El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-22
\ FAST RUN.

er. The mention in Ling and PIN
of the remarkable runs made by faui
Derr has brought out the fact that En-
yineer Simino is some what OF goer
himself. When he took hold OF the
Limited the other day IL had been de
Iayed considerably and he concluded
m make ND some OF the lost time. He
made the run between Valentine and
Sanderson. assistance of 155 miles. in
three hours and thirty-six minutes, in
Guiding all stops.
#. p. INSPECTION TOUR.
]. Potten. master mechanic OF the
Texas and Pacific at Big Springs J. NJ
Adams. superintendent of motive pow
or and w. d. Minton, master car
builder at Marshall. Texas. arrived in
FL Paso last night on their annual IN
snection tour They have spent today
inspecting the property OF the COM
nany here and will leave tomorrow
morning for their respective homes
HEAVY PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
There is a heavy passenger traffic
on the Santa Fe through New Mexico
in both directions. Most OF the trains
are being run in two sections on that
account The flyers are crowded go
ing west and il is expected that daily
flyer service will be installed. The
is believed by the company to be due
TO a great extent to their extensive ad-
yertising of their road and the Pa
cific coast and other attractions on the
line
SANTA FE ROAD PROSPEROUS.
President Ripley OF the Santa re
saws that the situation in the west for
the Santa Fe is better than IL ever has
been before and that the live stock
movement over the road continues
very heavy There is also manifest
gain IN shipments of merchandise. All
recent car reports have shown an av-
erage shortage of from 200 to 500 cars
a day IL is believed the October show
ing will be greater than that OF last
year. which was record breaker. In
dications for future months. he says.
promise still better returns.
s. F.B. MORSE COMING HERE.
Harry Alexander received letter
from 5. r. b. Morse. general traffic
manager OF the Southern Pacific. in
which he offers good concessions to the
Carnival committee and expressed the
hope to meet them here in a few weeks.
He says he will do all in his power to
help the Carnival movement and will
advertise il on all the Southern Pacific
roads and connections
Mr. Morse says FL Paso is naturally |
an interesting point and should be the
principle place for stopovers between
the east and the Pacific coast. So ear |
nest is he in this belief that he has
agreed to advertise FL Paso as well as
the Carnival in all the literature pub |
Iished by the company
PUSHING ENGINES FOR THE SAN
IA FEE.
The Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company is having built in
its Topeka shops ten pushing engines
for use on the mountains. One of the
boilers has been finished and is OF 15-l6
inch steel and eighty-four inches in
diameter at the smallest ring. All OF
the boilers will be the same. All
fianges are one-inch steel and the hre
boxes are ten feet and a half long by
forty inches wide. with three-eight inch
side sheets and one-half inch fiue
sheets There are 365 two-inch fiues.
thirteen feet ten inches long. The
working pressure will be 225 pounds.
The boilers will weigh 71.450 pounds
each when empty and hold about 5000
gallons of water in working order.
JUST MARRIED.
F. F. EZzell and his attractive bride
OF n week ago are in FL Paso- MIR.
EzzelI was a blacksmith in the G. H..
shops for eight months previous to the I
middle of September when he left to
go to Alamogordo to work in the shops
of the White Oaks route. On the first
of November he left for st. Louis on
pleasure trip and returning by way OF
Big Springs. stopped of there on the
18th inst and was married to Miss
Mary Barrett daughter OF Policeman
Barrett of this city. Il
Mr.. EzzeIl said that he was in St
Louis the night of election day and
there was considerable excitement
there. The republicans were happy be-
cause the nation was going their way |
and the democrats were happy because
st. Louis went their way. the first time
in several years.
Mr. EZzell will return to his work at
Alamogordo on the first of next month
THE ROCK ISLAND PLAN.
]. A. Eddy returned this morning
from ashort trip to Chicago. where he
went to meet President G. b. Eddy of
the White Oaks road.
Mr. Parker told you the whole
story he said TO a Herald reporter
when asked about the progress of the
coming change in the White Oaks road.
Nothing has vet been done but all
the directors of the road seem to be
anxious to get into FL Paso and /
think they will get here. AS to our
road selling to the Rock Island. there
is nothing in il. There is little ques-
ton but they would like to get ii but
the road is not for sale i understand
Mr.. Eddy confirms all Mr.. Parker
had to say of the proposed connec-