Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-28
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Guy Humphrey, OF the Atchison's fuel
department, again visits Cerrlllos.
E. Y. Carter, cashier OF the Depot hotel,
returned to his post of duty, from Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, last evening.
Supt. }. E. Hurley and Trainmaster f.
G. Fox returned from the north on the for
mer's special car, last evening.
w. A. Drake, chief engineer OF the
Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix, was a south.
bound railroad official, last night.
Train Dispatcher Gore has come up
from Mexico and taken q trick in the Las
Vegas office. There is now a full force Of
dispatchers, six Ia number, working eight
hour shifts here.
Engineer sDad" E,mss has taken a
t~hirty-day lay.oh, and will accompany
his daughter, Miss Hattie, back to New
castle, Wisconsin, on a visit to relatives
and friends.
Mrs. VIM. Cook, wife Of Foreman Cook
Of the Atchisan foundry at Albuquer-
que, has returned to her home from the
railroad hospital in Topeka, where she un-
derwent a severe surgical operation.
Fol the first time In many years, work
has become so heavy In the blacksmith de-
partment at the Atchison shops In Topeka,
that the force has received orders to wor X
three nights each week, up to 10 O'Clock.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights
are the nights chosen fol. work.
Because of exceedingly heavy business,
the position Of assistant trainmaster has
been created on the southern division of
the Atchison. e, A.. Austin has been ape
pointed to thisp place, and his headquarters
will be at Wellington. The headquarters
of Trainmaster Schaffer are at Arkansas
City, where the headquarters Of the divis-
/ ion are located.
Ths Atchison railway company is be-
coming absolutely solicitous about the
comfort Of its passengers. An order has
been issued instructiog all passenger con-
ductors that from this time on, while pass
ing through the coaches during the night,
their lanterns must be thoroughly conceal
ed underneath their coats, go tbet tba hight
may not disturb passer Kers. The order
further instructs~ conductors to be parricu-
lar 10 closing car doors, aud under no cir
cumstances to allow them to slam.
Since the telegraph lines OF the Mexican
National railways have passed into the
control Of the Postal telegraph and cable
company, quite a change has been made in
the rates to the City of Mexico and Lon
don, from Nsw York. 1t is claimed that
messages to the points pamsd have been
reduced 40 per cent. The massage rate
now from New York to the City Of Mexico
is SIX per ten words, and the cable rate
from the City of Mexico to London is re-
duced from sixty to thirty mine cents per
word.
Two bulletins were posted by Division
Superintendent Mcclellan in Topeka, Cit
ing two cases of operators who fell asleep
during the night, and could not be reached
for orders by the dispatcher. 1t was the
second offense for one Of the operators
cited, and his record was charged with
twenty days suspension. Ten days. sus-
pension was charged up against the other
operator for his first sleep while on duty.
The bulletins also emphasize the necessity
of operators being ready at any hour of
the night to receive orders.
Con Lucid, the professional base ball
pitcher, who was slightly injured In the
recent railroad wreck near Empo-ia, Kan.
sas, and who has been sojourning In Albu.
querque since the Territorial fair, left that
city for st. Louis. The Citizen has direct
information that Mr.. Lucid has tried to
compromise matters with the Atcbison
company for 81, 1000, but that the company
has so far failed to "pony up" Attorney
Neill B. Field, 50 it is learned, will in a few
days institute a damage suit against the
DAD company for Mr.. Lucid.