Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-18
Railroad Topics

w. H. Kline is now a brakeman on
the run between this city and Las
Vegas.
w. S. Hopewell, vice president OF the
Santa Fe Central, is in the city today
on business.
w. II. Mohr, supervising architect of
the new local railway shops, is in the
city from Los Angeles.
The shop employees received checks
yesterday and the town was quite live
. ly for a few hours last night.
Justus Harms is dead at Las Vegas.
He was a passenger brakeman, and his
death resulted from typhoid fever.
The FL Paso G Rock Island company
expect two more compound engines
from the Baldwin company this month.
A. II. Hail has resigned his position
as night car clerk in the local yards
and left this morning for his former
home at Mcpherson, Kas.
f. E. Rice and S. NJ. Carley, both
connected with the Pullman Palace
Car company, were here yesterday,
going south to FL Paso last night.
B. S. Harvey. assistant superintend-
ent, located at Newton, Kas., and w. p.
Mott, division superintendent at Gal
lup, both Harvey system people, ar
rived from the west last night.
E. C. Johnson, formerly a Wells
Fargo express messenger on the Rim
con n Silver City run of the Santa
Fe, has been transferred to the CARR
Zoza and Santa Rosa run on the Ell
Paso & Rock Island.
The FL Paso & Rock Island company
will receive this month the largest
Shay engine ever built by the Lima
Locomotive & Machine Works. 1t will
be used on the Alamogordo & Sacra-
mento Mountain railroad.
S. NJ. Carley, superintendent of Pull
man car service at Ell Paso, and F. L.
Rice, superintendent of Pullman car
service at St. Paul, Mimi, spent yes
terday in the city, Mr.. Rice going west
last night and Mr.. Carley returning to
Ell Paso.
John Hogan, section foreman at Lu-
zena. a station eight miles from Bowie
on the Southern Pacific, was killed re-
Gently in hot blood by a section hand,
who had been in his employ for a
week. Hogan survived twenty-four
hours after being shot in the back.
c. d. Klumpp and wife left this
morning for Lawton. o. T., where they
will take possession of their home
stead which they recently drew in
Uncle Sans lottery. Mr.. Klumpp, for
many years, was one of the faithful EN-
gineers on the Santa Fe Pacific, and
many friends here will regret to note
the departure of himself and wife from
among them.
Twenty-seven different freight yards
in Chicago are to be consolidated in
one locality to make the work of sort
ing and shifting the cars from one line
q to another less troublesome than be
fore. The new ards will be three
miles long ind 200 feet wide, and buiit
on such a slope that a large part of the
work can be done by gravity and the
use of brakes. The yard can easily
handle and sort 5000 cars in a day,
Hon. Joseph II. Hampson, president
OF the cuernavaca-Pacihc railroad run
ming out of city of Mexico, passed
through the city last night on his re
. turn to Mexico from New York ant
Jther eastern cities. He telegrapheC
ahead that he was coming, and in re
Spouse to the telegram George l.
Brooks, q particular friend, met the
gentleman at the depot and enjoyed 6
pleasant chat with him during the wait
of the train here.
Every locomotive in the United
States should be permitted to give 10(
triumphant, j~ubilant tOots on March q
next. Every machine on the rails
should be decked u in the gayest o
bright buting on that day, for OIL
March "a, 1902, the locomotive will b'
100 years old. On that day, 100 years
ago, Richard Trevithick and Andrew
Vivian applied to the English govern
ment for n patent for steam engines
for propelling vehicles.