El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-11
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phore signals between Little Falls and
Hackettstown.. This work is being
pushed as rapidly as possible and will
| probably be completed before rail-.
The carnival car left yesterday af-
| ternoon on a G.. II. & S. A. freight and
not over the Texas & Pacific as has
been stated
| William Cough left on the S. p. this
morning for Los Angeles to bring home
his son Hugh. who is sick in that
city. Hugh is a machInist for the 5.
| z. at that place and has been there
about a year. He learned the trade in
the G. II. shops in this city.
The Pullman sleeping car "Istlan,'
of the s. p, deadheaded to Tucson this
| morning. 1t has been chartered by the
Tucson ElSs in which to go to Phoe-
nix to attend the carnival.
Engineer 10 Simino of the G. H. has
been sick for the past few days Up
J until today he was confined to his bed.
but was able to be out this morning.
though unable to return TO work yet.
The Plant system. believing that in
Interchangeable mileage tickets were
really wanted by commercial travellers.
| went TO considerable expense to put
them on sale. So far, however. the
sales have failed to pay Tor the print
| ing.
F.. d. Haslock. engineer of the G. H..
reported for work Sunday after being
| off a few days on account of his child
being sick but the child was taken
worse and the engineer called for an
other lay-off this morning on that ac-
count.
1t is announced that the Burlington.
are planning to enlarge the Union Sta
penditure of between one and two mil
lions dollars. About the only COM
ment necessary is well, they need
it"
Although bull movements have been
noticeable in railway stocks. as a re-
suit of the election. nevertheless the
roads have not participated in the
wild rush upwards. The big roads
seem to have struck their gaits'' and
the value of the shares go forward
cautiously and slowly, but steadily
and surely.
large emery wheel in the car de-
partment of the Santa Fee shops at AL
buquerque burst and A. l.. Newton.
who was standing near it. was severe
ly injured by the flying particles. The
bridge of his nose was broken and sew
eral deep gashes were cut in his face.
Others in the shop had narrow escapes.
Agent McIlroy. the Minneapolis man.
passed through this morning going
west. He brought in fourteen people
and took twelve on west. The pass
engers on his car that stopped here
are William Powers. of Minneapolis.
and c. S. Clark. of Des Moines. who
will sojourn in ri Paso to enjoy our
winter sunshine.
The home seekers excursions, which
are now being run by roads in the ter
ritory west of Chicago and st. Louis
will continue until the end of next
June. Two excursions will be run
each month. the rates for which will
be one fare for the round trip, price 50.
but the tickets will be sold on the
most restrictive basis possible.
Cars sheathed in copper in accord
ance with the patent of Master Car
Builder Appleyard. of the New Haven
line. have proven to be UNNECESSARILY
better than the old style in paint and
varnish. Four cars. patterned after
his idea have been run on the Erie
for four years without being sent to
the shop, which is undoubtedly strong
evidence in their favor.
1t is the intention of the company to
afford their patrons a system of signal
protection second to none in operation
on any other road in America and to
this end, nothing is being spared in
the way of expense, and in the eSlec-
ton of the attest and most approved
types the product of the skill, expe-
rience and ingenuity of the best signal
experts in the railroad service.
1t has been found by the detectives
in the employ of the Western Passen-
ger Association that the scalpers, espe-
cially at ST. Paul and KANSAS City, are
we'll supplied with tickets of nearly
every road. The condition seems to be
due, in part. to the home seeksr' ex-
cursions, but there is a suspicion that
prevails between the rail-
road officials and the scalpers.
w. E. Johnson. the Washington tour
list agent went west this morning with
quite remarkable human cargo. He
has twenty-five people in his car and
they all boarded it in Washington and
the shortest distance that any of them
are on for is 10 Los Angeles. Mr.. John
son is the agent who is thoughtful
enough to provide chocolate for his
TO drink en- route.
Judging from the number of loco
motives and cars now building, the
railroad managemnts are expecting
to do an immense amount of business
during the next few years. The loco
motive works are all busy, and the
orders do not all come from our own
country. Foreigners are recognizing,
more and more, the mark of American
and constantly increasing
their orders for locomotives.
The automatic disc signals recently
erected at Paterson are to be replaced