Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-02-01


pany is buying ties for its proposed
line in open market and Is having them
delivered at various points along the
line. Eugenio Romero, Of Las Vegas.
has been awarded a contract 10 deliver
ties and bridge timbers at the Lincoln
county end OF the line.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
paBy has commenced the work OF put
ting an iron pipe railing along the
edge Of the Arkansas river levee be
tween Main street and Union avenue
in Pueblo. The fence is being erected
to protect passengers who aitght from
trains at the Union avenue depot at
night
arthur Kccch. Of I'll Paso. has been
appointed assistant, solicitor of the I'll
PasO Il Northeastern railroad Mr.
Kecch has been secretary Of the Inter
national Miners association. He is
also a news paper man and came To r.
Paso year ago from Galveston, Tex.
He will make his residence in Alamo.
gordo
The Santa Re road has employed the
services OF an expert telegraph super.
intendent for the purpose of having n
very minute examination made of all
their telegraph lines and report on any
change that could be made that would
better the service The man engaged
Is the inventor of several important
devices in tolegraphing.
Tine Record says While walking on
South Railroad avenue this morning,
Fireman Desmond. of the Santa Fe
road, stepped into one OF the numerous
cavcrns which decorate the dilapidated
ruins which our city dads call side.
walks and seriously injured one of
his feet. He will go to the railway
hospital for treatment.
! John Fisher the mail clerk recently
on the Albuquerque-E Paso run. has
/ been transferred to the Albuquerque
/ La Junta run II. -. Haynes. who was
transfer clerk west from Albuquer-
| que, succeeds him on the El paso run.
and James Connolly. who formerly had
| the Albuqucrque-l.a Junta run. be
comes transfer clerk at the Albuquer-
/ que station.
The Ccrrillos Register says: Last
Saturday the section men from Ortiz
came To town on their pay day cele.
nrati0n TO sell their money. In the
evening as they started home on a
handcar one of their number, Juan
Sena by name, was thrown from the
car by the handles. receiving injuries
from which he died. The verdict OF
the coroner's jury was that he came
to his death by being run over by a
handcar while intoxicated.
On account OF the great number OF
accidents that have been recorded in
the past few months it has been sug
gested by Representative Wood OF
California. that congress take some ac
tion and inquire into the causes and
in some manner provide Legislative
remedies to prevent the same. AS an
example Of what congress has done
toward lettering railroad devices Mr.
Wood refers to the fact that congress IS
brought about the uniform use Of safe
ty couplings and he thinks that some
thing can be done along other lines.
The Lordsuurg Liberal says; The
Southern Pacific is making some much
needed changes at Stems Pass. \
second sidetrack is being put in. The
freight depot is to ne moved to the
south side of the track. a new station
house is to be built at about the plac,
the old one was burned some time ago
and Y is being put in, which, II is
expected viii take the place OF the ole
turn table. which is not large enough
for some of the engines that are likely
to use L. The railroad VIII then b'
able to care for the large shipments
which wlll soon be made from tina
place.
Architect Whittlesy has finished thu
drawings and specifications for tbs
new Santa Fe freight depot. The new
one will he such an Improvement owe
the old one that there will be little re
lation between the two, The Office
building with the waroroom and plat
forms attached will be about GOO fee
long. extending from between Silve
and Lead avenues to the viaduct. Thu
main building. consisting OF trainmas
ter's Offices, freight Offices and ware
room, will front on First street be
tween silver and Lead avenues |
will he 32x3S feet and two-story. Tn
3 freight Offices will be upstairs and III
train Offices down. che wareroom wi
= be - feet wide and l25 feet long, an
attached To the south side of the OillC
building. There will be TWO platforms
e one 200 feet long and the other 40
!, feet long, and both will be 10 feet wild
n and covered. Work will begin as 500
t as the contracts are let and the mi
/ terial can be secured mis- viii Civ
l. First I a busy appearance and /
great ..4proyemont over teh old Loot
j.. tion. because IL will be handler to IN
business part of the city.