Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-16

Engineer Scudder reported for duty, this
morning.
Engine No. 424 has returned from SER
vice at Glorieta.
Engine 4a5 has beon sentl to Ration for
repairs to It's boiler.
Engine COS goes out, tonight, on freight
service south Of here.
The Santa Fe car beat the world in
climate, scenery and time.
j. d. Carrot, machinist, Is under arrest
for offences CONT United at Albuquerque.
Engine No. Oil Is down from Ration and
will gointo freight service from here south.
H. J. Ryan is overseeing the loading of q
large amount of wood at Glorieta, today.
Engineers bo ard reads: A. Lowe and
Phillips, sick Perry, Crossen and Hammer,
Off duty Ssllinger on 6s4, Smith'on 694.
Brakeman Dougherty took his FIRST trip
out this morning, after a siege of four
months sickness. ~
Milt Breckenridge. the successor to a
name immortal In the history OF this
country, has skipped leaving debts behind
him.
Firemen's board reads: Talbot, sick
Middlestate, Sim, Pie'a, Evans, Mcconnell,
Wright and Morris, of duty; Denniston
on 694.
Engine No. 70l, en- freight, became dis
abled at Wagon Mound, yesterday. 1t will
be repaired here today and return to Ration
at once.
Chas. Bushnell, a former fireman on the
road here, who with Mr.. Ward had been
in business 10 the City OF Mexico, has re-
turned here to remain ~
Division Superintendent John Denai-.
who was recently injured at the tunnel, is
now able to be up ana around and will
soon be entirely recovered.
DnfJ. W. Elder, the assistant ply stefan
at the Santa Fee Pacific hospital, at Albu-
~querque, is at the Las Vegas Hot Springs,
where he will visit for a week.
Record Bulletin No. 119.-Recently a
6rakeman'onthis division was discharged
for frequentIugs saloons when OF duty.
Attention is directed to paragraph 4 OF
general superintendent,,s circnlar'of July
10Th, 1897. b J. E. Hurley, Supt. :
Record Bulletin MOI .11s-A brakeman
on this division has been discharged for
laying off without permission. Another
brakeman has been discharged on account
of not being found when wanted for duty.
Two other brakemen have been discharged
for refusing to go out on coal run.
Record bulletin No. III; Recently a
conductor on this division ran nine cars Of
special freight. Had in structions >to pick
them up and had numbers of them, but
went into the next terminal without them.
This shows undue carelessness on the part
Of the conductor and he has been dis
charged from the service, eJ.E. Hurley,
Supt. a.
Record bulletin No. ZIG: Recently an
operator who had Just been engaged on
this division, absented himself without
leave, afterwards accepted an order for a
train that bad passed. Train was caught
an accident ayerted. This class Of
errors is classed as criminal negligence, as
operator had informed dispatcher that
train had not passed, and he accepted
order restricting right Of train without
knowing be could deiiyer order. Operator
has been discharged. J. =. Hurley, Supt.
FAST ENGINE BUILDING.
The shortest time on record for building
locomotives has just been made by the
Baldwin works in the construction of four
engines for the British government to use
in moving supplies and munitions OF war
in Africa. No European works could
reach the speed necessary for John Bulls
requirements, and the order was placed
with Bald y I'M under a contract to finish
the engines 10 sixty days.
The contract was given on January 9th,
and Ia q fortnight the British government
cabled to know il the engines could be
flushed before the time set in the contract.
Raid OWNS replied that the engines would
bs shipped on February 18th. Work went
on with remarkable rapidly, and two
weeks ago, When a notice was sent that an
engine inspector would come over to in
spsct the engines, Baldwins replied that
the locomotives would be ready before the
Inspector arrived.
They were ordered to hold them until
the inspector arrived, and although all
four engines were finished In thirty-one
days, they we're obliged to wait until they
had been inspected.
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