Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-24

Shltl EllSiAttl Gu4AIIltl itlu1 llCu W
A~lamogordo from FL Paso and imme-
diately left for the front.
Jack Day, m%achinist, is at present
acting back foreman at the Ell Paso &
Northeastern shops at Alamogordo.
Michael O'Rourke, a railroad section
foreman at Gallup, has disappeared
mysteriously leaving his bride of six
weeks.
Ben Sawyer. formerly in business at
Shoemaker, San Miguel county, is a
mail clerk on the Southern Pacific rail-
way now.
The Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe has
announced that it will in a short time
cease the operation of double-header
freight trains.
James Mckenzie, foreman on the Ell
Paso & Northeastern, has returned to
work, after a holiday visit to relatives
in northern Texas.
Switchman Jones, of Gallup, who has
been laid up for the past two months
at the local hospital, was able to be
around a little yesterday.
Pat Purcell and F. V. Hansen have
returned to Las Vegas from San Mar
cial, where they have been working as
engineers for several days.
Division Master Mechanic c. NJ. Tay-
lor, of Ration, was called to Topeka
Tuesday night on official business. 1t
may mean good news for MIN.
Trainmaster Sulier has accepted a
position as road foreman OF engines
and w. S. Wescott has taken his place
as trainmaster on the north end.
Elmer Wilson, car carpenter, quit
his job at Ration and went to Prescott
to take a better job on the Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix. He didn't like it
and is now back in Ration.
1t Is rumored that the Santa Fe will
soon abandon the operation of double
header freight trains. Not only the
engineers and firemen, but all train
men will hail with JOY such action.
Arthur Keetch, well known as sec
rotary of the Miners association OF
Ell Paso, has gone to Alamogordo to
become assistant to w. A. Hawkins.
SShSioi oIIOihSy VI INC NultS OdhS
railway.
Ell Paso-Rock Island route will erect
a large building at Carrizozo for an
eating station, and it will cost about
$4,000. ]. Quinlivan & Son, of Alamo
gordo, have the contract and work will
be commenced at once.
A determined fight is to be waged
by railroads in Texas this year against
ticket scalping, and, since the railroad
commission has expressed itself as be-
ing vested with no authority to pre-
vent the practice, the Legislature is to
be asked to pass a law that will grant
some measure of relief.
f. T. Evans, chief dispatcher, came
in from the extension front Wednes-
day and returned Thursday, says the
A~lamogordo News. He reports that
only nineteen miles of track have to
be laid to reach Santa Rosa, and that
every effort is being made to finish
track laying by February 1, 1902.
The Ration Gazette says: Mr.. Gull
linane, a member of the interstate COM
merce commission, was here the first
of the week looking after safety equip
ment. He paid Ration quite a compli-
ment in saying that more interest was
taken and more work done here than
at any place he had visited along the
road.
The Topeka State Journal says: Eff
fective at once, the storehouse has be-
gun working on the ten hour schedule.
About the first of the year the men be
gan working nine and a half hours,
about two months before that time
having been cut down from the present
day. Between seventy-ive and 100
men are effected by the order.
General James r. Carnahan, com
handing the Uniform Rank of the
Knights of Pythias, that the
transcontinental lines have agreed to
make a rate of $50 for the round trip
from Chicago to San Francisco and re-
turn for the biennial meeting of the
Knights of Pythias, which opens in
San Francisco, August IL, of this year.
Trans-Pacinc and round-the-world
traffic is getting quite common on Am
Sittdn idliioado. Al oeChN W III NtN
York Central recently issued, in one
week, nine tickets to a party going to
the Hawaiian islands. Sales are fire.
quently made to Yokohama and to
Hong Kong and other Chinese ports;
business t. Australia is also growing.
: DR.. Russ, physician at the Santa Fe
hospital, made a trip to Architect
Whittlesey's office to view the plans
of the new addition to the hospital. A
wing is to be added to the north side
N the building exactly like that on
the south. The addition will include
a nicely equipped operating room, a
drug department and a private office
for the surgeon.
Fourteen stations are to he built
along the FL Paso & Northeastern rail
road extension from CarriZozo to Santa
: Rosa. Work on their construction has
begun. \ large number OF carpenters