Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-01-08
RAILROAD NOTES.
Interesting Paragraphs Picked Up
Along the Big System.
ITEMS or CONSIDERABLE IMPORTANCE.

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Las Vegas. having brought No. 81 to
the shops here.
George Harris has gone to work at
the local railway hospital as a trained
nurse. He is from the Butler hospital
of Boston. Mass.
The earnings of the Santa Fe system
for November. 1901. were the largest
monthly earnings in its history.
amounting to s5,439.57S.
Investigation in regard to the wreck
at kroenig's siding, which took place
some time ago. was held in the office
of Trainmaster Bristol at Las Vegas.
The position of fireman on the sec.
ord mountain helper is now vacant.
The Oldest fireman applying for II be
fore January 10 will he assigned to the
run.
Engine No. COS. one of the Glorieta
mountain helpers. returned to its du.
ties at Lamy Saturday night. after be-
ing repaired and o%vernauled in the Las
vegas shops.
AS stated in The Citizen the other
day. the traffic managers OF the entire
Santa Fe system are arranging to meet
in Albuquerque as soon as the new
nOtel is ready Tor business.
Brakeman Bert Towne returned to
Needles last Sunday from the Sisters
hospital in Los Angeles, and his many
friends are pleased I note his recov-
cry from were Illness.
Fireman McLarty. who had been
handling the scoop" on the Waldo
branch engine. as an extra man, has
returned to Las Vegas from Los Ger
rillos, being relieved by Fireman Gin
ter.
F. A. Lagerwall, who has neld the
position of division ~storekeeper for the
Santa Fe Pacific ut Needles for a year
or more past, has been transferred to
East Yard station of the same com
pany at San Francisco.
Fireman Hugh Quigley. who has
been firing one of the Glorieta mount
ain helpers for months, has given up
that run and will enter the road ser
vice again, being assigned to engine
No. 1871. with Engineer Crossen.
Hotel supplies. furniture and fix.
lures tor "fhe Alvarado" are arriving
daily from the east. Although work is
being pushed as rapidly as possible, it
will yet be several months before the
'ib ho''i WIN bt ltuug " ODtulI6.
William Krause, a brakeman, walked
or was thrown off a car at Piute, a
station east of Golf, on the Santa Fe
4 acifc. and had both ankles severely
%sprained. He was brought to the
Needles hospital. where DIR. Freeman
attended him.
A new bulletin has been posted in
the round house. giving the amount of
oil to be used by the different class
engines in a certain number of miles.
The use of oil in the past has been ex-
cessive and the present method has
been adopted.
The auditor of the passenger receipts
of the Santa Fe, c. NJ. Atwood, has
been granted a leave of absence for
three months on account of poor
health. J. F. Mitchell, chief clerk.
will attend to his duties at Topeka.
while he is away.
The Needles Eye says: George
Coons. one OF the old time shop boys,
and at n time a member of the
Needles banu, nas returned to his first
love. and was shaking hands wild
friends last e George has been
in Yuma for a year or two past"
The santa Fe Pacific Railroad com
pany are getting ready to replace the
California sand walk at the Flagstaff
depot with a walk of vitrified rick.
Three car loads of brick were unloaded
this week, and the new walk will be
put down some time this month.
The Williams News says: "Contrac-
tor NJ. J. Kennedy. having finished his
contracts in the city, returned to Flag
stan this week TO join his family, who
are costly located there. NJ. J.. likes
Williams and we shouldn't be sur
prised to see him move up some day
to stay.
-Four big boilers were hung in the
new machine shops of the Santa Fe
system at this city. The boilers
will not only furnish sufficient power
for the shops, but also heat for the
whole works. Work on the electric
light plant has been suspended, owing
to the non-arrival of material and the
system will not be in operation before
February /.
President w. S. Andrews. Vice Presi-
dent and Manager W. s. Hopewell and
Chief Engineer A. G. Kennedy of the
Santa Fe Central Railway company,
were taken on a special train to Lamy
from Santa Fe to meet Superintendent
j. Il. Hurley and Division Superintend-
ent +. G. Fox of the Santa Re system.
me matter of putting in a switch near
Ortiz On the Santa Fe railway was
discussed. The switch is to be for the
accommodation Of the Santa Fe Cen
trail, which expects to receive a large
amount Of freight over the Santa Fe.