El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-23
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200 pounds to the square inch and the
engines will be capable of easily max
ing sixty miles an hour. They Will be
equipped with electric headlights and
: all other modern improvements. They
, will be used to haul the fast express
trains from Chicago and Kansas City
!, over the track of the E P. & n. E. The
!. new engines will be received by the
company during May and June next.
/ QUICK CAR REPAIRING.
; Four workmen in the car department
of the G. III. shops did some wonderful
ly swift work in repairing a car this
morning. a car came in with a through
freight train and it had a defective
truck. The car was sent down 10 the
shops with orders for ii to be repaired
as soon as possible. The trouble was
with the inside pair of wheels of the
truck. These wheels had to be replaced
by good ones. Now it is much more
trouble to replace the inside pair of
wheels than the outside. for the truck
must be relieved of the weight of the
car by lacking the car up two feet, and
then the truck must be turned around
so that the inside pair of wheels can
be taken out Within ten and a half
minutes from the time the car was
placed in the care of the four shopmen
| it was on it's way back to the train
with good pair of wheels instead of
the bad ones. Thirty minutes is the
ordinary time for such piece of work,
in fact that is considered good time.
1t is hardly likely that such good time
ever made before.
SANTA FEE CHANGES.
]. E. Hurley. formerly superintend- |
ent of the New Mexico and Rio Gran |
de divisions of the Santa Fe. who is |
well known in Ell Paso. is now gcner- |
al superintendent of the Santa Fe Pa
cific with headquarters in Los Angeles,
his appointment having just been an
nounced. The position to which he
has BEEN appointed was made vacant
by the promotion of Arthur G.. Wells,
who was holding that position. to the
position of general manager of the San
ia Pacific. vice w. G.. Nevins. resign
ed. Mr.. Hurley has been succeeded as
superintendent of the New Mexico and
Rio Grande divisions of the Santa Fe
proper by H. c. Fox. who has been SUI
perintendent of the western division of
the Santa Fe. Superintendent George
E. Aver, of Wellington. Kan, comes
to succeed Mr.. Fox and Mr.. yelling
ton is in return succeeded at yelling
ton by T. J. Whisenand. of Chauute.
Kan.
SPARKS FROM THE ENGINE.
Ed Northrop. G. H. machinist. has
been off sick since yesterday morning. ]
Machinist Murphy. of the G. H.
shops, reported sick with the grip this
w. B. Gilman. the popular switch
ma Of III /
yesterday after being off for the car
nival and the trainmen's ball.
Engineer Schwartz. of the G. H. who
five days ago, reported for work this
"
c. NJ Wray. a Georgia lad. has Sc
cured a position as student fireman on &
the G. H. and will go out on his first |
run this afternoon. .
! P. RAIDER. passenger engineer of the a
J. H. reported for work yesterday af- i
ernoon after being off one round trip
IN account of being sick.
On account of a heavy rush of work
n the G. H. wards a third switch en-
line was added yesterday. Frank G
lynch, night foreman, had charge of
he crew. n
A Molina and wife returned to Tue a
on yesterday after attending the car n
ival. Mr.. Molina is travelling special
ficer for the S. p. between this city It
nd Yuma, AriZ. bi
Oranges are still passing through st
ON the west to the east though not OF
l as large lots as formerly. There W
as a train of Twenty-Five cars from :,
lie west this morning.
ia
The S. P. railroad people say that =.
lie freight traffic in cattle, hogs, and "e
-anges is now SO heavy over that er
,ad that it is almost impossible to wi
cure enough cars to satisfy the de- wi
and. -
We
An indication of the heavy freight XII
affic now being handled by the s. P m.
ay be seen in the fact that four -
eight crews were called to go west I'd
'er the road this morning before ST.
colck. tn:
In train that came in On the S. p the
there were ten cars of orang- the
anr two of hogs. A railroader in ali,
e yards says he thinks the hogs
lst have been turned loose in the cr- WI
ge cars they were so fat. he;
While some cattle were being loaded Ja'
the G. H. yards yesterday a fine bel
.reford bull got away snd led the eve
n handling the cattle merry chase 4
'ough the yards and down through
, heart of the city. He was finally oh
bed and taken back to the car. ger
l. Small, superintendent of bridges Tor
buildings of the G. H., is here for DR..
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