El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-11
SOFT COAL IN THE WEST.

SOFT COAL IN THE WEST.
The soft coal question will no longer
agitate the minds of the western rail-
way magnates. The uncoverlng OF
vast beds of Ignite coal along the Mis-
souri, river assures the present genera
ton at least that their demands can be
filled The discovery of thousands or
acres of anthracite in the Cascade
mountain range relieves the minds OF
those interested. and does away with
all possibility of famine The trans
continental and other lines that reach
these fields will be immensely benefit
ted by the development of mines
BAGGAGEMASTER DEAD.
Passengers on the G. H. passenger
train this morning reported that
baggagemaster of the G.. III. at San An
tonic died suddenly yesterday morning
IL is not known here whether the de-
ceased was the baggage master at the
station in San Antonio or baggage
man that ran out of that city on the
railroad. Acquaintance of G. j. Kent.
the baggage master at the G.. II. sta
ton in San Antonio. think he is the
man. He was ABOUT sixty years of age
and had been with the company at
that place many years. His friends
here have some hopes that it is not Mr..
Kent but the report causes them to
fear that II Is.
STEADY IMPROVEMENTS.
The increasing traffic across the
North River. has caused the Central
Railroad of New Jersey to build two
steel ferry boats. with double decks
and double enders. The company is
also having % additional passenger
car and 2.200 additional freight and
coal cars for spring delivery. There
has been a steady increase on this road
in the average tons per train mile.
which have been recently running the
highest in the companys history.
During the past two years the COM
pany has had built and delivered 1880
freight and coal cars and 56 engines,
and the steady increase in traffic is
attributable to the liberal policy adop-
ted in improving the facilities.
Plans have also been prepared for
the development of about 5000 feet
front of the terminal front on New
York bay. About Is new docks are
projected. some of them to be the larg-
est in the world. equipped with der
draught vessels af1oat.
BOGUS FOREIGN LABELS.
At every depot in Ell Paso just be-
fore and after the arrival of passenger
trains. may be seen daily trunks liter
ally covered with big labels in bright
colors. bearing the names of hotels in
Paris. London. Berlin, Vienna and
many other large cities of Europe and
other countries. indicating that the
owners of the trunks have been in
those cities. They may have been, but
il is not at all necessary to visit those
places TO get labels that leave the i'm
preston one has been there. The east
ern papers state that the manufactur
ers of bogus foreign labels are rushed
with business this season and one
young man. q student of chemistry in
the university of Pennsylvania, has
cornered the market in Philadelphia
and is fitting cut tie travellers at his
own prices. This young man says the
demand is greater this fall than ever
before and this may account for large
amount OF the foreign labels that are
seen at the Ell Paso depots this fall.
Home made labels in imitation of those
from various hotels in Switzerland, |
France and Germany bring the highest
prices. The profit in the bogus foreign
label business must be exceedingly sat
is factory, as the Philadelphia chemist,
though entirely dependent upon this
business. is enabled to take quite eX-
tensive trips and live in luxury during
the summer vacation. Just now he is
too greatly rushed to think about a va
cation. IT is the time of year when it |
is easy to make the public think you
are returning from your summer vaca- |
ton in Europe.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
The wife of Conductor Carroll of the |
c. h & S. A, is very sick at Hotel |
Dieu-
Fireman George Maloy of the G. H. |
night switch engine, is taking a few |
nights off for rest.
Auditor Harter, of the E. P. & N. E.,
and wife have returned from an cas-
tern trip which they made about a !
month ago.
y. Peake, foeman of the car depart
ment of the E. P. & y. E, took a small
force of men out to Longhorn this
morning to repair a car.
The incoming passenger train on
the White Oaks route was an hour
late last nikht. The white Oaks
trains are rarely ever late.
Signal Engineer A H. Rudd and
Chief Engineer McFarlin, of the Lack
are formulating plans for the
of the entire system.
At eight O'Clock this morning there
were l2O cars of oranges standing in
the G. H yards, the greater part of
which were transferred to the T. & P !.
for shipment east.
The work now in progress includes
the erection of SO automatic soma