Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-28

hesluent Engineer John n. Ross, OF
Las Vegas. is in the city.
Conductor Willis is again doing duty
on the New Mexico division.
1t is said that Charles NJ. Hays will
be made president soon of inc Grand
Trunk.
The Fort Worth & Denver has or
dered another cafe car from the Pull
man shops.
The 500 line has reached Bismarck.
The day of it's completion was a holt
day in the town.
In considering applications for posi-
tions, young men living in towns along
its line will have the preference on the
Alton.
The Santa Fe business in moving cat
tie is said to be larger than ever before
in the history of the road. A reduced
rate is the cause
Traffic Manager Kniskern, of the
Northwestern will. it is said, have his
jurisdiction extended over the Elkhorn
and Omaha roads.
w. a. Golden, city ticket agent of the
Colorado & Southern in Colorado
Springs, has resigned to go with the
Chicago & Northwestern.
Cheap rates between Chicago and
New York during the G. A. r. encamp-
ment in Washington will, it is believed,
affect rates west of Chicago.
NJ. R. Williams is in the city from
Las Vegas. He is the superintendent
of bridges and buildings on the New
Mexico division of the Santa Fe.
The Mexican government has made
q large land grant to the proposed
road to cross Arizona and New Mex
leo, with terminals in Mexico and Col
orado.
General Passenger Agent Charlton,
of the Alton, has caused considerable
comment in railroad circles by an
%nouncing many cheap excursions for
Labor day.
The Santa Fe has made a round trip
rate of $40 from Chicago to Kansas
City, Topeka and towns in that terri
tory. This is to meet the Atoms rate
to Kansas City.
w. C. Martin, former general super
%intendent of the Rio Grande, and now
superintendent of the Southern rail
way at Princeton, Ind, is visiting his
family in Denver.
Two deaf men were struck by a loco
motive near Kansas City and killed.
The irresistible attraction o. = rail
road track to deaf men as 2 promenade
is one of natures secrets.
pill Cahill has been made trains
master at Omaha and Mick O'Brien
trainmaster at North Platte for the
Union Pacific. Increased business
caused these appointments.
From September l to ~, inclusive,
the Rock Island will run a tourist
sleeper on its Chicago train leaving
Denver at $3.50 O'Clock at night. This
is to accommodate the tourists return
ing home.
l.. C. Blakesley, better known as
Lord Blakesley," former travelling
freight and passenger agent of the
Burlington, with headquarters at Dem
yer, and now mining in Old Mexico, is
On a visit to Denver.
Fred Roehrig, a timer who quit To
peka last week and started for Need
les, Cal, where he has a job with the
company, was recalled to Topeka Sat
urday by a telegram announcing the
death of his father. He was sixty
seven miles north of Albuquerque, n.
NJ, when the message reached him.
President Howbert, of the Colorado
Springs & Cripple Creek, denies that
j. ]. Burns will succeed General Man
ager Ridgway. 1t is said that there
are twenty applicants for the place,
and that j. w. Dean, trainmaster of the
Colorado division of the Santa Fe, has
the best chance, but no selection has
yet been made.
Last week when the Santa Fe re-
duced it's force in the Topeka shops by
120 men, the Missouri Pacific was
quick in securing fifty of them, sent
them directly to Osawatomie put
them to work in the shops there. Those
shops are now running on full time
with a large force of men. The bal
ance OF the 100 men released at To
peka were taken by the Rock Island
and sent to one of their shops in the
northern part of Kansas.
G. w. Styles and William Johnston,
of the shops. electrical department,
have returned to Topeka from Needles,
Cal, where they went some months
ago to install a new electrical plant.
The result Of their work is that the
shops there are illuminated by 400 in
candescent and Is arc lights, requiring
a generator of 40 klo-watts capacity.
This includes an ice plant which
sometimes supplies ~refrigerators for
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