El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-09

SEASON
The first Sunset Limited of the sea-
son has come and gone
Ii arrived from the west this morn
| ing about go. being about forty min
/ utes late. IL consisted of five cars. one
| composite. one compartment, two
standard sleepers and one dining car.
and was pulled by engine l112. one of
the big new ones. Engine 1105. anoth-
! er of the big new ones took II out.
There were twenty passengers
aboard when il arrived. Six of them
stopped OFF here and one got on here.
| Conductor Corners had charge of the
| train and Z. o. Musser is the through
Pullman conductor. George Russell
says the train should he called unlim-
tied. he having to go clear through
from San Francisco to New Orleans
and back. Shine and Duncan were
the brakemen who came in from the
west and Brakeman Higgins went out
east with Conductor Sullivan.
/ The first west bound will go through
tonight.
PULLMAN CONDUCTOR WITH A
RECORD.
George Russell. the Pullman conduc-
tor with n record. came in last night
and doubled out this morning. This is
probably his last trip to FL Paso until
next May. as he may be put on the Owl
limited. running between San Francis
co and Los Angeles. when he returns
to San Francisco. If he does he will
remain on that run until the Sunset
Limited season is over then he will
be returned to his old run.
A Pullman porter. who made a run
from Los Angeles to San Francisco
with Mr.. Russell recently, tells a
story on him which shows his grit and
good management as Pullman con-
ductor. At Los Angeles a car con-
tanning about % drawing room
passengers was cut out and they were
transferred to another car. When the
train arrived at Saugust. only thirty
miles out. this car got a hot box and
IL soon became evident that il would
have to be cut out of the train or it
could not run anything like on sched-
ule time. Mr.. Russell went to the pass
engers and told them that an axle of
that car was about half in two and il
they remained in it they would likely
be ditched before they went much far
Their. In order to- get out of il the
drawing room passengers were obliged
to take ordinary sections. and several
OF them We're undressed ready to go to
bed. but they good-naturedly acquies-
ced and We're given places in the other
cars. Mr.. Russell was compelled to
put in several hours extra work in
satisfactorily locating them all but
by his good generalship he kept the
passengers all in a good humor and
brought the train into San Francisco
on time.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE
w. G. Smith. an extra switchman of
the T. P. is on the sick list.
Joe Rickley. a conductor on the San
ia Fee has returned from a visit to Las
Vegas.
The G.. II. Passenger train was two
hours and half late this morning. Ii
was late out of san Antonio.
w. witholder. T. p fireman is off
for week on account of lame back.
His place on engine go is being filled
by Fireman Briggs.
RUDE Elliott. the T. p. freight con-
ductor who has been off a few days on
account of election times, will take his
regular run out tonight
Tom Dickson. a Washington excur- |
sion agent. passed through this |
morning with twenty-seven tourists. |
all through passengers from Washing |
ton to San Francisco.
Mike Kennedy. a T. p. switchman.
has been off sick for the past FIVE or |
six days but will return to work to-
morrow. Extra Brakeman Graham ,
has been filling his place.
Ed Smith. the well known "fix-it"
bicycle man. will go out on his first run
as a G. II. passenger brakeman on No.
10 tonight. He succeeds his father. w.
f. Smith. who has taken a limited run
Passenger Conductor Kennedy of the
+. u. who has been east on business
for several days. returned last night |
ana will take his regular run east in
the morning.
Brakeman Heltzell of the r. =. ex-
changed places with Switchman Coun-
at Toyah Wednesday and let
the Countryman come to town to see
thesights. Heltzell returned home to-
day.
William SCHNEIDER. who has been fir
ing a passenger engine on the Rio
division of the r. p. has gone
to Big Springs to take charge Of n
switch engine.
Conductor Geo w. Parker. who took
put the west bound s. =. passenger
train this morning. will dead head
from Tucson to Yuma. at which place
he will meet and take charge of the
next east bound Sunset limited.
William Cirvy. who resigned his
place as a blacksmith in the G. III.
to- work at his trade in the