Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-05-24

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lay off. and will visit Chicago and
other Dig cities.
Mrs. Shook, wife of Conductor
Shook. is to leave Ration for Kansas,
to be gone for some time.
Barney Gilbride, fireman. and S. A..
Mcdonald, brakeman. running out of
Las Vegas, have both resigned.
F. r. Frost, the chief electrician of
the Santa Fe, is IN the city on official
business. His headquarters are at
Topeka.
A number of new coaches, intended
for service on the California division,
have passed through this city the past
few days.
Mrs. Gus Patterson, wife of the well
known Santa Fe engineer. left Las We
gas on her way to Norfolk, Va, where
she goes to visit relatives.
Considerable complaint among rail-
readers regarding the double-headers,
which have recently been put back on
his division. Several crews have been
laid off.
c. +. Lape. of San Bernardino. came
in from the west this morning. en
route east. He was the former divis-
ion master mechanic with h%eadquar-
tiers at san BernardlnO.
James Thompson, accompanied by
his wife. has gone to Topeka. He re-
Gently had three fingers on his left
hand mashed off by the big steam ham
mer at the local shops.
The Optic says: superintendent Fox
returned from Topeka, where he had
been to work on the new time card.
While absent Mr.. Fox exchanged his
private car. 212, for a better one 210.
The new speedy Santa Fe locomo-
tives weigh about 209, 900 pounds and
the tender about 112 900 pounds addi-
tional. The tenders are constructed to
carry ten tons of cial and 5000 gallons
of water.
Mike Burns. one of the popular
freight conductors who has run out of
Roswell for several years past. has
been promoted to the position of tray
cling conductor" and is receiving con-
gratulations of his friends.
S]torekeeper White. of the Santa Fe
road at Ration, will begin taking al in
ventory on the 25th inst. He will have
to increase his force of helpers during
the work. Other storekeepers on the
line are arranging to take inventory
of stock.
Col. r. f. TwitcheIl, of Las Vegas,
received word from Chester Reed. now
at the Santa Fe hospital in Topeka.
that he had undergone an operation,
having had his leg rebroken and reset.
Superintendent Fox saw him while
there. He is reported as getting along
nicely.
w. V. Turner, who has been car in
spector for the Santa Fe road at Ra-
ton. has returned from a trip to Tope'
ka. He has been promoted to the i'm.
portant position of chief air brake in
spector and instructor for the entire
Santa Fe system, and will make his
headquarters in Topeka.
G. c. Starkweather. trainmaster of
the Oklahoma division of the Santa Fe
with headquarters at Arkansas City.
Kan, was in Roswell. He came in an
swer to a telegram stating that his
wife and little daughter were both i'll.
The Roswell Record is glad to state
that Mrs. StaTkweather end little SiTl
are improving.
The trucks on a freight car breaking
near Kenna. on the Pecos road. caused
the delay of the regular passenger
train sixteen hours the other day. The
next evening the Kenna bridge burned
out which again tied up traffic for sew
eral hours. The bridge was 12S feet
long and burned Il completely. 1t
was probably set on fire by an engine.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe,
has offered the railroad Y. NJ. c. A. OF
Topeka 500, 900 for a new building. He
stipulates that the association ecure
a site and $4,000. The proposition
has been accepted, and the building,
which will be a three story modern
structure, will be started as soon as
the necessary preliminaries can be ar.
ranged.
There was a man employed in the
machine shops at Las Vegas who came
with a letter of recommendation from
Charley Taylor, mechanical superin.
tendent. Thursday there came an, or.
der from Master Mechanic Patterson
requiring his discharge on the ground
that some three or four years & the
man. while employed at Ration, got
drunk one day.
The Pintado bridge. six miles east oil
Santa Rosa, Guadalupe county, was
finished last week after causing a bad
~ crippled traffic for owe a week. Or
the following Tuesday morning the
traffic was again delayed for about
twelve hours, when a freight train was
ditched and badly tore up the track
for some distance. This accident hap
pened only a short distance from the
bridge.
Chief Engineer Garvin, of the Lords
burg & Hachita road, reports that
about twenty-eight miles of the track
of the Lordsburg & Hachita road has
been laid, and that there is about ter
miles yet TO lay. The work is pro
crossing rather slowly. The original
contract called for the completion OF
the road by the 31st of March, but as
the company was to supply the ties
and steel did not have them at Lords
burg on time it cannot with consisten
cy complain of the delays of the con
tractors.
The Ration Range says: p. NJ. Daven
port. the civil engineer, arrived in the