Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-09


s59.147. OS5, net s25, 293, ga.
Mrs. L. s. Bell and Miss Bertha
Croker are at Topeka visiting Mr..
and Mrs. George Henry, of that city.
The Santa Fe railroad is making ex-
tensive preparations for water melon
day" at Rocky Ford, Colorado, Septem-
Der 4.
The Baltimore & Ohio will not m
ploy any more women in its offices.
The Burlington has had this order for
a dozen years.
The Memphis. st. Louis & South
eastern will build from Hoxie into Lit
tie Rock if Little Rock will give a
$4,000 bonus.
Master Mechanic F. p. Barnes, who
was ~transacting business in Winslow
the fore part of the week, has return
ed to the city.
Charlie Mogg. of Ration, will go down
to Dorsey in a few days to act as
agent during Agent Hoover's two
weeks leave of absence.
w. Il I1tLullA, WIN was CIltl Optl
ator in the dispatcher's office of the
Santa Fe company at Ration, has been
transferred to Las Vegas,
The Santa Fe company is doing an
immense freight business at the pres
ent time, all their men engaged in this
service working over time.
Division Superintendent McNally,
who has been in the city several days
looking after local railroad business,
went to San Marcial last night.
Machinist C. o. Kill has resigned his
position with the Santa Fe in this city
and in a few days will leave for the
east accompanied by his family.
George Gillette, a former telegraph
operator of this city and now a train
dispatcher at Winslow, Arizona, was
an east bound passenger the other day.
Conductor A. S. Murray, up the
country. who has been off duty for
nearly four months on account of sick
ness, will soon report for duty again.
The hot weather is forcing the peo-
PIE VI the mluult west W hurry W llt
cooler resorts and passenger traffic
on the Santa Fe is very heavy at pres
ent.
Ed Bowling, night chief dispatcher
at the Las Vegas office. has gone east
III the hope that a temporary change
OF climate will benefit his waning
health.
The Rock Island road in 1900 had a
mileage of $500, and when the present
extensions are completed within a
year it will have a little more than s.
900 miles.
Arch Benfer completed his appren-
ticeship in the Santa Fe machine shops
at Ration last week and has accepted a
position in the Colorado & Southern
shops at Trinidad.
Conductor Harry Creswick was
slightly hurt Wednesday on his way
up from Albuquerque, he receiving a
bump over the eye by a cardoor sud
denly swinging to.
G. w. Hudson has gone to Gallup,
n. NJ, to take the management of the
Harvey house there. He succeeds D..
A. Madison, who has beer transferred
to Winslow, Arizona.
Passenger Conductors Fugate and
Leseney have changed their III out
OF Las Vegas for a period of fifteen
days, the former running to Albuquer-
que and the latter to the north end.
The Chicago & Northwestern has
~inaugurated a system of ~instructing
trainmen in the rudiments of surgery
SO that they may give assistance to
passengers when injured in wrecks.
John Wetterskog, who visited this
city and southern resorts with his fam
lily, has returned to Topeka, where he
is the foreman of machines in the cab
met department of the Topeka shops.
The Topeka State Journal says:
Harry P. Richards, a special appren-
tice, has been sent out for some work
on car brasses. He will make Albu-
uuerque first and will later go to San
Bernardino, California, and Cleburne,
Texas.
Conductor Clark and family, of Ra-
ton, will leave in a few days for the
east, where their daughter, Alice, will
attend school. Their son, Valentine,
will remain and attend the Military
institute at Roswell as soon as it
opens.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers at its last grand meeting in
Norfolk, Virginia, passed a law that no
man can become a member of their
order who belongs to the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Firemen unless he drops
the latter.
Tickets for the excursion from this
city TO Santa Fe on August 81 are no"
L. 49, H. IL annnAnh tlal-at.