Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1901-08-17
ALONG THE RAILS.
Interesting Information Regarding
Railroad Officials and Employees.
NEWS IN ABBREVIATED FORM.

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A. l.. Williams. conductor. accom-
panied by his wife. left last night 4,
enjoy vacation of few weeks OF
the Pacific coast
Engineer Montgomery and VIII,
have returned to Ration from Caiifor
mia. whore they ha1 been ENJOYING III,
for over q month
| Fireman McCans. being the oldest
fireman ON the division. has Scen A.
signed To the Las Vegas hot sprInu,
branch run regularly.
Seventy head of horses boIongina
Co Orman a Croach. detained In IN.
washouts. have arrived at Demlng and
VIII be used on TIL grade Of the Bh
bee railroad.
The Santa Fo Is about 10 onlarae Il.
/ Pacific coast shops located at San Bar.
nardino. Cal. doubling their capacity
and increasing the force from 500 to
about l0rc men.
J.. Il. Taylor. a brakeman ON the A.
a $. NJ had HIS righ, hand badl
mashcd last Sunday while coupling
cars at liigh Roll. He IL now In the
Alamogouo hospital
Kenneth Gillott. who resigned po.
sition with the santa Fe Pacific NJ
Winslow aud tried farming. has ro.
turned and taken bis old position ln
the service 90 tina, place.
Harry HlllyCr. chief clerk in the
master mechanics ofIlcc Of the Santa
Fe Pacific az San Bcrnardlno. Cal.
spent two days this week In Winslow
looking after business matters.
Two large pieces OF machinery. a
wheel lathe and planning machine
and pulley attachments arrived NJ
AlamogoidO and are now being placed
In the III Paso a. Northeastern shops
there.
a. DAILY. the contractor nj Nevada
Mo-, has Just been awarded q big con
tract for the building OF the Choctaw.
Oklahoma a Gulf railway shops. -
be eroctee at Shawnee, o. T. They arr
to cost $4,000,
The Santa Fe Pacific local shop en-.
ployos received their pay checks yes.
torday and today the santa Fe EN-
ployes received their checks. Money
viii be quite plentiful In the metrop.
oils for the next few days.
The booklet on the Grand canyon OF
the Colorado. just issued by the Santa
Fe road. Is another handsome pamph.
let Il contains many pretty illustra
tinns OF views and scenes nj the can.
yon and along the route.
Charles Thomas. stenographor in
superintendent Creig'R Ofiioe at Ala.
mogordo, left for his old home i'm Red
oak, Ia. and viii be absent for
month. J. W. Stoaly will occupy hisI
position during his absence.
The Santa Re Railroad company win
soon begin the erection Of a large
hotel OF Harvey eating house al Selig
man. u viii be two stories high. tn
second stcry will be partitloned into
rooms ano used for lodging.
General Traaic Manager Don A..
sweet slcnt two days In Carlsbad
collecting data and cuts for Use in
some railway Advertising literature ia
preparation by the santa Pc road. SGT
ting forth Pocos valley advantages -
homesoCkors.
The dates OF departure, westbound.
from Chicago OF the Santa FEES per.
sonally conducted California excur
sions have been changed 10 Tuesday.
Thursda' and Saturday OF each week.
Instead II Monday. Wednesday ami
Friday, as heretofore.
+, l.. Lujan. who has been oaicl.
ating az freight clerk for the railway
company at San Mnrcial for several
months, has accepted n position as
stenograrher To a high Official Of the
Mexican Central line Mr.. aud Alrs
Lujan will reside In the City OF Mex
leo.
Plans Lnd specifications are In tn
hands OF contractors for uniaue
2iN2S curiO building 10 be erected on
the depot grounds boy the Santa r.
at Williams The building will be of
concrete and wood ingoniouply con.
struCted and Will be- an artistic add.
tion to that city
The Topeka State Journal saws
John FroihOth "A boilermaker Nkll
went 10 Albuquerque three weeks agl
en- visit and after looking over the
situation decided to remain there has
returned "a his place In the boiler
shops mere, He was called home 90
Topeka by the Illness uf his father
and viii not return Ia the west.
4 Herald reporter visited the Dem.
ing a Hisbeo railroad grade and n1tol
as follows. They are laying ties. uf
which thUro are 10000 iu the santa
fe yards ready for them There are
also many cars of bridge ana culyert
I mbef an several cars Of spikes. tir
plates. etc ms well as the frog 20
cross the Southern Pacific. switchcs
and switch targets.
The FIRST sleeping car IN the United
states was run on the Cumberland
al
1860 In 1867 Thomas l.. Woo 4.
run built a sleeping car and he Ngs
followed by Webster Wagner. In 1859
George NJ. Pullman began making i'm
provemonta ana In 1864 he built for
the Chicago a Alton railroad the first
real Pullman sleeping car.
Engineer W. Il. Fisher OF San Mar.
cial ls a. Mineral Wells, Tex lie o.
thankful that the use of tho water
there has a tendency TO moderate tho
desire IT, partake Of food, for the
boarding house keepers there have
made no advancement la the art lf
cooking since the ciyil war aud that
event Is still the leading topic Of con
yersation with them and their am.
bitionless noighbors.- Bee
Tho Flagstan Gem says. The rail
road grounds south pf the depot az
this place would make a nice park u
the railroad company would permit
Its use. AZ the ground mentioned is
aot used In any way by the company
we don't see why they should not be-
In favor of Improving and Identifying
the same The town council ana eff
liens OF Flagstaff would greatly apprn
ciato AN improvement OF the Kind sug
gcsted and would aid in its consum
nation.
brakeman Wood found three Italian
tramps stealing q ride on train No.
of the ~ PasO a Northeastern which !
left Carr'Koxo last Saturday Tho
brakeman told them that they must
get on af the next station. which was
Jake springs When the station was
reached ire hoboes refused 90 leave
the train pnd when the brakeman tried /
20 eject them by force one Of them /.
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