Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-07-13
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

shops yesterday to have a leak in the
boilers repaired.
The wife and children of Brake.
mar c. Il. Newhouse have gone on
a SIX weeks visit to the summer re.
sorts of California.
Conductor A. l.. Foraker. who broke
n OF his legs accidentally at Ribera
on June 18th. is still confined to his
home in Las Vegas.
J. w. Thurber, the contractor of the
santa Fe Pacific railroad cutoff, was
In Prescott. He expects to have the
new line open by October /.
Several changes Of crews have ia
ken place on the Santa Fe Pacific OF
late. The changes have been from
the second to the third division.
G. e. Stout, who Is now employed as
a switchman In Denver, will be Joined
by his wife tomorrow, she having left
for the Colorado capital last night.
Matt Pole. the machinist. is all
smiles OF late, for he is expecting his
wife TO return home tomorrow morn
Ing. The lady will be accompanied by
Mrs. Leonard.
The engineers of the c. Z. & N. Il.
railway company are in Springer and
will survey the line from the Dawson
coal fields. bought some time ago by
the company, to Liberty.
It was reported today that the con.
dition OF c. o. Johnson, the hydraulic
engineer, was greatly improved, and
that 1t would not be long until the
gentleman can be out again.
The I'll Paso & Northeastern railroad
company is now engaged in taking up
the old 60.pound rails on the line some
distance out of FL Paso and substitut.
Ing therefor the new 70.pound rails.
Mr.. Jewett, chief clerk In the tax
adjuster's office of the Santa Fe Pa.
cifc railroad was In Gallup interview.
ing several of the county officers in
regard to the taxes due from the road.
Engineer Seekins has returned to
Ration from San Diego, California.
where he accompanied his wife and
daughter. Mrs. Seekins began to i'm.
prove as soon as she got to sea level.
and Is getting along finely.
The many friends of w. J. Mcmillan.
who was hurt on the Glorictta noun
tain, will be glad to know that he is
getting along nicely at the Las Vegas
hospital. He is able to sit up In bed
and eat his meals regularly.
The office of Foreman Booklacher.
Of the round house. is being given its
annual spring cleaning and painting.
When the workmen have finished the
room Will present a more handsome
appearance than ever before.
Two more of the fifteen new com.
pound engines recently ordered from
h Baldwin Locomotive Works are on
h way to Alamogordo, Nos. 60 and 61
having arrived at New Orleans on the
End inst. These make six that have
been shipped so far.
Miss Clara Green. a popular young
lady of Silver City, and Theodore
Kline, an engineer on the New Mexico
a. Arizona railroad, were married at
the brides home last Tuesday. They
have gone On n wedding tour to Chi
cago, Buffalo and other eastern cities.
The house of J. n. Shirley, a Las.
Vegas boilermaker. came near catch.
ing fire. One of the children lit q
match In the clothes room to look for
a toy pistol and some of the clothes
caught. The fire was put out immedi.
ately and the house and children were
thus saved. Disastrous fires have been
caused in IA similar way, however.
The Ration Gazette says: The Santa
Fe management has come to the con.
ciusion that since the reading rooms
were provided and the employees given
the means OF spending their evenings
pleasantly, wrecks have been much
less frequent on the portion of the
road covered by the reading rooms.
The number of reading rooms will be
increased.
G. j. Kilmer, former assistant en-.
gineer for the Santa Fe here, has been
made chief engineer for the Colum.
bia, Huntsville a. Northwestern rail.
road, n line under construction now
from Columbia, Mo-, to a point 200
miles northwest. Mr.. Kilmer is a son
OF the late Capt, c. b. Kilmer, for
years right-of-way agent for the Santa
Fe at Topeka.
Roadmaster j. G.. Hutchinson, of the
Santa Fe Pacific, who just returned on
Thursday morning from San Pedro,
Cal, where he had taken his son,
Robert, to visit with his grandmother,
Mrs. j. +. Brown, yesterday received
n telegram which stated hat his little
son had met with an accident which
might prove fatal. No other particu-
lars We're learned. Mr.. Hutchinson left
last night for San Pedro.
In the fiscal year ending June 30
the net earnings Of the Denver a Rio
Grande railroad increased $l,26S, 500.
II was believed in the spring that the
net increase would reach nearly a mil
lion and a half, but the increased out.
in improvements cut down the net
earnings. Considering the amount
spent in improving the road-bed and In
new rolling stock, the year was
one of the most profitable in the his
tory of the road.
The Flagstaff Gem says; Rumor
that the Santa Fe railroad people
are going to build a railroad from
Flagstaff TO the Grand Canyon. 1t is
also reported that the Southern Pa
ciifc railroad company will build a
railroad from Globe to Flagstaff, Let
them build-there are no strings on
these corporations. The conditions
are such that Flagstaff is destined to
be a railroad center II Is only a ques-
ton of a short time until Flagstaff will
a division point.
The Captain Progress says: In the
construction of the Rock Island rail
tAltuSlOut the NOl hlltu at Idl'
ker camp, almost directly east of San
ia Fe, are at work on a cut of thirty
eight feet. Close to that place is a
deep rayine where the grade must be
filled in forty feet. This will make a
dam across the rayine which will back
up the water for two miles from the
track. The water will be used for ir-
rigation purposes and a large tract
will thus be reclaimed.
The latest publication of the Santa
Fe railway is a handsome booklet
The Colorado Express" There
are half-tone pictures of the train and
che various coaches. The booklet is
printed on lemon,tinted paper with
brown ink. The Colorado express, In
service between Chicago and Denver,
consists of three Pullman palace sleep
ers, a Pullman observation sleeper,
"A chair car, a dining car, and a smok-
ing car. with wide yestibules through
out and lighted by Pintsch gas, II
Is a luxurious train.