El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-30

Ene boys In OrdQ new 5llVer 1Olldre ouo
tn. cheerful ciink Of pockets full OF
rocks 10 beard from depots to shops. Ii
10 said that In some cases tbere'll prob
ably be q difference In the morDinR.
Fire In 6. II. Yards.
Shortly after eleven o'clock this
morning the ire department was call
I'd 10 the G. r. stock yards where two
box cars we're burning. Ooe OF them
WAS entirely destroyed while the othe
can easily ne repaired. Is is supposed
that the ire started from q spark from
the switch engine.
On On Time.
Paul Derr, the veteran engineer OF
the G a.. better known among the
boys rs Pap" brought in yesterday
she fret passenger train that has
reached this city on time since tue
washout on the road. He had consider
able time TO make up too, and between
Faoens and Ell Pa o he made record.
Il will be remsm bered that Pap
brought In the only train that got
here on time during the washout at
Colu % bus bridge. The train WAS
turned over to him three hours late
aud he brought IL into FL Paso on time.
Bio Orders For Steel Rails
Interest In the steel rail question
has been great among railroad men
Tae announcement that she Pennsyl-
vaoiA b I'D awarded contracts for loO.-
600 tons Of steel rails a. $50 ton, the
largest order ever given by that COM
pany ~ one time, pr sctlcally assured the
managers of the steel rail mile their
stand. There seem ed to be q concur
renee OF opinion that rails would come
down To S24 or less. Many large orders
are still unplsced, In hopes of . drop
but IL 10 now thought that the walt will
avail nothing.
d Mt Like the Rain.
George @. Cound. air inspector for
the G q. Ia this city, returned Sun
day morning from trip through
southern Texas. He went down to
San Antonio TO attend the interns
SiooaI fair and il rained SO much |
while he wa, there that he lefs that
place and went TO Houston It rsined |
continually while he was in Houston,
Rnc he lafs there for Galveston, hop |
imp 10 get away from the rain and |
there was steady down-pour there, |
30 be decided that the only place 70
get away fro n the drearv rain was Ell |
Paso aud he came home just ss fast a.
he could.
Opera Company Goes on S. p.
The Southern Pacific company has |
m .de deal by which the Grau opera
r1mpany is to take the ). r on its
contemplated trip to the Pacific coast.
Tne G-au opera com pauy consists OF
over 200 persons and itrequires a train
OF fourteen cars to carry the tr0Ope |
and all materials. The train on which
they will make their trip through THE
country will consist Of five standard
sleeping cars, two tourist sleeping |
-A-r Aa
cars. The company expects to start
from New York on Friday OF THE week
and travel 10 a solid train via New Or
leans from which place they will take
the Southern Pacific road and travel
on special time.
FL paso Seems Slow to Him.
Ransom Powell, a conductor on the
Illinois Central, running out OF East
ST. Louis, arrived IN Ell Paso Sui day
night and will remain here q few DAYS,
he bsing on q tour OF the west for
pleasure and recreation. Ell Paso is q
little dull TO Ransom. He came from
Egypt, the land of corn and vine.
where the frost is on the punkin and
she Wild grapes on she vine. he
oAms from old BLOODY Williams on,"
ble~ over into Illinois, where they
kill pigRers on the way to church and
blue coats camp on the public square.
they do these things there ,
and that 10 why Ell Paso seems Glow to ,
Ransom. Texas and the west have :
hard names but Egyptians come to Ell
Paso ID seek peace and quiet.
Back from North Carolina.
W. W. Deaton, the G. n. brakeman
Who WAS hurt several weeks ago by . a
hand hold on q cabOose giving away
with him and letting him fall TO she q
ground, returned yesterday from {
North Carolina where be went wish =
his family to recover from bis injuries 4
North Carolina Is the native state of
Mr.. Deston and his wife and their re I I
,asiyes live there. Mrs. Deaton and ;
children did not return with him but I
will continue their visit for few @
months longer. Mr.. Deaton gives a :
Flowing account OF the condition OF the r
country back In the Old North state. 2
He saws that he never saw q country 8
q more prosperous condition in his I
Iife Men, who lived in log cabins '
> hen he left, have now palatial man o
lions for their homes and their wives o
md daughters makes their homes
h eerful With s~ee, music from costly b
pianos. New houses are continually
osipg built and there is every indica- {
ion OF q universal prosperity wherever a
be went
of Railroad Wages. 4
There are $50, 900 men employed IN q
he railroad service, receiving in wages {
At year the enormous sum OF 1922. C
90 600 or 81, 900, 600 more than in o