The Globe-republican., 1901-07-04
RAILROAD NEWS.

ment. and car famine will likely occur.
moved TO La Jnnta where Mr.. Harden
berg will haYe run on the Santa Fe
west.
F. p HaFbst and wife left Tuesday for
Buffalo Mr.. Harbst went by way of
Lincoln, Neb-. where he left his children
under the care of IA sister uatil his return.
-Trainmen report that two trains will
run over tle Rock Island beginning on
Sunday. 1t is also reported that mater
ial for the ronnd house is being received
at Bucklin.
The wife of Newton railroad man
sleeps so soundly that he is compelled to
awaken her on his return from his night
run with II dash of cold water from the
garden hose through til. bedroom win
dow.
w. 6. Cromar, the Santa Fe fireman.
who was badly burned and scaIded last
week. caused by the dropping of the
crown sheet on engine No. 4SS, is i'm
proving, and II report from the hospital
yesterday morning was to the effect that
he was resting easy and on the road to
recovery.-La Junta Tribune.
Claims for wheat fields being burned
are coming in from farmers living along
the Santa + e right of way. 1t is alleged
that sparks from passing locomotive
are originators of the fire. wheat
grower living near Macksvilie. has put
in a claim for Il large sum, alleging the
destruction of 500 acres of growing grain.
The manager of the Santa Fee rail-
way lines i'll south Texas says his compa-
ny expects 10 buy beaumont oil for
of the fuel will do mucl. TO make
steam as one ton of $3 80 coal. This
will effect saving Of S27O on each 100
tons or coal now burned daily by the
Santa Fe Texas lines. Oil will probably
sell at times as low twenty cents per
barrel, and perhaps lower, on large con-
tracts.-La Junta Tribune.
The remarkable business being doue
by the Santa Fe is shown by the large
incr ease in gross and net earnings, and
also by the large orders for new equip
ment placed this season. One hund red
aud twenty five locomotives and thirty
veetibuled aa,d-elec,ric lighted coaches
have just been ordered, and, following
similar large orders placed few months
ago, are significant of the heavy demands
made on the carrying facilities of the
line.
The Atchison GLOBE very truthfully
says: 'tYou know but little about the
hot weather if you remain III the
shade. 10 thoroughly appreciate the
heat take walk through the railroad
yards. The heat seems to bound up
from the cinders and steel rails, and if
you are not accustomed to it you are very
apt to get dizzy and make for cover.
yet the swltchmen have to stand it. The
work in the harvest field is plea SAINT COM
pared with switching trains.''
There was a great ssbumping'' of en-
xineers all around this week. Engineer
John Madisan, who has been running
on the limited, Is back on No. 3 and
again, which .sbumped'' Jerry Shaw to
the on Nos. 6O2 and 6C3, between
La Junta and Denver; Shaw 'tbumped''
Archie Stewart to the Denver run on Nos.
607 and COS; while the latter s.bumped''
John E. Walker to the run on Nos. L and
between La Junta and Dodge City.
This is the most extensive dumping
of engineers that has occurred on the
western division in several years.-La
Junta Tribune.
The Santa Fe coal chutes in the local
yards are being remodled for the pur-
pose of accommodating the huge forty
ton, drop-bottom, coal cars. The roof
the coal bins will be filed from the drop
bottom cars, an innovation that will dis
pense with quite a number of men who
have been employed shoveling coal. The
Santa Fe is engaged in storing 1900 tons
of coal at this point at present, an en-
clined trestle work having been erected
in the local yards to facilitate the work
of unloading. The drop-bottom cars
are unIoaded from the trestle work, which
is thirty feet high at the east end. dis
pensing with the employment of a pum-
Der of men and making saving of 80
per car in the work of unloading.-La
Junta Tribune.
From Newton Republican.
Savage, of the Santa Fe. has golden
rule which is worth considering, not be-
cause it is a savage rule, but be cause if
every one would act up to it including
Savage. there woul1 be much less trou-
Bile in the world 1t runs this way:
ssDon't knock. don't grumbie, don't