Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-02-13

arrest trainmen of trains blocking
crossings.
Juan r. Ortiz will take charge of
the store house of the Santa Fe Cen
trail at Vega Blanca.
w. w. Elliott. agent for the Burling-
ton railway. at Los Angeles, is spend
ing the day in the city.
Engine 377 will be ready for the
road in a few days. having been thor
oughly overhauled and repaired.
The following engines are at pres
ent in the boiler shops receiving new
boilers, Nos. 423, 22O, 276. 1876. $50 and
701.
r. L. D%ansnar, general freight audi
tor of the Santa Fe company, and wife
passed through the city from Chicago,
en- route to southern California.
Some of the younger engineers on
the Denver & Rio Grande are kicking
on account of bad runs consequent to
the changing of the policy of the road.
Harry Roger, formerly an engineer
out of Las Vegas, and well known
there, passed through that city from
Tampico, Mexico, en- route to the east.
E. A. Mudgett, city ticket agent for
the Burlington railway at San Fran
cisco, came up from Ell Paso this morn
ing and is spending the day in the
city.
Miss Grace Kennedy, s~tenographer
in the Office of the Santa Fe Central
Railway company, at Santa Fe, is able
to be about again after a siege of ill
ness.
A regular Denver G. Rio Grande
crew has been put on to run a work
train daily between Chama and Pagosa
Junction. They lay in Chama over
night.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen now has a membership of 49,
720 firemen, a gain of 3,119 new mem
bers last year. It's insurance in force
is now $50, 62S, 800.
The foundation for the Santa Rosa
depot is finished and a large force of
carpenters will be put to work at once.
They expect to complete the structure
in about ten days.
Mrs. A. A. Robinson, wife of A. A.
Robinson, president of the Mexican
Central railway, and two daughters,
passed through the city en- route to
the City of Mexico.
The following prominent Santa Fe
shops will be supplied with electric
plants as soon as the Albuquerque
plant is finished: San Bernardino, To-
peka and Arkansas City. Kas.
The Denver & Rio Grande round
house at Chama presents a general hos
pital look. 1t seem peculiar that an
engine is very much like a man; it
can be used just as much and no more
without rest.
Harry Hopson. of Topeka, signal
engineer, was at Ration giving in
structions to the engineers, firemen
and trainmen on the staff block sig.
nal system, which will be shortly inau.
gurated on the Ration mountain.
Shop items from the Ort'": No. 06s
came UP from the Santa -e branch tC
have general repair work done; 730 is
to have valves set, 76S and ISL are in
to have broken spring hangers repair
ed; 474 for guide work and 744 for roo
work.
The Santa Fe telegraph offices at
the old passenger depot are being
moved today to the lower front rooms
at the freight depot. The ticket Office
will go tomorrow and it will only be a
short time until the old depot will be
vacant.
General Claim Agent j.. ID. NJ. Ham.
ilton. accompanied by Claim Agent f.
II. Hemus and J. w. Zimmerman
came down from the north to Las We
gas on Tuesday. Mr.. Hemus stopped
coming on south.
The embarrassing of the inside OF
the machine shops is progressing
slowly and is giving the inside of the
buildings a very striking appearance
After the whitewashing is finished and
the machinery is cleaned everything
for fifteen feet high will be painted
black.
Things are being rapidly changed in
Denver & Rio Grande railroad circles
A crew has been put on to do switch
ing in the Chama yard and run a train
to BraZos every day. Conductor Carl
son has charge of this crew, and En-
gineer Charlton presides over engine
161 in this work.
There was quite a serious wreck or
the Denver & Rio Grande that runs
from BraZos to the mill last week. A
adraw-head broke on a 4 per cent grade
The engine was able to get away but
the cars that broke loose were quite
badly wrecked. The lumber was scat
tered over nearly the whole of the
TERRA Amarillo grant.
Railroad building for 1902, it is said
will exceed that of any year in history
Already enough new construction work
has been undertaken in the west fol
the coming year to be sufficient to in
sure the addition of an immense mile
age to the railway system of the coun
try, and schemes for new roads and eX
tensions are developing constantly.
A train on the Pecos Valley &
Northeastern railway met with a pc
culiar accident on Monday. About fiji
teen miles from Portale" N the way IC
Roswell the tender OF the locomotive
LETT the track and cut about 200 ties IL
two. 1t took two and a half hours tc
get the tender back on the tracks. The
train was running at moderate speed
and thus e1Caped a more serious acci
dent.
T. S. Cafferty, a roadmaster on the