Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-08-30
Railroad Topics


Topeka shops for the coast. partially
owing to the reduction In the force
here. and as well as In the belief that
he 10 to better his condition.
Dr. J. p. Raster. chief surgeon Of the
Santa Fee main line. arrived from To-
peka last night. He has several pri.
vate patients in this city
g. II. Joughins, mechanical superin.
tendent of the Santa Fe coast lines
with headquarters at San Bernardiro
passed through the city this morning
John DeHart. engineer at the local
shops, is enjoying a pleasant visit from
Ebert Finch, Thomas Finch and VIII
liam Crabtree, old friends from Spring.
field. OHIO.
Hugh o. Morrison, at one time a resi-
dent of Albuquerque, but now employ.
ed In the Santa Fe Offices at Los An.
geles. was around shaking hands with
old friends yesterday.
The Santa Fe Cer.ral railway has
$50 men and $50 teams In it's employ
on the grade. with the pile drivers and
hauling ties. bridge timber and sup.
plies. One hundred more teams would
be put on acknowledgement they to be
had
William r. Cribs. who Is employed
by the Santa l'e at Flagstaff, Ariz. has
! gone to Los Angeles, where he will be
/ placed IN the Sisters hospital. He
In, .,rfs a.
engine at Flagstaff last Wednesday, re-
sult:ng in broken leg and several bad
bruises.
I The grading camps of the Santa Fe
: Central railway ere approaching the
capital city rapidly and the grade will
reach tnat town about the first of Sen
tembor. The big grading force will
then be transferred to the line south
OF Kennedy station and the grade to-
wards Torrance viii be pushed ener.
geticaiiy ana steadily.
New plans have been issued by the
Santa Fee company for the construction
OF the standard hallasted. wooden tres.
Z tie bridges for use on the system. The
/ old structures. now in use. have been
found too weak for the Baldwin en-
gines. and as soon as the fral struct-
ures need repairs. they will be re-
| placed Ivy the new style bridge. The
timhors which are TO so into the new
bridges are creosote1, and are sup
posed 10 last FOR forty years.
u. G, Thomas, wao has been operator
and assistant agent at Cloudcroft this
summer, will lie married to Miss Cora
Martin. os Carlsbad. until several
months ago steuographer for tie Ala
mogordo Lumber company Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas will reside in Alamo
gordo. where the groom will take up
his former position as operator and as.
sistant 20 III II. Major of the mecnani
cal department of the Rock Island.
A new and powerful railcutting ma
chine was placed in position at San
Aiarcsal last week, and is now ready
to cut twelve inches from either end
OF the secondhand heavy steel rails
that arc to take the place OF the rails
| nov In use on the Rio Grande division
The machine requires quite large
number Of men to serve it and is capa.
bic Of one cutting every seven seconds,
when the rail is drilled and passed up
ready Tor use.
The Alamogordo News says Last
Sunday afternoon about o'clock, Al
bert Jones. the boss c0ppersmith and
timer at the w paso x Northeastern
round house. happened 10 very seri
GUS accident. u seems that he was
standing near a planer while in opera.
ton. with his left hand on a ha and
not seeing the planer In motion. or not
paying any attention to il, the planer
caught his hand and mashed il nearly
off. DR.. Bryan amputated the hand at
the wrist and last accounts state that
Mr. Jones was getting along as well as
could be expected.
The engineers on. the III Paso.Rock
Island line have a few kicks coming.
According to one OF their number. they
have been coming for quite while.
Some are over important, others are
over minor matters In which the men
and the company fail to agree. There
are thirty-iive engineers with head.
quarters at Alamogordo, and il Is from
that place that the greatest complaint
comes. The engineers want an in
crease OF pay and various changes in
the regulations OF the train service
w +. Kompton. assistant grand chief
of the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, was expected in Alamogordo
TO meet the men and il possible bring
about an adjustment
Electric Headiights--The Santa Fe
has just adopted electric headlights
for Its locomotives and now comes the
following criticism on electric head.
lights from the 81. Louis Republic:
The wreck on the Monon road at