El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-15
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freight and passenger conductor for the
Queen K Crescent route out of New Or
leans. Later he came to the southwest
and went to work for the S. p. at
Tucson. running both ways out of that
place. He remained with the S. p. for
over two years and became popular
both in and out of railroad circles.
| From the employ of the S. p. he went
TO the Northern Pacific in Montana and
remained with that company until he
received the position he is now so ably
filling.
There are several of these inspectors
but none have special territory. The
| entire United States is the territory of
each and they are subject to the or
| ders of the secretary of the Interstate
| Commerce Commission. which official
is chief of the inspectors. and to him
the reports of all inspectors are made.
WABASH OFFICIAL CAR.
The Wabash official car. Illinois.
came in on the T. & p. last night and
left for California over the S. p. on the
delayed passenger train this afternoon.
This car is one of the finest ever seen
| in the southwest.
The car is occupied by Col S. c. Rey-
nolds and party. Col. Reynolds is a
director of the Wabash road and a
banker of Toledo. Ohio. He is accom-
panied by his wife. his niece, Miss An
ma Reynolds. Mrs. Mary f. Nearing. a
friend of the colonel and wife. and a
maid.
| The party is out for pleasure and
will spend about four months in the
west and then return over the Union
| Pacific. Most of their visit to the west
will be spent at different points in Cal
ifornia.
| Col. Reynolds is dignified. silver
haired. pleasant old gentleman: the
| kind of man a newspaper man enjoys
| an interview with. The title. Colonel
fits him like Il sombrero does a cabal-
lero.
RAYMOND-wHIT FROM MEX
ICO.
! The Raymond Whftcomb excursion
/ train which was expected in from Mex
leo yesterday arrived at the S. p. depot
about IL o'clock this morning. The
| train divided at this place. four sleep
ers and dining car being taken out
over the S. p. in a short time and two
sleepers being taken to the Santa Fee
depot to go cut with the regular pass
enger train on that road tonight. About
thirty-four of the ninety-three passen-
gers who came in with the train. will
go out over the Santa Fe tonight on
their way to their home in eastern cit
les. That section of the excursion is
in charge of w. A. Edwards and ]. F..
Ryan. A. o. Hewitt has charge of the
section that went to California.
Owing to no dining car being needed
on the Santa Fe. one of the two dining
cars in the train was left here to dead
head back east with the G.. Fl. passen-
ger train tonight.
THE ENGINE DIED.
The incoming G. II. passenger train
due here at I:40 this morning was
five hours late. The train was an extra
long heavily loaded one and it was al
ready little late when it got to San
derson. The engine that was hooked
on at that place was attacked with
lea kiness in q fiue and. though it did
not die for some time it was so sick
that it could not travel anything like
on scedule time. An engine was sent
from here and met the train at San
Elizario where the leaky engine had
died.
The S. =. passenger train was held
for it and went out at lis consisting
of twelve well loaded cars.
FOUR TOURIST CARS.
There were four tourist cars on the
west bound passenger train that went
out over the S. p. this afternoon.
One of them came in from Chicago
last night over the T. & p. 1t is a
Judson-Alton car in charge of Porter
d. E. Carpenter and brought in TWEEN
ty-six people. five of whom stopped in
Ell Paso.
The other cars are from St Louis.
Chicago and Washington. The st.
Louis car. in charge of Ed Lamb, con-
tains nine through passengers. The
Chicago car. in charge of Agent Shep-
pard. contains twenty-three through
passengers. The Washington car. in
charge of Agent Bunch. contains eight
through passengers.
MANY CARS ROBBED.
Superintendent Randolph. of the
Tucson division of the S. p. has posted
in the Offices of that division the fol-
lowing bulletin to trainmen:
On account of the unusual number
of seals being broken and cars robbed
at this time. you are directed to be as
watchful as possible in the protection
of your trains from such misdemean-
ors. Keep your trains under constant
watch where stops are made at night.
In one case train was hauled into
a terminal with the seals broken on
two cars. one of which was left with
the door open. with evidence of an eX-
tensive robbery of dry goods. boots,
Shoes etc. Such results mark a lack
OF vigilance on the part of train crews.