Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-22

A Ivy tls a ultlldu Oh the NlO UTAH.
de division. is enjoying a short vaca-
ton.
Fireman Carl Beverly of San Mar
cial is being entertained by local rail-
read boys.
A great many machinists have left
Alamogordo owing to the reduction of
the working force IN the shops.
The Citizen is in receipt of a hand
somely printed and finely illustrated
pamphlet on the resort along the Fris.
co system.
Red Dennison, the night call boy,
who has beer laid up with a sprained
ankle the past week, is able to be
around again.
The Pennsylvania Development CON-
pany has doubled its force during the
past month on the construction work
of the Santa Fe Central railway.
Walter Lyons. son of Lieutenant
Governor Walter Lyons of Pittsburg,
has accepted a position with the Santa
Fe Central railway, and Is now a resi-
dent of Santa Fe.
Thomas M. Morgan, a Colorado &
Southern lineman, and Miss Rose
Crumpacker, of Wichita Falls, Texas,
were married at the Baptist parsonage
of Clayton. Rev j. c. Chaplin ofici-
ating. They left for Trinidad. where
they will make their future home.
There has been some discussion OF
late as to the relative earning capacity
of the Rock Island and Missouri Pacific
roads. The Boston News bureau has
presented some facts and figures on
the subject, from which the deduction
is drawn that any decision reached on
the question must be in favor OF the
Rock Island.
A circular has been issued from the
office of Vice President Paul Morton,
of the Santa Fe. stating that all refrig-
orator cars on the system have been
transferred to Santa Fe refrigerator
line, to be run in the future as a sep
arate corporation. The refrigerator
service will be under the management
of E. H. Davis. who has been appoint
ed general manager.
H. A. Summer, who has been chief
engineer of the Ell Paso Northeastern
and the Ell Paso-Rock Island almost
from the conception of The former
road, has resigned his position and
will go to Denver to take the same
position with a new o to be con-
~structed between Denver and Salt
Lake City, known as the Moffat road.
Amalgamation of the Santa Fe Pa
ciic and the San Francisco n San
joaquin Valley railway lines mas been
completed. The combined mileage of
the two roads is now known at the At
Gibson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Coast lines. with headquarters in Los
Angeles. The Southern California div
ision is not included in the merger. but
will continue to be run as a separate
corporation as has heretofore been the
case.
Carl Roberts, of Carlsbad, has &C
cepted a position with the Pecos Val
ley railway carpenter gang, leaving
for Amarillo. He will be busy for some
time putting in a semaphore switch
ing system, after which he will super
intend the removal of the railway
shops from Roswell to Amarillo. The
road officials also contemplate the
early removal Of the roundhouse al
Pecos to the division headquarters al
Amarillo.
Trains en- a Daily Race-A race be
tween the Big Four and the Lake
Shore trains is a daily occurance be
tween Elkhart and Goshen, Ind. The
tracks of the two roads run side by
side between the two points. The Bis
Four train due in Indianapolis at SIZE
in the evening pulls out of Elkhart
every evening about the same time the
twentieth century limited of the Lake
Shore leaves that station. AS there
are no stops between the two cities
the race has become a daily event
Honors between the two trains thu:
far are e
Seeking Mexican Traffic.-It is un
derstood among the Rock Island Off
Gals at Topeka that a closer traffic
rrangement between the Rock Island
and the Mexican Central is now as
sured. 1t is intimated that the capital
lists who are interested in the Rock Isl
and may become interested in a finan
cial way in the proposed construction
that is under consideration by thu
Mexican Central to place itself in a pc
sition to counterbalance the advantage
secured by the Mexican National in sc
curing a short line to Mexico City,
Several conferences have been helC
with this end in view, and a party O
prominent Rock Island officials have
Just returned from a trip OF Inspection
over the Mexican Central from FL Pas
to the City of Mexico.
Why They struck.-A boilermaker
writing TO the Needles Eye, says
THE extremes to which some publish
ers will go in order to furnish a littl'
saffron colored item to their reader
is illustrated in the San Bernerctn'
Suns account of the strike OF a..
Point Richmond boilermakers. ia'
article states that fifteen of the hoi.
ermakers are out" when in fact ther'
was not at this time more than sever
hoilermakers employed at Point Rich
mond. The sun then goes on to guess
a few points, simply TO make h stor,
a little spicy. and quotes a committee
man as saying: Lately, so we ar
told. the Santa Fe has been discon
Meeting its dead engines at Needle
and sending them away TO be re
haired" Every committeeman on III
cnntn En knows that all The dead en-