El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-08
a Hunting Party.

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se1zer train, Saturday night on a
huo,lng trip. Toe party Ia from The
oficesst the G q shops IL this city.
Increased Tourist Service.
q ] Jones, an excursion agent from
Wa-hir gton City, passed through over
the ; p yesterday having In CHARGE
& tourist ca c)nta twenty SIX
people eoing 20 O. iforn - o 81
meC.r.y. the C~incina--. gent passed
through his morning with twenty
thrss tourists from the central state
Coirg e. California. he said that there
would bs a1oiher Cincinnati car put on
nexs ~sek. making two n week from
that Gig 10 Ca,t'ornts
Experimenting With ACetylene.
The Santa Fe company. always en-
deavoring to better every department
Of railroading. is now making a test
of the a~daptability of acetylene gas
for headlights. Acetylene gas, If ii
can be used successfully. will
ed!y give better results than the ordi-
nary lights and is more economical.
The gas as used on bicycles has not
provided the success that is necessary
for use on trains but the Santa Fe
thinks that the apparatus
which it is using in the test will over
come all difficulties.
Home For aged
At the recent meeting of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen at Des
Moines a proposition to build a home
for aged. nvalid and crippled railway
trainmen of all classes was submit
ted and the members on the convention
showed their favor to il by starting the
DaII rolling with $4,000 appropriation.
All other railroad organizations Will
be asked to aid in raising the means
TO build the home and there are strong
probabilities of the home being built
within the mex two or three years
IL will probably be located in h CEN
trial west.
Curious AZ cldent.
Conductor Jim Blythe. of the Rio
Grande railroad. tells of a remarkable
accident that happened to his train
near Dublin the other day. He was
conducting a freight train which was
running along at a pretty rapid clip
when two of the cars jumped the
track. The couplings were broken n
the cars rolled down the embankment,
one of them turning completely over
and righted itself at the foot of the
embankment. but little the worse for
its tumble. The cars that were behind
the ones that left the track caught up
with those mat were ahead of them
and were coupled on, the train pro-
ceeding on its way as though nothing
had happened. At the next station
Blythe notified the agent of the acct
dent and the wrecker went out and
got the cars.
A Slick Customer.
D NJ X ,binson, who was coneccted
with the southern C &c as operator
seyeral pointe on the line, being at
Alpine a. night operator for several
months Is no1 confined In all in
parish. Louisians. This fact
this city whom Robiuson once got the
be-, o.. This young man learning
Rooinson had been discharged
from the 5 p. service aud had secured
position IS boookkeeper for the
Weet~ego, LA Oyster s. Produce
20 wrote To- . m Der OF that com
pauy asking IL be might n some
to get back the money that Rob-
insou had got from him. The answer
Was that she company now had Robin
son 10 all or a charge of breach OF
trust and . embezzlement from the
The young man wrote TO
the sheriff of Jefferson parish for a
of the statement and Sc
It.
Nj staken porter. |.
A Rock Island tourist car came 10
the + & ? Friday night havtog Oh
board about fifteen tourists. The car
in charge Of Q negro porter who
seemed TO lack q great deal of being on
his JOB. He told . lady passenger
the s p train on which they
would proceed westward would probsb-
y esve about 4 p n. A little dis-
the lady asked Q passenger
the train would 60 westward on
he 5 2 and she was informed 900
WAS correct according to central
.tue but she hal set her watch with
Mountain time and did not
,hink of the difference. In consequence
tie appeared a. the depot several
after the train mad departed.
vas worried to the point OF tears
ut Superintendent Martin telegrspbed
Tor her baggage which che lef;
o her berth to be sent back, and also
wired to her husband at Yuma the
aus OF her delay. She said that II ,
he had depended upon what the
had told her at Fs Worth she '
would have been left there.
Sparks From The Engine. !,
Judge Cox, tax commissioner TO-. the
: q came in this morning from Hous-
{
S~itchmen Thigpen and Fike resum
d their work in the G Fl yards his !
after q short lay of. .
Under the usual reduction OF force +,
hat occurs In thee II shops about this =
of year elk m~schinists were laid d,