The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-07-01
.GEN'L MANAGER
MILLER TALKS
EXPLAINS VARIOUS MAT
TIERS OF INTEREST TO
BROWNSVILLE.
Rio Grande May be Made Electric
Line-Now Run at Loss-Rock
for Bridge via PIT. Isabel-Large
Sums Spent on Brownsville
Road.

Road.
A number of matters of great In
terest to Brownsville were touch
ed upon by General Manager JEFF
In. Miller Of the Brownsville road
in conversation with Herald
representative today.
With regard to several publica-
tons that appeared in the Herald
Monday and Tuesday of this
week, relative to railroad matters,
Mr.. Miller stated that he was
strongly inclined to the opinion
that the public generally eonced-
ed that there are always two sides
to every story, and he believed
that The Herald always made an
effort to publish facts as they
come to them, but even when they
accept statements only few pos
sibly look at the question in the
same light as it is published. Re-
lative to the engine on the Rio
Grande breaking down Sunday
night, he said:
1t is not amisS to say that the
citizens of Brownsville appreciate
the fact that there has been a
shortage Of good water III the sew
eral resacas. The Rio Grande rail
road has been drawing its supply
from that source and also from the
Rio Grande river, but the small
single pipe line from the river
was insufficient to keep the sup
ply so as to insure full operation,
therefore they were forced to take
water out of the resacas. Owing
to the low stage the water in the
resacas became stsgnant and high
ly impregnated with salt, and bad
water for engine purposes usually
gives some bad results, as when
used by the public generally, and
his is the direct cause of the few
engine failures that they have had
IN the Rio Grande road. HOWE
ar, l have just closed a contract
with the city of Brownsville to
axe water from them both for the
Brownsville road and the Rio
Grande road at cost of $4,000
per annum. The pipe connection
will be made in a few days and
when this is done there will be no
further danger of any engine fail
4res. The Herald stated that the
engine had run out of water. The
ngine had plenty of water, but
owing to the salt and other i'm
purities in the water it could not
Be injected into the boiler on &C.
count of the water foaming, which
caused the engineer to draw his
fire until sufficient water could be
put in the boiler or the injectors
be put to work. There is not rail-
road in the United States that |
does not have trouble on account |
of engine failures. The Rio Grande |
railroad unfortunately has had
two or three within short time, |
but all Of this can be attributed |
TO bad water and not to worn out |
In the engine. | under
stand an ex-railroad man, former
ly in our employ, is circulating
petition for signatures to submit |
10 the railroad commission ask
ing for relief on account of these
three accidental failures.
81 know from letters that 1
have received that majority of
our patrons ON the Rio Grande
the additional train,
which has been in operation be-
.ween Brownsville and Point Isa-
bel this summer, and / want the
public to know that l am operat-
ng this additional train at loss.
put on the additional service
solely for the accommodation of
he public, hoping that they would
it. Hence my remark
hat there are always two sides to
very case.
Another matter is the hotel ac-
at Point Isabel. In
order to provide these facilities
and give some relief to people
rom Brownsville and others com
ng into the country, l spent a
great deal Of my own personal
funds in completing and putting
he hotel at Point Isabel into oper-
alton.
When the brideg matter is set
He'd possibly we can arrange for
electric power, either moter or
electric cars, to be put in opera
ion on the Rio Grande road. l
have had this under considera-
ion for some time and have re-