Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-22
Railroad Topics

The Santa Fee road has secured right
of way in the city of Oakland.
Ben Williams, special officer of Santa
Fe railway, is here from La Junta.
The New York Central has settled
for $4,000 cash with Miss NJ. ]. Rice.
who was preparing to sue for $751; 900
damages for injuries to her appearance
caused by the recent tunnel accident
in New York city.
DR.. Saylin. at the local hospital.
has as one of the latest patients Brake.
man Haynes. He has a fractured col
lar bone and three broken ribs, the re.
suit of an accident that happened on
the Santa Fe Pacific at Laguna.
This morning, at $3.50 o'clock, an ex.
animation of engineers, firemen, con.
ductors and brakemen who have not
been examined on the new book of
standard rules, took place. Messrs.
Henderson and Barns and other offic-
ials were present.
The Topeka State Journal says:
F. w. Thomas, engineer of tests. left
today for Albuquerque, N. NJ, where he
goes to look over the electrical plant
of the new Santa Fe shops and if n
ditions are satisfactory accept it on
the part of the company.
The reception and dance, a strictly
invitation affair, of the local lodge of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
will occur at Grant hall tomorrow
night. G.. w. Maier and wife, the hon.
ored guests. will arrive from Ell Paso
tomorrow morning, and a committee
of local lodge members will be at the
depot to meet them.
Aoout twenty-five four-horse teams
are now engaged in hauling ties to fill
the contract of MarCelino Baca 81 Co.
with the Santa Fe Railway company.
The contract calls for 100 900 ties and
these are being gotten out on the Ga
baldon land grant about eight miles
northeast of Santa Fe, owned by T. B.
Catron. The area of the grant is about
1000 acres. and it contains a good
deal of good merchantable timber.
James Collinson. until about four
months ago general master mechanic
for the Santa Fe at Topeka, has gone
south and it is believed will accept
the superintendency of machinery of a
southern railroad. The offer is thought
to be a good one and as Mr.. Collinson
found the southern people congenial
while he was general master mechanic
for the Santa Fe at Cleburne, Texas, it
10 DttltNCu lie Will dCtSpl. ~ hao DtVh
spending the time since his retirement
in leisure.
w. V. Turner, who has been named
to take the position of instructor in
charge of the instruction car which the
Santa Fee is to send out over the sys-
tenn, is foreman of the air brake and
car departments at Ration, N. M. He
is a comparatively new man in railroad
work, but in the short time he has de-
voted himself to it he has shown
marked ability. He is now preparing
to take the car out some day next
week. 1t will go from Topeka to Chill
licothe, ILL.,, thence to Corwin, a suburb
of Chicago, and after a short time
spent on the Chicago extension will
start over the Gulf lines and from
there west to the end of the Santa Fe
propef and on the Santa Fee Pacific.
The itinerary from now until Deem
Der 81 has been outlined. j. B. Melon
aid, who superintendent the fitting up
of the car, was called east some weeks
ago by the serious sickness of his
mother and has resigned the position
of instructor, which he was to have
taken.