Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-12


W. H. Matson, Jr. western travelling
passenger agent, passed through the
city last night bound for the coast.
The new Rock Island eating house
at Tucumcari was opened for business
last week, with Miss Myra McDermott
as manager.
The demand for steel rails is so
great in this country that railroad
companies find it difficult to get their
orders filled.
E. d. Weymouth, who has been fore
nan of the car inspecting force at
L%ordsburg for some time has resigned
and left for Tucson.
o. A. Gould, of Andrews, and Hyman
Lowitzki have arrived at the territorial
capital from Lake Valley with a car Of
horses for the Santa Fe Central.
DR.. ]. P. Raster, chief surgeon for
the Santa Fe, who has been transact
ing professional business in the city
the past few days, has returned to To-
peka.
Albert Jacques, son of Station Agent
Jacques, formerly in the employ of the
Sana Fe at Las Vegas, has accepted
a clerical position at the local freight
offices.
Two carloads of rails and one of
fishplates passed through Nogales to
Guaymas few days & over the South
ern Pacific consigned to the Topolo-
bampo railroad.
Lew Ryan, the Ell Paso-Rock Island
brakeman who was badly injured last
June by falling from a water car at
Dog Canyon. has departed for his
home in Illinois.
Work has been resumed on the rail-
road shops at Alamogordo and good
machinists are being put to work as
fast as they show up. The force has
been largely increased this week.
Contracts will soon be let for build
ing the extension of the Alamogordo &
Sacramento Mountain railroad to the
head of Russian canyon. Several con
tractors have been looking over the
ground during the past week.
G. M. Perlewitz, the new day ticket
agent at the local depot, came up from
Deming yesterday morning. G. B. Do
Ian, who formerly filled the position,
has been promoted to station agent
and will be located at Rincon.
The passenger and freight business
of the Santa Fe Office of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway, for the
month Of July was very gratifying and
somewhat in excess of the business of
that Office for the same month in 1901.
The Southern Pacific pay car reach
ed Lordsburg last Sunday morning and
the paymaster held it until after the
services in the various churches had
closed so that the many man who were
at church had a chance to visit the
car.
Work on the Tombstone branch of
been started in earnest. Some 80 men
are now employed on the grade and
several cars of scrapers, teams etc.
and 10000 rails were unloaded at Fair.
bank the other day.
A new ticket agent was installed in
Ell Paso last week, and it took three
men to check out the old man and
put the new man in. E. w. Clapp
was sent down from Lordsburg as one
of the three men, to represent the &C
nnIfntinu Hnnar tnnnt of tho Southern
Pacific road.
The Needles Eye says: The boiler
maker shops present an old time ap-
pearance this week. The old employees
are all back at work, and additional
men are being hired every day. 1t is
estimated that within a month from
now there will be as many men at
work as can find standing room.
Mrs. ]. L. Davis, librarian at the
Needles railway reading room, is en-
joying a we'll earned vacation. She
left for Denver, where she will visit
with friends and will return to Nee
dies in September, accompanied by
her daughter, Josephine. During her
absence the reading room win be in
charge of Mrs. Behn.
The Gallup Republican says that En-
gineer Norman made a pretty run with
a Knights of Pythias special train last
Thursday morning from Gallup to
Winslow. He left Gallup at 1:1O a. IN.
and arrived at Winslow at 3:44 \ m,
making a stop of nine minutes. Actual
running time two hours and twenty
five minutes for the 12S miles.
The other evening a fire broke out
in the Harvey house annex at Needles,
from a defective iue and gained such
Roadway before the fire department
that their efforts were futile
and the building was destroyed. Again,
Wednesday evening, a lamp exploded
in the dining room in the main Harvey