Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-01
THE RATE FIGHT.
Good Business Over the Narrow Gauge
-Cuts in Colorado-A., Il. &
S. L. Changes.

From twenty to forty passengers for
each train is about the way the new train
service over the narrow gauge is now
being patronized. Saturdays train which
arrived from Denver at $40 p. m. brought
in thirty-two passengers at the s. rate
and to-day at 1870 there were fifteen pas
sengers for Denver and as many more for
intermediate points. On Sunday seven
teen tickets were sold at Albuquerque for
Denver and Pueblo via Santa Fe at 1886.
The rates from territorial points over the
narrow gauge to Denver, Pueblo and
Colorado Springs are as follows: Santa
Fe, IS, reduced from $3.50; Las Vegas.
$685., from $14.45; Albuquerque, $S.45,
from 1885; Deming, $l7.70, from $2S.95.
BILE Supt. Helm will insist on the addi-
ton OF buffet car to the trains running
between here and Alamosa.
In Colorado the rate war has assumed a
strict local phase and 81 is tho fare be.
tween almost any two points in the state.
The following changes and promotions
are announced to take effect to-day on
the A., T. & s. F. road: H. r. Nickerson,
general superintendent eastern grand
division covering all lines east of Dodge
City; H. U. Nudge, general superintend-
ent western grand division, covering all
lines west of Dodge, including the Colo
RADIO Midland and excepting the Sonora
railway and the New Mexico 4 Arizona
line; r. H. Sears, superintendent of vest
ern division with headquarters at Pueblo;
T. j. Fasley, superintendent of Rio Grande
division with headquarters at San, Mar
cial; B. H. Bryant, superintendent md
chief engineer Colorado Midland division.
The Public schools.
The newly elected members of the city
public school board meet at the Office of
President Read at 1880 tonight for the
purpose of organizing.
RESOLUTIONS FOR READ.
The following was adopted at recent
meeting of the old board:
Resolved, That the thanks of every
member of this board are duo and are
hereby rendered to the president, Mr..
Larkin G. Read, for his interest in behalf
of the public school system Of this city.
He has spared neither time nor labor in
his efforts to make our schools equal to
those of any place in the land, and in
taking leave of him, We do 50 with regret
and with the firm conviction that the res
ponsible position he holds can never be
filled by more worthy or just man.
Resolved, further, That our thanks
are due and are hereby rendered
to Mr.. Larkin G. Read for the fair and
impartial manner in which he has pre-
sided over this board at all times.
PARENTS VIEW.
To the Editor of the New Mexican:
SANTA FE, N. NJ, May 1.-The new city
board of education meets tonight.
The undersigned but expresses the
sentiment of the solid citizens and tax
payers in this city by saying that the
old board did we'll and deserves the COM
mendation of the public and that it is to
be hoped that the new board will take
no retrogressive steps, but will continue
in the path of advancement and progress
and will give the tax payers of this city
good and efficient common schools in the
best sense of the term.
The tax payers and citizens having
children of school age are watching
movements with great interest and sim
ply ask that good and competent teach
ers be employed and the present school
law be strictly enforced. PARENT.