El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-19


Harry Alexander, the assistant gen
eral freight agent of the E. P. & N. E..
is in town, stopping at the OrndOrff.
F. KrRu, a new conner at Captain
came down today to meet his family
who come from the east to make their
home at the mines.
A. B. Workman and Ben Csphsrt
two we'll known and popular engineers
on the Santa Fe Pacific, came in from
the west this morning.
r. T. Lyle, the member of the o. Il.
T. general committee from Ell PasO,
now in conference in Houston, will not
return before next week.
A bulletin warns S. P. freight CON
dnctOrs, when manifest cars are neces-
sarily cut out, to see that they are for
warded as soon as possible.
Conductor II. 81. Harvey of the T. &
P. has been given a crew with caboOse
No. 51O9, which IS just out of the shops,
and goes west from Big Springs as first
No. 5.
Fl. U. Nudge, the new general mau-
ager of the Santa Fee railway, with
other officials. is expected to reach
Albuquerque on q general tour OF in
spection in a few days.
T. ]. Ogden, foreman of the Mexican
Central roundhouse in Juarez, has
taken leave of absence and has gone
to the City of Mexico. He is a trifie
under the weather, and intends recu-
perating.
White Oaks is sure to get railroad,
for the reason that it is q paying bust
ness proposition. The amount of freight
continually coming in and the amount
of coal that can be taken out, says the
Eagle, will bring it.
Frank B. Montgomery, commercial
agent for the Santa Fe at Kansas City,
has resigned and on February LIST will
assume the duties of traffic manager for
the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
company at Chicago.
G. r. Hudson, general passenger
agent of the Mexican Central, will
arrive in Ell Psso Sunday and will be
guest of the family of w. F. Payne.
Mr.. Hudson's wife has been visiting
here for several days.
J. H. Reveley, of Wichita, Kan, re-
oeived telegram from the court at
Amarillo, Texas, informing him that
he had been granted a judgement of
SIS 900 against the Pecos Valley rail-
road, for injuries received.
E. M. Crozier, operator at the Ell
Paso office of the White Oaks, is away
on leave of absence. he sent through so
many specials during the rdcent While
Oaks blizzard that he is thoroughly ex-
hausted, and needs rest.
Superintendent Epes Randolph of
the Tucson division cautions ). p. pas
senger conductors against leaving
Pintsch gas lamps with the cocks open
and unlighted, thus permitting the es-
cape of gas in the car. This Is a bull
letin in the local Offices.
At $50 Saturday evening, up at
Pueblo, Colo, Frank Goddard. for
mer Las Vegas switchman, and Matt
Price quarreled in the hallway of the
Fifth Avenue hotel, and Goddard shot
Gus and perhaps fatal wound. Both
men were drunk.
A tramp, whose name is unknown,
was seriously injured in q wreck of a
Santa Fe freight train,
% q siding at Mulhal, fourteen miles
north of Guthrie, o. T. Ten cars
we're dersiled after the two engines and
four cars had passed over the switch.
The fifth car jumped the switch.
Plans for the expenditure of s25 ,OOO,-
BOO in improving the physical condition
Of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad have
been completed, and within the next
three years that vas. amount will have |
been expended. Improvement of road |
oeds, bridges, tracks aud equipment |
will be made on all lines of the system. |
The Santa Fe passenger locomotives |
low arriving in Topeka from the Bald |
vim locomotive works are equipped |
With electric headlights. There are
i've of these locomotives ordered.
They are ten-wbeel simple Bald
wins" with twenty by 2SS inch cylip
Iers. Ihsse locomotives are expected
lass has record of over ty-six
niles an hour, made on the middle d.
ision.
The gross earnings for eighteen
Dads for the fourth week in December,
; reported by the United States 10
estor, were So 1872, 7O2, against SO, 7O9,-
so for the fourth week in December,
1913, an increase of Sl73, 522. Twelve
Dads show increases and six decreases.
'ince Jan. /, the roads referred to
bove earned S135, 467, 742, an incre ase
f SIG, 056, 253 over the S119, All 489 re-
orted for the corresponding period of
S99. For the longer period seventeen
how increases and one decrease.
Motive power on this division OF the
anita Fe road has undergone q re-
,arkable change during the past two
ears, says the Las Vegas Optic. Two
ears ago. ten-wheel Baldwips were all
ne go here. They had q pulling
apacity of about twelve cars. Now
ig Baldwin aud Dixon engines come
into the yards with thirty
We to fifty cars trailing after them,
nat form a string reaching from the
epot to the bridge below town, almost
alf mile long. These monsters are
apable of pulling $50 tons and are
ated at no and $50 tons. The road Is
OW handling two OR three times rs