El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-01
ED LAMBS CAR.

ED LAMBS CAR
The popular excursion agent. Ed
Lamb. passed through on his way from
st. Louis to San Francisco this morn
ing, bringing in twenty-one people ano
leaving one here.
Lambs passenger who stopped here
is E :. Arnold, of St Louis, Formerly
of the Vermont Marble company Of
that city. He came in search of health
and will sojourn in this city and neigh
= borhood for several months.
Mr.. Lamb is accompanied on TINS
trim by his wife and little daughter
Pet. who will go on to San Francisco
with him and then return to Los An
geles 10 spend about month with
Mrs. Lambs sister who lives in thai
city.
Another passenger in this car is G
c. Myrick. of Fit. Scott. Kan, who was
in the Klondyke two years up till last
October when he returned home to
C. Myrick. of FIT. Scott. Kan, %.
spend the coolest days of winter. Mr..
Myrick was one of the successful gold
hunters in the Klondyke and has a
valuable placer property near Teller
City
The first nuggets which Mr.. Myrick
found he had made into watch chain
and a ring, which he now wears. The
chain is made by linking the nuggets
together in their original form and
it makes handsome chain. The charm
of the chain is the badge of the or
der of Pioneers of Alaska, of which he
is member. This chain consists of
a pan crossed by pick and shovel and
entwined by a wreath of grapes and
is made of pure gold. The intrinsic
value OF the chain is about S55 but it
could not be purchased for any
amount.
The ring is a heavy one made of
nuggets without alloy and is beautiful
Iy engraved and appropriately inscrib-
ed
Mr.. Myrick is now on his return to
Alaska 10 further push the work upon
his property
NEW FAST MAIL SERVICE.
An important step toward the i'm
provement of the railway mail service
between New York and the west has
been taken up by the United States
post office authorities. On Sunday of
this week a fast mail service was put
into effect over the Lackawanna rail-
road and thre new sixty foot postal
cars pronounced by the railway mail
service officials 20 be the fienst and
best equipped in the country, were
placed on the run. Each car is to be
The mail train leaves New York "a
2 a. M. arriving at Buffalo at 1 pm.
and connecting there with the mail
trains of the Lake Short & Michigan
Southern. Wabash Buffalo Rochester
e Pittsburg. Erie. Nickel-Plate, Mich
igan Central, and other lines.
This new fast mail service enables
the New York morning newspapers to
place their papers in such cities as
Scranton. nghampton. Syracuse, Uti-
ca ithaca Elmira Buffalo. Toronto.
Niagara Falls. Cleveland, and all points .
in western New York. northwestern
Pennsylvania. and as far west as Gen.
trail Ohio from three to ten hours ear
1ier than heretofore.
The New York and Brooklyn post !
offices dispatch mail on this new train J
I'D to 2 a. m. so that it is possible for
letters and other mail to be deposited
as late as midnight and GO forward on
this train. instead of being held for the
fast mail train leaving in the morning.
In addition to a mail car, the train
is equipped with through drawing
room vestibuled sleeping cars between
New York and Chicago. and New York
and Scranton together with vestibu1ed
coaches between New York and Buff
falo a dining car is also attached at
in time for the occupants
of the train to enjoy both breakfast I!
and luncheon
AN INTERESTED RAILROADER-
az couldn't help but be interested in
those Shriners last night" said an old
railroader in the G. H. yards this
morning. .'for they were enough to
arouse the interest of anybody who
could possibly sc any bright side to
life Il
ct have been in the railroad business
many cars" he continued. land 1 have
seen all sorts of excursions and crowds
of humanity. but have never before
seen such healthy looking. jolly
crowd as those Shriners. Every one
Of them male and female, seemed hap
py 1t looked as though they had
started on the trip for the purpose of
seeing a good time and they intended
TO see it.
tI saw them coming out of the Shell
don and the band struck up a COON {
cake walk tune. and they pranced to
the music like spirited horses at a {
country fair. When the time came for l
them to go the conductor couldn't ]
hardly get them on the train.
''They were surely the finest collec-
ion of men and women / ever saw; not S
4 sickly nor sad-looking one among q
hem and they cut capers like a gang of a
school children turned loose in the C
woods after long and close attention T
% their studies.'' h
AN EXTRA HELPER.
There are two regular helper engines Ii
'unning west cut of Ell Paso on the S. d
q :.