Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-04-09
IMPORTANT NEWS!
Superintendent }. {.
Hurley interviewed.
Hotel, 0epots and Viaduct
Fully Discussed.
Program Arranged for Entertaining
Mr.. Bryan.
DISTINGUISHED VISITOR HERE SATURDAY

]. e. Hurley. division superintendent
of the Santa Fe railway. Ford b.
Harvey and ID. Benjamin. managers of
the Fred. Harvey eating house system
and Chas. +. whittlesey, a known
architect Of Chicago, arrived In the
city last Saturday night on matters
pertaining to the contemplated i'm
provements of the Santa Fe railway
company, which means new hotel,
passenger and freight depots, and a
viaduct spanning Coal avenue.
Yesterday morning these gentlemen.
accompanied by Col. A. NJ. Blackwell.
OF the wholesale grocery firm OF Gross.
Blackwell n Co, walked over the rail-
way ground between Tijeras and Coal
avenues, and the points to be occupied
by the improvements. as far as GER
tain arrangements have already been
made, were pointed out by Mr.. Hurley.
In the afternoon The Citizen repre-
sentative called on Mr. Hurley. at his
"Nine-Spot' car, and found the gem
tleman busily engaged with his stem
ographer. in preparing notices to va
cate railway ground between Tijeras
and Coal avenues.
These notices." said Mr. Hurley,
will be forthwith mailed to al occu-
pants OF railway ground between the
two avenues named. and means that
the Santa Fe railway company intends
to, as soon as possible, put into execu-
ton the contemplated Improvements" ."
AS to the objections raised by Mr.
Marron,' continued Mr. Hurley, these
will have to be acted upon by Presi-
dent Ripley and General Manager
Nudge. Regarding abandoning switch
ing across Railroad avenue, | don't
think President Ripley ever contem-
plated such a move. and as to the put
ting up OF IA 100000 hotel think he
stated that the Santa Fe company
would put in improvements here to the
amount of 100000, which includes the
hotel, depots and other Improvements
The delivery OF viaduct material of
the line of the Santa Fe road, free Of
charge, will have to be arranged
through Mr.. Ripley"
Mr.. Hurley exhibited to The Citizen
representative the blue prints of the
Coal avenue viaduct. The estimates
call for an expenditure OF $4,000; to
be an lS-foot roadway, with g.
foot walk on each side. and
the approaches will commence on the
west side at the intersection of Second
street and on the east side just a few
feet beyond the acequia in the rear Of
the Congregational church. These es-
Inmates assume that the embankment
of the approaches will be of dirt, but
with steel approaches an additional
$1,000 Will have to be added to the s2O,-
900.
a short time after the departure of
The Citizen representative, Mr.. Hurley
was visited by Mayor Marion and a
blue print copy of the viaduct was
placed in the hands of the mayor. He
gave them a critical examination last
night and to-day passed them over to
Pitt Ross, city engineer. for examina-
tion.
Mr.. Hurley, who was accompanied to
the city by his wife, left for the north
this morning, while Mr.. Harvey. ac-
'companied by V. Vizetti. left for Cali
fornia last night.
Architect Whittlesey will remain in
the city for a few days, and will be
engaged during the time in drawing up
the plans and specifications for the
new hotel, and passenger and freight
depots, Not until they have been sub
mitted and acted upon by President
Ripley will the exact location of these
important Improvements be known.
They will, however, occupy ground
from Railroad To Coal avenues, while It
is a foregone conclusion that the
ground north OF Railroad avenue will
be levelled of and sodded to blue grass
Many of the wise-acres of Albuquer-
que are locating those who will have
to vacate, but II is safe to say that
many OF these predictions will fail to
materialize, Mr., Hurley stating posi-
lively that no certain ground has been
allotted off to this or that merchant,
but that all who desire, can secure
good and convenient locations.