El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-24
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Frank Webster. the day fireman O
| the stationary engine at the G. III
shops, is sick and unable TO be at hi.
post. Jesse Hammer. who used to I'll
that position but is now learning to bt
a machinist, is working in Webster.
place.
| Hank Small. superintendent o.
bridges and buildings Of the G. H.
went down the road last Eight to lool
after some material needed in the con.
struction of the gates at the street
crossings which have now been com
menced.
G.. Parras. a G.. II. coach cleaner. lost
a bunch of keys belonging to the COM
pany between the depot and the sheds
yesterday. They were of no benefit to
anyone except the company and the
finder will confer favor by returning
them to Mr.. Parras.
Two G.. Fl. engine crews deadheaded
in from Sanderson this morning or &C
count of there being more engine
crews there than there We're train
crews. The engineers who came III are
Simino and Mckinley and the firemen
are Cooke and Morton.
Tom Turley. a machipist in the G.. II.
shops, is out of work clothes and the
boys say that if some female eX-cyclist
will send him pair of abandoned
blocmers it will same them the trouble
of taking up a contribution. to buy
him some new work pants.
The gong at the G. II. depot by
which the call boy was summoned to
the dispatcher's Office has been taken
down and now when the call boy is
wanted the call for him reminds one of
the show spoilers on the midway last
week. There is apt to be war on China,
too. if the boy doesn't respond at first
call.
John Player, superintendent Of mo-
tive power Of the Santa Fe. has SUBJ
mitted the plans for the extensive i'm
Drovements at the Albuquerque shops
20 Vive-President Barr and that Of
icial has given his approval 20 the
plans. The cost of the work has been |
included in the company's expense es-
in,ates for 1901 and it is thought that |
ictual work will begin soon.
A bill in the Wisconsin legislature |
proposes to give railroads some pro-
ection from tramrs. 1t provides that |
'iding on or under or between cars
Without paying fare and with intent to
void payment shall be a mis.lemeanor
ubject to fine or punishmen and
ives the conductor of any train au-
hority to arrest any offender with or
Without warrant and take him before
magistrate or any justice of the
eace for trial.
Hugh Cough. who has been working
n California for about a year, has re-
urned to Ell Paso and resumed his
ok as helper in the machine depart
lent of the G. H. shops this morning.
}. J. Re gers. a Denver e. Rio Grande
reman, who was seriously scalded on
ne head. shoulders and legs in 4 col :
sion between two switch engines in
ne yards at Denver. Six months ago
ogers was badly injured in a similar
rcident in the yards at identically the l
ime place. q
a member of a big contracting firm
Colorado Springs, Colo, was in AL [
1querque yesterday and stated that
Is firm had a contract for grading a T
'0-mile stretch of road-bed from
mos Wells to a point on the proposed
ute of the Rock Island extension in J
uthern New Mexico. Several car C
ads of scrapers. horses and camping =,
uipment are to be shipped from Col
ado City in few days. He intimat-
that he wanted to hire his men in e
buquerque and if he does he will C
We Adore $50 Albuquerqueans some
ing to do.
The management of the Wabash rail- =,
~ has adopted a rule which prohib-
the use of intoxicants by employees Ill
fore reporting for duty or while on cl
ty. This is regarded as che Of the
'st far reaching prohibitive meas
eS ever put into effect on railway sa
ere is nothing to specify how long W
line before reporting for duty intox- w
nts are not to be touched. si
The question as to whether or not in
: railroads shall stop carrying corp
! in baggage cars and give the ex-
ass companies a monopoly of this
siness has been referred by the men, ed
IS of the trans-continental passenger ay
ISOLATION, in session in New Or 10
ms, to a committee composed of the 70
leral baggage agents of three of the ~
gest railway systems.