Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-08-02

pCN Noio III llS DtuNtl buODS.
The Union Pacific has about COM
pleted ballasting the Kansas raciic
with burnt clay.
What has become of the strike of
boilermakers and machinists on the
Union Pacific in Denver?
The Santa Fe opened an Office in
Brooklyn August 1, with e. w. Demer-
est, at present travelling freight agent,
as general agent.
The Santa Fe strike of boilermakers
and machinists at Cleburne. Texas. has
been settled. OF the 30 men out of
III have returned to work.
Leon NJ. Allen, the new general pas
senger agent of the Rock Island, was
born in Davenport, iowa, in 1863. He
began his railroad career in 1888.
The gross earnings of the Denver &
Rio Grande for the third week in July
were s351,O0 an increase of $4,000
over the corresponding week of last
year.
The number of natives killed in the
Philippine islands by Americans can
not begin to equal the number of
Americans in the United States killed
on the surface railroad crossings.
J. A. Hanley, formerly freight traffic
manager of the Kansas City Southern,
will succeed w. w. Sylvester, it is said
as vice president of the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient, Stillwells projected
road.
/: Hipscher, a colored barber with
whom Depot Master Barton had
trouble one evening, resulting in the
arrest of the barber, has made a claim
on the Santa Fe for false imprison-
ment.
Here are two new Rock Island APP
pointments: c. G. Delo, assistant en-
gineer eastern district, headquarters
Chicago; Garrett Davis, assistant en-
gineer. northern district, headquarters
Cedar Rapids.
C. NJ. Bowman will succeed F. w.
Buskirk as general western agent of
the Erie, with headquarters in Chi
cago, August 1, his territory embrac-
ing the entire country between the
lakes and the Pacific ocean.
j. D. Besler, for seventeen years gen.
eral superintendent of the Chicago,
Burlington e. Quincy, has been placed
on the staff of the vice president. F.
G.. Rice, superintendent of the Gales
burg division, has been appointed his
successor.
The Santa Fe has adopted a new
plan of rewarding the services of its
old time employees. All OF the train
men, engineers, firemen and agents,
who have been in the service of the
company for thirty years. or more, will
be given annual passes.
Commercial agents of the Rock ISL
and have been promoted to division
freight agents as follows: w. H. Her
big. Wichita; Grant Thornburg, To
peka: E. o. Millen Lincoln; o. p.
Byers, Hutchinson; George Firmin,
Chicasha, Okla. The agencies in
beatrice, Neb., and Ell Reno, Okla, are
abolished.
Freight is handled in the United
States at a much lower cost than in
Europe. In England the average
amount paid by a shipper for moving
a ton of freight 100 miles is $2.35; in
France, S2.10; in Austria, S1.9O; in
Germany, $1.S4, and in Russia, $1.7O.
In the United States the average cost
is only 1913 per ton per 100 miles, or
less than 40 per cent of the average
cost in Europe.
One of the interesting devices which
has been received at the Topeka shops
this summer is the Thatcher calculat-
ing instrument lately purchased by the
tests department. 1t is used for multi
plying and dividing and does the work
for numbers having five places in such
a rapid and correct manner that it will
soon become an invaluable part of the
equipment of that department as soon
as it's manipulation becomes thorough
ly understood. 1t may be brought into
service, too, in computing higher math-
ematical problems. The members of
this force are often hard pressed for
lie necessary time required to do their
work and by this means much of the
details of simple mathematical compu-
tations may be avoided.
Preparing for Moqui Dance.-The
Santa Fe is preparing for the annual
trip to the scene of the Moqui snake
dance in Arizona. This heather
rite performed for the purpose of in
ducing rain to fall upon the parched
crops of the indians attracts large
crowds every year. This year it will
occur during the latter part of August.
Point Richmond Strike.-It seems
that the Santa Fe is having still more
trouble in the way of strikes on its
coast lines. The latest disturbance is
at Point Richmond. Cal. where the Pa
cihc coast terminals are located. The
only information in regard to the
trouble there is the following from the
Point Richmond Record:
THE machinists at the Santa Fe
shops are out on a strike. The men
demand more wages and some other
concessions of a minor nature, but
their demands were not complied with
by the company, hence the strike"
John Hitchcock's Promotion.-A few
DAYS ago The Citizen announced Off
cially John Hitchcock's promotion to
assistant general manage under Gen
- NFornnnr NTalI, 80 fh1 Santa ENa.