El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-30
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q whistle and made the natives thins
that something wss,doing down around
the shops. Jack Morrison WAS Q little
slow in coming out but he got there
just the same. The alarm was turned
In from box 1872. One box car wac scor-
ched . little but the switch engine pull
led 1t away before IL actuslly caught on
ire. All Jake, the engineer at the
round house stationary, said when
asked why he did not give the alarm,
"SSlfng -bloke, no ling bell, NO blow
whistle" The hose team at the shops
made good run, Harry Beshes says.
Train Takes Its Own Picture.
The great advance In amateur pho
Biography has been recently demonstrs-
ted by the great l21-ton locomotive of
the Denver Limited taking its own
picture as it flles along a. the rate OF
seventy miles IN hour. The process
is an inven tion Of lien Ayrault Green,
q student at the L University OF Chicago,
and the camera he uses, a very expen-
sive one. IL worked by the train itself
by means OF electrical connection with
the track.
Connected with the camera is q elk
cell dry battery, which furnishes the
current to work the shutter. Two wires
are strung from the camera to the
rails, between which q small stick is in-
serted in the Rround. A cord is attach
ed to the stick, and when the latter is
knocked over this cord jerks out q
piece of psstebcard nailed between
two metal springs nailed be tide one rail.
The circuit 10 thus closed. getting upon
a heavy spring at the side OF the came
ra, which suddenly squeezes the bulb
and exposure IL made automatically.
The exposure lasts only q thousandth
part Of Q second, but in that brief period
of time train running seventy miles
an hour moves something like two
inches, yet the photographs resulting
from the apple alton of shis ingenious
contrivance are as shown above, won
derfully accurate and clesr.-Mem-
phis Commercial Appeal.
TWO Attempts at Train Wrecking
The HERALD learns from good su
thorisy that there have been two
attempts to wreck the g. II, and s. A.
passenger train near Sanderson within
the past week. The drst attempt " as
made at what is known as Baxter
Curve: as the train from the east came
around the curve the engineer noticed
some ties piled on the track and stop
ped the train just before he would
have struck them.
The matter WAS reported 10 head
quarters, but on Saturday night an
other attempt Was made about four
miles from 5 anderson. and within few
hundred yards OF the one she night be-
fore. This time q large pile of stones
were place on the track, and had the
train been running at its regular speed
there would have been a terrible
accident. But Is 10 was the engineer
slowed up for the curve and was still
going rather slow when he noticed
only short distance ahead q pile OF
something on the track and he at once
reversed his engine and threw on the
air.
Robbery Is the only cause that the
officials can think OF that would csus e |
anyone TO try to wreck the train, and |
Detective +. j. Long, Of the Southern |
Pacific and Sheriff Almond, of Val
Verde county, are not afser the would |
be robbers with q posse. 1t Is thought
To be we'll organized gang who have |
been working in this part of she coun-
try for several years.
Object To Double-Headers.
Undismsyed by tie recent defeat OF
their brothers in the business on the |
railroads OF Texas, she engineers and |
fremen OF the Santa Fe road will re- |
new the fight aSains. the use Of more |
than one engine in pulling . fret gh,
train. Grievance committees from the |
Brotherhood of Locomotive EnRineers |
and Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire |
men will meet In Topeka In the irst |
week of October to plan a campaign of |
action. Besides preparing for con-
tinued fight against the double
hesders," the enRinemen will urge
upon the officials Of the 81 stem the
wisdom and efiosoy Of EMPLOY ing extra
hremen on the n nsser new locomo-
sives.
The extraordinary long freight trains
barr specials, as they are called
that are being operated by the Santa
Fe management are In marked disfavor
With the enRinemen. II 10 not infre-
Z uens shat two engines are required 70
pull one of these trains, and the use OF
o many cars 20 trail serves TO keep
iown the number OF trains. These
specials" which are named after the
bird vice president and chief operating
official OF The Santa Fe, j. Nj. Barr.
consist OF cars numbering between
70 and $50. Last Saturday Frank
snyder was 10 charge OF what Is said
o have been the longest train ever
operated on the Santa Fe system. |
There were 1872 cars in the train, l24
loads" aad nine 'empties." The cars
we're ''snsked" along by two of the
nest powerful locomotives on the
ystem. Wher Emporia, Kas., the
estiu stion OF the train, was reached |
he tonnage aggregated 45,0Oi. Is
In reducing the number OF trains,
he eDginemen say, the work for en-
,iueers and iremen necessarily mast
,e more limited. From she time lat
he big locomotives were Introduced
q TO the service the fremen, strongly
by the throttle chambers, |
AVE insisted that the work of feed
ng" coal has been TOO great for one
o An to do steadily.
The enRinemen have held that there
vere rnnecessarv danOera cnnneotad