they would return
to get him He says he is far from
being able to walk now and suffers
pain from his bruised hips
and sprained back.
THE WHITE OAKS EXTENSION
SURVEY.
H 4. Sumner, chief engineer of the
White Oaks railroad, came in last
night with Superintendent Greig and
eturned this morning.
Mr.. Sumner says he has finished
he preliminary survey of the line for
he extension from Carrizosa to Santa
Rosa and is now locating the exact
inc of the road. He has two corps in
he field and is pushing the work as ]
apidiy as possible
I'VE are having plenty of work to I
TO-" said Mr.. Sumner to a Herald re- i
,orter for we are getting one per [
ent grade on a two per cent country. 1
When the work is finished the grade {
viii not be Objectionable for through
inc and will be as easy grade as is :
ound in this part of the west We ,
re getting along nicely with the work :
mt of course will not be through I'M !
ii the rails are laid
Mr. Sumner had nothing to say of :
he work of the Rock Island except ,
hat the company had two corps of en-
.ineers in the field and We're working
s fast as possible. He has met the
rock Island people several times near
he Pecos river and some of them have I
,een over his work to look at the
ountry.
:. H. SHOPS WILL BE ENLARGED. :
A party of Southern Pacific officials !
anne in this morning on the G. II. ,
PASSENGER train in the S. P. private car ,
Texas. The occupants of the car s-re
". c. Van Week. general manager of
he Atlantic system, J. T. Mahl, en-
1neer maintenance of way; ]. J. Ryan,
of motive power, and
Tank Small, superintendent of bridges {
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