Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-01
Railroad Topics

Engineer Frank Scott is taking a
rest for a few days.
Clearance Melford has quit the rail.
road service. He was the night call
boy.
A. G. Martin, a fireman, has returned
to Ration from a business trip to the
Indian Territory.
j. E. Saint, of this city, secretary of
the Santa Fe Central railway. arrived
in Santa Fe yesterday.
Hon. w. S. Hopewell returned to
Santa Fe from a business trip for the
Santa Fe Central railway.
]. w. Records, round house foreman,
was on the sick list yesterday, but re-
ported for duty this morning.
Engine No. 331 has been taken to
San B~ernardino, Cal, where it will be
converted into an oil burning engine.
j. F. McNally, the popular division
superintendent with headquarters at
San Marcial, was here on business yes
terday.
Last Saturday night, at Winslow, the
Winslow lodge No. All, Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, gave their first So
cial session.
Ed. Jetmore, w. H. Carlow, Frank
Ballet and Robert Bost, of the Ration
La Junta division, have recently been
promoted engineers.
Architect Whittlesey has plans and
specifications at his local office of a
Sic, 900 depot the Santa ,Fe will soon
erect at Shawnee, Oklahoma.
Mrs. and Miss Clark. mother and sis
ter of Engineer 8. T. Clark, are spend.
ing a few weeks in Needles. The la
dies came from a Diego last week.
Mrs. H. Dixon left last night for Los
Angeles, whehe she hopes to soon re-
cover from her recent illness. She is
the wife of the train dispatcher at
Winslow.
J.. B.. Woodward, formerly of the
Santa Fe route, has been put in charge
of the construction department of the
Santa Fe Central and is stationed at
Kennedy.
w. E. Halse, B. H. Newlin and A. w.
Riches, of the Santa re surveying
corps, with headquarters at Las Vegas,
were mere yesterday, going south to
Socorro last night.
Engine No. 701, with Engineer Pease
at the throttle, broke down at Bars
station yesterday morning while going
south with the local freight, and is
o in the shops for repairs.
The Ration Reporter says: Fireman
Roll F~ullenwider has resigned his po-
sition to engage in business, having
rented a store room in the Mendelson
block where he will conduct a billiard
hall.
Superintendent Ayres, of Dodge City.
has a new gasoline motor car, W
seated, and capable of making thirty
five miles an hour on good track. He
will use it in making tours of inspec-
ton over his division.
The Rio Grande Railway has out a
brochure entitled Camping in the
Rocky Mountains" 1t contains much
of interest and instruction to the en-
derfoot camper, but we fail to notice
a key or jug in any of the illustra-
lions.
Ben Johnson, superintendent of ma
chinery for the Mexican Central, who
has been in Topeka about two weeks,
will leave at once fol- New York, ac-
companied by Mrs. Johnson. There he
will loon after matters in connection
with his position.
George w. Andrews, travelling pas
senger agent for the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad at Fort
Worth, Texas, has been promoted to
general agent at Colorado Springs. Mr..
Andrews was formerly city passenger
agent of the Rock Island in Kansas
City.
Engineer w. H. Holmes, who is the
only survivor of the train crew on
No. A that figured in the train wreck
at Franconia last fall, has just been
released from the hospital at Los An
geles. When Mr.. Holmes was taken
from the tangled mass of debris he
was unconscious and remained in that
condition for eight days.
Locomotive SIS, one of the new com
pounds turned out a few months ago
by the baldwin locomotive works at
Philadelphia, has been set into the
south shop at Topeka for general over
hauling. There are a number OF the
same class that are reported in bad
order and will be fixed up as soon as
the macnlnists can get after them.
They have been In service out of La
Junta, Colo, for some time.
The Topeka State Journal says: AL
buquerque papers have contained ac-
counts within the last lew weeks of the
victories which the Santa Fe Pacific
base ball team at hat place are win
ming. Among the line up are anne of
George Thompson, who was formerly
employed in the boiler shops here and
who is holding down first base, and his
brother Ash" who wears the mask
and protector. Chas. Sheets, who used
TO be in the machine shop at this place,
is twirling for the nine.
We sell the greatest of blood puri-