El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-20
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several that the G. H.. has made from
the Cook locomotice works, of Pater-
son, N J. The others will follow in
the near future.
w. F. Bohlman. a passenger fire
man on the G. H.. will deadhead to
Valentine tonight to take the place OF
the hostler in charge at that place,
who has a ten-day leave of absence
and viii make visit TO Houston In
company with his wife.
A. Mum. foreman of the G.. III. round
house. and j. w. Lucas, foreman of
the blacksmith shop, will go up the
White Oaks route tonight on special
to sleep on a timber claim which they
have located in the Sacramento noun
tains.
The engine pulling the California
united. died" at Gise station, New
..4exico and there being no operator at
the station the brakeman was Obliged
to walk to Fulton, five miles. and tele-
graph for another engine to pull the
fast train out of the difficulty.
Pullman passengers going west over
the S. P. IRON this place this morn
ing. an extra Pullman car was added
to the train. The extra car was the
one that came in last night and as it
had not yet been cleaned, the train was
delayed several minutes this morning.
Jesse Hammer. who has been the
only successful fireman of the G. III.
stationary engine for a long time, has
snapped his job off. Frank Webster,
who has been employed as helper in
the G. H. machine shop. will try his
hand and poKing in the wood and
Hammer will try being a machinist
helper.
Harry Borcherding. son of Chief Car
Repairer Borcherding. of the G. H., re-
turned to Ell Paso from Alamogordo
with his wife yesterday evening. He
has been employed for some time as
machinist in the shops of the e. P. &
N. E. at Alamogordo. but has resigned
that position and will again make his
home in this city.
Owing to the fact that August
Schmidt, son of the eX-policeman, Carl
Schmidt who died yesterday, is a ma
chinist in the G. H. shops, and Emile,
another son, is fireman on that road.
the G. H. yard flag is up at half mast
today, the boys thus showing their
sympathy with their fellowworkmen
in the loss of their father.
Fred Hobein, the G. H, engineer,
who fell from his engine while run
ming on the road. has sufficiently re-
as to be able to be transferred to his
home today. His wife came home
from Houston. where she had been
visiting her sister, and is now with
her husband in their home at the cor
ner of Virginia and Wyoming streets.
J. L. Evans, a G. H, fireman, dead
headed in from Valentine sick yes
terday morning.
Sam Galladay, che G. H. yard fore
man. had a force of men out at Acacia
all day yesterday loading ten cars with
sand for use on the engines of the road.
Certain species of the order ruminantia
seem to have it in for Sam. He is just
recovering from the effects of a COW
kick and yesterday a drove of goats
crossed the track in front of the en-
CINE and one of them stopped and tried
to butt Sam off the foot board. Sam
is such a good natured fellow that they
like to have fun with him
The colored cooks, who went to San
Francisco with the Porto Ricans. are
here on their return east. One of them
has a guitar that was given him by a
Porto Rican. 1t is a crude looking
music box. only about six inches wide
at the broadcast place. two inches deep
and about two feet long. 1t has ten
strings and the frets are made of pieces
of string tied around the finger board.
The box of the instrument is worn
through by the action of the players
thumb, showing that it has been in use
for many years.
A railroad shopmen's club, consist
ing of thirteen employees of the G. H.
shops, has been organized for the pur-
pose of having a little turkey shoot of
their own on Christmas day. They
have already received twenty-six fine
turkeys from Midland. Tex, and they
are guaranteed to average fifteen
pounds each. Thirteen of these will
be divided among the members of the
club and the other thirteen will be shot
for at a distance of 200 yards with
rifle. Numbers will be drawn and the
shooting will be conducted in the or
der indicated by the numbers drawn.
=. is expected that the shoot will last |
all day.