Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1898-11-10

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An engineer and conductor have been
suspended ten days for running through
a split switch and not reporting It, In
fact without knowing 1t.
An engineer has been suspended TWEEN
ty days for allowing the eccentric strap
Of his engine to get hot, for lack OF oil.
thus causing II TO break.
Colonel Gwynne Dennis. Of Lombard,
GOode Il Co., arrived at williams from
New York. Nc. Dennis has charge Of the
Santa Ne & Grand Canyon railroad con
siructlon.
The employees Of ths company here are
up to their eyes In work. They hardly
get In before they have to start out
again, and the Office force is doing extra
night work.
Brakeman johnson fell from q train,
on the Ration mountain, and was very
seriously and probably dangerously In
jured. lie was taken to Las Vegas from
Ration and put In the hospital.
A test was made In the Santa re boiler
room at Ration between coal aud slack.
II Is believed that with a higher stack
considerable expense can be saved by us
ing slack instead OF lump coal.
The other evening about a dozen brake.
men. mostly new men, were on route
from ri Paso 10 Las Vegas, where they
are to be employed. Among them was
Bruce %Cruickshank, Of San Marcia.
Engineer Nj. Worrell, who was re-
ported III at the Armstrong ranch last
week, Is recovering. He IL still at the
ranch. His trouble was Inflammation OF
the bowels. says the San Marclal Bee.
Santa Fe train hands must hereafter
be courteous 10 all stOckmen accompany
ing shipments OF stock, aud not treat
them roughly, rs has often been the cas-.
This is an official tip from division head
quarters.
The Needles Rye says: Jack Warner,
one OF the regular bTakemen on the road,
has been promoted and made his initial
rip yesterday morning west a cOnduc-
tor Of. No. SO Jack ls strictly bust
uess," and his work will show up oil
right.
The work OF driving the piling on the
North Berrendo bridge was finished on
Wednesday, and as the track laying on
the other side progresses the bridge force
Is engaged In putting In bolts and tight.
ening up the work necessary 10 be done
after the piles have been driven, the cap
spiked and cords laid On.-ROswell Re.
cord.
The Santa Ne has one train, the fast
mail, No. II, that averages between
Chicago and Kansas City, A miles an
hour, including station stops and grade
crossing slow.ups. This is faster travel.
ing than On either OF the CalifOrnif
hyers, the east bound flyers averaging II
miles an hour 10 the west bound ayer'i
80 miles per hour.
The Santa Fe Pacific has a large fOrc'
Of men employed laying a new pipe lin,
for another connection with their noun
tain reservoir near Williams. Another
water tank will be erected which viii
make two large tanks and a stand pip
at that station. The present dow from
the reservoir is not sufficient TO suppl.
both engines and water cars, As water 4
being hauled to oil the stations possible
at present from Williams.
The Williams News says: Work on tn
Saginaw Southern railroad under Tn
supervision OF Chief Engineer Girand |
going with a rush. The boom OF tn
blasts at noon and eyentlde seem 10 SIM
Mckinley prosperity, and have the sweet
est sounds TO the men who have lahore
the hardest for Williams and know nov
that the town is beyond speculation
Chief Grand is putting in bridges an
roadbed that is "a ane and perfect as ca
be found anywhere.
Thirty new locomotives have just beel
ordered for the AtchisOn, Topeka h SAINT
Ne, Their specifications are as follows
Cylinder, 2lx2S inches; boiler, straigh
top, 90 inches In diamateri working pres
sure Of boiler, $50 pounds; fire box, 1903,
1856 inches; heating surface OF fire box
1876 square feet; heating surface OF tubes
LAO square feet; total heating surface
1905 square feet; CRATE area. 1928 sQuar
feet: weight on drivers, las 900 pounds
> total weight, 1853 600 pounds; drivers, 7
inches in diameter; tank capacity, 800
gallons.
% The Roswell Record says: supsriI
9 tendent d II. Nichols came In on
! special train from the Amarillo end OF III
raj road, Sunday, and has been lookin
after matters pertaining 10 cOnstructiO
at this end OF the line. He reports satil
, factory progress at the other end OF Il
line and expects 10 reach the Peeos frot
that end by December 10. Work at th.
I end is getting 80 satisfactorily that It
\ now certain that unless some unloOke
for bad weather interyenes the track wi
q be laid and the PeeOs bridge finished
I December LIST, Mr.. Nichols confident
\ expects the road to be In ship shape I,
|, the opening OF traffic by December 20.
Fleets 81 . Newspaper Pun.
II il more fun 10 sac a man read a pu
10 OF himself In a newspaper than to see