Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-14

der way, and a FAR better building than
the former one is promised.
h Santa Fe has been getting most
of the government business of trans
portation of troops 10 the coast.
Byron Harvey, Of the Harvey eating
/ house system. is to wed Miss Helen
Dagget, of Pasadena, on Wednesday
! evening.
The Santa Fe settled with the fami-
lies of the three Indians who we're
killed a few days ago up the road, for
$40 each.
Thomas w. Lewis, of the local rail-
way shops, Rft last night for Tacoma,
wash. where he will probably reside
in the future. .
II. S. Van Slych, who vas up north
on business connected with his duties
as live stock agent, returned to FL
Paso Sunday night.
Ben Johnson, who was east, came In
last night and continued south to Mex
leo City. He is superintendent OF mo-
tive power on the Mexican Central.
Owing to promotions and sickness at
Las Vegas the division is short OF nre-
men. and a telegram had to be sent to
Ration to transfer six extra m
Martin L. Kelley is at Kingston from
Old Mexico. He was in the employ
of the M. G. & P. railway and contract
ed malarial fever, so prevalent on the
lower coast.
Nearly every train wreck winds up
the career of one or more tramps. Yet
the average tourist greatly prefers
death to honest toll or the transporta-
ton of himself by walking.
It is rumored that Yardmaster Frank
Nudge, of San Marcial, will be trans
ferred to Deming, and that w. A.
Greenwood, a former yardmaster at
San Marcial, will succeed Nudge.
G. s. Stiles, newly appointed cleo
trician for the Santa Fe shop plant at
Topeka, has returned to that city from
Needles, Cal, where he ha been a few
weeks on business for the company.
! T. A. Jameson who takes care of
! the lamps and tank washing at the Las
Vegas shops, has received a sixty days
vacation for a visit to Santiago, Cal,
and will leave for the coas in a few
days.
Twenty Pittsburg engines are arriv-
ing for the Rio urande division. The
old machines are being removed. The
new arrivals are in good shape and the
spring rush oof business is sure to be
handled expeditiously.
Firemen McCanns, Bursk, Langston
and Seib have passed their examina-
tion and are now engineers. They will
take their turns on the extra board,
with the exception of Bursk, who will
probably be on the switch at Las
Vegas.
There have beer distributed among
the shop foremen within the last few
days copies of a circular specifying re-
garding the granting of passes to EN-.
ployes. There is nothing particularly
new about it, aside from what has been
in force for a long time.
At Emporia. Kan. the Santa Fe is to
build a new stand house directly west
of the location Of the coal chute which
is now in process of construction. II
will be 50x1S feet, with a tower thirty
feet high. thus eliminating the old pro
cess of passing the grit up in buckets
Instead of that, gravity will be used II
filling the sand box.
An outfit is at work between Lords
burg and Tuson sprinkling the South
ern Pacific track and right of way witt
oil. It has been found that a liberia
application of oil will keep down the
dust for a long time. The sprinklinf
cart CONtIS tWO w a 10y pUt 10 q
has to give the road three coats of OF
only covers two-thirds of a mile a day
The Frisco system on March 20, pu
on two new trains known as thu
Meteor and the Worlds Fair Spe
cial." Electricity has been adopted TO
illuminating purposes and for the oper
alton of electric fans, and the cafe ca
service mas gone under the manage
--~ - EroA uorunu Tho 'EriCRn moo
pie are leaving nothing undone 4
please the travelling public.
The Record says: There are thirty
five engines on the Las Vegas-Albu
querque division of the Santa Fe, all o
which are taken care OF at the shop
here. They are divided about as FOL
lows: Twenty engines in freight sci
vice. six regular passenger engine
and -four eight wheelers for extra pas
senger service and branch work, tw
switch engines and three mountai
helpers.
H. Y. Baskin, a civil engineer, VIII
has beer working on the line of tn
Lordsburg & Hachita road, died {
pneumonia Sunday afternoon, says tn
Lordsburg Liberal. Mr.. Baskin was z
years old. unmarried, and lived at Sa
= Antonio. Texas, where his body wa
taken for burial. He had been workin
with the surveying corps of the Lord!
burg & Hachita Dad since last fall. II
was popular with his associates an
had made many friends in this sectio
of the country.
H, j. Simmons has resigned his pos
ton as superintendent of the Arizon
& New Mexico road, and has accepte
the position of chief engineer OF tn
e. Paso G. Southwestern. His hrt
work will be the building OF the bi
!, bridge across the Rio Grande. and IN
road over the hills to the west OF
Paso. This is about as complicated
niece of engineering as there is no
in progress on any road in this sectlo
of the country. Mr.. Simmons has mad
many friends in both Clifton an
Lordsburg, who will be sorry TO Sc
him leave the Arizona & New MeXic
hnt who are glad he has been entruste
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