El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-16
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Superintendent Martin of the G.. II.
went east in his private car last night
to hs gone about a week ii is said.
T. n Bayliss. a G. II. fireman. re-
turned to FL Paso this morning from
eastern Texas where ne has been
spending a month with relatives
7. D. Ruffin who for many years has
been employed as a conductor on the
Illinois Central between Cairo and
Memphis. is visiting friends in this
city.
An extra train, bringing coal from
the White Oaks country to the q. II.
railroad. came in on the T.. +. & y. E.
yesterday evening in charge of Con-
ductor Graham.
The f. y. < y. +. has received only
six ears of steel rails of a shipment
of 900 which left Chicago more than a
month ago. The heavy freight traf-
nc on other roads is the cause OF the
delay.
Gus Barnhardt. q. H. car repairer
got his foot mashed by a big block of
wood falling on il yesterday morning
about IL o'clock while he was at work.
The injury is not OF serious nature.
but is sufficient to keep him from work
for few days
Tom Dickson. the Washington tour
ist agent who recently married
wealthy widow in San Francisco, pass
ed through going west this morning.
He brought in twenty-siX people. one
of whom a Frenchman, stopped here
to take the Mexican Central for the
City OF Mexico.
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one car to another in the S. p. & n.
f. yards by a compressed air crane.
The air is compressed in the pump
house and transferred to the crane
which stands about 500 feet east of the
pump house. The crane is an interest
ing piece of machinery and must be
seen TO be understood.
4 number of new postal cars have
been made for use on the Santa Fe,
having been built on specifications fur
nished by the government and are
much heavier and stronger than the
ordinary postal car. They are design /
ed to withstand collisions without tel :
escoping. If they prove successful /
they will be adopted by other lines. |
The orange crop in California must |
be enormous. The shipments through !
this city still amount to over hun |
dred cars day and New Mexico papers !
report that it is the same over the
Santa Fe. while the orange raisers of
California are losing thousands of dol !
lars owing to the inability OF the rail-
roads TO handle the shipments which
would be necessary to save all the
crops.
Two handsome mail cars have re-
Gently been put on the Sonora road
between NogaIes and Guaymas. In
the future the express and mail bust
ness on this road will be handled in
separate cars instead of in the old-time
combination cars heretofore in use.
The many improvements being inaugu
rated by the Sonora road under the
management of Assistant Manager
Naugle are greatly appreciated by the
patrons of the road.
Officer Rayner has lost a valuable
pug dog. Owing to the absence of his
wife. who has gone to New Orleans on
a visit Mr.. Rayner is not keeping
house and he left his dog in charge of
Burkholder the lunch and news man
from him the valued canine has strayed
1t is built a little taller and simmer
than the average pug and has white
spot in the pupile of one eye. Rayner
wishes somebody would bring his lit
tie dog back.
G. ". Smith. superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Santa Fe at Albu-
querque who has been transferred with
his offices and clerks to San Bernar-
dino. Calf. left for that place Thurs
day night His place has been filled
at Albuquerque by r. J. Turnbull. who
comes from the Seaboard Air Line at
Richmond. Va. where he was master
mechanic His job at Albuquerque is
called division master mechanic and I
he will have charge of the shops there
and the district between that city and
Gallup Mr.. Smiths transfer robs AL
huquerque of twenty-five citizens.
A Cook. excursion agent from Gin
cinnati. passed through west bound
this morning. with sixteen through
passengers. Mr.. Cook promises to bring
half the state of Ohio through in May.
when they will go to San Francisco to
see the new battleship Ohio launched
He says President Mckinley has en-
gagged berth in his car as far as Ell
Paso and he will stop here and go on II
the next day with some other good
looking agent
r. s. Hair, a Rock Island tourist
agent. came in from Chicago on the T.
& r. last night and left for San Fran
CISCO over the S. P. this morning. He