Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-09-23
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Mrs. j. Quinn, operator at Glorieta, Is up
from that point.
d. 8. Dean, chief clerk to Superintend-
| ent Hurley, who has been east on leave OF
absence OF about sixty days, returned last
evening.
Miss Ella Crouch, formerly night oper-
ator at Maxwell City, after spending a
few days in Las Vegas left for Trinidad,
this morning.
r. E. Alldrege, who has been employed
in the superintendent's Office at this place,
left for Ration this morning, to resume his
old position as night operator at that point.
The Vandalia passenger department ex.
hibits a map of the Pennsylvania system,
with a very handsome girl wearing big
sleeves for the background. The design Is
original and attractive.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
earnings for the second week In Septem-
Der were $45, 42S. 93; Increase over second
week f.last year, 1858. 90; increase for
first two weeks of September, s9,915. IS.
1t is probable that at the time the board
Of directors of he Atchison elect q first
vice president to succeed D. B. Robinson,
that the office Of first vice. president will
be authorized to be changed from Chicago
to Topeka.
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern reports
for the fiscal year ended June Goth: Gross,
6,44S,3 1896; increase, $135 1853. Net, $2,170,-
07O; decrease, $135, s61. Total income, ST.
179, 66s; decrease, $12s ,513. Surplus, $685.
1856; decrease, $14S, 167.
r. H. Mellen, clerk in Supt. Hurley's
office, has, after a few weeks in the west,
returned to his duties again, relieving Mr..
Kerr, whs in turn relieves 8. p. Frye,
agent, Wagon Mound Mr.. Frye and wife
are going east, to be gone fifteen or twenty
days, on a pleasure trip. ri
The third annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Academy Of Railway Surgeons will be
held at Chicago IN September 20, "a and
25. The motto Of the academy 10, "The
higher the order of railway surgeons, tho
greater the protection to the employe, the
passenger and the company"
The question of electing a successor to
Mr.. Robinson will probably come up at
the next meeting of the board of directors
on October 7th. While the Office of drst
vice president may not be filled at that
meeting the committee appointed to select
a man for the place, Of which Mr.. Ripley
IL chairman, will undoubtedly make its
report.
The report that the Atchison officials are
arranging to run an excursion train from
Topeka to Canton, o., to give the en-
ployes Of the road an opportunity to hear
Mckinley is evidently incorrect. Atchison
officials state that there is no intention on
the part of the company of running a
train from Topeka, or any other point, to
Canton free. II the company sfnployes
can secure leave of absence they can visit
Canton IL they SO wish, and il they are
entitled to transportation the ROAD will
furnish it over their lines. But, as an
official Of the road expressed it, 'sthere will
be no deadbeads shipped to Canton in a
special train to talk with Major Mckinley
any more than they would be shipped to
any other point to talk with my other
man,
The Illinois Central road Is the lates
company to issue a warning to its en-
ployes that carelessness will not be tolerat-
ed in the performance Of duty. Gen. Supt.
Sullivan has sent out a circular to all con-
ductors and enginemen calling attention to
causes of collisions and the Importance Of
fully realizing the hazardous occupation
they are engaged in. The circular con.
cludes as follows: THE observance Of the |
rules must, from the nature of the service, |
rest largely upon your honor and sense Of
duty, and this appeal is made to awaken
in you a realizing sense of the RESPONSE.
bilities appertaining to your work and the
necessity which exists for purging your
ranks Of those whose disposition and habits
unfit them to continue as your associates
in a hazardous o~ccupatjon.U