Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-06-09
Railroad Topics

The locomotive iremen at Ration
will give a dance on the evening of
July A..
c. L. Gibson, a brakeman, left last
evening for Kansas City for a sixty
days rest and visit.
Engine 1881, recently set up in To.
peka shops arrived for service between
Las Vegas and Albuquerque.
Arthur Jaquay has returned to Ration
from Rowe, where was transferred sew.
eral weeks ago for temporary services.
Fireman r. E. Tracey, of San Mar.
cial has gone to Batavia, Iowa. and the
story is that he will return with a
bride.
j. r. Merrifeld, travelling auditor for
all Santa Fe lines west of Albuquerque.
spent yesterday in the city and went
west last night.
The bonded debt now outstanding on
the Atchison system amounts to, in
round numbers, $22S, 600, 600. on which
the interest charge is something over
1921 900.
Conductor o. p. Coleman. of San
Marcial, has been in Ration the past
week looking after his property there.
Something owe a year ago, Mr.. Cole
mar was night foreman in the Ration
yards.
:, j. r. Henderson, superintendent of
machinery and motive power of the
entire Santa Fe system, came in from
the west this morning in a special car
attached to passenger No. 2. He will
spend the day in the city.
Brakeman A. ]. Anderson, of Ration
met with a painful accident, which
will keep him off duty for some days.
He stumbled and fell forward, his left
arm going through the window of a
way car, badly cutting his wrist n
arm.
The Las Vegas Optic says: P. G..
Johnson, a machinist who recently
came here from Ration has concluded
to return there. His helper yesterday
mashed off the end of one of Johnson's
fingers, and that determined him to re-
sign.
The Las Vegas-Albuquerquc division
' is to get four engines, 1881, 1882 and
1884. of the Prairie type, in the place
of four engines of the Rhode Island
type. the latter going forward to the
western division. This will leave n
of the Rhode Island engines at Las We
gas Tor extra Work.
Word has been received that Sen.
ator w. H. Andrews, president of -"
Santa Fe Central railroad, will leave
Washington in a few days, and that he
and Senator Arthur Kennedy. the lat
ter the president of the Pennsylvania
Development company, will arrive
here in the curse of a week or ten
days.
The Choctaw will be operated as a
separate property by the Rock Island
management. All representatives of
= the traffic department will serve both
roads, those on the line of the Choctaw
and in territory contiguous to it re-
porting to the offices of hat road at
Little Rock and others direct to the
Rock Island officials.
1t is reported that j. w. Kendrick,
third vice president of the Santa Fe,
has rendered his resignation with the
company n has accepted a position
with the Westinghouse Airbrake COM
pany at Birmingham, England. If it is
true, this will afford an opportunity
for another move up. A western man
will probably get the job.
The San Marcial Bee says: Ben
Williams, a special agent of the rail
way company, made no friends here
one day recently, when he choked a
small boy, gave him a hoist from be-
hind and in a reckless threw
his bike from the platform. All because
the youth rode on the landing contrary
to an existing rule at some stations.
L. A. Gain, the electrician who up
erintended the instituting of the cleo
trio plant at the local Santa Fe Pacific
shops for the Summers Electrical COM
pany, of Chicago, is expected to arrive
in the city this evening from Denver.
On his arrival the new plant, which
is now completed, will be inspected in
behalf of the railroad company before
it is accepted.