Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-09-30
IMPORTANT CHANGES
There Are Rumors Of Certain Changes
Among Santa Fe Officials.
JOHN PLAYER TO RETURN.

Hints have leaked out from sources
which should give the more or less
weight, that the Santa Fe is to un-
dergo an other change in the admins
tration of its operating department.
says the Topeka State Journal. 1t is
reported that by the first of mex jan
uary j. w. Kendrick, third vice presi-
dent, will retire and that the heads of
departments under his jurisdiction will
suffer corresponding changes.
In connection with this rumor there
are suggestions that John Player, so
long superintendent of machinery, will
return to the service of the road as
third vice president. Mr.. Player re-
tired from his position as consulting
superintendent of motive power June
| and went to a large manufacturing
plant in Franklin, Pa, in an advisory
capacity. 1t seems hardly probable
that considering the condition of his
health for a good many months previ-
Gus to his resignation that he would
again become actively engaged in rail-
road work. 1t would be impossible to
find a man who has a better standing
among the great body of Santa Fe en-
ployes, particularly among those with
whom he has come in touch, than John
Player. 1t is not believed that Mr..
Player would be receptive to an offer
to return, but it would be satisfactory
to the men.
Ii is further claimed that the shake
up will extend to the mechanical de-
partment and that Alfred Lowell, now
assistant superintendent of motive
power, will succeed to the superin-
tendency of motive power, and that
Mechanical Superintendent Risteen of
the eastern grand division will get the
| position which Mr.. Lowell now holds.
There was a rumor in circulation a
| week G to the effect that Superin-
tendent of Motive Power Henderson
was to quit, but Mr.. Henderson denied
any knowledge of it. Mr.. Henderson
lis regarded as an excellent railroad
| man, well qualified to carry forward
| the work of installing the Santa Fe in
| it's new plant here. In the department
under his jurisdiction there has come,
1 Slltt lit dSCullltu hio BlCStil uuiitos
| an influx of new ideas. Ways of hand
ling the work of the mechanical de-
| partment have peer inaugurated which
| are different from those in vogue be-
fore he came to the Santa Fe. The
purchase of new locomotives is said to
! have been so extensive as to amount
to nearly So, 000, 600. The engines are
- --. n.I 800 A.nA aala,,1atnI
to handle the constantly expanding
| business of the system.
1t is understood that for some time
there have been differences among the
| directors of the system and that this
has been the chief factor in the dis
turbing changes which have been
made in the administration of the
company affairs, especially in the oper-
ating department within the last few
! years. BY some tne talk that Third
| Vice President Kendrick is to retire is
regarded as idle since he only recently
turned down an offer from the West
inghouse Air Brake company to go to
Europe as their representative. 1t is
| claimed that there is an English and
an American faction in the board of
( directors, each antagonizing the other
in the matter of policies which should
be extended in the manipulation of af-
fairs.
1t is also believed by some that the
rumors OF Pennsylvania railroad influ-
ence on Santa Fe affairs is well found
ed, and that the mex annual meeting
of the stockholders of the company
will show that the Pennsylvania has
obtained enough control OF Santa Fe
stock to dictate the election of n or
more members of the board of direc-
tors.
General Manager H. U. Nudge was
asked as to the truth of the above
Tumors, and said:
Il believe there is no truth in them.
/ believe they are made out of whole
cloth. | think there is no likelihood
of Mr.. Kendrick leaving his present po-
sition except to better himself. He is
on the best OF terms with President
| Ripley"