Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-03-04

IL. patterson mas Oeen made master
mechanic of the Santa Fe shops at
Ration.
The Illinois Central Railway COM
pany has adopted a telephone system
for handling their trains.
Thomas NJ. Ramsdell. a well known
railroader with headquarters at To
peka, is in the city today.
f. w. Martindell, travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Pecos
Lines, was at Roswell from Amarillo.
Some genius has invented a tele-
phone to be used on railway trains. the
telegraph wires being Used as conduc-
tors.
Scores of persons Sunday made trips
to the stations on the Santa Fe Cen
trail railway between Santa Fe and
Kennedy.
The district freight and passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, George Il. Roe.
who was at Topeka on business. has
returned to Ell Paso.
Fireman Julian II. Brown. who has
been off duty for the past two months,
on account of sickness, is again able to
resume his duties in the passenger
service.
The Holbrook Argus says: Bert
Woods was here. He was on his way
to the Albuquerque hospital, having
been injured while working with the
bridge gang a few days ago.
The following offices have recently
been opened by the Postal Telegraph
company in New Mexico on the Ell
Paso Northeastern road: Ancho, Cor
ona, Marine, Pasture, Santa Rosa.
S. E. Busser, superintendent of the
reading rooms of the Santa Fe system.
has announced that Hon. Will Cum
back will lecture at the Winslow opera
house, March Z, 1902, on the subject,
THE Model Wife"
John 5. Beaver, who recently pur-
chased the South First street cottages
from the railroad company, has COM
menced moving them off the ground,
which he will soon occupy as the
Clarkville Coal Yards.
Clinton B. Llewellyn has resigned
his position as special agent of the
Santa Fe Railway company, to accept
a position in the surveyor generals
office at Santa Fe. At least, so says
the Las Cruces Progress.
c. S. Neal, of Parsons, Kan, former
ly of Erie. Kan, arrived at Roswell
last Saturday to work in the railroad
shops there. He is a coppersmith and
tinsmith and formerly worked under
Mr.. Bouchard at Parsons.
The San Marcial Bee says: Mont.
Wilson, who has been a very capable
employe of the railroad company here
for several months, ended his stay
with the railway as night man n will
return to his home in Kansas. Allie
Howard has accepted the position.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men ball, March II, at San Marcial, is
all the talk in social circles. The two
headlights to be placed at the ap
proaches to the ball room will reveal a
big crowd moving gaily in that direc-
ton, and billed for a good time.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Texas
has placed an order with the Rodger
Ballast Car company for fifty standard
convertible ballast N fiat bottom
gondola cars, to he thirty-four feet in
length and of so, 900 pounds capacity.
The cars will be delivered in May.
The monster locomotives have come
to stay. According to a current report
the work of the new decapod engines
which the Santa Fe lately received has
given such good satisfaction that it
has been decided to order seventy-five
more Of them at a cost of 81, 800 900.
The Holbrook Argus says: Harry
Carly has been appointed section fore
man at Homer, Cal. and says that mis-
section is eight miles long n the
grade so heavy that while riding on
the handcar the oil can has to be car
ried in his pocket to keep from spill
ing.
John Ross, travelling engineer for
the Santa Fe, came dow from Las
Vegas last night to accept the follow
ing engines, which have beef ordered
transferred from this division to the
Oklahoma division: Nos. 6SS, 696, 69S,
7O1. They were found wanting, in hill
climbing.
A conference of Santa Fe citizens
was held Saturday afternoon with the
officials of the Santa Fe Railway COM
pany and a plot of ground was offered
for a union depot. 1t seems as II santa
Fe would have a fine union depot for
it's three railroad lines before another
year has passed.
Inc williams News says: MI. and
Mrs. o. C. Strait left for Albuquerque,
where Mr.. Strait has accepted a posi-
ton with the railway company.
Though they have been residents OF
Williams but a few months, during
IUdI llIlt lhtJ hoNO had iih
friends, who greatly regret their de-
parture.
The San Bernardino Sun says: Mrs.
H. NJ. Peterson, Miss Tressie Peterson
and Herbert Peterson were in town for
a short time yesterday visiting friends.
They were on their way to San Fran
cisco, from whence they will go to AL
%buQuerque, where Mrs. Pe%terson's SON
are connected with the clerical depart
ment of the Santa Fe.
It has been announced that the Off
Gals of the Denver & Rio Grande road
will make a broad gauge track out of
their narrow Toad from Antonito to
Santa Fe. This improvement. together
with the construction of the Santa Fe
Central from that city to a Rock Island
connection. will give Santa Fe three
competing lines to the east and two