Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-28

Charles NJ. Gill, formerly a nurse at
the railway hospital. left for Los An
geles.
Mr.. Hamilton is the name of the new
mar in the drug department of the rail
way hospital.
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S%witchman Jones. who was injured
at Gallup a few weeks ago, is getting
along nicely at the hospital.
Harvey Weber, a shop employee who
was hit on the head by a falling lad
der a few days ago, is around among
his friends.
William Eagan. a brakeman who had
his foot mashed at Winslow about two
months ago. is able to leave the rail
way hospital.
This afternoon, for the third time,
Pat Kevill underwent an operation for
aneurism. Drs. Wroth and Cornish as
sisted DR.. Russ.
r. j. Helm, travelling passenger
agent for the Denver 81 Rio Grande,
was a through passenger this morning
from Ell Paso to Santa Fe.
Mr.. Miller, of the Santa Fe survey
ing corps, is a new patient at the rail
way hospital. suffering with blood
poisoning in one of MS hands.
The all-steel passenger coach, incom-
bustible and non-telescoping, is the
next thing on the program for both
CfnlTl IN 1rnoI n. nd ttn1lnu pnrc
J.. F. McNally, assistant superintend-
ent of western division of the Santa Fe
Pacific, with headquarters at San Mar
cial, came up from the south on train
No. %.
T. f. Baeyertz, commercial agent
for the Santa Fe route, was at Farm
ington gathering such statistics as
may he useful to him. Richard Weth-
erell drove him TO Durango.
The New York state railway Stats
tics show that during last year sixteen
passengers were killed and 375 injured
in railroad accidents, while the mum
Der of employees killed reached $50 and
the injured 766. During the year ST.
100000 passengers were carried.
Thomas j. Helm, general agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande Railway COM
pany at Santa Fe, was at Eel Paso on
Sunday telling the people of hat hust-
ling city that the Santa Fe Central
Railway company will m con
struction work at Santa Fe on March /.
The State Journal says: Thursday
the mill completed the job of getting
out the wood for the 450 tank cars
which the mechanical department or
dered nearly a yea ago. This was be-
bun June Is, the first order of $50 be-
ing placed on that date, and the second
July 5. 1t has made business pick up
for this particular department in addi-
ton to other heavy orders for wood
work. The order of 800 additional oil
tank cars has been placed with a Chi
cago company, and Topeka shops will
have no part in their construction.
A railway project about which there
has been very little said has been
quietly pushed for the last three
months, and it's success now seems to
be assured. This is a project to build
an air line from Caldwell, Kan. to
Oklahoma City, passing through the
best portion of the territory, lying be-
tween the Santa Fe and Rock Island
lines. The leading spirits in the en-
terprise are Messrs. Brazel and Hunt.
of Lamont. These gentlemen have
gone to work quietly and have secured
the right of way, and practically every
mile of it was donated. The company
has also secured agreements for
bonuses amounting to about SIS, 900.
The agreement is that the road is to
be constructed during 1902. Many at
Guthrie believe that it is a Missouri
Pacific scheme.
In lifting the freight blockade on
the Vandalia main line a remarkable
feat was performed, says a Terre
Haute, Ind. dispatch. Between 6
o'clock Friday evening and midnight
Sunday 191 freight trains were handled
on the main line single track. There
were AGO cars. A train left each ter
minal every seventeen minutes. Ii
strung together the cars would have
made a train thirty-siX miles long. In
addition to the freight trains, ffty-two
passenger trains were handled, and all
without a break in the schedule. Eigh-
teen freight trains were handled on
the s~eventy-three miles from here to
Indianapolis at one time on a single
track and without an accident or the
interruption of passenger traffic. Re
ceiver Malott sent a telegram of con
graduation to Superintendent McKeen.