Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-10
Railroad Topics

Dispatcher Rowe. of San Marcial, is
confined to his home by illness.
The arrangements are all complete
for the Firemen's ball at San Marcial.
on the 18th of March.
The Santa Fe railway gave Ration re-
duced rates on its sewer pipes. which
saved the city $1,000 in freight.
Supt. j. F. McNally. of San Marcial.
has had a period of idleness forced
upon him by a very vigorous attack of
pneumonia.
The bulletin board nnounce the APP
pointment of David Patterson as mas
ter mechanic of the New Mexico and
Rio Grande division, with headquarters
at Raton.s
M. Anderson, who has been the faith
full chef at the. San Marcial Harvey
house for several years. has resigned
and will visit friends in Las Vegas
for a while.
The main shaft carrying the power
from the engine room to the new ma
chine shop broke down Saturday and
the machines were at a standstill. Re-
pairs were made by this morning.
Hugh Williams and J. F.. Stalker, of
a Marcial, have returned from To-
peka bearing credentials showing that
they successfully passed the examina-
ton for promotion from firemen to en-
g%ineers.
Buffet car 1907 passed through last
night n will be used on the Califor-
mia limited in place of the one burned
at Franconia. 1t is just from the To
peka shops and has been rushed
through.
Several of the men recently dis
charged at the Santa Fe Pacific shops
have been again employed. Last week
nine new men were employed. This
is taken as an indication that the cut
in force was only temporary.
The Santa Fe will at once begin the
improvement of grounds around the
Alvarado hotel. Several hundred feet
of blue grass sod have been ordered
from the east, which will be used as a
mat for grass seed which will be sown
later.
Sixty bridge builders in charge of
d. E. Hoover of the Midland Bridge
company of Kansas City passed
through last night on their way to
Vera Cruz. Mr.. Hoover says his CON-
pany will bid for the bridge work on
the Santa Fe Central n Albuquerque
Eastern.
There is some talk along the line
that railroads will displace colored
porters with white men, the same as
was in vogue three or four years ago.
Complaints have reached headquarters
that the colored porters are growing
impudent and want to be tipped" on
every occasion.
The new library and reading room to
be erected this summer by the Santa
Fe Railway company at Ration is to be
commodious, two stories high and is to
contain besides the library and read
ing room. a room for billiards and pool
a bowling alley and bath rooms. 1t is
to be the most complete railroad Ii
brary on the entire line.
The new master mechanic bulletins
the information that too many engines
are being cut out at Trinidad on &C
count of bad 1ues anu other small de
fects, when they should have gont
through to La Junta. The Trinidad
foreman has beer instructed to make
a personal examination of each engine
turned in there and report if the en-
gineer did right in not going OF
through.
John A. Phalen. who has peer yard
master for the Ell Paso & Northeastern
at ~Alamogordo, will now a a run OF
the new Ell Paso-Rock Island DAD al
freight conductor, his former position
to be filled by a Mr.. Martin. N. ]. BehaI
has beer appointed general yardmas
ter for the Eel Paso-Rock Island will
Headquarters at Ell Paso. This is The
local position formerly held by Olive
Carr, who will now go on the road as
main line freight
A committee OF citizens of Santa
Rosa went to Tucumcari to NEE
Freight Traffic Manager j. NJ. Johnson
Second Vice President j. II. Conlin anC
General Freight n Passenger Agen
j. H. Meyer. They asked for specia
freight rates for Santa Rosa, as it II
a convenient shipping point for thu
country for many miles around. The!
were promised that the company woult
do all in its power to give Santa Ros;
the lowest freight rates possible ant
to push the town along whenever op
portunity offered.
Those who came down on the frs
Rock Island train are loud in thei
praise of the service given n al
seemed well pleased with the outlooI
for the country through which the new
road Iuns. 1t is said that several pee
pie of influence stopped off at SAINT
Rosa and CarriZoZa n will loo
around for location for business entel
prises. 1t Is a cinch that there will b
more activity in eastern and souther,
New Mexico this year than in all tn
southwest put together. A prominen
mining man of the southwest said tn
other day: "The scene of greatest az
tivity in southwest mining circles vii
be in New Mexico this year, owing I
the coming of the Rock Island an
building of the FL Paso & Southwest
ern."-El Paso Herald.