El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-06

extensively equipped than many OF the
Pullman cars on which you must pay
| quarter to get your shoes shtned. The
Stale are padded and there are managers
for feeding aud troughs for watering
she horses. There is q door at the side
OF each stall so that each horse may be
fed and watered without trouble. In
addition there are bins for grain and
spaces for hay.
The cars are Zig hted by the Gould
system OF electric lights, the dynamo
for both these cars being under No. 3,
the servants car. A belt 10 inches
wide, metal jointed and resemb bling q
coat of mail, runs from the car axle to
the dynamo and generates the electro
city, which Is retained during stops by
a storage battery. This belt is In it
self an ingenious arrangement, made
up OF very fine links, and Is something
new Of its kind.
These two cars and the other two
| that have gone before will make one
of the finest trains running on any
railroad in the world. They are fn-
ished throughout to the utmost limit
OF mechanical and decorative skill.
Rogers Locomotive Plant May Close
Because he is growing old and his
plant is little behind the times, SO
tn at he fears 10 might become . los-
ing venture, Jacob S. Rogers has de-
cided TO close down his big locomotive
works az Paterson, New Jersey, and
has declared that no more orders will
be taken. The works are located in Q
part Of the town remote from any rail-
road and the expense OF getting mate
rial to the place IL great, and although
the plant now covers five city blocks
IL Is much too smsli for the business
Mr.. Rogers has. II is estimated that an
lf,a ~ ~ Il 4 mn mn q
necessary TO make the improvements
that should be made and Mr.. Rogers
does not want to make that expendi- |
ture at his advanced age. he thinks
that the honored name of Rogers |
might be damaged by allowing the
shops to continue operations until 1t
became necessary to close down from
unable TO compete with more up to
date plants.
He will put the plant on the market
to be disposed of the best way pos
sible and as 800 citizens of Paterson
-ould be thrown out of employment
IL the shops we're closed down, the
authorities of Paterson have
taken the N after into hand and will
make an effort to raise $500, 900 to
purchase enough stock in the tsblish
mens to prevent its closing down.
Thisessablishment turns out an aver
age Of twenty locomotives month and
has equipped some of the best systems
in the world with engines. It received
an order from she Illinois Central for
100 engines ~ one time and the same
number from the West Shore. This
plant last year made the largest loco
motives in the world for the Illinois
Central.
The closing down OF these works
would os blow to Paterson from
which the town would find IL difficult
TO recover and the mayor has declared
that no pains must be spared to prevent
IL.
New Third Rail Electric Line.
The longest third-rail electric rail
way yet built is about to be put into
Operation between Albany and Hudson,
n. V, O distance Of thirty-eight miles.
The line as been built by the Albany
sud Hudson Railway and Power Com
pany, on steam railroad standards, a
portion of the road being steam railroad
C nanRed over TO electric line. Power
Will be supplied from an 5000 hor-e-
p 1wer waEer-power plant at Stuyv-s-
ant Falls, on the Kinderhook Creek.
The dynsmos are 1900 volt ma
chimes, the current being trac-
mitted to number OF suo.
stations along the line, where It W
be transformed and converted t'
direct current a. $50 volts. The liz
runs through q section Of fertile far,n
country and will 90 a large freigL
business in connection with manufs"
uring industries along the route. J.
il also expected TO handle lar q
amounts of dairy ard farm produce, ss
we'll 40 large passenger business.
Clinton Height, East Green oush,
East Schodack, Nassau, Norib Cha
4
vessrt Falls, Stockport and Scottville
are some nf the Villages passed
through. For the protection of life
and property along the
route, woven-wire fence of
small mesh has been erected on either
side of the road It's entire length. At
ROAD crossings the third rail Is broken,
by means of q cable laid In an uocer-
groupd conduit. Signs have been
posted consplcuously .. all road cross
ings warn'n the public not ~ tres pass.
The electric freight locomotives will
be similar go those used in the tunnel
,f the BGltimore and Ohio Rail way ~
Baltimore. Tue cost Of the enterprise
ha- been $500, COO. Some people IA i"
gue--ing That this road is ooly part at
= i'ne 10 connect Albany and Nvw
York City, 70 be completed later on
Exchange
American Passenger Service
A general passenger agent talks a.
follows concerning equipment Ala
speed: "Our passenger cars excl
those of foreign cour tries In all that |
goes to make up the comfort and con-
venience of q journey. Onr sleeping |
and parlor car system Is vastly superior |
to theirs. The lighting of our trains is |