Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-12-13
RAILROAD MoTGs.

Shore railroad has been greatly i'm
proved ny changes which have Just
been made. North Weehawken. N. j..
has been abandoned as q ferry point
anu station has been established in
it's stead at West New York. N. j.,
about onehalf mile north Of the old
terminal. The new station Is connect.
ed by the large ferry boat "Oswego"
with West Forty-second street. New
York city.
Articles OF incorporation have been
filed by the Los Angeles, Ocean Park
Santa Monica Railroad company.
Capital stock is fixed at 1000, 900, OF
which $4,000 has been subscribed II
Is proposed to construct a line fifteen
miles In length. The directors are:
W. $. Hook, Abbot Kinney. Thomas j.
Hook {. a. Sumner and y. II. Milliken.
All % these directors are subscribers.
Abho. Kinney taking $7,4OO r. J.
Hook $1,000 and the others 800 each.
The people ~ Belen. Valencia coun.
ty, have tenoered the Santa Fe Rail.
way company the right Of way for their
proposed New Mexico Eastern railway
over the Belen grant and II is now Ger.
tain that this cut of OF the Santa Fe
VIII cross the Rio Grande river at
Bclen.
Mrs. Guy Gatchell has accepted the
position of stenographcr In the Office
of Superintendent +. c. Fox, Mt Las
Vegas, during the absence OF Miss
Margaret Vinton. who has gone to the
CITY OF Mexico on a pleasure trip.
w. t. Youbkin. OF Las Vegas, left for
two weeks visit at Marcelne, Mo.
He has been employed as stenographer
in Trainmaster J. ID. Notgrass' Office,
but on his return he will assume the
position of night ticket agent at the
Las Vegas depot.
The Santa Fe Central and Postal
Telegraph companies now maintain
telegraph stations at Kennedy. Mortar
ty Estancia and Torrance
Thirty-five cars OF S5.pound steel
rails for the track Of the Santa Fe Cen
trial railway from torrance to Santa
Fe, have arrived at the former place
and 100 car loads are on the way.
.nese are expected to reach Torrance
between now and the last of the
month. Track laying would have com.
mcnced before this. but for the non.
arrival of the Harris track laying ma.
chine, which machine IL to do the
work, This machine is expected daily
and viii surely be at Torrance within
the next five days and the putting
down OF ties and steel rails will then
begin and will be prosecuted at the
rate of from two to two and half
miles per day.
A raise In the wages OF all machip.
lists and boilermakers in the employ OF
the Colorado 4 Southern railroad at
Trinidad has been asked by the men
Monday morning petition signed by
all the men, numbering more than
twenty five. WAS presented to Master
Mechanic NJ. Weber asking for an in
crease of | cent an hour. The men
base their demands upon the fact that
both the Santa Fe and Rio Grande at
Trinidad pay 35 cents an hour. while |
the Colorado a. Southern scale is "a
cents. The petition has been forward. |
ed to headquarters In Denver without
the recommendation of the master me-
chanic, who was only recently placed |
In charge Of the shops there.
VIII Murphy and Ben Coles, brake
men on Conductor Arthalony's train |
at the time he met with the almost |
fatal accident two and one.haf miles |
west Of Thornton. called at the Las
Vegas Optic Office and asked that the |
report that one o: them had signalled |
the engineer to go ahead be contra |
dicted. They were both with the con- |
ductor under the train when the slack |
went out OF its own accord, catching |
the conductor and injuring him badly. |
Perry Van Kirk. Santa Fe conduc-
tor, died at the La Junta railroad hos.
pital laet TUESDAY morning. aged about |
A years. Mr.. Van Kirk was injured in |
the Pueblo yards last July, one OF his |
legs being badly crushed. He has been !,
an inmate OF La Junta hospital ever
since. The attending physicians de-
cided that an amputation of his injured |
limb at the thigh was necessary, but
MIR. Van Kirk never recovered from
the effects of the amputation. His wife
was with him when he died.
c. w. Hillard, formerly treasurer of
the Chicago 4 Eastern Illinois, has
been appointed controller OF .ae st.
Louis 4 San Francisco. with ofIices In
New York. The position Is a new one.
Thomas Hoye, FOR several months
yardmaster for the Santa Fee ut Fort
Madison. has resigned his position. He
will be succeeded by Mr.. Clark, former
ly yardmaster for the Burlington at
GalesbLrg, III.
The capital stock OF the Terminal
Railroad association Of st. Louis will
be increased from $4,000 900 to $780,