El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-06
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4 room furnished with three porcelain
tuts and supplied with cold water
! from the mains. and hot water from
! the round house. The building will be
| in the shape o. u. with placita be-
tween the arms. in which will be plant
| ed trees and u small garden with
| fountain The building will be lib
| orally supplied with broad verandas.
This club room will be 1, fine thing for
The comfort of the railroaders stopping
here. WcrK will begin on the new
building as soon as the carpenter force
gets through with the repairs ii is now
making at Bowie. which will take two
or three weeks.
A GLORIOUS SwITCHMAN.
A switchman. whose name or the
company for which he worked could
not be learned. was celebrating cleo
ton day by flying his kite down on
San Antonio street this morning when
about noon he ran against n big fist
that was backed up by a two-hundred
pound man. He was trying to- argue
politics with a thick tongue with ev
erybody he met and when he ran up
against Del Richey. the Stanton street
plumber. he was waving his arms men-
acingIy around his head. Del drove one
home in the kisser and the switchman
made a plaster of alkali cast of his
anatomy as seen from a rear view. in
the street. Constable Farrei took him
to his room to sleep of his enthusiasm.
SPARKS FROM TIE ENGINE.
Superintendent Hartman of the Mex
lean Central came up last night to vote
for Mckinley.
Brakeman Duncan of the 5. p. has
returned from kentucky where he has
frfv
Superintendent a. S. Grieg of the
White Oaks was in town over night
but returned to Alamogordo this morn
ing to cast his vote.
Sam Hibbs. formerly a conductor on
the s. p. out of Ell Paso. is in town
en- route to Mexico from Colorado
where he has been located for some
time past.
Conductor Ames of the Southern Pa
cific who has been running out of Tue
son for several months has again TAX
en- up his residence at Ell Paso and
will run out of here in the future.
Brakeman Sheldon OF the S. z. is
taking layoff for n few days.
c. F.. Flint of San Marcial is in the
city shaking hands with old friends.
Mr.. Flint is conductor on the Santa
Fe.
Eddy Berrien is not at his place in
the G. ii. shops today and as he did
not give any warming of his absence
there is considerable anxiety in the
shops occasioned by his mysterious alb
sence.
II. Coliiander. for several years chief
clerk in the master mechanics Office
of the c. II. in this city. passed
through last night on his way from
San Jose. Cal. where he now holds a
position. to his old home in Sweden
for a visit to the scenes of his child
hood.
in the G. II. shops in this city four or
five years ago. has come back to re-
turn to work in the same place. He
came in from San Antonio yesterday
and went to work this morning. He
has been working in the shops in San
Antonio.
The Grau opera troupe did not pass
through last nightas expected but is
expected to go through this evening
about . O'Clock. Excursion Agent An
thony who passed through this morn |
ing from Washington said that the |
opera conpany's train left Washing |
ton the same day he did but was de- |
Iayed in some way. The extra baggage |
car that was on the G. ii. train this |
morning is a Louisville & Nashville |
car containing more of the property of |
this company.