Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1902-07-26

hut reasonable. Everything looks good
to them
Richie Out Madden viii BE In
Whatever position W. j. Richie has
held with the Santa Fe of late, he is
no longer foreman of the boiler depart
ment at San Bernardino. nor Is he
likely to be In the future, says the
sun.
The man for the pace will undoubt-
cdly be Thomas Madden. who formerly
held the foremanship in albuquerque,
but who of late has been temporary
boiler inspector Of the coast lines. He
has been in southern California. more
especially in San Bernardino. for over
q week. and Is reported as having re-
marked that he expected TO take
charge here as soon as the present
strike troubles are over
I'VE are sorry to learn that Mr..
Ritciie is to be our iorman no long
err" said boiler maker last night,
FOR of course we all expect to return
to our old places some time, and we
had hoped that il would be with our
old foreman. | can frankly state that
| never worked under man for whom
| would do as much as ] would for
Richie. He had a way about him
which made all of the boys pitch in
and do their best TO clear mis- shop Of
work. and We were usually abreast OF
any other department on the branch"
Card Playing on Whether
| the following story rs authentic or not
| ii answers well for cause as to the
| recent order issued by the Southern
| Pacific against card playing on the
trains. II was given out by the Lodi
Cal. Sentinel:
The news agent who passes daily
| through Lodi on the 1880 train, Jess
| by name. was vainly trying TO make up
a game recently. Three jolly drum
mers were secured to play, but a
| fourth was hard TO find. Just before
the train reached Lodi the news agent
spicd well dressed man sitting
quietly in a seat. and the "peanutcr"
walked up to him, slapped the pas
senger on the back and asked him TO
! I'LL out the table. but the unostenta-
tious person ,lemurred. stating that
he was not In the habit OF playing
cards The news agent was persist.
ent. however. and again Shaping him
on the back. Jess sa d: Come on; be
q good fellow. shake yourself and get
in the game" This was too much
for the quiet passenger He extract
ed from his pocket "A card and hand.
ed II 20 Jess and that worthy's coun.
tenance underwent the many hues Of
the rainbow as h. read the inscrip-
| ton on the card. the general man
ager of the railroad. and thus II was
that the too persistent peanut butcher
was the means OF curtailinC his own
cash receipts.
. Those New Pullman Tickets.-Be
ginning with the opening days OF this
month the Pullman Palace car com
pany adopted new style OF ticket
The old ticket was simply piece OF
pasteboard sold by the agent to the
passenger. who in turn surrendered II
to the conductor. No one aboard the
train figured In the transaction besides
these two parties. and the conductor
wac left a pretty fair SLOW OF disproy
ing any charge OF enlightenment that
= might be brought against him The
I new plan Is To have the ticket In the
four coupon style. When he agent
sells the prospective traveller a ticket
he tears on coupon No. /. When tn,
passenger boards his sleeper the first
thing he must do before locating his
berth, Is to look up the negro porter
and present him with his ticket. This
newly acquired member of the passen
ger department takes the booklet anC
tears out coupon No. .. The traveller
is then shown his section, where h'
awaits the coming of the conductor
When he comes along he extract,
coupon No. 5. leaving the porter 10 pu
the traveller to led with the remainder
of the ticket as a means of proving &
the company that he paid his fare