Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-04-24
Railroad Topics

Superintendent of Santa Fe tele-
graphs, C. III. Gaunt, was in the city
on inspection.
J. II. Booth Will return to Kansas
City. He was a passenger brakeman
north of this city.
DR.. j. p. Raster, surgeon-in-chief for
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at
Topeka, is in the city on official bus
mess.
Fred Schultz, fireman on the Santa
Fe branch. in place of the regular fire.
man. is laying off on account of a
mashed finger.
Joe Brown, the janitor at the Las
Vegas depot. has been in the employ
of the Santa Fee for more han sisteen
years. and he looks but little older to-
day than when he began that service.
The No. 2 went north this morning
in n section, and every coach was
loaded with passengers, who are re-
turning to their eastern homes after
a winters %sojourn in the southwest
and ON the Pacific coast.
The Santa Fe railway company has
granted a franchise to an advertising
company for the placing of advertising
matter OIL the cars OF this railroad. In
the past it has been possible to secure
an advertisement on a car only where
the car itself was leased by the firm
using it.
The Fort Smith & Western and the
Ozark & Cherokee railway construc-
tiOn corps are racing for the most
available route into and from Okmul-
gee, l.. t., where the two roads will
cross. Both are routed through por-
lions of Indian Territory not traversed
by other roads.
The Topeka State Journal says:
George Grout, who learned the trade
of blacksmith at Topeka and who was
on the payroll of this company at San
Bernardino, Cal, about a year ago, has
returned to the west, leaving recently
for Albuquerque. He has been stop
ping in Topeka two months.
Three hundred axles for the IS log
ging cars which the Santa Fe is to
build in its shops at Cleburne, Tex.
are being turned out by the blacksmith
department If Topeka. This equip
ment is to be used on the southern
lines of the company in handling the
output of the pineries, n each vii
have a capacity of 60 900 pounds.
Boilermaker Jameson, who recently
left the Gulf & Houston shops at f
Paso to go to Alamogordo to work II
the Rock Island shops at that place
sustained a painful injury by falling II
front of the New Commercial barber
shop. SAYS the Ell Paso Herald. Tit
fall was caused by stepping on a roun6
rock which turned and threw him FOR
ward on his face. Besides spralnint
an ankle his nose was mashed also
He has beer in FL Paso a day or tw'
visiting Pete Breem. a machinist II
the Gulf & Houston shops.
The Topeka State Journal says
There is a call for boilermakers a
Needles. Cal, and some OF the boy
here have hen INDUCING in threats Z
go there. Needles. according 10 con
mon report, has been one OF the mos
unfayorable places on the whole sy'
TEN TO work, partly because OF the e.
cessive heat In summer, and also o
account of the comparatively poor wa
in which the point was equipped VIII
machinery and apparatus ior trade
men. But plans are being made I
bring it up to the equal OF all the othe
places on the road so far as is in u
power of the management.
The Kansas City Journal says: I'll
Santa Fe has scheduled seven specii
trains out of Kansas City to CalifornI
for the Federation of Women's club
and. in addition, has ordered twenl
extra sleepers to be run out OF Kansi
City on regular trains for that conye
ton. Next Thursday the Foreste
train will leave Kansas City at ~
a. IN. with nine sleepers. composite g
and two dining cars. On the same al
the Kansas club women's train W
leave Kansas City at 2:45 p. m, IN
train consisting of observation sleept