El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-07
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one of the finest educational institu-
lions in the west could do was done for
her, and at the completion of the col
lege term she was, at her own request
given a postgraduate course in me-
chanical engineering. Her schooling
finished, she was given a position in
the Office of the superintendent of mo-
tive power at nice salary. which was
looked upon by the men in the Office as
a kind of pension. 1t was supposed
that she would, in Office parlance. hold
the chair and that her time would be
occupied by purely technical duties. but
the young woman soon proved she was
worth more than her salary. One day.
within a year of her graduation, she
submitted plans and specifications for
a new type of engine. There were a
number of new ideas in the plans and
some decided improvements, and it was
! just the thing the company had been
looking for. Some of the best noun
tain passenger engines the Southern
, Pacific ever had were built from that
set of plans.
! 1T was a rude shock to the mascu-
4, line element in that Office that the
girl should carry off the honors they
thought were safely their own. and
then they fell to wondering what this
phenomenal girl would do next. She did
| what they all do if the right man
comes along. One day big official of
an eastern railroad came through the
Office. No one ever knew how it hap
pened, but the bright light of the mo-
tive-power staff snapped mechanics
for matrimony. An experiment with
the new woman was closed, and the
first lady mechanic was transformed
into what she is today-a very happy
TO DOUBLE THE CAPACITY OF
SHOPS HERE.
President Hays of the Southern Pa
cific is expected to arrive in Ell Paso
before long on tour of inspection of
the road.
1t is said that while he is here a de-
cision will be reached about the i'm
provement in the shope here. 1t has
been the intention to more than dou-
bile the capacity of the shops here but
the changes in the management of the
road has delayed things TO some ex-
tent. c. P. Huntington had decided
to make Ell PaSo one of the most i'm
portant points on the road but when
President Hays took the management
these plans were somewhat changed.
1t is still the intention. however. to
double the shops here but now since
the Vanderbilts have taken controlling
interest in the road other orders are
expected. 1t is not thought, however,
that the plan for FL Paso will be ma
trially changed as large shops here are
necessity.
FIRST GROUND BROKEN.
S. S. Mendenhall of Roswell. sub
contractor under Good & Co.. broke the
first ground on the E. P. & n. z. ex-
tension Tuesday at CarriZoca. He has
forty teams at work and will put on
forty more. Mr.. Mendenhall has been
doing contract work on the Pecos Val
ley road for the past year. He also
had sub-contracts on the first section
of the Z. p. e n. E. when it was built.
A BIG RAIN
1t is reported that there will be no
train in from the west on the S. P.
tonight. The cause of this is the |
heavy rains that have fallen in South |
ern California. A Pullman conductor |
who left that section Monday for this |
city says that the hardest rain that |
has fallen in Southern California for |
twenty years fell Monday night and |
Tuesday. The tracks were under wa
ter for miles and it was impossible to |
tell whether the rails were impact or |
not hence it was not considered safe to |
try to run trains over them Trains |
plying between Los Angeles and San
Francisco were also stopped.
EpOM THE ENGINE