El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-12
Af6reet Leaves.

Here From Houston
aank Small, engineer maintenance oi
way of the q. H., Is in the city from
Houston.
Bound East.
Col. Beaumont, livestock agent OF
She 6. H., goes to Houston VITA Mrs.
Beaumont tonight.
Movement Westward
Mapv Ell Pasoans are leaving for the
seaside r. sorts of California, over ~
..cksts were solu today To coast water
Ing places.
Mhite Oaks Reported Sold
Isis reported that the White Oaks
railroad has been sold TO the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad.
Trip ThrouI h Mexico.
Frank Turner. son of General Pas
senger Agent Turner OF the 7 2, with
) War6eld Ward left this morning for
. trip through Mexico.
Mexican Cattle Moving.
Nine carloads of Mexican cattle
passed through the Office OF Collector
Of Customs Dillon this morning.
They went north over the Santa
Pe.
Back To Alamogordo.
G. b Eddy, president of the E. P. &
n. E., left for AlamogOrdo this morn
ing; also Superintendent reig and w.
A. HAWKINS, attorney OF the White
Oaks.
Structural Iron To Honolulu.
A large amount of structural iron
from Phoenixville, Ps., passed through
Sd city over the yesterday. II
xass TO Hoe lulu, where railroad con-
ssrnction has taken q boom.
improvements Along the H. & T. c.
I'VE are making considerable i'm
provement along the line, especially
In the way of building sidetracks be-
sween Denison and Dallas. said super
ansendeut Daffin of the q. T. @. to g
Dallas News man. The grain crop has
become such factor in our traffic that
crest many granaries and elevators
ms been built, and we have have been
putting in sidetracks to reach them.
We contemplate some improvements
here. The motive power d=partme Mt
has asked for some improvements in
the roundhou and shops of the Gen.
likely be made this fall
Voting On the Dining Car System.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is endesvoring to ascertain which plan
of operating dining cars Is most sat-
ssfactory to the travelling public:
whether the old one dollar per meal
plan or the more modern cafe or q Ia
carte plan, by having the patrons OF
IN
sted on the old plan, express their
preferences by ballot.
Several persons who recently visited
Philadelphia, travelling via the Queen
& Crescent route, which has an excel
len. cafe dining car system, state that
their observation indicates that a
majority OF the votes cast will In due
.'me be found TO be in favor of the Ia
carte plan.-Bonham News.
santu cket's Curious Railroad
"A rather curious and very econo-
mically ma1sged railroad Is the
Nantucket Central, which runs
between Nantucket and Siasconset, q
distance of about eight miles," remar-
ked an old resident Of Martha's Vine
yard to the writer recently. ga
ron nd-trip ticket on this road costs SOC |
5oF the passenger and another Soc for
his trunk. A second trunk is carried |
for BOO and third for zoe, but as the !
schedule allows for only three trunks |
the conductor has, on several occa- |
sions, ruled that at the fourth trunk |
ne must begin over again at soc.
tOnly one pass is issued on thu |
Nantucket Central, and that is used |
by she proprietor of the road. The |
the road, train dispatcher and division |
superintendent. The engineer is mas
ter mechsn mic, chief of transportation
and overseer of the road bed and
track. The fireman drives the express
wagon and keeps the books between
trips. Last year some 250 round:trips
were made, and novelty introduced
entire abolition of the steam whistle
partly because of it's waste of steam
aud partly because it frightened the
blue and other fish off shore.
THE rolling stock of the road
consists of two locomotives and six
Or seven autiquated passenger cars.
The earnings of the Central last year
expenses were q little over
$4,000. ''-Washington Star.
The Railways OF China.
No other people in the world have
been opposed SO much to railroad con-
struction as have the Chinese. 1t Is a
gell-known fact that when work on the
first line in China was started, some
'wensy-four years ago, by Belgian en-
yineers, the Chinese destroyed during
he night what the engineers had built
turing the day, aud only by means of
srge bodies of armed men guarding
he line was it possible to proceed with |
he construction.
China today with over $50 OO0. 900