El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-21
Two New machlnIsts Named Billy

They made their advent into the worlo
iast mic hit. at the homes Of Machinisss
Billy Morton and Billy Gumnerson'
of the G.. b. shops.
Another Delay.
ussvv rains again last night GOTTEN
ed ,es load bed of the G 81 between
Maratnon and Raymond and caused q
DELAY of about three hours OF the pas
senCer train due here at l:iO shii
morning.
A Fast Run.
A cigar-shaped train, known as the
Adams wind splitter, made the run
from Philadelphia to Baltimore
,he other day In one hour and forty
one minutes. At times the train ran
s,arats of eigh.y-two miles an hour.
Expensive Pass
The supreme court OF North Carolina
has sustained q decision rendered In
Burke county imposinR fine OF sloOO
on q railway company for having given
An annual pass to doorkeeper OF the
legislature In 1S97.-Picayune.
Officials Coming Tonight.
Conductor Moss and Brakeman
Fame went east last night to meet ana
bring in . special train, containing J
T Mahl, engineer maintenance OF way,
from Houston, and T Fay, assistant TO
manager, from New Orleans They
are expected to arrive here about i've
O'Clock this evening.
Now He Escaped.
W. L. Miller, an engineer on the 7.
kP, left this morning for FL. Worth
70 meet his family who are returning
via in
From Ft Worth he will take them to
his ranch near Henrietta and rest up
week after which they will return to
FL Paso. The T. & P. boys regard
Mr. Miller ss lucky man to get out
of the job of breaking in his new
engine, No. 259, which arrived last
night.
Electric Lighted Cars.
The machinery for putting electric
NRhts in some new cars of the Santa
ne that are now being buils in she
shops at Topeka Is being prepared for
the cars and Is soon ae the cars are
completed IL will be placed in them.
Twelve cars in all are to receive the
Column bisn eystem OF electric lights In
the test case ard IL at the end OF six
months they prove satisfactory every
PASSENGER car on the Santa F'e system
will be equipped with . ecsric lights.
The cost of the equipment IL about
$3.50 per car.
The New freighter.
E. B. Smith. superintendent OF term
inAls of the 7. & P, went out on the
passenger yesterday morning and
brought in the new freight engine No.
25S. Engineer Joe Jones and Fireman
Jim Wilson, who went out with W.,
IN old freighter, cana back In the CAB
of the new one. The third new freight |
er, No 259. arrived Toyah last night
and will be brought in tomorrow night. !
Fred Fahrenkamp will have to break
this one In on account OF the absence OF
Engineer Miller who will run IL when |
he returns. Engineer Fahreukamp
will then have the Job OF breaking In
his own new one, No. 26l.
Iranscontlnental Rate War.
A freight war among the trans
continental lines ts about to be precipi- ]
lated by secret rate cutting which has
been Unfortunately practiced by |
some of these roads Ia order to secure
contracts for carrying government sup |
plies to San Francisco where they are
70 be nut on transports bound for China |
or the Philippines. The greatest rate
cutting has been done to secure she
mea. shipments from Chicago and It
has been carried 30 far as to greatly
diminish il not completely obliterate
profits. The agreement between the
lines in regard 10
rates has been demoralized and the war
II apt to become general among these
Z oads.
Another "Crookedest Railway On
Earth"
The Morenci & Southern railway,
now being constructed from Morenci to
Guthrie In Arizona is already gaining
quite q reputation as the crookedest
railroad on earth. Besides its crook
sdness IL will be notable for its
bridge work and sleeps grades. In the
eieh teen miles that it goes to cover
distauce of ten miles it will have TWEEN
weight brio ges, one Of which will be
lO4 feet high and twelve of them will
have an average height OF sixty-two
feet. The grades will necessitate the
purchase of specially equipped locomo-
lives with drivers less than two feet In
diameter. The engines will be OF sixty
IONS weight and enormously powerful
though slow.
Man And Bird Collide.
A dove winging Its flight over the
tracks of the Southern Railway near
Juliet in Monroe county, Georgia,
according to the Atlanta Journal,
collid ed with a passenger train going
In the opposite direction at . high rate
of speed. The birds body plunged
the glass window OF the cab.
its oeAk, sharp sas needles point
pierced the right eye OF Engineer
Charles Wallace and the surgeons say
IL de stroyed the engineers sight tenn