El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-27
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been in SESSION to give him troubles
/ and the moon is about to show her
disrespect by getting gloriously full
right in the old mans dying hours.
| IT'S sad indeed. and here's to the
man who issued the order to the engin-
GERS to shut I'D their cylinder cocks
and shoot the first valve that threat
ems to pop off. The flame of life flick
ers low in the old mans eyes and his
| feet are already cold. Speak in whis-
pers. tread on the tip toes and don't
whistle only at the main crossings.
Run the yard flag to half mast and
make the couplings with as little jar
as possible. for the old man is pass
| ing away and ne has been peach.
A RAILROADER'S INVENTION.
Chester L. Bell. an aged and retired
ralroad conductor. residing in this
city, has invented a useful article for
passenger cars. 1t is dust and Gin
I der fender that has been examined by
a great many prominent railroad men
/ and officials. who have pronounced it
/ a good thing and say it will soon be
used on nearly all cars. Other tenders
have been invented and used, but in
most states where they were placed on
cars, there have been laws enacted to
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of solid wood and caused the passen-
ger to have to look around them if he
wanted to see anything ahead and thus
endanger his life. And the ones here
| tofOre invented have not had an ar
arrangement which assured their remain
| ing in position when they met with
strong resistance fro mthe wind. Mr..
Bells fender consists of board TWEEN
| ty-two inches long and six inches wide
containing an oval glass. eight and
quarter by four inches and the board
and glass may oe larger to suit the
fancy or the place in which it is to be
used. tt-.
The glass Eliminates the danger of
having to look around the fender as
the passenger may look through it. 1t
is fastened to the window frame by a
continuance of Mr.. Bells own inven-
ton and it as made so as to hold the
fender firmly. no matter what the
condition of the atmosphere. 1t is
made SO as to be easily transferred
from one side of the window to the
other and the glass is so fitted in as to
be easily removed if it gets broken.
This fender not only protects the
eyes of the passenger but in addition
cinderS and dust will be prevented from
entering the car by it and thus save
the cushions from being burned by live
Goals and keep the car in a cleaner
condition.
Mr.. Bell first made one of these and
let his son-in-law, A. A. Murdoch, pay
master of the Mexican Central put it
on his pay car. 1t worked so satisfac-
tory that he decided to get it patented
and has now received all the neces-
sary papers to cinch his right to the
patent. Another good thing it does is
to preclude the possibility of a car win
dow in which it is used coming down
on the passengers head, as it has a
shoulder which fits below the lower
sash of the raised window.
Mr.. Bell has also invented a scale
that does away with the use of weights.
1t has multiple of beams, each com
mencing to weigh where the other quits
off and quadruples the weighing limit
of the one before. For instance. if the
first beam stops at 100 pounds the other
will take up the hundred and add 400
to it and thus will weigh 500. If a
greater weight is placed on the scale
the next beam will take it up and
weigh 2500. He has also the patent
right on this invention. but has been
fought by large. rich scale companies
so that he has so far been unable to
put it on the market.
Mr.. Bell was railroader for thirty
two years and was a conductor TWEEN |
ty-five years. Most of his work was
done on eastern and northern roads, |
but was conductor on the Mexican |
Central for three years and a half, until |
about six years ago, when he was per- |
manentIy injured in a wreck and in |
capacitated from further work on rail- |
roads and he then commenced to put |
his inventive genius to work with the |
results above given.
BOYCOTTING SANTA FEE OPERA
TORS
Joe Oberhaulser, formerly operator
for the Santa Fe in Ell Paso, who went |
out with the strikers. has quit his DO
sition with the Mexican Central in |
JuareZ, j.. ID. Flesger. chief dispatcher ,
for the Mexican Central at chihuahua |
notified him that the company could |
not give employment 10 the strikers off |
the Santa Fe and his position would be
filled by Fred Green. who has been in
Ell Paso several weeks.
This looks very much like the Next
can Central has boycotted the Santa
Fe men, Mr.. Flesger also sent a mes
sage here yesterday to several oper-
ators who had applied for work, STAT
ing that he could not give them work
If they had struck on the Santa Fe. |
Several of the men applied but as they
were fro mthe Santa Fe they were re-
fused.
The Mexican Central now has orders
at the Postal telegraph Office here ask
ing for two more men. The operators
at the Postal answered that several
ex-Santa Fee men wanted the positions